enforcing the trends of drug. military industrial complex starts october twentieth on t.w. . this is the w.'s line from u.s. senators react to be f.b.i. report on president trump supremum court nominee a republican saying there is nothing in it to corroborate sexual assault allegations against brett kavanaugh top democrats say it is the product of an incomplete investigation we'll bring you the latest from washington also on the program a range of western countries including the united states accuses russia and the

russian agents of launching cyber attacks around the world are targets including the un's chemical weapons watchdog. i'm phil gal welcome to the program the u.s. satis is a step closer to confirming president trump's nomination to the supreme court the f.b.i. report into allegations of sexual assaults against judge brett kavanaugh has now been shown to sentences republicans say it contains nothing to substantiate the claims as thousands of m c kavanaugh protesters took to washington streets democrats criticized it as incomplete and constrained by a white house determined to push through the lifetime appointment of the conservative fifty three year old judge as in previous senate judiciary a hearings a confidential report prompted a partisan rough. democrats dianne feinstein said the most notable bonce of the

report was well it was not in it the f.b.i. did not interview brett kavanaugh nor did the f.b.i. interview dr blasi for what we've heard from numerous people over the last few days seeking to provide information to the f.b.i. we have seen even more press reports of witnesses who wanted to speak with the f.b.i. but were not interviewed the absence of witness testimony had a different reason according to republican and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell senate as chairman grassley stated this morning neither digits your committee nor the f.b.i. could locate any third parties who are going to test to any of these allegations no backup for any witnesses including those specifically named as eye witnesses by the people who brought the

allegations on first blush the white house certainly blocked access to millions of documents from judge kaplan on this record i know that and ensured that ninety percent of his e-mails and memos were available so the facts do not support the allegations levied judge cavanaugh's character as read many of the facts actually support judge kavanagh's strong unequivocal that although democrats and senate minority leader chuck schumer was equally convinced of the opposite i disagree with senator grassley statement that there was no hint of misconduct. and third we are reiterating our call given how limited. this these documents were and how limited the scope of this investigation was. we are reiterating our call that the documents with proper redaction be made public why

shouldn't all of america see the facts the report which opens the way for a vote on cavanagh's nomination in the full senate when republicans hold a seat majority that could now take place as early as saturday to washington then where we join id to view correspondents. who joins us from the u.s. supreme court to welcome. what have you heard about the reports contents. well actually we have heard nothing about the reports content because officially this report were probably stay. secret or private if you will. for the time to be there is only one hundred senators and about nine staffers from comedy's allowed to actually see the reports i don't think we will at least none of the experts and observers i've talked to nobody thinks that this is going to come

to the public anytime soon that's why the democrats are so adamant about adamant about making this report now public the protesters right behind me here were just left the who just left the supreme court stairs because they weren't allowed to protest there are now trying to flood all the buildings surrounding the supreme court and their message is clear and this is in accordance with the message of the democratic party so to speak and that is that they want this report they being made official public and b. they do not want still do not want no matter what brett kavanaugh the next supreme court judge who was once we can tell a senate has a pretty much sticking to party lines at the state republicans for brett kavanaugh and democrats against but there are some way for us.

that's right so there are three critical senators are all in the g.o.p. all in the republican party in this is jeff flake lisa murkowski and susan called us protesters here for example made a real real real big push in their speeches and in their chance to make known that to make it known to those three senators that they really expect a vote against mr cavanaugh however it looks like as of now at least that those three senators who were at least. positioning themselves with some wiggle room in terms of the assessment if mr cavanaugh is fit for this lifetime job or not that those three genders senators now decided to go with a stump up vote and in that case on saturday that would be a republican majority for the confirmation all thread kevin ross is praying for jobs and the democrats would have lost that battle ok so as i understand it there

are two photos to come. is there a sorry you have to review there chris i did hear that there are two and a standard to vote yes to come. well yeah this one of the first one is seventy two more and that's a procedural vote. which basically allows the senate then on the next day to make an up and down vote base really literally thumbs up or thumbs down fifty one votes have to be for mr cabinet to get the position of the supreme court and as it looks right now given the supreme is a procedural vote will happen tomorrow on saturday will be this up and down vote and mr cavanaugh will be a another or a new judge on the supreme court no matter what those demonstrators are protesters you want and wish for. us to see once the u.s. supreme court thank you. now there are some of the other stories

