phil: let's get into this with dw correspondent stefan simons in washington. at sort of effect are these remarks likely to have on senators getting ready to vote on brent kavanaugh's nomination? stefan: the fears in political washington, which include commentators as well as politicians from both side of the aisle, is that it has a negative impact on three critical people, or three critical senators. these are susan collins, jeff flake and lisa murkowski. those three gop republican senators are not full-fledged behind the kavanaugh nomination effort. so, these are the critical votes in a vote which is supposed to be happening on friday after the fbi report will be released. now, having said friday, today on wednesday there were rumors the fbi report was ready to be released. the gop had indicated that, the republicans had indicated that, but that does not seem to be the case. but there is a deadline friday for the fbi to file the report. a reminder here, the fbi in this report will not draw any conclusions. they will interview and talk to people, they will writ

dw's stefan simons is in washington d.c., and in manhattan, correspondent james reinl.o both of you, welcocome. ststefan, as we just heard, , te first lady was the first to speak publicly from the white house about what happened. that seems very u unusual in a situation that is this grave. stefan: you nailed it. i think everyone was surprised by that, that the first lady to to the microphone first and addressed what was going on here and said what the president should have said, and then actually did say afterwards to the nation, to the people in the united states. it was, in all fairness, a pre-organized event where president trump and his wife melania trump were supposed to talk about the opiate crisis in the u.s. in what the administration is doing against that. however, the president took to the microphone a second after his wife, that was unusual. i cannot tell you that i have seen anything like that from any republican or democratic president as long as i have been here in a situation like this. everybody here, the commentators, the pundits, the observers in washi

something different entirely oh all right james original reporting from manhattan new york city and stefan simone's in washington thank you both for the update we'll check in with you in our later bulletins next up britain has joined the united states and revoking the visas of saudis suspected of involvement in the killing of dissident journalist. con prince mohammed bin simon has told turkey's president at riyadh will cooperate in the investigation into what happened at the istanbul consulate the prince known as m.d.s. spoke for the first time publicly about the case at a high profile investment conference here he is speaking to an interpreter a short while ago. the crime was really painful to ole saudis. and i believe it is painful to every human in the world it is a heinous crime that cannot be justified today saudi arabia is carrying out all legal. things to finalize the investigation is to work with the cooperate with they took this government and to present the perpetrators to the court and take their. judgement saudi crown prince they're reacting there more than four years into the simmering

it's all about trump against or for trump and the midterms the midterm elections november six stefan simone's their reporting from washington thank you for your continued coverage. now with the u.s. midterm elections looming and we're just twelve days to go until polling one positive in the otherwise fierce divisive political fight the record breaking number of women running for governor or for congress let's take a look now at congressional races since one nine hundred eighty with each consecutive election there are more and more women running there was a strong spike between twenty sixteen and twenty eighteen some are even calling twenty eighteen the year of the woman w.'s is looking at some of the high profile women candidates and we have an in-depth profiles on four females grabbing the headlines this year the latest in the series is democrat stacey abrams from georgia she's hoping to become the first female african-american governor in any state in u.s. history on a phenomena caught up with her. stacey abrahams politician journey romance novelist running for governor of georgia and a rac

to take action against what the appears to been a brutal murder or correspondent in washington stefan simone's on the story for us tonight stefan thank you. it's. our time for business news now javier is here and what analysts are calling the biggest post-war fraud investigation and we can say the biggest tax rip off ever here in europe that's right and that's why it is a big story it's not new but it has a very interesting development it's one of the biggest scams in europe's history as we said most european baggs including spain some bad and bought and sold shares at a pace that got tax authorities confused and earned billions in the process money that is now gone the so-called comix trading scandal has been known about for years but recent reports suggest the amount of money involved could be way higher for example here in germany six times more than we thought. some insiders call it organized crime in pinstripes they're referring to the controversial but at the time legal dividend stripping transactions and let it be carried out by almost every major european bank starting in two thousand

for the very latest let's go live to did obvious correspondent stefan simone's in washington stefan reports are coming in of love people suspect packages of various locations rarely exactly are they and what more do we know about them. so we just got a statement from the secret service the secret service actually were it was the agency which intercepted those packages which were sent monday to mr soros. tuesday to the clintons in. new york that's north of new york and on wednesday to the residence of president obama and his wife here in washington and the secret service statements will read this to you he says that the pictures were immediately identified during routine mail screening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such what that means is that the secret service performed a controlled explosion that means that pick just were destroyed that's also what all the other u.s. media reports and the f.b.i. is now of course involved all of that in this to investigate this so this is an open investigation it's breaking it's fairly new this into information

go to the city of pittsburgh where we find the deadly political correspondent stephanie simons seaman welcome stefan what are people saying should the president of pittsburgh immediately. well no but i will get to this answer in just a little bit give me the chance to draw you in a little bit here where right in front of the synagogue here and i'll just step aside and let my cameramen loose a little bit to bring a little closer you see there those eleven stars each one star for each victim of the shooting from saturday and people here in the neighborhood and this congregation are still coming to this vigil. and to pay their respects for the way victims this is of course still an active crime scene in terms of as it is an act of police of mr gates and that explains the yellow tape the police line there and the trucks where the investigators are still combing through details forensic in the synagogue now to your question the president has indicated that he's wants to come here but of course that is not just the jubilation about this in this community in the matter of fact this very hard to gauge and h