this is al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the al-jazeera news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. beijing is employing a whole of government approach using political economic and military tools as well as propaganda to advance its influence and benefit its interests in the united states on the warranted ridiculous china slams the trumpet ministrations allegations of meddling in american elections. a nation divided republicans and democrats draw different conclusions from an f.b.i. report on president trump supreme court nominee candidates in brazil's divisive presidential race clash on live t.v.

as the campaign wraps up ahead of sunday's vote. and zimbabwe steps up efforts to contain its worst cholera outbreak in a decade. the trumpeter ministration is accusing china of trying to undermine america through political military and economic actions u.s. vice president mike pence said in a speech that china wants to sway the upcoming midterms against president trump and response to tough american trade policies but china's foreign ministry has rejected the allegations it says pence has committed slander a white house correspondent can really help get reports from washington. in the very early days of the transit ministration the us president rolled out the red carpet to host chinese president xi at his mar-a lago resort. more than eighteen months later that warmth has been replaced by a trade war between beijing and washington and a strong warning by the u.s.

vice president mike pence our message to china's rulers is this this president will not back down. in a fiery speech penned escalating u.s. rhetoric. broadly blaming china for everything from military aggression in the south china sea to intellectual property theft to advance its global interests chinese security agencies have masterminded the wholesale theft of american technology including cutting edge military blueprints and using their stolen technology. the chinese communist party is turning plow shares into swords on a massive scale us media is reporting that includes inserting microchips into servers used by apple and amazon to spy on u.s. companies hence also accuse china of religious persecution and human rights abuses

cracking down on chinese christians buddhists and imprisoning more than a million muslim weekers in government camps and domestically while the u.s. special counsel robert muller continues his probe into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election. pence reiterated president tribes claim made last week at the united nations about china and the upcoming elections to put it bluntly president trump's leadership is working and china wants a different american president hence accuse china of election meddling in the twenty eight teen u.s. midterm elections and the twenty twenty presidential vote with an elaborate december mation campaign to influence u.s. voters pence says the trumpet ministration remains hopeful china will come around until then he says it will continue to address what it calls chinese aggression already there are terror of some place and more than two hundred fifty billion in

chinese goods and more are at the ready and could be implemented as early as next year can really help at al-jazeera the white house or let's talk to adrian brown who is live for us in beijing and so what was the chinese been saying in response to mike pence a speech. well daryn china had a pretty good idea what mike pence was going to say because of course the contents of his speech had been leaked in advance to many news outlets in the united states so the chinese response was rolled out very quickly after pensive delivered his speech and china has basically said that the accusations that he made against it are groundless and calls it his say evidence saying that china pursues a path of peaceful development it wants to cooperate with the united states and seeks mutual respect and its favorite phrase right now win win cooperation what was interesting about the speech is that it attacked china on so many fronts in one

speech and it touched on all the principal friction points in sino u.s. relations right now trade taiwan the south china sea religion human rights and cyber security this is a speech i think that will remind china once more that the united states is widening and intensifying its attacks on china and it's not just a war of words daryn because in the south china sea last weekend we almost had a collision between a u.s. warship and they chinese warship they came to within about forty meters of one another and there is real concern that the brinkmanship there is rapidly spiraling out of control and we could have you know a serious incident meanwhile you know the rest of asia and the world watches are nervously wondering where this word of we're wondering whether sort of war of words is heading now on monday all eyes will be on the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or because he's here in beijing he's going to be

paying visits to tokyo south korea and north korea and he will be here to update the chinese on the united states north korea policy there is concern now of course that the united states and china have a widening views on how to deal with north korea and that might pence's hard hitting speech could in fact make that even more difficult a writer adrian brown there in beijing agent thank you. now the f.b.i. reports into a sexual assault allegations against the u.s. president's supreme court pick has been released to senate as it is causing further division democrats calling the investigation into brett kavanaugh a sham wanted publicans say it exonerates the judge cabinet has defended himself and i will street journal opinion piece saying he's an impartial independent judge tical hain as the latest from washington d.c. . anger outrage disgust on display in the nation's capital

a sizable protest out to tell us senators don't vote to put brett kavanaugh on the supreme court. and only came from new jersey to help spread the word and a few signs she believes christine blasi forward who testified before the senate that kavanagh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school i just fired up about the idea that we would have a credibly accused sexual assailant confirmed on the supreme court is unfair unjust to women and honestly men across the country but it's not just the liberal side that is angry about this poll show that the republicans are really fired up in fact before the cabin on nomination a lot of republicans told pollsters they weren't all that excited to vote in the upcoming congressional elections that has changed many polls show democrats and republicans equally excited to vote for their side the vote was delayed by weeks of the f.b.i.

