this is daily news live from burlington u.s. senators react to the f.b.i. report on president trump's supreme court nominee republicans say there is nothing in it to corroborate sexual assault allegations against spread to top democrats criticizing the product of an incomplete investigation bring you the latest from washington also on the program a range of western countries including the netherlands and the united states accuse of russian agents of launching cyber attacks around the world with targets set to include the un's chemical weapons watchdog. cristiana rinaldo is left out of

portugal's squad that same captain will not play in next week's two international matches this comes amid allegations against him you'll hear from one of the journalists who broke that story. and phil gal welcome to the program united states senate is a step closer to confirming president trump's nomination to the supreme court yet be i reports into allegations of sexual assault against a judge brack kavanah house not been shown to senators in private republicans say it contains nothing to substantiate the claims while democrats criticize it as incomplete and constrained by a white house determined to push through the lifetime appointment of the conservative fifty three thousands about to cap no. protesters have taken to

washington streets as the report provokes another part is not enough. democrats dianne feinstein said the most notable parts of the report was what 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 senator chairman grassley fight of this morning need a big vischer committee and all they have to locate any third parties who are going to try to any of these allegations

no back up for any witnesses including those specific claims. as eye witnesses by the people who brought the allegations on first lawyers the white house certainly blocked access to millions of documents from judge kavanaugh his 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 and said many of the facts actually support judge kavanagh's strong unequivocal and i'll 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 rejection 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 where republicans hold a seat majority that could now take place is early as saturday. let's get more from d.w. correspondent stephens demon's who's been following events for welcome. so what's the reports is confidential have you heard anything much about its contents. no confidential as you said and that has to do with privacy laws there is no way that this report f.b.i. report can be made to public is our understanding this is excluding exclusive reading material for one hundred senators it means all the senators in the senate plus nine other individuals for minority staffers on the committee democratic side

and four staffers on the republican side in the committee plus a clerk so those one hundred one people get to see what's in the report and for everybody else is the guessing game and that's what also explains obviously the. lines which are now in the trenches which are now drawn deeper again in the battle of this convert or for the confirmation of brett kavanaugh all along party lines republicans versus democrats democrats versus republicans and everybody has his own take ok but that waiver us. they are or they were. they are all were as you want to have it's and those waivers are called they have names jeff flake susan collins and lisa murkowski all three g.o.p. senators and if you remember jeff flake was the one who said i want this one week for the f.b.i. to look into into the allegations of sexual assault against brett kavanaugh all

he was the one responsible for giving this week to the f.b.i. to look into this but now it seems he is confident in voting for brad covering the same goes for susan collins and for early summer kosky both have said that they find the report the f.b.i. report illegitimate and. they don't not find anything in it which corroborates the allegations against come from the democrats of course as we said are seeing this entirely different so what happens now there will be a procedural vote tomorrow and this procedural vote is necessary to make up or down thumbs up thumbs down vote possible on saturday for the entire senate now this is also the opportunity some left open left wing groups and democrats see here still if they can or manage to sway those three senators on the g.o.p.

side i've just mentioned to vote against despite the if the i report against the confirmation of brett kavanaugh on saturday in this up and down vote well then this all goes nowhere and brett kavanaugh will not have a have a job but expected for now is that those three will vote with the rest of the republicans and that means fifty one to forty nine majority in the senate and read cover to cover and all will be a judge of the supreme court good talking to thank you stephanie in washington. now you venturesome portugal footballer christie one of the now that has been left out of his national team squad for next week's international matches this comes amid a rape allegation made against him a wednesday the portugal captain vehemently denied the allegation tweeting that rape is an abominable crime last friday the german magazine der spiegel reported that american catherine know mayorga is accusing renault of raping her in

a las vegas hotel in two thousand and nine the thirty three year old also missed a portugal's of matches last month with coach of finance or santos a race being rested was settling into his new home in italy. one of the journalists who first reported back to write publication against christianity christophe vent about this force that is to for desh beagle magazine he joins us from hamburg a welcome to the w how did you find this story. well we're a team at dish beagle team of journalists who are digging through a lot of material off the football league staff of the a's it's millions of documents and this database is actually into the biggest leak in sports history and we're trying to find stories that are of public interest and that we can publish about and in the beginning of two thousand and seventy we found the first traces of this incident in june two thousand and nine percent of all knowledge on catherine my dog and we set down and all work together and gathered as much information as

