action and moves are turning to build something here for the next generation gloomily as the environment series of global three thousand on t.w. and online. this is a debut news live from berlin as the u.s. senate prepares to vote on president trump's supreme court nominee. police in washington arrest protesters outside the senate building two key senators pledge their support for judge brett kavanaugh despite allegations of sexual misconduct. brazilians prepare to go to the polls this weekend in a presidential election that's been mired in division and controversy even including the stabbing of one of the front runners. and one of opera's great voices falls silent. night. the music world mourns the loss of a soprano montserrat who has died at the age of eighty five. i'm max foster thanks for joining us dozens of protesters in washington have been arrested just prior to the vote later on saturday regarding controversial judge brett kavanaugh they were sitting just in front of the entrance of the united states capitol building as legislators inside prepared to confirm cavanagh as a new member of the u.s. supreme court a vote is expected to be close but unless there are some last minute changes he should get by by at. a couple of votes he's been accused of sexual misconduct by several women when he was younger kavanagh denies the charges. for more now let's cross to washington where. is standing by stephanie people have been protesting on capitol hill what's the situation there now. protests a shift of a little bit from the main capitol building where the senate is holding this confirmation vote in just about half an hour time to the supreme court where he is now at the supreme court and this will be the new workplace it seems like for brett kavanaugh all after he will be sworn in next week and after what is a safe bet it seems like it will be a confirmation vote in half an hour time in the senate however where we are here protesters and this means leftist groups and. people who are you could counter the democratic left part of the political spectrum are visibly angry and frustrated with the outcome of this political battle but the rest what they have left to do is holding speeches here behind me and giving one promise that november is coming that's their battle cry and they will be at the polls something they say politicians on the right should be concerned about but you were talking about the upcoming midterm elections in november november how is all this anger and energy and disappointed going to going to play out because it won't be just democrats who are mobilized i suppose. you're absolutely right this has to be all seen in the context of november sixth in the midterm elections republicans managed in the last few weeks through this kind of an all case let's call it kevin a case or through this. painful process of confirming brett kavanaugh supreme court judge they have managed to enjoy energize their base to it's not just the left and the democrats who are able to do this and to come up with protests like this in the background you see here it's also the republicans who managed to stoke their base and make sure that they go to the polls so this will be an interesting time midterms but of course as you said this is only to deceive in the context of this and in the context that this is a major win for the president and the white house because as you remember president trump has promised on his campaign trail that he will do and that's in half an hour time the confirmation officer kevin all will go on. ok thanks for that statement. in washington and now to some of the other stories making news around the world in contrast to the political back home in washington at u.s. first lady millennia trump has spent the last leg of her low key tour of africa visiting the egyptian pyramids and this finks her trip took her to three other african countries where she spent time promoting her charity work. and at least fifty people had been killed in congo after an oil tanker collided with another truck authorities say at least one hundred people were injured the tanker was on its way from the western city of mentality to the capital kinshasa it is not yet clear what caused the collision. and once booming a brazil will vote for a new president on sunday preparations are under way amid economic crisis and corruption scandals the clear favorite is the far right ex-military mansion i are both an arrow he's been criticised for controversial statements he has made about women and racial issues fernando had dad of the workers' party is second in the polls none of the thirteen candidates are expected to gain an absolute majority a runoff election will likely to. place at the end of october. and to get more on brazil's upcoming election we go now to our correspondent ophelia harms our roots in rio de janeiro can you tell us what's the atmosphere a day before the first round of the election. well the atmosphere is tense we so massive protests here last weekend and there were more announced for today that got cancelled last minute and even though we don't see much campaigning on the streets these are still allowed till ten pm this pm the saturday we do see massive fights on social media with hashtags from those who favor and those who protest against mr rove most are not for these sexist racist and homophobic comments he has made for example saying that he wouldn't rape a congresswoman because she's too ugly or that a gay son is the result of a lack of beatings. how can it be can you help us understand that a man who is you know showing homophobia. has the best chance of becoming the new brazilian president how does that work. well really he has made a few henri of brazilians quite clear this is mainly to do with hugh massive corruption scandals with increasing violence and insecurity on the city on the streets and with a weak economy he's selling himself as an anti establishment outsider even though he has been in congress for about three decades he says he's the only clean candidate because he has not been investigated for corruption and he promises to fight violence on the streets by putting the military to control and to kill more