could investigate but they're classified report has just further deepen the divide is a complete report this is a background check i'm confident the f.b.i. did a good job they were not hindered in any way so it's very frustrating and even the things i read. and i heard the chairman of the committee say that there is no hint of misconduct in plain english what i just read there are hints of misconduct the f.b.i. didn't interview ford or. the witnesses she suggested and many other people who know kavanagh say they tried to talk to the f.b.i. but were turned away further feeling suspicion and division in a fierce fight that is playing out in the capital and on the streets. for the future of the highest court and likely control of the congress come january. al-jazeera washington and deborah elizondo joins us live now from washington d.c. gabe so what though can you tell us about these growing anti cavanagh protests

taking place around capitol hill. yeah they were big protests that continue into the evening here i can tell you that the capitol police here in washington said over three hundred protesters were arrested for unlawfully demonstrating inside senate office buildings these demonstrators were arrested cited and then released but it gives you an idea of the numbers of people that were out on the streets making their voices heard despite the arrests anti kavanaugh protesters are holding a vigil throughout the night as well over a thousand people there several democratic lawmakers showed up to speak to the group they say they'll be out there throughout the night but we're seeing an opposition to cabin on other areas as well former supreme court justice john paul stevens a very respected former justice a lifelong republican. was speaking and he said that kavanagh doesn't have the

temperament to serve on the supreme court it's very very unusual to see a former supreme court justice openly criticize a nominee someone that's in the process of going to the supreme court that's very unusual that raised a lot of eyebrows and then also the washington post putting out an editorial saying that they are editorializing that they do not think that kavanagh should serve on the supreme court they say they are encouraging lawmakers not to vote for him to go to the supreme court that's a first time in thirty years that the washington post has published such an editorial urging lawmakers not to support a supreme court nominee now does have a lot of support within the republican party it appears and kavanaugh himself as you mentioned going into this he wrote an editorial that will appear in the wall street journal where he says that he is an impartial and independent judge and he

says his emotional testimony a week ago just. reflected quote my overwhelming frustration at being wrongly accused end quote that's his message that he thinks he's wrongly accused and by all accounts while there is a lot of opposition to cavanagh it appears that a lot of republican lawmakers seem to agree with him and they're indicating that they plan to support his extension to the supreme court thank you. also to come on the news hour including. survivors in indonesia come to terms with life changing injuries after last week's earthquake and tsunami as mass burials become a daily event. government says it's tackling its unemployment crisis we meet the critics who say they've heard it all before. her son of an elder response to claims he raped a woman in las vegas nine years ago that's coming up with. the

hundreds of thousands of people are still waiting for food and medicine a week after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the in the nation island of so the ways it and towns and villages have been destroyed and sixteen hundred people have died to milan in durban reports from where survivors are coming to terms with life changing injuries. eight year old to god forgive me he was in the position of prayer his forehead to the mat when the earthquake struck and collapsed he's all there brother was able to pull him out but the last. it was good you knew that it was hard for us to look for a medical clinic we had to look for two decent tonights.

this is one that the hospital it holds the biggest number of injured survivors and some of them come from neighboring districts with spoken to patients here who say it took days before they got medical help but they are grateful they're still alive . elias says she was near the sea when the earthquake struck she waited for a moment and thought everything was fine until the tsunami swept her away it took three days before her family found her. i thought i was going to die i swallowed a lot of water and then a man pulled me up by my arm this anomaly hit the town of pollute late on friday three strong waves swept away hundreds of homes schools government facilities all wiped out in an instant and days since the disaster struck many believe the true extent of the damage has yet to be seen the number of people killed is expected to

rise. a twenty minute drive from the main town is where hundreds are buried mass burials have become a daily reality some of the bodies buried here are unidentified the indonesian government says a quick burial is necessary to prevent the spread of communicable diseases entire families who once lived full lives cut short by a tragedy they have been reduced to this and no one has come to say good bye. joins us live now from melissa it's been exactly a week since the earthquake and tsunami tell us a bit more about what's been happening well it is quite widespread you know the devastation and we have just behind me i'm just going to step aside and show you were right behind one of the main hotels march your hotel

