it's a similar situation to what we had in germany with the afp, alternative for deutschland.t's interesting, i've done the numbers, according to the polls, so far the social democrats have worked with the greens. with support from the left. if you add them up, they‘ re support from the left. if you add them up, they're at 40.6%. the others are even lower. it's very tough. in many ways, the sweden democrats, this all the right movement, which is sort of a little bit like the national front in britain when there was a national front, is really, really getting their end up front, is really, really getting theirend up —— front, is really, really getting their end up —— alt—right. you're seeing it across europe. whether they like it or not, the two main parties have to realise that one in five people almost voted for the sweden democrats, therefore they have this strong power in the swedish electoral process and the democratic system going forward? yes, looking at it, it goes across europe. it's in germany with the alternative for deutschland. we have geert wilders in holland. you

the country's presidential election with 58.3% percent of the popular vote that's according to the afpency. it says results released by the elections commission show mr solih securing 133,808 votes compared to 95,526 for the incumbent abdulla yameen. leave the latest pictures to us showing support is celebrating on the streets of the capital. calls for the incumbent to concede have been announced. we are still waiting for official results to come out from the maltese in a campaign that was marked by restrictions on the independent media and the opposition. we are keeping an eye on this campaign for you. also making news today. lawyers for a woman who has accused the us supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault have confirmed that she will testify before the senatejudiciary committee on thursday. christine blasey ford has accused mr kavanaugh of trying to rape her when they were both teenagers in the 1980s. he denies the allegations. a new zealand supermarket chain has withdrawn a brand of australian strawberries from sale after finding needles embedded in some of the frui

the far right political party afp has been accused of inflaming tensions there.r watching. saturday ‘s top temperature was 25.2 in hull, eastern parts of the uk saw the lion ‘s share of the sunshine with high—pressure stood close by for part two of the weekend. a weather system is approaching from the west and sofa some of us, it will be a wet end the day. looking at things first thing in the morning, a lot of cloud around northern and western parts of the uk which has held the temperature up overnight into the midteens and drizzling in places, just a few spots in eastern england now into single figures under the clearer skies, maybe one or two missed and fog patches clearing. a windy day for northern ireland in scotland, gusts 30— 40 miles an hour, the cloud in the north and west with some sunny in the north—east scotland, also into eastern england. and for pm, brengle spreading towards western scotland, and northern ireland. increasingly wet going into the evening. the sunny spells north—east scotland so that in the temperatures into the low 20s. even under the

the photographer here phillip phong for afp and getty.r to the white house to cover the rest of this already busy monday morning. that does it for us this hour. right now ali velshi and stephanie ruhle. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> i'm ali velshi. >> i'm stephanie ruhle. it's monday, september 17th. let's get smarter. >> are the allegations true? >> do you have any response? >> will you testify in. >> a new statement from brett kavanaugh. this is a completely false allegation. he says i have never done anything like what the accuser describes to her or anyone. >> he clearly considers this an attempted rape. she believes that if it were not for the severe intoxication of brett kavanaugh, she would have been raped. >> is your client ready to publicly tell this story? >> she is willing to do whatever it takes to get her story forth, yes. >> why did she come forward now? >> she said her calculation shifted. she said and she was ready to come forward. >> this woman should not be insulted and not ignored. i've spoken with the president

. >> i think one group that's very much involved already, but i think is critical, are the afp and the nea. when i have talked about some of this kind of work and this kind of tooling in the past, a question i often get from people who are not closely involved with the work of the schools say, oh, well, that's great but the teachers unions will never go for it, they will sabotage this whole thing. and the fact that they have stepped up and said not only that they are not going to sabotage it, but they want to be really in the lead, because they are for improvements in teaching and learning. secondly, teachers are people would care a lot about kids. so these organizations are all terrific about doing it. be thought of as some sort of '80s restorm strategy, but to move inpartnership, especially the people who are in classes every day with chirp. >> to build upon what you are saying, i agree with the aft and n irk a. you think about are teachers going to be the next principals. when we talk about scaling, they will be our next superintendent, and our next state department of education lea

kavanaugh denies the sex assault after the accuser, christine blasey ford testified from afp here fromoverseas, bbc has emotional kavanaugh swears his innocence. there is this from the toronto sun. she's attractive -- calls them pleasing. russia today and emotional, heroic and often factual highlights from the kavanaugh accuser's testimony. that's from christina blasey ford. and this from "the guardian" s. cabin are refuses to say yes to an inquiry as republicans erupt at sham hearing. that is from "the guardian" newspaper in great britain. a very short five-minute break. a reminder that full hearing will be at 8:00 eastern time on c-span television. also under website at c-span.org. the judiciary committee to gavel in tomorrow for a vote on the nomination come a committee though before moving to the ful senate appeared we will continue from the room during a short break and were questioning for judge brett kavanaugh. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible con