Brett Kavanaugh: Republicans Push for US Supreme Court Vote

Republicans are pushing to vote on President Donald Trump's nominee for the US Supreme Court on Friday, after hearing dramatic testimony from him and a woman accusing him of sexual assault.

Also in the programme: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is in Germany; and we speak to the father of Hong Kong's democracy movement, who tells us he's in an hour of need.

(Photo: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Professor Christine Blasey Ford during Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington. Credit: Reuters)