possible also went outside went to las vegas tried to talk to every anybody that had any knowledge of the situation back then katherine my youngest for example refused to talk to us think of them now in the piece that we published last week she speaks out for the first time out in the public and you discovered a settlement that had been agreed between rinaldo and this miss my oga. yes it's a settlement agreement between ronaldo and miss my yaga and in the beginning of two thousand and ten. it made katherine mayorga promise that she would never talk about this incident in the public anymore and. ronaldo in turn page her three hundred seventy five thousand dollars and it was promised by remodels lawyers that she was allowed to write a letter to him where she would write about the incident a way where she could address rinaldo it's

a very emotional very graphic letter that we have now documents as well that we reported on last year and she's basically saying quote that he ruined her life with what happened back of that and the settlement agreement said that this letter has to be ready to run out of and so what does he say about this. denies the accusations of sexual assault and even he denies them from the beginning he let us know through his lawyer speak in two thousand two thousand and seventy that he doesn't want to comment any further but he's actually strongly denying our story and saying that he didn't sexually assault catherine the he also published a statement on twitter pretty much stating the same thing again so that's not really breaking news the strategy of his lawyers however has changed because in two thousand and seventeen his agency released the statement that presents some worry

some things that we could prove to be wrong for example they said that in our documents we couldn't even identify christiane or the. person that may be or allegedly harms catherine the jago but we could easily prove that not the case as they as they set in a statement from today. from this week. which is the german media lawyer said that this story is basically too private to become public he says we infringed his personal rights christiane we're not his personal rights and we totally disagree with this argumentation we say this is a story of huge public interest and we would continue to cover it thank you for joining us this evening. the united states the united kingdom australia and the netherlands are all accusing russian agents of involvement in a series of cyber attacks around the world the us has now indicted seven russians

in connection with attacks on domestic and international targets earlier today dutch officials said they had formal the russian cyber attack against the u.n. chemical weapons watchdog a program investigators say four suspects power to car full of tronics monitoring equipment outside the organization for the british for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the hague and then left a trail of evidence that chemical weapons what stocks says it has suffered what it called increased cyber related activities since the beginning of the 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 term 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. 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 maneuver since the end of the cold war in no way close to the russian border. well i asked

a w brussels correspondent bad regrets about the timing of these allegations coming on the same day as nato defense ministers were meeting. 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 in 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 attacks on russia

because nato now is seeing these russian the thames as a kind of a military aggression we heard comments there from the nato secretary general have other nato members been reacting. well all 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 elian's 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. 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 or russia as a solo you can how do you measure they can do diplomatically get any lower and if you add to the military 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 we get back here. take a look now at 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 both are keen to emphasize strong bilateral relations

despite disagreements on several issues including the iran nuclear deal germany wants to preserve the accord while israel wants its scraps but they agree that iran should be prevented from acquiring nuclear weapons. the last privately operated ship dedicated to saving refugees from drowning in the mediterranean has docked in maasai the aquarius had panamanian registration but now its flag has been revoked meaning it can no longer legally sail the operates as a panama aspiring to pressure from italy which is cracking down on illegal migration scuse me they say the move is putting people's lives at risk. for mania is preparing for a referendum on whether to limit the definition of family to heterosexual unmarried couples it comes after three million people signed a petition demanding that the constitution explicitly states that marriage is between a man and a rule and dozens of e.u. lawmakers oppose this weekend's vote. wherever people go

pollution always seems to follow and apparently that's just as true in space as it is here on earth but this week thousands of experts have got together in germany looking for a solution to the ever increasing problem of space junk. the international astronauts congress this year by the german city of prima covers rockets satellites and even space stations anything that humankind launches into orbit but the movie shooting to near its space the bigger problem with potentially damaging space junk becomes a soviet a vacuum it's like a political some object a satellite for instance it will damage or sometimes even destroy it for example if it hits a fuel tank or a battery and causes an explosion if an object like that even a small one collides with the international space station it can punch a hole in the hole causing an air leak. and like our modern societies have become

dependent on such satellite systems for telecommunications navigation and weather forecasting as well as much more that's why experts say we need to act quickly to reduce the risk of damaging this delicate booting equipment of what it was what we needed something like a vacuum cleaner but that wouldn't work in space of course it's a real challenge some objects will reenter the atmosphere and just burn up that's the low orbit objects that's an altitude of four hundred to five hundred kilometers and those in high orbits will stay in place more or less forever i was even asked some possible solutions are in early development and scientists say we need to act quickly before the space around our planet becomes too crowded for us to use. let's get the business here is we're having our data and it's been a tough day for us to tech companies bad news for them all over florida going to start with google us vice president mike pence has urged google to immediately end development of its dragon fly after google is reportedly building the app especially to comply with censorship requirements in china then said that dragon

