you know. this is d.w. news live from the president from supreme court nominee winds crucial backing two key senators pledging their support for judge kavanaugh he could be confirmed later today the senate is due to vote on the controversial nominee despite allegations of sexual misconduct. in brazil also faces a controversial vote people going to the polls on sunday the most polarized presidential election in decades the front runner far right candidate joe you both to campaigning on a hardline law and order platform. that in german soccer by munich are feeling the

pinch at the moment after failing to win their last two games can they put things right today when they face christian munch and we'll have a preview of that top game for you. hello welcome one is christopher spring a good to have you with us president donald trump's nominee for the u.s. supreme court brett kavanaugh appears to be heading towards confirmation after weeks of partisan infighting over the controversial nominee the senate is expected to hold a final vote later today two key senators have pledged to support kavanagh tipping the vote in his fate but the judge has been extensively questioned by the senate judiciary committee and also probed by the f.b.i. after three women accused him of sexual assault. well on friday the senate voted to

end debate on the matter by a margin of fifty one senators to forty nine analysts believe that is also likely to be the result of kavanagh's confirmation vote. on this vote the yeas are fifty one the nos are forty nine the motion is agreed to. two wavering senators firmed up in favor of kavanagh on friday republican susan collins of maine announcement of her intention effectively broke the deadlock. mr president i will take him her judge cabinet. that piles the pressure on democrat joe manchin who had not declared his position but soon after collins' announcement he said he would also support governor are defying most of his democratic colleagues. of the republicans only lisa murkowski of alaska looks likely to vote against governor today who are republican jeff flake of arizona said he would support unless quote something big changes he's the senator

who was confronted in a lift by anti cardinal protesters and subsequently proposed the f.b.i. probe into judge kavanagh's alleged sexual misconduct so the republicans look likely to garner enough votes today to confirm the judge's nomination. meanwhile thousands of anti kavanaugh demonstrators protested outside the supreme court they even entered the senate building confronting senators several hundred demonstrators were arrested at responding to the ongoing outcry president trump issued a tweet saying the very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make sentences look bad don't fall for it. other demonstrators were all in favor of calvin or it looks as if they are on the winning side at the end of a fraught episode in washington. sunday voters in brazil will be

cussing their ballots in the first round of the country's most divisive presidential election in decades that is largely due to the controversy surrounding the ballots far right front runner will still not all post give him a solid lead over his leftist opponent and that has many voters worried that a candidate who is openly hostile to gays ethnic minorities and women may soon be the country's leader. this statue of christ the redeemer watching over rio de janeiro from a distance there's no sign of the tensions simmering below public discourse has become increasingly polarized ahead of sunday's elections the most controversial vote since democracy was restored thirty years ago you can still a shoe is gay and just join the protests against the leading candidates in the polls shape also naru he thinks the far right outsider is a threat to democracy. and i'm really afraid that both are not who might win

because if he does we'll have a civil war. because the antiabortion are two movements like l.a. no i'm not him we won't stand still we won't accept it if they want to i'm very afraid of what might happen in the main states where our militancy is very strong. but some of the forty and i don't even understand how a person like both or not who can be a candidate if it can be proven that he acted against human rights in a country as diverse as brazil it would be such a shame. that it has to go that the president of the yours. but others think also naru has the iron fist the country needs to combat street violence and turn around the economy. he's going to make things right people are confused thinking he will bring back tara that he's a soldier capable of killing that's wrong he's very are going to highest and i say this because i lived with a soldier and his soldiers organized. that is that we.

are one sunday because he is a candidate that depends family values. because it is the only presidential candidate that has not been involved in corruption scandals. i think the teen years of the workers' party didn't solve anything that i think a candidate free of corruption scandals can do agree. job done a bozo not you was there to watch it because i like him and the plans that he has on the. brazilians are disappointed with politics many corruption scandals led to the prosecution of more than one hundred fifty businessmen and politicians including the most popular in the country. disenchantment with him and his workers' party makes a right wing populist known for sexist and racist comments lead the polls some observers fear that if both sonora who wins the presidency but doesn't get a majority in congress he might back military intervention and seize all thora

tarion powers. because. of the level of i mean about one third or one quarter of brazilians believe it's ok to vote for a fascist. but i want some even think a fascist is needed to usher in a military government at the ballot box sort of stop example some people really do think that way disenchantment with politics can sometimes lead to very violent ideas. will improve. divisions among brazilians could even deepen if the election goes to a runoff at the end of the mom. ok time now to look at some of the other stories making news around the world spanish opera singer montserrat has died at a hospital in. of bosler and considered by some to be the last great opera diva she was known for her canto technique the soprano came to worldwide attention in one

thousand nine hundred seven when she sang a duet with rock singer for the much yuri was eighty five. the newspaper in hong kong is reporting that the president of interpol is being held by chinese authorities main home way has been missing since leaving from last week citing an anonymous source the south china morning post said ming had been detained upon arrival in his native china. ukraine has unveiled a so the plantain chernobyl the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster three decades ago the one megawatt facility produces enough energy to supply two thousand apartments giving the contaminated area a new lease of life. turning to cameroon now when people go to the polls on sunday to elect a new president the incumbent eighty five year old poll is seeking his for a fifth election victory since one thousand nine hundred two but worsening violence

in the west african countries anger phone regions is casting a shadow over the poll with many able to vote english speakers are a minority in western cameroon and for the last two years and before and separatists have been fighting against government troops in the majority frank of nation the violence has prompted thousands to flee their homes many of them to neighboring nigeria west africa correspondent krishna filed this report from a refugee camp in nigeria near the border with cameroon. as stuffy ten for nine people this has been miriam the song so much for almost a year ever since the village she used to live in was stormed by cameroonian soldiers with a blind brother on her back and the twins and how she fled into the forest to what's nigeria. if there is peace in my account i would like to go back i would like to go back because here we are just living as big us because you have

to wait on somebody will come and give us wood before we eat while we live farms we have plenty who have yams everything that we have that we can feed on three thousand cameroonians live in this camp some three hundred thousand have been displaced since the outbreak of the crisis in the english speaking part of it is a conflict that receives little attention and so there's hardly any help or aid for the victims right now we cannot bring him. into the airport we are providing them in terms of the collective is that we are the most opposition while people are . made out of her job funding is really a problem. that needs to be addressed the cameroon border is only an hour's drive from the camp behind the border clashes are still frequent separatists took over villages and the tech government's troops and their counter attacks often targets

civilians this used to be one of the busiest roads between nigeria and cameroon but right now it's almost deserted. traders and taxi drivers on the border are worried about their existence. i don't. because. i'm a sales human rights because of the crisis i hardly have any customers here back at the camp more and more refugees are arriving ahead of the elections miriam be song volunteers to register them the fear of even more violence at home is significant and they can't vote here on sunday but in any case the song does not believe that the elections will bring about peace any more quickly.

in germany. have moved into second place after beating last night dutch midfielder david klassen hammering home in the thirty for fifth minute to open the scoring for braman. and then netted braman second goal late in the game minutes after coming off the bank when moving above champions at least until today's results on. saturday's big game sees reigning champions by munich hosting old rivals but. back in the one nine hundred seventy s. those two changed dominated german football but since then its variants have monopolized the allness this season however challenging for a spot at the top again by an a coping with at the moment. byron munich are apparently in a mini crisis their draw with i.x. in the champions league on wednesday followed their first last in the bundesliga

this season in fact it's their third game without a win at most clubs it would listen calls of a crisis but coach nico kobach snow's buyer standards are high the club's president has recently criticized say the coach is putting his neck on the line by rotating players too much kobayashi responded to the remarks as funny as could think of first of all it wasn't criticism just it was on the a comment and nothing more the syllabus and the coach is responsible for the personnel decisions that the coach is responsible for the rotation that isn't the problem we have so many quality players who have played well it's been successful in recent matches. plucky to the buyer and have been here before they started last season with the exact same record in the but as league it cost former coach carlos mencia lot to his job but unlike then biron players have formed

a united front around kobayashi. glod meanwhile are in high spirits they've made their strongest start to a season since two thousand and fifteen when they last qualified for the champions league but coach teacher hankie is wary of a wounded byron munich. ya s wasn't just a chance again which will let us know how far off we are from the top teams biron lost against terror but we shouldn't pay too much attention to that as we know byron are at their most dangerous when they appear wounded in the fairly some fire need to step up only victory will ease any talk of impending crisis. scientists in hong kong have to vote to many robo think could eventually be used inside the human body for medical purposes. the robot looks like a caterpillar and can move over surfaces and through liquid stated by electromagnetic impulses it's still in the testing phase but if developers believe

it will one day be able to deliver drugs to the body and also perform medical inspections. and watching t.v. news from the top of the in the meantime to get you can always get the latest from our website called to stay with us if you can. what's coming up for the book put to sleep you have plenty to talk back here now it's time to look at what all that means for the table of course. going to sleep every weekend here on w.