you francis. military industrial complex starts oct twentieth on t.w. . from berlin president trump supreme court nominee winds crucial backing to keep senators pledge their support for judge carbonneau he could be confirmed later today the senate is due to vote on a controversial nominee despite allegations of sexual misconduct. and one of oprah's great voices falls silent. at the music world mourns the loss of soprano one set out to come by who has died at the age of eighty five.

i'm edith community it's good to have you with us president donald trump's controversial nominee for the u.s. supreme court brett kavanaugh appears to be heading to words confirmation now the senate is expected to hold a final vote later today two key senators have pledged to support cover not tipping the vote in his favor the judge had been extensively questioned by the senate judiciary committee and probed by the f.b.i. after three women accused him of sexual assault. on friday the senate voted to end debate on the matter by the narrowest of margins. 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. 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 cover law defying most of his democrat 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 kavanagh unless quote something big changes he's the senator who was confronted in a lift by undercover no protesters and subsequently proposed the f.b.i. probe into judge kavanagh's alleged sexual misconduct so the republicans looked likely to garner enough votes today to confirm the judge's nomination. meanwhile thousands of demonstrators protested outside the supreme court where they even entered a 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. well the demonstrators were all in favor of continental it looks as though they are on the winning side of the end of a fruit episode in washington that's close to washington where michael caniggia is standing by the michael it looks like judge governor's confirmation to the supreme court is all but assured at this point how big a victory would this be for donald trump's republican party. well from a pure perspective of party politics that is certainly a big win for donald trump and the republican party after all the republicans had their goal for a long time set on achieving a republican a conservative majority on the supreme court and in fact donald trump campaigned on

this very issue to make the court have a conservative majority during his election campaign and with the with the confirmation of kavanagh he will have achieved that goal but the question is whether the price to achieve that goal the bitter fight over over kavanaugh this ultimately worth it because this could alienates mainstream voters and especially women from the republican party in the future so it has to be seen whether actually that this big win will hold in the future so let's look at the immediate future looking at congressional elections which are coming exactly one month from today do you see this confirmation battle influencing how people vote. well that is the big question and the answer is not it's not known yet what seems clear is that this this confirmation battle this bitter fight will rally the voters of both the democrats and republicans the base of both parties the democrats that is

probably not such a big deal because their party has been motivated to vote against basically for a long time but for the republicans this could be a good sign because their base trump supporters aside has not been so motivated to go to the polls and this gives them a reason and your nation to go to the polls and and show their support for trump in the republican party and what this confirmation hearing has done is put matters like sexual assault and women's rights into the spotlight again but what does it tell us about washington today. well the the poison and the the very poisoned remarks by dr ford in the hearings certainly elevated this topic on the top of the political agenda in washington today the topic of sexual assault the relations between men and women and gender politics in general but what is also remarkable here is that it seems that that party lines even here in.

general gender lines because while most democrats women and men believe forge most republicans men and women say they side with cabin are so it seems that in today's washington party politics basically trumps everything else. michael can a day in washington thank you. cameroonians go to the polls on sunday to elect a new president the incumbent eighty five year old paul b. a is seeking a fifth election victory but worsening violence in the country. casting a shadow over the pool with many unable to vote because our minority in western cameroon and for the last two years under separatists have been fighting against government troops in the majority francophone nation the violence has prompted thousands to flee their homes and our correspondent adrian krishna filed this report from a refugee camp in nigeria near the border with cameroon. people this has

been. for almost a year ever since the village she used to live in was. just with her blind brother on her back and the twins on her she fled into the forest to what's nigeria. if there is peace in my country. just leaving as big as because you have to wait on some. food before we eat while. we have planted. everything that we have that we can feed on three thousand cameroonians live in this camp some three hundred thousand have been displaced since be 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 eight for the victims right now.

and. people. need. 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. because of.

sales human rights because of the crisis we have any customers here back at the camp more and more refugees are arriving ahead of the elections the 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 does not believe that the elections will bring about peace any more quickly. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world at least fifty people have been killed in. a truck authorities say at least one hundred people were injured the tank was on its way from the west. to the capital kinshasa it is not yet clear what caused the. people. casting their ballots in palm mentary elections today opinion polls suggest a populous party catering to the country's large ethnic russian minority. the head

of the governing center right coalition. in the bundesliga there was a seven goal thriller indorsement as they came from behind against oxburgh. came on in the sixteenth minute with his side one nil down he put in a man of the match display scoring three goals in just over half an hour to grab before three win for dortmund let's take a look then now at the results so far on match day seven hanover grabbed their first win of the season against st got defeated do sold off to neil minds versus here after was goalless well by and are set to play got back in saturday's game on friday for deployment continued their strong start to the season with a two no win over of all spoke their three games on saturday with leverkusen in five book front foot in hoffenheim and leipzig host nuremberg.

will spanish or para sing out montserrat skivvy has died in her home city of boston known at the age of eighty five cover his voice was known for its purity and power and she was a pioneer in repopulate rising a form of operatic singing known as bill canto in one thousand nine hundred seven she joined rock star freddie mercury in recording an album the title track alone i became one hundred one of her most famous song. correspondent. in boston it's good to see you so let's start with that famous moment in one nine hundred eighty seven duets with freddie mercury which then became the anthem of the bus alone olympics in one thousand nine hundred two what's the background to that performance. well freddie mercury loved opera and he loved months or a couple a day and she invited him to join her on

a project for the olympic a summer games and they had this iconic video. and she actually performed alone at the one thousand nine hundred two games because he died the year before when she did that she reached an audience of some two billion people in this was many times more than she had and all her four thousand other appearances combined this made her as you could say it rocked. it rocked indeed and in operatic circles she also rocked own way by reviving bel canto what more to do that well you know ben country literally means beautiful singing and bill conto always was there and always will be there as long as there's an operatic singing the premier bel canto singer of the twentieth century was maria colace and she didn't allow very many people into her sphere but she did say months or a couple is my true successor in the are actually close friends she gave her. earrings that had been given to her by the singer stephano bel canto the particular

quality about months or a couple days voice is that she had this light airy quality she could hit the high notes and she could certainly feel a room with her voice but she could also sing the soft notes beautifully and high in which she did that she made her fans ecstatic. going in to have personality she had quite a reputation really as a diva how to change that. well you know a diva is also we think of then this sort of. slightly and maybe high strung and nervous calling off performances and short notice driving everybody to distraction and waging war against other divas but she wasn't that way at all she was actually a warm hearted person very inclusive. music should people together even though she was somewhat eccentric but very extroverted not introverted in this sense to she was a nature a national icon of of space and of course of the world in the sheer popularity of

this person people adored her for her singing and also her human qualities and incidentally that signature moment we frederick freddie mercury some operatic singers do that when their voices are indeed declining she was actually at the height of her career and she kept going at a very very late very late phase even singing two years ago. classical music correspondent rick fall kathy thank you. all the news update for now and we will leave you with that unforgettable voice. with the song that shot had to fame beyond the world of opera and joy. i am. lucky. little.

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