fly would strengthen china's censorship regime and compromised the privacy of customers the app would make it easier to track private internet searches he said business leaders should think twice before entering the chinese market if it means turning over their intellectual property or contributing to beijing's oppression was criticized what he says was china's theft of u.s. technology. for more let's bring in our financial correspondent on wall street. and even when you were looking at this story you do have to wonder if it's worth to get in trouble with the white house how relevant is the chinese market for google. well i mean it's not the first time that google tried to enter the chinese market was their church was their search engine they stopped the last effort eight years ago after that has been some issues well i mean china is the second biggest economy

on the planet and they have the biggest population so certainly it is a very interesting market but it does come as a price and if google would try to implement a superfly in china that would certainly come with some concessions from the chinese government and just recently there have been some reports that it's also quite controversial within google they have been reports that some employees actually quit because of the of the controversial project so well it is really difficult to say if it's if it's worth the price of trying to implement a superfly the stock of google by the way it was down almost three percent here in a very shaky tech environment on thursday and here is not only for google but there are also reports suggesting china introduced many spying chips and servers of amazon and apple today how did that happen. that is

a pretty serious accusation in this report that we got from bloomberg today saying that china implemented spy chips in some service of some big u.s. corporations like amazon and apple by the way the companies themselves are saying they're not rare of any of those militias chips in their systems but we did see some reaction here on the market the company that is supposed to build those spy chips called super might grow at some point that stock got hammered by more than fifty percent but it's difficult to say at this point if those accusations of this report is actually really true but it certainly caused the quite some turmoil here especially in the tech industry on wall street call to new york thank you very much. and last but not least on the tech companies bad news

facebook's latest hacker scandal could land it at one point four billion euro five the irish state of protection committee has begun investigations into the data breach it wants to determine whether facebook correctly appeared to recently toughen you security requirements to protect its users as friday facebook announced that hackers have asked access at least fifty million user accounts the facebook is found not to have fully complied with this year's new general data protection regulation it may have to pay up to four percent of its annual turnover the tech giants rippin headquarters let's not forget our. to brazil our where citizens head to the polls this weekend to elect a new government with the elections coming at a pivotal moment for south america's largest economy the country only recently pulled out of recession and is still suffering anemic growth investor mistrust and a population that's lost faith in both business and the government and with public debt and unemployment continuing to rise it seems brazilians are facing an long

uphill battle. surf sun and beach that's what most people think of when it comes to brazil but take a stroll away from the country's famous beaches and the story for every day brazilians looks much different ugs under coast to used to work at an international company but then he lost his job and with help wanted ads few and far between he started selling hot meals out of his friend's car. it's involuntary entrepreneurship a common story here. of an employment in brazil was created by that enormous economic crisis that we're currently experiencing to survive the crisis people have to reinvent themselves that's what i did. i could stay at home and look for a job sending out c.v.s. all the time but with the job market so tight it's difficult so i didn't give up and decided to do my own thing. jobs are one of the chief concerns for

brazilians. with unemployment hovering between twelve and fourteen percent around thirteen million people spend their days at unemployment offices like this one. whoever comes out on top in this month's polling will have their work cut out for them. brazil's public debt has top half of its g.d.p. . worker productivity is at a standstill and both investors and local officials have lost confidence in the government's ability to pay its debts. it's been a tough year for germany's farmers a lack of rainfall combined with extremely dry sunny weather has scorched grain and feed crops leaving farmers desperate for government aid but there is always a silver lining on the other hand this year's grape harvest has been the best that germany has seen since one thousand nine hundred nine the weather extremes and germany have led to excellent once. the grapes have roots that reached down ten

meters into the earth while the summer in germany was dry the winter before that was extremely wet the grapes were able to access those deep moisture reserves which provided a harvest of exceptional yield and quality. color was golden yellow and if you press here on the great wall of the jews comes out immediately and the grape seeds are brown that means that they're ripe and you know it when you taste it. on the surface the dry weather means that the grapes will be disease free. the sun drenched grapes take on a rich aroma the red wines had the most benefit from the dry weather which gave the grapes a very deep color but the white grapes had very low a city which attracts customers. we have exceptionally good qualities as well as large quantities this year and such a constellation is very rare this provides good preconditions for being able to

serve all markets all internationally as well that wasn't the case in twenty seventeen thousand seats in the five hundred twenty seven thousand german wine exports were only worth three hundred eight million euros experts project twenty eighteen will exceed that number by far. and that is all for business and for the w's thank you very much for watching membrane can always stay up to date with the business and other headlines on the telly dot com and.

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