on me and i look forward to going to make every single one of us proud on saturday and i thank you so much truly from the bottom of my heart it's good to be back one of christiane are those biggest sponsors nike say they're deeply concerned about the rape allegation being made against him who are now denies the accusation from katherine my yoga that he sexually assaulted her in las vegas nine years ago nike have a lifetime deal with ronaldo with up to a billion dollars and say they are closely monitoring the situation that was also the message from videogame manufacturer e.a. who have featured rinaldo on the front cover of the fee for game for two years they say they expect ambassadors to conduct themselves in a manner that is consistent with the values six times out of american germans baka juniors are through to the semifinals of this year's copper liberty dollars the argentine team were up against because they're of brazil in the second leg of the final match resettles called first but then had a player sent off for

a second yellow card backers christiane pub on lifted until deep into stoppage time before equalizing it finished one one but dhaka went through three one on aggregate they'll play another brazilian merits for a place in the final. the youth olympic games that begin in buenos aires on saturday or getting some special guests the tie boys football team who were trapped in a cave for almost three weeks will visit athletes at the games to share their experience it's the first stop ahead of the u.s. to which will see the wild boars team head to new york and los angeles over the next two weeks. spanish moto g.p. ride a whole lot and so will decide on saturday whether he will continue racing this weekend in thailand of the was taken to hospital in that country after a huge crash in practice the ducati rider already has a fractured foot from a crash an hour gone a few weeks ago when this happened three time world champion roll these by which broke apart from the force of the crash he was conscious after the accident but was

taken to hospital for a scan on his wrist to formula one and lewis hamilton was lucky to avoid a serious crash himself in practice for the japanese grand prix take a look at this. image from travelling at full speed just managed to avoid smashing into the back of ghastly the french driver was punished for driving unnecessarily slowly and impeding hamilton who had a great day other than that he was quickest in both sessions and a reason is a nice teammate about how he bought us ferrari couldn't match their pace which will be a concern for sebastian vettel who is trying to gain ground on hamilton in the race for the f one title. n.b.a. commissioner adam silver has said he hopes to make basketball the number one sport in the world that's after the game saw big growth in china with an estimated three hundred million people playing it according to the national basketball association the n.b.a. is philadelphia seventy six has played

a preseason game against the dallas mavericks in shanghai on friday fully winning one hundred twenty one hundred fourteen the teams will go to shenzhen for the second game on monday. meanwhile the sport's biggest star le bron james is won his first game with the l.a. lakers since his trade from the cleveland cavaliers he scored eighteen points in an n.b.a. preseason victory over the sacramento kings the lakers winning by five points one hundred twenty eight one hundred and twenty three. rugby's graters rivalry takes center stage on saturday when south africa host new zealand in pretoria in the final round of this year's rugby championship the springboks can no longer win the title that's after the all blacks defeated argentina week that is still the crown for the third year running however the last time the two sides met the south african surprise the world champions in new zealand the kiwis have said they are out to avenge that loss on the home side say they know what to expect. if you want

to take it up with the city they've made it clear that they're coming to to want to win this game they want to basically get to vent so it's going to be. with us that's the thing for us we wouldn't want to be shocked by the intensity one or the period from the minute you know. and you can't control too much with it in the world would we can bring one of must make sure that from the word go not wait for a couple of minutes. you may have seen the iron man movies but just take a minute to marvel at this. this is the footage from a seem to be released superhero film and says it is all very real british inventor richard browning has created this jet engine powered suit that allows its use it's actually a flight you can saloon should you racing series next year for men and women the suit has so far managed to record a speed of fifty one kilometers per hour and you can buy your own jet to two if you like the city back just short of four hundred fifty thousand on this. we've got

some amazing breakthroughs coming on the technology front because that pace hasn't slowed down but really the idea of bringing several pilots from all different corners of the planet male and female from different sporting backgrounds to assemble in one place over water because then it's an entirely safe activity and have them start to race around a kind of a race circuit in three dimensions with thousand holes project suits it's going to be astounding and phenomenal and we are doing this there's no debate as to whether we might or might not we are doing it's too much fun even for myself or my existing team that already fly the not do it ok we'll leave it there for a moment for coming up again later volleyer thank you very much and finally the u.s. first lady melania trump is in kenya as part of her tour and friday she visited an elephant often age and one of the babies was a little rambunctious and nearly knocked over a message. it rattled annual because the elephant is a symbol of her husband's that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera from me fully

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with no means of supporting themselves the widows sanctuary on al jazeera. the a's are fifty one the nose are forty nine the motion is agreed to. by calvin r.-k. is the first of two crucial senate votes to confirm him for a lifetime seat on the u.s. supreme court. you know i'm in london you know with al jazeera also coming up this year's nobel peace prize is awarded to yazidi campaign. and dr dennis gave for that work to end sexual violence in war. tens of thousands of indonesians still waiting for aid in

basic facilities a week after an earthquake and tsunami destroyed their homes and interpol chief main hallway vanishes on a trip to his native china. donald trump supremes court nominee has cleared one of the final hurdles towards clinching a job on america's top judicial body on this vote the yeas are fifty one the nos are forty nine the motion is agreed to. the republican controlled senate voted fifty one to forty nine to set up a final likely final vote on brett kavanaugh his confirmation on saturday it was largely along party lines with just one democrat voting for him and one republican against all eyes will be on key republican senators who remain undecided over cavanagh's nomination democrats oppose him because of sexual misconduct allegations

made by three women following the vote dozens of protesters gathered outside senator jeff lakes office is considered one of the swing votes you could make or break brett kavanaugh his nomination and has indicated he plans to vote to confirm him there was anger outside the supremes court as well with police arresting people protesting against the senate's vote or rosen joins us live now from capitol hill and speaking about key senators roslyn all eyes now on senator susan collins a great deal riding on what her position will be. that's right and that's because susan collins is one of four senators who are considered the swing votes on that the nomination of brett kavanaugh to join the u.s. supreme court as you just noted jeff flake of arizona a republican who is leaving the senate and who is also with very critical of the u.s. president donald trump has been considered perhaps the most important swing vote

but he has said that unless something really unusual or outrageous comes up in the next twenty four hours he does plan to vote to confirm calvin ball to the high court another republican senator lisa murkowski of alaska announced earlier on friday that after considerable consideration and reading of the f.b.i. report that was put together in the middle of this confirmation process she has said that even though she considers cavanagh to be a quote a good man. she can't vote for him that there should be someone else dominated to fill the vacancy on the high court we are waiting to hear from susan collins she is scheduled to us speak on the senate floor at this hour and she has already told reporters that she is going to announce her decision on the final vote during her floor speech so that is something we are waiting to see and then there's one other

senator a democrat joe manchin he has often crossed party lines to vote with the republicans on certain issues and he is also considered someone who could go either way on the kavanaugh nomination. we have seen a divided senate no doubt what has been the public reaction to this process you are seeing pitches of protesters gathering in washington what's the response in the u.s. been to all of this. well it's not just demonstrators gathering here on capitol hill in washington you have seen people calling senators offices going to senators offices in their home states basically conducting sit ins basically e-mailing in letters of support or opposition to the cabin on domination you've seen people getting into very heated arguments on social media on public affairs shows on radio

call in shows people are talking about this in a way that we have not seen any sort of this kind of political discussion really in the last couple of years and certainly in light of the past years rise of the me to move against such a harassment in the workplace at school and in other places this allegation of sexual assault that has been launched against brett kavanaugh has really ignited not just a lot of discussion about what to do about it but a lot of people who say that they have been attacked at some point in their lives have been very very vocal about their about their experiences and demanding that there be good change in the way that u.s. society is constructed not just in the way that men and women are taught how to engage with each other but in terms of changing the legal system as well that has led to political activism perhaps more notably on the liberal or progressive side

but we've also seen more energy on the conservative side of us society because this issue is so personal and so visceral really you haven't seen anything like this in a number of years thank you very much charles and i enjoyed following the twists and turns of that process for us from capitol hill. jurors have convicted a chicago police officer over the shooting of a black teenager who was holding a knife officer jason van dyke has been found guilty of the murder of mcdonald the policeman shot mcdonald sixteen times john hendren joins us live from the court john how significant is this verdict.

barium it is rare that a police officer is charged with murder it's rarer still that they are convicted this is the first time in more than three decades in the city of chicago that a police officer has been charged with murder now he was charged with first degree murder that would have carried a life sentence and the jury opted not to convict him of that charge they convicted him instead of second degree murder which means that he had he really believed that his life was in danger but that that was not a realistic belief so he was convicted of second degree murder the the guidelines call for a sentence of four to twenty years on that count he was also convicted of sixteen separate counts one for each bullet he fired into the body of look on mcdonald of aggravated battery with a firearm that could come with additional time so this is a police officer who will certainly do time in prison we will not know how much until that sentence comes down but this is a city that has been on edge chicago is famously the most segregated city in the

united states and there have been a number of shootings of young black men by police officers and there have been protests in the streets and it all happened because the video of fish shooting which revealed so much came out a year ago or after the shooting happened it was paid little attention at that time but the video shows look on mcdonald walking away from police officers knife in hand but later found closed and the jury decided that that was just not what that reason enough there were multiple police officers there and only one fired on the quantock donald that was officer jason found today he will pay for that at thanks very much john hendren and chicago let's take you back to washington now. gathers.