right by the seaside this for the bronze also all of the tsunami just right here there are about five machines working overtime to try to clear to the very rescue workers from international agencies working overtime to try to find survivors many believe that that is unlikely now because it has been nearly a week just going to show in the other parts here mosques like these are reasonably common images here across the seaside there are several commercial establishments here and further our communities everything wiped out really dire and not much is left not much to salvage in terms of belongings and they are still looking for bodies as mentioned in my reports the indonesian government was adamant about burying bodies it has retrieved over the last week to avoid the spread of

communicable diseases it admits that it is not a popular decision but one that must be done but there are questions now whether d.n.a. testing has been conducted whether there are dental records that have been collected because it is going to be a difficult process identifying the dead this is just one of the many long term issues of being looked at the moment as well but at this point several areas now daryn has electricity is running water but not in this area not in the most devastated parts yet they're still working on clearing the degree to make way for machines like these to have access to difficult areas aaron or roger melinda and pollute thank you very much indeed. now turkey's foreign ministry has summoned saudi arabia's ambassador to the disappearance of a dissident saudi journalist saudi officials said jamal khashoggi disappeared after he left the consulate building in istanbul but the turkish government believes he's still inside the shop he had been living in south imposed exile while writing columns critical of the kingdom and crown prince mohammed bin. well jamal khashoggi

his fiance told of his era what happened at the at the consulate in istanbul on the day he disappeared under the house. because it happened on the second of tobin i mean jamal went to the consulate in istanbul to get some paperwork for marriage jamal went into the consulate and i was waiting near the door the appointment was at one pm after a few hours no one came to me they were supposed to come and get a phone from me but no one came i went to the door and asked security it was almost three pm security told me no one was inside and that maybe i didn't pay attention when jamal lift i called the consulate the saudi men sit and he told me they closed and that no one is inside and you shouldn't wait here. yemen's cholera outbreak is accelerating quickly the world health organization says about ten thousand suspected cases are now reported every week thirty percent of them are children under five if left untreated cholera can kill

a child within hours intensified fighting over the summer in the civil war has damaged the water supply which may have caused a spike in cholera. and zimbabwe has started vaccinating people living in urban areas that tries to contain its worst cholera outbreak in a decade it's already killed forty nine people and infected thousands more torah gates in the reports. the outbreak of cholera started hearing glenview a poor suburb of the capital harare around half a million people will receive an baxi against cholera in the next few days another million doses will be administered in other densely populated areas that the capital next week. the government says it's made good progress in containing the outbreak no deaths have been reported in more than a week and the rate of infection has slowed down. we are thankful for the effort the disease is under control zimbabwe's biggest cholera outbreak was ten years ago

more than four thousand people died back then health officials and the international community accuse the government of not responding to the emergency fast enough people living in harare say lessons have not been learned. should have reacted faster and they responded late and by then many people had died they should have been much quicker typhoid and cholera outbreaks occur regularly in zimbabwe because of dilapidated water and sanitation facilities there are concerns that the government's vaccination program which is focused on the capital is not comprehensive enough. they should also go to the rule areas to give these doses so that this disease doesn't affect the whole country the vaccination program has began just before the onset of the rainy season which normally increases the risk of new infections the government says it's planning to raise thirty five million dollars to treat the current outbreak and to vastly improve harare's water and

sanitation system victoria gate and be algis there are now almost a third of south africa's population is out of work another jobs summit has been organized the fourth in twenty years but skeptics including workers' unions say the initiative won't help that much it's made them in the reports from johannesburg. otten designs has always been a passion for bongani mccall busts but he says he only opened his own tattoo parlor because he couldn't find any other work he started his business with just fifteen dollars because of qualifications and all that and i did not finish. the job so i started doing my own things. cause theirs was my uncle used to be an artist so i could get things from him and then i started doing my own machines and then that's when i started them according to government statistics one in three young south africans could not find work this year there's also

a car wash and fast food restaurant along the road where from carney once he's part of one of these businesses was started because their owners couldn't find jobs so they turned to interest in your shop the government is now holding a summit to help create jobs to lower the high unemployment rate but many are skeptical of just how effective it will be this will be the fourth jobs summit in two decades and in that time unemployment has risen from twenty four to just over twenty seven percent statistics south africa the government agency says sixty nine thousand jobs were lost in the second quarter of twenty eighteen alone a poorly performing economy and the need for more investment are creating further challenges one of the most important reasons for the high unemployment rate in south africa is the concentration of economic power in the hands of government big businesses and strong organized labor and small businesses do not play the role

that they should be playing as they play in many other countries to be the major source of job creation in the country the government says more practical measures and initiatives will be used to create jobs for millions of south africans who wind impact in terms. of job creation we want a government tool to unplug those blockages that may have caused. uncertainty in the minds of the investors of the employers in the country regulatory uncertainties that will be addressed as a matter of urgency economists say some african needs a growth rate of at least four percent again to prevent more jobs from being lost but the south african reserve bank projects at the economy will grow by just zero point seven percent this year some economists say that south africa would have to adjust its entire education and economic strategy to realise its target of having

unemployment by twenty thirty meter miller al-jazeera janice burg. peru's former president alberto fujimori has warned that if he is forced to go back to prison he will die for jean-marie recorded a dramatic call on a mobile phone while in hospital in lima peru supreme court on wednesday overturned a medical pardon the decision could force him to return to jail to serve a long sentence for human rights abuses here. today i would like to tell the of thora teasin politicians please do not use me as a political weapon because i no longer have the strength to resist it i would like to ask the president of the republican and the members of the judiciary one thing only please don't kill me if i go back to prison my heart will not be able to endure it it is far too weak in order to go through it again do not sentence me to death. colombia is planning to evict hundreds of venezuelan migrants who set up camp in the capital budgets are the cities struggling to cope with a sudden influx of those who fled the economic crisis across the border. reports.

having walked for days across they end up here and in official tent city behind the bus station. hungry with little hope the journeyed from all over. with the same stories of poverty and ruin. but there are three essential things that are completely gone from venezuela health education and food that's why we left john and five children fled venezuela a month ago with no jobs others here put together what money they had to buy rice and sausages. the camp lacks clean running water toilets or any basic services colombia's government presence is limited to policemen and when the support of fish is running a sense is. going up on the personally i have nowhere to go they're telling us we can't stay here but i don't know where else to go. the police have barricaded just

days ago they're not letting anyone and they're planning to everybody who is inside in coming days but this hasn't stopped more migrants from arriving. simply setting up camp along these walled auriemma bandon lot close by. colombians are donating food in close to the new arrivals. a truck full of meat the rives people line up the meter sprung into pieces and shared they don't get a second i don't get a thank god almighty for these colombians who know we are dying of hunger but at least a million have arrived in colombia overwhelming humanitarian organizations local authorities are trying to move families with children to temporary shelters well others will have to fend for themselves but. for the city the most important thing is that the removal must be totally peaceful and offering full guarantees so if we

need to consider time versus rights we might delay here fiction for a while but the principle remains. but across the city policemen are already moving on migrants found sleeping on the streets and tensions are rising. well of the golden one hundred million dollars the united states has promised to date should be all kinds of help for us here i haven't seen the government helping a tunnel only the police abusing us. promising to set up migrant service centers in coming weeks but with no end in sight to the crisis it's clear more needs to be done to help those on this desperate journey listen to them. time for a short break when we come back we visit the red carpet of the major. improving relations with north korea more attention. gets the green light as the first african country to host an olympic event we'll find out. around the world. stay

with us. from the clear blue sky of the doha morning. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city. hello there we're expecting a fair amount of rain in shanghai over the next day or so this is all things to watch typhoon to syphon itself to stay away from land it's running northwards but it's still a throwing plenty of cloud of rain towards the west and it looks like shanghai will have rather a wet day should begin to clear up there which we had through the day on saturday and the temperatures will be up at around twenty six degrees further south largely fine and dry for us here hong kong up at thirty and even as you head down towards parts of it now but all looks fine unsettled with hanoi at thirty two before the tools the south are there's plenty of showers here some sunshine coming through in between as well but you can see the pockets of heavy downpours that we're seeing at the moment people showers are likely as we head through friday particularly in the

northwestern parts of borneo but also further west is looking pretty soggy through parts of thailand and all the way down through k.l. and into singapore as well if we head further towards the west it looks like carolina is going to have some very heavy downpours over the next few days it really does it very wet there could well be more flooding out of this not only here but also in town want to do as well so this whole region is one to watch over the next couple of days the rains really will be heavy further north and largely fine and dry for many of us now not poor up to thirty to three degrees new delhi up at thirty four so hot but it will be dry. the with sponsored by qatar breeze. when they're online for humanity has been taken out of this discourse of this with talk about numbers on a spreadsheet or if you join us on saying i guarantee you no one else has a back story like yours this is a dialogue around this tired of seeing negative stereotypes about me. of americans