making news around the world german chancellor angela merkel has met israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu as part of a two day visit to jerusalem with the king to emphasize the strong bilateral relations despite disagreements on several issues including the iran nuclear deal germany wants to preserve the accord while israel wants it scrapped but they both agree that iran should be prevented from acquiring nuclear weapons on. the last privately operated ship dedicated to saving refugees from drowning in the mediterranean has docked in moscow the aquarius had panamanian registration but had its flag but its flag has now been revoked meaning that it can no longer legally say the operators say part of ma is bearing to pressure from italy which is cracking down on illegal migration they say the movie is putting people's lives at risk. romania is preparing for a referendum on whether to limit the definition of family to heterosexual married

couples it comes after three million people signed a petition demanding that the constitution explicitly state that marriage is between a man and the woman dozens of e.u. lawmakers oppose this weekend's vote. the united states united kingdom australia and beneficence are accusing the russian spies of involvement in a series of cyber attacks around the world the us has now indicted seven russian agents in connection with these attacks on domestic and international targets today dutch officials said they foiled a russian cyber attack against the u.n. chemical weapons watchdog in april investigators say four suspects packed a car full of outrunning cyber monitoring equipment outside the organization for the prohibiting of chemical weapons in the hague and then left a trail of evidence of chemical weapons watchdog says it suffered what they called increased cyber related activities at the start of the year and russia denies the allegations which were announced as nato defense ministers met in brussels. this

smiles and friendly handshakes on the second day of nato summit of defense ministers were overshadowed by news of a possible cyber attack by russian agents in the netherlands. nato allies expressed their solidarity with the decision by the dutch and the british government to call out russia on its plate and attempt to undermine international law and international institutions dutch authorities announced today they had foiled a cyber attack on the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the dutch defense ministry said it expelled for russian nationals after they were caught spying at the chemical weapons watchdog but the defense ministers had other things to talk about as well national defense budgets were on the agenda with the us still pushing for other members to up their military spending but the time was less strident than recent and spending has gone up it is clear we are making progress this will be the fourth consecutive year of rising the fans spending

but we still have a long way to go all nato is investing and he's keen to show the world what it's doing with that money soon it will hold its biggest military maneuvers since the end of the cold war in no way close to the russian border have. strayed to brussels that are where we're joined into because from then to banter we get a welcome back so we have a series of allegations today against russia coming on the same day as the nato defense ministers meet there what do you make of the timing. the meeting today at the nato headquarters here in brussels was certainly a good opportunity to close ranks with the united states for the nato members here in europe and also to show a united front against a common enemy namely russia the old code a world war for the cold war. so this is the timing is

very good for the west to show that russia systematically undermines the best and democracy was its attacks and also international institutions. cyber attacks and saudi friends was already high on the nato agenda before this meeting and now this is also a good opportunity to show that nato is preparing for counter tags on russia because nato now is seeing these russian the thames as a kind of a military aggression we heard comments there from the nicer secretary at general have other nato members been reacting well old native members have their own allegations the brits issued a report the united states indicted. other russians in other related cases but also no way australia switzerland came forward with allegations so this is the attempt to show a worldwide alliance against these alleged russian attacks and of course as you

mentioned russia is denying all these cases a russian spokeswoman said today it's all pure fantasy. russia is already suffering from sanctions imposed on it for its actions in ukraine. i wonder where this can go from here. well nato and also the united states certainly considering a fresh round of sanctions against individuals from the russian military secret service and also maybe more expulsions of russian diplomats but the relations between the western countries are russia's a solo you can how dimension they can diplomatically get any lower and if you add the military say tensions between the u.s. and russia in syria and if you add the new role about russian myside deployed here in europe and then you can see that there is little chance for any positive

development in the future but the question is do the russians really care they're very serious doubts at nato headquarters in brussels this morning ben really good thank you so we spoke to the w.c. russia correspondent me trucks origin and i asked him how moscow is reacting to these latest allegations. while the russian government is basically saying we have nothing to do with it there was no attack there are date allegations are observed they are talking about spy mania in the west and president putin has repeatedly rejected similar charges but have also spoken to think tankers and the intelligence community here in moscow and someone told me that washington is eager to impose even tougher sanctions on russia by the end of november so you asked me if russia has nothing to lose why should they why should we russians behave the way that west wants them to behave somebody else told me that the defense department is acting

aggressively because they want the situation to become more tense as you know president putin said just a couple of days ago that he would like to spend less money on defense and the years to come so if this is true that is something that generals here in moscow don't like to hear and maybe this is the reason why they're acting so aggressively right now. yeah drago sort of reporting from moscow that's it you're up to date more at the top of the hour or around the clock on the web site that's t w dot com i'm going to. live. here what's coming up going to sleep you have plenty to talk i hear. it's going to take a look at what all that means for the paper of course. we're going to sleep every weekend here on w.