criminals as he says even though we see thousands of people killed every year in brazil on the economic side what he has promised is to privatized many of brazil's state owned companies and he says he will be a liberal liberal candidate with no liberal ideas but many analysts doubt he will do this because he is and nationalist very often compared to president donald trump . also narrows most promising opponent fernando had stepped in for the imprisoned former president of the popular over the how decisive this is lula da silva in this race. one of have to. come pain slogans is how that is lula so obviously those who do still blindly support mr de silva will vote for had to act by no question but there are many more that are disappointed with the workers party loyalists and how that's party because of all of these corruption scandals it has been involved with and for the weak economy they blame the workers' party for there are also more radical leftists within the party that consider mr howard out to be way too moderate and he will have to convince this side of the party if he wants to win in the very probable runoff you have mentioned at the end of the month against mr bolton are oh ok thanks for that affiliate that was the w.'s ophelia harms a route. there was quite the upset in the bonus league on saturday as champions by a new nick lost three nil at home to god it was byron second straight defeat in the bundesliga a loss means nico coach's side have made their worst start to a league season in eight years earlier on saturday there was a seven goal thriller in dortmund. cusser came on in the sixtieth 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 go grab a four three win for dortmund. now let's take a look at the other results from the match day seven so far had over grabbed their first win of the season against it gart shall be defeated dusseldorf two nil minds first his hair was goalless on friday federer bremen continued their strong start to the season with a two nil win over hole spork and dutch midfielder david clawson hammered home in the thirty fifth minute to open the story and then your highness netted braman second late in the game just minutes after coming off the bench when moves braman above champions byron in the league at least until saturday's games are over. there are three games on sunday with leverkusen and clip rival frankford in hoffenheim and leipzig hosts nuremberg. spanish opera singer montserrat caballe a has died in her home city of barcelona at the age of eighty five have a voice was known for its purity and its power and she was a pioneer in ri popularizing a form of operatic singing known as bel canto in one nine hundred eighty seven she joined a rock star freddie mercury in recording an album the title track barcelona became one of her most famous songs. from a math. she was said to be the last great diva of the opera world besides her challenge her smile sense of humor and humanity made monster that cut by a extremely popular. voice sold ready made waves when she was just seven years old singing. she made her debut in one nine hundred fifty six and basel switzerland and her breakthrough came almost ten years later at carnegie hall in new york from then on she wowed audiences in some of the world's biggest opera houses with her distinctive bel canto performances. café also took offer to the pop charts in fact her earlier duet with freddie mercury singing barcelona became the anthem of the one nine hundred ninety two summer olympic games . the. movie musical and being connected to music doesn't mean just one specific genre it means everything you know it's like the stuff if you look at all of them then you can just stare at one of them you see all of them . at barcelona's opera house people are already paying their respects to one of their city's prodigal daughters for them once and it's caught by a may have been the last great diva but more importantly she was a wonderful person. the biggest fish market in the world has held its fight all to no auction tokyo's to keep the market is one of japan's major tourist attractions but now thousands of traders are packing up and preparing to move to a gleaming new market that will open on an official artificial island in tokyo bay next week it's been a controversial move costing the city authorities billions. but until the markets opened in nine hundred thirty five and quickly became a major food distribution hub for the whole fish loving nation of japan the essentials of buying and selling remain much the same eighty three years old the market sets some record breaking prices of the decades but city officials say it's become dilapidated son a tree so a new market has been built but there's been a lot of opposition to the move. keep being on my body how many people worry that the new markets will not be the same and that's why people don't want to move. in with any of the twenty three zero s. and. it's does not a lot of emotions in me. to move to the new four billion euro market was delayed for years because of safety concerns it stands on the side to reform the gas plant and the city's government had to spend millions to make it safe from soil and groundwater contamination build sick e.g. side to provide temporary parking for the twenty twenty tokyo lympics before becoming a tourism census. and one lucky art lover has managed to snap a version of banks he's best known works girl with a balloon for just over a million pounds or so they thought. moments after the hammer fell an alarm sounded and the painting disappeared into a shredder which had been hidden in its frame this photo later appeared on bank sees instagram page with the caption going going gone it's not clear whether the painting is worth even more now. and a reminder the top story we're following for you as the u.s. senate prepares to vote on president trump's supreme court nominee and police in washington arrest protesters from outside the senate building two key senators a pledge their support for judge brett kavanaugh despite allegations of sexual misconduct. you're watching the news from berlin more coming at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock