senate judiciary committee was pushing ahead with a vote to proceed to a calvinist nomination the democratsho wanted an f.b.i. investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against cavanagh were furious. and the corridors outside the atmosphere was feeble and then a moment that may alter history senator jeff flake who had just declared his backing for cavanagh confronted by a sexual abuse survivor. i didn't tell anybody in your telling all women that you don't matter that he should just stay quiet just yet you want to talk to. that might of doesn't matter i don't want to meet. that you're a little less. hours later the republican senator was back in committee and had found his voice offering to back the controversial nominee under one condition. i think it would be. proper to delay the floor vote. for up to but not more than one week in order to let the f.b.i. . continue to do an investigation limited in time and scope. with not dramatic compromise another flare up in the room and perhaps the country had been a vast hit but it still needed the backing of one man i guess the vote was a posi

this room namely the special piece a separate piece between a spanish hapsburgs and the rebellious calvinist northern provinces of the netherlands. not. coming let's go over here. we go behind the barrier. this is a picture of a council chamber just as you also see it now and the swearing of the oath of the ratification of the contractual document is in this can't get to swearing on the bible as you see on the right the dutch are raising their hands to take their oath from work or they all look so alike they have the same hairstyle was that usual for the time. if you look closely they do differ of course. the dutch are wearing clothing and the spanish or wearing the diplomatic garb of the time. but why did that piece mean for europe at that time. friedan she was the first completion of the peace of westphalia the great overall peace agreement put an end to the thirty years war. many of spoken of the fact that it was also the birth of international law an essential point was recognition the absolute guarantee of the independence of sovereign nations. start would be what was significant about

court nominee brett kavanaugh she spoken to the new yorker magazine about allegations dating back to calvinist time at yale university comes as he says he has proof of his whereabouts at the time of the first alleged incident those accusations by christine blasi ford center around a high school party in ninety two cabinet has denied both allegations the white house has called it a smear campaign iran's revolutionary guard says it will avenge saturday's attack on a military parade in the city of our vows that killed twenty five people iranian president has accused the us of helping support those who carried out the attack washington denies any involvement. at least one person has been killed after israeli jets fired at palestinians protesting along the gaza border fence demonstrations against the israeli blockade of the gaza strip have been going on for more than six months . in tanzania mass burials have been held for some of those who died in a very capsized on lake victoria the number of passengers and crew who drowned has risen to at least two hundred twenty four forty one people survived.

the in washington in a bitter tirade he accused the democrats of a cynical attempt to do a real calvinist nomination what you want to do is destroy this guy's life hold this seat open this is the most an ethical sham since i've been in politics and if you really wanted to know the truth you sure as hell what i've done and what you've done to this guy well senator graham staunch defense of bread calvin all has drawn criticism as well american comedian chelsea handler even claimed that graham is being blocked me old by moscow it's the spike the graham is a are known for his antti russian stance in the senate they're trying to break the bad of democracies they're doing worse things in other countries they're trying to get us to fight among ourselves and here's what we should do we should tell the russians in no uncertain terms you interfere in our elections we don't care why we're going to hit you in here too hard in russia. it's not a normal country where media and legal analysts lionel told us that russia blackmail claim against senator graham is nothing but absurd. the idea is so specious

predominately catholic city, perhaps more mediterranean in temperament than those fun-hating lutherans and calvinistsvember to february cologners celebrates carnival. partying here has a whole season. ♪ carnival here is an exuberant, anarchistic, bat-shit wild, 40-day celebration leading up to lent. it can be absolute mayhem. my completely rational fear of clowns, mimes, parades, public dancing, and crowds in general really, prohibits me from taking part. these days brian jones could come back from the grave for one night only with the stones and janis and jimmy and jim, they could all be there. and you know what? i ain't goin'. but the cologners, god bless them. they love it. bei oma kleinmann handles enormous crowds of revelers. fortunately, the madness is still a few weeks away. and this is my old friend tracey who had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you look at it, to travel and produce shows around the world with me for many years. anke is from cologne and makes me feel better about my carnival phobia. carnival. do you like carnival? >> tracey: i do, and i'm not ashamed to say it. >> a

supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh the allegations in the new yorker magazine go back to calvinist time at yale university is denied the accusations. a u.s. tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports have gone into effect this monday it is the latest largest round of levies in a growing trade war between the world's two biggest economies the us is now imposed three rounds of tariffs on a total of two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods that means about half of all chinese imports to the u.s. face these levees and china has already hit the u.s. with tariffs on fifty billion dollars of american imports and it's pledged to slap another sixty billion dollars on u.s. goods scott hyla has more from beijing. the latest round in this escalating trade war between the united states and china going into effect on monday that's another round of tariffs and very big numbers here two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods going into the united states will now be tariff that's in addition to fifty billion they were already implemented before so two hu

flake the arizona senator about whom we discussed earlier had said that he was going to vote for calvinists nomination is reportedly wavering he has been publicly confronted by some of the protests rather than stand by for a second let's listen to the chairman. ok so as we wait for mr carson to commence speaking let me just tell you what you're looking at and some of the senate senators are making their way into the room because any moment now it's actually delayed but any moment now we expect a vote to take place. on whether to allow president trumps supreme court nominee as a personal point of personal privilege confirmation launceston and i can just speak . normally we would start to avoid right now but as a point of personal privilege i would call on senator flake oh thank you. i been speaking with a number of people on the other side we've had conversations ongoing for a while with regard to. making sure that we do due diligence here and i think it would be. proper to delay the floor vote. for up to but not more than one week in order to let the f.b.i. . continue to do an investigation

also course the fact that senator grassley has already scheduled a vote on whether to recommend calvinists nomination to the full senate that committee vote would take place tomorrow on friday it's not clear whether or not that's actually going to happen but it is on the calendar for right now all right jordan for the time being thank you for that update now is really in palestinian leader will soon be addressing the u.n. general assembly to make their cases since last year there's been a dramatic shift in u.s. policy on the israeli palestinian conflict it came to a head in december last year that's when trump unilaterally recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel earlier the sear the u.s. embassy was shifted to jerusalem from tel aviv and the palestine liberation organizations washington office was shut down for millions of palestinians on the ground it was his administration's decision to cut funding to the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees that's affecting their daily lives let's talk to our diplomatic editor james bay is joining us live from the u.n. headquarters in new york to