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back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera top republicans say there's no him to misconduct in the f.b.i. report into supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh but senate democrats argue the report into a sexual assault allegations is incomplete the senate is expected to vote on later this week. u.s. vice president mike pence is accused china of interfering with american politics and technology he says beijing is using economic military tools as well as propaganda to advance his interests in the u.s. china's foreign ministry has rejected the allegations as pence has committed slander. well the u.s. department of homeland security appears to contradict the president and vice president's accusations of chinese meddling at a cyber security summit three days ago the department secretary said we currently have no indication that a foreign adversary and tends to disrupt our election infrastructure but i will immediately follow that with this this is a. point in time we know they have the capability and we know they have the will so

we're constantly constantly on alert to watch what we see with china right now on the influence campaigns the more traditional long standing holistic influence campaigns with him on this let's speak to how rehearsed he in new york carries an ethical hacker and computer programmer who's best known for successfully hacking into voting machines in the united states and the hairy those are some strong words from mike pence the vice president but what evidence is out there to suggest the chinese are seeking to meddle in the u.s. midterm elections well the current news today which have rocked the world was a news about a implants a small devices in a super micro model boats and a service which can be in a very influential places however day has been absolutely no indication that those servers will be used in the election equipment and to be honest right now those equipment had been and the allegations off of infiltrating the supply chain stuff

from two thousand and fifteen u.s. election infrastructure is very old it was mainly created two thousand to help america vote act so these messes away older than any of those things rocking the news today yeah and you even successfully what didn't suit us voting machines quite famously said so just how vulnerable is the u.s. election system at the moment. the desist i'm currently in use a bulk of the machines were acquired two thousand and two two thousand and three that was a very different time first of all these machines were not new designs at the time these designs are from eighty's and ninety's from the time when a cyber warfare was a probably more science fiction or reality to people so these machines are not designed for today's standards and these machines don't require nascent state capabilities to be hacked actually day are sometimes in such

a real unreliable state that there is no need for malicious actor to do anything for having inaccurate or hard to understand results do you think there's a willingness in washington to make improvements to the election system especially if the administration keeps pinpointing their own vulnerabilities during the last six months there have been a massive change of tone and people are starting to have a more serious more level of conversation how to improve the situation i think there is the change of tone hopefully will translate itself to actions which will be rapidly improving the situation how it is actions are still only to start to happen government is not known for its fast reaction and performance but there are a signs of hope we say good to come india are right now looking goal should cautiously hopeful hopefully that. improvements will happen in

a future how remember that a final thought from you i mean apart from china and of course the probe into russian meddling other other states or groups who have the assets and the capabilities and the political will to compromise the u.s. election system. said before the not only united states but a lot of the western us western countries lecture systems our frac child to to find out you don't need any snakes or state capabilities of motivated actor who can make a change in the cyber warfare can be even individual but definitely a organized groups so there is a situation here is very fractious the systems not only united states across the world has to be fortified and be more resilient against any attacker her or her state thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera now iraq's new prime minister has to choose a cabinet and present it to parliament within thirty days but. these government to

survive enough to tackle the more pressing problem of growing unrest in the southern province of basra where protest against corruption and poor public public services continue mama the dough has the latest from the capital baghdad. the bustling portal basra provinces south and. a crucial lifeline to the country's economy every day tens of thousands of tons of imported goods are offloaded at these docks more than three million but also oil field tankers the steam for the global market while busted up pumps millions into government coffers of the day that a little of that reaches its residents not hierarchy demented out there is no longer here we've been totally neglected we have no clean water no electricity no job's we keep wondering how we have sunk to this level. now it's not who what is the government for fifteen years we've kept hearing promises without action we're still seeing any air force to save us from this mystery. in the impoverished suburbs of

iraq's second largest city a simmering soup of garbage and rule see which is a common sight. grievances boiled over in early july when thousands took to the streets to protest what they say is government neglect. the protests what you get of the thousands of people got sick drinking contaminated water after five months of political crisis about finally has a new leadership moments of the but i'm sorry a cut from wolf in iraq was elected president by parliament he topped the lobdell mahdi a shia and former minister to form the next government as prime minister the job is huge and the future. is central to their success feel the love i believe that the current shift in politics in iraq however tiny is driven by recent events in basra it's important for the new leadership to understand that failing in basra is not an option and would mean total failure for them. to calm rising anger and

