at the top stories here on al-jazeera protests for and against president trump supreme court pick up and held outside the u.s. congress has been anally cleared a procedural vote in the senate a final vote expected on saturday public and say an f.b.i. investigation didn't find any evidence supporting sexual misconduct claims against him. juries have convicted a white chicago police officer for the shooting of a black teenager. jason van dyke has been found guilty of a second degree murder of one mcdonald in twenty fourteen the policeman shot mcdonald sixteen times as he held a knife by his side. on the twenty eight hundred these prices been awarded two years eighty women's rights activists not on the congolese dr dennis mcrae get the right campaigns for the victims of sexual violence or runs a hospital in the d.r. see dedicated to helping the victims of gang rape. now more now on the divisions in the u.s. of a president from supreme court nominee earlier i spoke with christine pelosi democratic strategist i asked her if brett kavanaugh is now guaranteed is

nomination. well starting in july when the vacancy opened up and the the announcement was made that judge cavanagh was going to be the president's choice for the supreme court we knew then that it was quite likely he would be confirmed elections have consequences the republicans have the senate and so it was quite likely that that was going to be the path at the time we debated whether or not we should put a lot of effort organizing effort into opposing him and we thought that because the stakes were so high it was something that we really needed to do on their day in terms of the senate to let people know what was at stake in terms of women's rights voting rights labor rights and also in terms of the house because there are times when the conservative supreme court will make a ruling and then a progressive democratic congress will counter it remember the first bill doctor for barack obama signed as president of the united states during the early lead better act pay for women that was undoing

a decision by the supreme court judge that's why we thought it was necessary to fight and i still think the fight was worth it and despite some. of the last couple of weeks of professor fitting and. the stories that have surfaced of people experiencing sexual assault and feeling as though that there was no point in reporting and because the perpetrator would not be brought to justice i still think that that it was worth it for us to share our stories and it will give a lot of fire for people to be revved up to vote for the midterms ok so with the clock ticking down to the actual majority votes on saturday what touch exalt democrats using to try and turn the numbers in your favor i mean protests alone and not really going to work. well i think it's a matter of saying a of having people who are the constituents of those senators speak out to them to help them make an informed decision that certainly worked for the people talking to senator flake to say hey wait at least stop and and

investigate these charges that are out there so i have a feeling that there is still you know more hope that people have to say look he's probably going to get confirmed right now but how we approach this and how we explain to the voters out there to the millions of people at home who are watching who are feeling very very raw because their me two stories have come up whether they're for cavanagh or against him they are feeling very traumatized by this process and so i think that what the democrats are attempting to do and what i as a survivor advocate telling the people in our we said enough community is look we hear you we believe you and you need to channel how you are feeling into getting out the vote for the november elections and what do you make of senator joe manchin is breaking ranks with the democrats and voting in favor of kavanagh's nomination. i thought it was extremely disappointing that senator manchin didn't even have the

guts to get on the floor and make a speech he waited for the woman republican woman susan collins of maine to get out there tell her story bare her you know all of her rationale much as i disagreed with it and with her i respected the fact that she at least she stood up and and made a speech to the american people explaining her views he waited for that to be finished and then he sort of slipped out a little press release and then when they asked him if there was room for him in the democratic party he said i'm just a good old boy from west virginia well we're tired of the good old boys we're trying to actually create a more reflective democracy so i think it's deeply disappointing and i would hope that having made this decision that senator manchin doesn't also abandon his commitment to health care in the affordable care act and public education which had been up until a month ago the cornerstones of his campaign for reelection because we still need him to be fighting for health care and to be fighting for public education christine just a final thought from you most people would agree i suppose it's been

a good week for donald trump in the g.o.p. so how is covena like to impact on the midterms has it side up progressives and democrats. absolutely i think it's fired up everybody look i'll give donald trump credit he two years ago this weekend the access hollywood takes came out where he bragged about grabbing women by the private parts a year ago the me two movement started and shortly after that we wrote the first me to politics letter here in california and started trying to attempt a little reforms as well so so on this anniversary this is actually the anniversary also sudden sort of my your ascending to the court under president obama it's a real single you know elections have consequences so donald trump had a very good week because he bent the republican party to his will he got a reproductive freedom supporting republican female senator to vote with him instead of with her stated litmus test so i think he's had

a very good week i think the movement has had a very good week because we have been determined to break the silence to keep talking and to go out there in force and elect people who are going to respect survivors respect women and in many cases be women making better policy in three people including a myna been killed by israeli forces during protests near the gaza israel fence gaza's health ministry says another one hundred eighty people were injured but a students have been protesting since march demanding an end to israel's blockade as well as a right to return to their ancestral homeland. voters in latin america's largest democracy will be heading to the polls on sunday as one of the most divisive elections in brazil since the end of the military dictatorship more than three decades ago but left as fernando second as far right rival jaya both tomorrow but it's an uphill task as he tries to bring his body out of corruption claims a lot of the markets and the sentiment as more. this son of lebanese immigrants to

brazil could not be more different than the left wing legend whose place he is running for president of latin america's largest country less than a month ago former south america fed nanda had dad was really seen nationally as running mate a soft spoken academic by the side of the popular and charismatic former president but with a new lead now barred from running as he serves a twelve year sentence for corruption and dad has been forced to step into his shoes if he can. we have received a mission from president lula mission to look into the eyes of the people and remind them of the time when together we built a very different country. dad was listened to cation minister and promises to return to the days when the workers' party implemented social programs interested millions of brazilians from poverty that memory has helped transfer some of this popularity to had. especially on the industrial outskirts of

