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Newshour: Kavanaugh Accuser To Testify Next Week

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22/09/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Kavanaugh Accuser To Testify Next Week

Dr Christine Blasey Ford agrees to testify against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh

Dr Christine Blasey Ford agrees to testify against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

The woman who has accused President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexual assault has said she will testify before a senate committee next week.  Dr Christine Blasey Ford says she was sexually assaulted by Mr Kavanaugh at a party in 1982 when they were both teenagers. Mr Kavanaugh denies the allegations.  

Also in the programme: Iran has accuse US-backed Gulf states of being behind an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, and after the rape and murder of a young girl in Nepal, the government responds by banning pornography. 


Picture: Dr Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh. Credit: Researchgate.Net/Getty

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