tension in basra the outgoing administration announced two months ago a multi-billion dollar emergency plan to restore facilities and vital services in the region this time though the people of basra refusing to settle for what they call token improvements many say that unless there is many change in the political system under the new administration funds for development may once again end up in the pockets of corrupt officials how about the wall just data. well more now on the f.b.i. investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against president trump supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh let's talk to bruce fein he's live in washington d.c. he's a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general good to have you back on the program democrats and criticize the f.b.i. saying you know their investigation was hurried it was too narrow in scope and key witnesses were not involved and now the f.b.i. stands accused of carrying out

a fossil exercise under political pressure what did you make of it. well i think that's largely accurate the f.b.i. didn't decide the scope of the investigation and the speed that was a director from the white house which obviously has a conflict of interest since they're the ones who have nominated judge cavanagh and hardly want to see his nomination shipwreck and so is only a few days they didn't even go back to the the prime individuals involved that we saw on t.v. judge kavanagh himself and and dr christine ford and asked them and question them about in consistencies conflicts in their statements and during the question and answer period with the senate judiciary committee so i do think it was accelerated and the problem with this situation is that if the democrats get control of one or both houses of congress in november they will be able to reopen the investigation and will be investigating a sitting justice which will be sarm far more wrenching than one who has not got to the high court yet it has happened once previously with justice abe fortas who got

to the high court as an associate justice when he was nominated for chief justice there on covered some financial irregularities in his forced to resign but it was very messy and i think that's what's down the road here because of the very very cursory investigation by the f.b.i. and on top of all that there were several people who came forward saying they had evidence against kavanaugh people like judy swift nicholas sub-cabinet was involved in the drugging and sexual assaults of girls apologies it seems extraordinary proves that all of this was just ignored. yes it does but you can understand given the partisan nature of this of this nomination indeed of the congress and the parties themselves and remember and i wrote an article saying this is ridiculous you have the f.b.i. the base of the executive branch investigating their own nominee well of course with a conflict they're never going to find anything they don't want to find anything that's critical and the way in which you resolve this is get as independent

congressional staff with both parties represented doing the investigation i was a staff on the iran contra committee and they were both minority and majority on both situations when we investigated and interviewed anyone but the idea that the executive is going to be going to demolish its own nomination is ridiculous if that was going to happen they'd withdraw the nomination before investigation started ok so what do you think will be the political fallout from all of this i mean with some elections just a few weeks away now is this likely to sway voters do you think. well i think it may sway but sway voters on both sides that is i do think that the republicans seem a little bit aroused even those in mail the ones who support trump seeing it based upon what their rhetoric is on the republican side an effort to shipwreck a nomination that the president should enjoy on the democrat side i think there's a surge of voting substantially by the women who saw the testimony could read body

language knows evasions when they see evasions all of the efforts by judge kavanaugh to explain these rather scurrilous comments about women in his yearbook and clear in the reaction and and anger at the women in the senate who were questioning him indeed one of senator coburn char he actually started asking her questions about drinking and getting a blackout so it may well be that both the energizing both sides will produce a very very substantial turnout but still we have a month more to go and it could be that there will be additional people not interviewed by the f.b.i. who will come forward with information about judge kavanaugh and that will then i believe hurt the republicans will say well you ran much too fast you didn't permit a complete investigation you've shown you don't care about allegations of sexual assault and that will hurt them in november just a final brief thought to be bruce judge in this op ed a think in the wall street journal how significant is it what do you make of the

timing of it as well. well i think it's it's an odd knowledge meant that he hurt himself badly in his testimony we have not only did he go on t.v. before the hearing then he was at the hearing then afterwards he's got public relations counsel and say it's very very bad so i believe the could that's really a concession by judge kavanaugh he's kind of trying to apologize what he did under oath but he wasn't under oath and i don't think it's going to have any impact on the democrats i think it really it's almost self incriminating that he would do this at the eleventh hour just before the voting begins tomorrow bruce fein thanks for talking to voters there not counted it's an brazil's presidential race a facing each other in a televised debate voters head to the polls on sunday the far right nationalists jiah both scenario is leading in the polls is not taking pot he's recovering from a stabbing at sock early last month.

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welcome back now the winner of this year's nobel peace prize will be announced on friday and there's plenty of speculation about who will win the award. on the possible. so it's that time of the year again when the nobel committee is preparing to announce the winner of the famous peace prize everyone's trying to guess who's in the running well it's just that it's a guessing game because the shortlist is always

a closely guarded secret. among possible winners looking at world events ethiopia's prime minister has been mentioned for peace moves between his country and eritrea with war raging and fears of famine in yemen the un's world food program has been suggesting very very very aware. of the refugee crisis and the deaths of those crossing the mediterranean remain in the spotlight with the un's refugee agency the u.n.h.c.r. and groups like s.o.s. meditate on the possibly in the frame of bookmakers favorite seems to be a three way when between north korea's kim jong un the south korean president in and yes donald trump for their joint efforts to avert a nuclear war on the korean peninsula but keep guessing because not only are the experts usually wrong but one close peace prize watcher i spoke to said the committee's been getting it wrong for decades they have entirely forgotten the real

alpha in the bill the real speaks about the champions of peace. who are doing the work to create the brotherhood of nations disarmament and peace congresses the core activities of the peace movement at the time this is a prize for the grassroots not for the militarist state leaders lots of people think they got it wrong with anxiety see who won in one thousand nine hundred one with calls for the now leader of myanmar to be stripped of the prize because of military violence directed at the range of people that may cause the committee to play it safe this year who knows and that's the point no one does jonah how al-jazeera in oslo tesla's. the musk has appeared to mock a government agency on twitter just days after negotiating a settlement to keep his job because the jested the security and exchange commission the f.c.c. was helping investors are betting on tesla stock to fall it sued musk last week for

alleged fraud after he wrote on social media that he was considering taking the firm private mosque agree to pay a twenty million dollars fine and step aside as test as chairman for three years. for the sport now his peter thank you very much five time world footballer of the year christiana rinaldo has trained with you ventus for the first time since last week's accusations of rape the thirty three year old denies he assaulted a woman at a las vegas hotel in two thousand and nine paul reese has more. christianne over naldo pulled into the event as training complex and cheering on thursday the day after using twitter to deny he had a right to woman one of the biggest names in world football has been accused by american catherine majorca of assaulting her in his las vegas hotel room nine years ago she told the german newspaper spiegel that she had been paid three hundred seventy five thousand dollars by rinaldo to keep quiet my oga has now filed

a civil lawsuit against the portuguese player whose own lawyers have threatened to sue the newspaper for damages in early two thousand and seventeen we found first traces about this incident in june two thousand and nine and we kept digging and search for more documents and went outside to get some open field research went to las vegas for example and gathered as much information as we could about this case this is a very sensitive case obviously police in las vegas have since reopened the complaint to my oga made at the time in which she didn't identify her alleged assailant her lawyer says she's now been emboldened to name or naldo because of the me too movement that followed last year's allegations against movie producer harvey weinstein. and which also inspired us a gymnasts to testify against dr lowery last set before he was jailed for sexual assault in january this year the. need to move it was very important

to catherine. in her decision to. consult with us and go forward in this case. i think she looks to the women who are involved in the need to move on as he rose in his tweets on wednesday ronaldo said rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything i am and believe in kane as i may be to clear my name i refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense a day earlier he had released another denial on instagram fake fake news they want to they want to bring more by my name it's normal. we're not all that has been left out of the squad for his national side portugal for the next two matches under what the team says was a preexisting agreement to proper for the i know christiane over now and i well i fully believe what he says and i know he is in my perspective would not carry out

a crime at this kind i do not believe that me and. my old his lawyer says the instant has left her suffering from post-traumatic stress depression rinaldo is due to play in the italian league against it in a.z. on saturday with the date of a possible court appearance in the united states yet to be announced whole race al-jazeera event has have attracted some online criticism for tweeting the support of rinaldo the italian champions posted a video of an elder scoring in training on thursday and added that quote events allegedly dating back almost ten years did not change their opinion on this great champion. brazilian club through to the semifinals of south americans top club competition the copper limited orissa louis philippe scolari's team beach elayne's line color colo to milan wednesday to go through full on aggregate come at us will face either barca juniors or crucero who play the second leg of their quarter final