sao paolo where the workers' party was born. to the p.t.s.d. part of the working class that gave us dignity before d.p.p. we had no access to credit cards we always took buses never an airplane. dice doesn't know much about had that only whom he represents. had dads biggest strength is also his biggest weakness he needs the support of these workers who are part of a lot of hard core support base but that means he can't this isn't some self from a former president who millions of other brazilians identify with this country's worst ever a corruption scandal. that himself is under investigation for taking illegal campaign contributions in two thousand and twelve a charge he denies and although he's regarded as a moderate within his left wing party it's a hard sell. i think

a dog is no fool and would not be a toy in the hands of his mentor but right now he needs to stick to live image to make it to the second round. but as his followers chant is had that and had that this lula the unlikely candidate has little time to convince the undecided that he wouldn't be the puppet of an imprisoned former president you see in human. capitalism is a shock to me and been hammered out fanny's in argentina's bottom a tour of latin america been working on building new alliances ever since a diplomatic crisis broke out in twenty seventeen putting its against a regional blockade led by saudi arabia don osama reports from. it's a state visit from two countries and opposite sides of the globe which on the surface don't have a great deal in common it's small but wealthy doesn't stay there and the suffering is severe local political problems with argentina with huge potential going through

a serious economic crisis the two leaders a personal friends we met in two thousand and thirteen to be. the president of argentina said their personal friendships could be used to benefit the people of both nations. to the summit. also spoke of the friendship between the two men and said it would lay the foundations for better relations between the two countries that ministers signed the chords on a number of issues including education. renewable energy and sport both men also saying that the relationship between the two countries was only going to go from strength to strength the greek police could have prevented the killing of a rapper at the hands of a hitman from the far right party golden dawn but they failed to do so that's the conclusion of a new forensic report the murder of pub last feiss in september twenty third teen ignited weeks of anti fascist protests as well as indictment of all of golden dawns

members of parliament john psaropoulos reports this is the security camera that recorded the arrival of eight police officers on motorcycles on the night of seventeenth september twenty third a teen it's time code was off so the precise time of the police arrival was unknown police have said they arrived after the killing of rapper. and too late to prevent it i witnesses for the prosecution said the police were present forensic architecture a research unit at goldsmiths university in london has now answered that question by matching material from eleven security cameras to precisely time coded police dispatch recordings they corroborated what prosecution witnesses said they were saying from the very beginning that the police was present on the scene and not intervene in the before and that we found out that they arrived at the scene about five minutes before the murder took place the defense tried to have the analysis

thrown out but the courts deemed it admirable we can see. groups of people attacking somebody who is obviously was at the time of the of the stabbing. two policemen being at the scene in five to ten meters away having so the killer passes right through them right in front of the two police officers who stood here evidently hadn't realized what happened because of the stabbing they tried to arrest the victim rather than the killer it's only because told them he'd been stabbed showed them his wounds and pointed to his killer but the killer was a rest of the tall golden dawn's leader and members of parliament were indicted on charges of running a criminal organization under the guise of a political party and faeces family lawyers say the precise time coding now proves the organized nature of the crime were there with what the video confirms is a simple tiniest arrival of the golden dawn members because we see eight

motorcycles with two riders on each and three cars with passages arriving as a convoy all of them turn down the street where faces his friends are except for the killers car which circles the block and then returns to kill face us the video proves the arrival of dawn was coordinated they had a plan which suggests a party conspiracy you can set this up in twenty minutes police won't comment on the new analysis because the trial is ongoing but there is now powerful evidence that this killing was carefully orchestrated and politically motivated and that police were unprepared for violence of this kind jumps out opal us al-jazeera athens the philippine president has revealed he may have cancer or drug or to turn to says he's waiting for a pee test results for abnormalities in his digestive tract and cologne had been concerns for the church's health after he missed two official events on wednesday he's promised to announce the results if he has a serious illness. i know you see it clearly but they have to wait for

that. but they a would tell you that the concert it's going so. if the third stage no more treatment i will not belong. in this office or in a will a court in south korea has jailed the former president lee myung bak for fifteen years for corruption it was on the guilty of embezzling around twenty one million dollars and accepting bribes from samsung and other companies rob mcbride reports from seoul. the charges date back to lean young backs time in office ten years ago and highlight once again the graft prone links between big business and south korean politics it was alleged in court he accepted millions of dollars in illegal payments from institutions including some song and embezzled millions more from a private company that he had control over actions the court condemned as

a betrayal of public trust these people in the accused amassed mistrust and disappointment in our society as well as in the people who have supported him believed in him lee boycotted the proceedings apparently in protest of them being broadcast live to south korea and the conservative claims the case is politically motivated by the current liberal administration. e-mail. prosecutors investigation against the lieberman buck administration is clearly a personal attack targeting me levy is the fourth former president to be imprisoned since leaving office the most recent before him parking on hay is serving a more than thirty year sentence for a crime she committed before being impeached and removed from office last year since moving towards democracy in the one nine hundred eighty s. all south korean leaders have been tarnished to some degree by alleged wrongdoing either by themselves or their immediate families while in office for many political

commentators cases like police have become familiar and many koreans are frustrated on the other hand they want to move forward and.