on tuesday stanley cup champions the washington capitals are up and running at the start of ice hockey s new n.h.l. season with a commanding seven nothing beating of the boston bruins the occasion started with the capitals showing off the stanley cup to their fans and for the first time an n.h.l. championship banner was raised to the rafters and then it was down to business after twenty four seconds it was one nothing flat set the tone for an eventual seven nothing route and a shout out victory on the opening night of the season. to baseball in the new york yankees have set up an american league playoff series with a big rivals the boston red sox and after the yankees thrashed the oakland athletics in their wild card game john carlos stanton is a huge homerun in this one helping them to a seven two victory so the yankees will now face the red sox in the postseason for the first time since two thousand and four olympic officials are in the argentine

capital where no siree is ahead of the start of the youth olympics on saturday four thousand athletes between the ages of fifteen and eighteen will take part in the competition olympic chiefs are always looking at ways to attract a younger and more diverse audience this year's event will feature breakdancing as part of that. senegal has been chosen as the host for the next youth games in two thousand and twenty two will be the first african country to host any lympics and has its own ideas on how to attract young fans reports from that. for the first time in one hundred twenty two years of the modern olympic games an african city will host a version of the event. the cars twenty twenty two utility picks is expected to welcome the best fourteen to eighteen year old world our fleet. sixteen year old swimmer roman to like camera is representing senegal in this year's when osiris

games but she says her project is to win olympic gold in the car at home. i'm not just proud of representing my nation i'm proud to represent all the girls who don't get a chance to play any sports this is out time to show that because do it and when she is not alone in wanting to achieve success meet team exams on lions otherwise known as the smart lions the international olympic committee is considering adding eastport to the game. and so the smart lions are preparing for the car twenty twenty two hoping that by then this will be an olympic sport. the universal principles and values of the olympics of the same isn't competitive gaming today we fill stadiums for each game and torments just like any other a limp exporter we are athletes. video gaming is a one hundred eight billion dollar industry and it's booming with backing from major brands and sponsors but it may be lympics e-sports and the revenues that

comes with it more than e-sports needs the olympics here's a challenge so the games are violent and a hard to follow it's not all suitable to broad public so what do you do it's true that some of the games are not suitable for young children committee needs to decide what's right from our perspective youth sports like taekwondo or karate why couldn't you have e-commerce sports to. bring down the fight is to get the city ready for the games and you wrestling in basketball stadium was just inaugurated and the government is building a new city for the event the organizers here say they want to make africa proud with two hundred million people aged between eighteen and twenty four africa has the youngest properly in the world but despite the lack of sports facilities it continues to produce some of the top athletes on the globe including in sports. teams on lions and other young athletes here bringing the olympic flame home is

a victory in itself worth celebrating. it was hawk al-jazeera the car. and that's all the support from us for now we'll have another update for you again later on. peter thank you very much now the busan international film festival has opened in south korea and a new era of dialogue with its northern neighbor the festival was screened three hundred twenty films from seventy nine countries over the next ten days. as more from the red carpet in but i think. it's a fitting opening film for a festival the coincides with what many hope is a new start in into korean relations beautiful days tells a story of a north korean defector who abandons her husband and son for a new life in south korea the work of an up and coming director from busan it taps perfectly into the current interest in relations with the north. sea the message of the movie is that regardless of the past when relations of sound have to

meet to keep the dialogue going another movie taking inspiration from north south relations is the espionage thriller the spy gone north which is a man who just years top ten hits at the box office first of all organizers are hoping in future to invite north korean filmmakers to busan and there's even talk of an entrepreneur and film festival it did see these periods of cooperation with the north has been taken up by the city itself. as south korea's second city busan is at the forefront of efforts to forge closer links developing c. rail connection projects the city's mayor is currently on the delegation to pyongyang to promote closer ties filmmaking could have an important role to play there was always on a with a. for the film industry the easiest way to collaborate would be due to change of people working in film the next step could be screening each other's films and even

working on a joint film production asia's most important film festival has been marred in recent years by a role with the city's government. over the screening of a controversial documentary about the say well ferry tragedy of twenty fourteen it led to a number of filmmakers boycotting the event but this year no one is staying away it seems the current mood of korean reconciliation is proving an irresistible force. problem bryde al-jazeera busan south korea. old news of course on our website there it is on the screen the press al jazeera dot com. that's it for me down jordan for the news my colleague elizabeth palms up next with more of the day's news watching .

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