at the center of a debate over how to police the police. the gang within on al-jazeera. a nation divided republicans and democrats draw different conclusions from an f.b.i. report on president trump supreme court nominee. also coming up. survivors in come to terms with life changing injuries after last week's earthquake as mass burials become a daily event. campaigning ends in brazil ahead of sunday's presidential voters the town the visit to face each other and a final debate. and zimbabwe tries to contain its worst cholera outbreak in

a decade. u.s. democrats. a whitewash republicans say that vindicated an f.b.i. report into a sexual assault allegations against the president's supreme court pick is deepening divisions on capitol hill investigators will cold enough for a senate committee had evidence from christine blousy for the accused of assaulting our in high school claims that he denies well the senate is set to hold a procedural vote on his nomination on friday article hain has more from washington d.c. . anger outrage disgust on display in the nation's capital a sizable protest out to tell us senators don't vote to put brett kavanaugh on the supreme court. and only came from new jersey to help spread the word and

a few signs she believes christine lacy forward who testified before the senate that kavanagh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school i just fired up about the idea that we would have a credibly accused sexual assailant confirmed on the supreme court is unfair unjust to women and. honestly men across the country but it's not just the liberal side that is angry about this poll show that the republicans are really fired up in fact before the cabin on nomination a lot of republicans told pollsters they weren't all that excited to vote in the upcoming congressional elections that has changed many polls show democrats and republicans equally excited to vote for their side the vote was delayed by weeks of the f.b.i. could investigate but their classified report has just further deepen the divide is a complete report this is a background check i'm confident the f.b.i. did a good job and they were not hindered in any way so it's very frustrating and even

the things i read. and i heard the chairman of the committee say that there is no hint of misconduct in plain english what i just read there are hints of misconduct the f.b.i. didn't interview ford or the witnesses she suggested and many other people who know kavanaugh say they tried to talk to the f.b.i. but were turned away further feeling suspicion and division in a fierce fight that is playing out in the capital and on the streets. for the future of the highest court and likely control of the congress come january. al-jazeera washington. the trump ministrations accusing china trying to undermine america through political military and economic actions u.s. vice president mike pence said in a speech to china wants to sway the upcoming midterm elections against president trump and responds to tough american trade policies he's claiming alleged russian

meddling in elections pales in comparison to what china is doing a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. in the very early days of the trumpet ministration the us president rolled out the red carpet to host chinese president xi at his mar-a lago resort. more than eighteen months later that warmth has been replaced by a trade war between beijing and washington and a strong warning by the u.s. vice president mike pence our message to china's rulers is this this president will not back down. in a fiery speech hence escalating u.s. rhetoric. broadly blaming china for everything from military aggression in the south china sea to intellectual property theft to advance its global interests chinese security agencies have masterminded the wholesale theft of american technology including cutting edge military blueprints and using their

stolen technology the chinese communist party is turning plow shares into swords on a massive scale u.s. media is reporting that includes inserting microchips into servers used by apple and amazon to spy on u.s. companies parents also accuse china of religious persecution and human rights abuses cracking down on chinese christians buddhists and imprisoning more than a million muslim weekers in government camps. and domestically while the u.s. special counsel robert muller continues his probe into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election. pence reiterated president trogs claim made last week at the united nations about china and the upcoming elections to put it bluntly president trump's leadership is working and china wants a different american president hence accuse china of election meddling in the

twenty eight teen u.s. midterm elections and the twenty twenty presidential vote with an elaborate december mation campaign to influence u.s. voters hence the trumpet ministration remains hopeful china will come around until then he says it will continue to address what it calls chinese aggression already there are tariffs employees are more than two hundred fifty billion in chinese goods and more are at the ready and could be implemented this early as next year kimberly hell hit al-jazeera the white house turkey's foreign ministry has summoned saudi arabia's ambassador over the disappearance of a dissident saudi journalist saudi officials say jamal khashoggi disappeared after he left the consulate building in istanbul but the turkish government believes he's still inside the shocking had been living in self-imposed exile while writing columns critical of the kingdom and crown prince mohammed bin saddam on earlier we spoke to jamal khashoggi his fiance have teach on the phone explained she was with

jamal of the consulate when he disappeared. because it happened on the second of toben i mean jamal went to the consulate in istanbul to get some paperwork for marriage jamal went into the consulate and i was waiting near the door the appointment was at one pm after a few hours no one came to me they were supposed to come and get the phone from me but no one came i went to the door and asked security it was almost three pm security told me no one was inside and that maybe i didn't pay attention when jamal lift i called the consulate the saudi men sit and he told me they closed and that no one is inside and you shouldn't quite hear hundreds of thousands of people are still waiting for food and medicines almost a week after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the indonesian island of some away sick and tired towns and villages have been destroyed and more than four hundred people have died. reports from where survivors are coming to terms with

life changing injuries and the deaths of their loved ones. eight year old when dick was to god and asks for forgiveness he was in the position of prayer his forehead on the mat when the earthquake struck and the mosque collapsed he's all there brother was able to pull him out but the rent he lost his hand. was good you know that it was hard for us to look for a medical clinic. we have to look for two decent tonight. this is one that the hospital it holds the biggest number of injured survivors and some of them come from neighboring districts we've spoken to patients here who say it took days before they got medical help but they are grateful they're still alive . and elias says she was near the sea when the earthquake struck she

waited for a moment and thought everything was fine until the tsunami swept her away it took three days before her family found her. i thought i was going to die i swallowed a lot of water and then a man pulled me up by my arm the tsunami hit the town of polluted on friday three strong waves swept away hundreds of homes schools government facilities all wiped out in an instant and days since the disaster struck many believe the true extent of the damage has yet to be seen the number of people killed is expected to rise. a twenty minute drive from the main town is where hundreds are buried mass burials have become a daily reality some of the bodies buried here are unidentified the indonesian government says

a quick burial is necessary to prevent the spread of communicable diseases entire families who once lived full lives cut short by a tragedy they have been reduced to this and no one has come to say good bye. dugan al-jazeera central sulawesi indonesia. western countries have denounced russia for cyber hacking attacks which they say are designed to undermine democracies and some of the strongest language use since the cold war britain warned russia to become a pariah state or the united states warned moscow must be made to pay the price for its actions russia has rejected the allegations calling them propaganda who has our report. the tools of the trade this spy equipment was found in the possession of four russian agents in a car parked outside the headquarters of the chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. back in april at the time the o.p.c. w.

was independently analyzing the novacek used to attack script palin solsbury as well as identifying the substance used in an attack against civilians in the syrian town of duma on the g.r.u. operation was aimed at hacking in infecting the white fine network of the o p c w from close quarters we call that a so-called close access ack operation when they were discovered the russian spies trying to destroy some of their equipment but one of the laptops showed they had also been in malaysia trying to access the investigation into the shooting down of the passenger jet m.h. seventeen over ukraine allegedly by a russian book missile the timing of the dutch announcement came just hours after a report on russian hacking by the british national cybersecurity center part of the government's g c h q spy agency the n c s c assessment concluded that hacker groups calling themselves fancy bear sound woman voodoo bear actually just the

russian military intelligence agency the g r u the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman reacted scornfully to the british statements he's going to want to let us board indiscriminately in one file or maybe an ina richie fragrance file everything with mixed up g.r.u. cyber spies kremlin's hackers what a hellish perfume mix the vivid imagination of our colleagues from the u.k. has no boundaries indeed who comes up with all this. but the pressure on russia was further intensified at the meeting of nato defense ministers in brussels what we're doing by acting with our allies by actually isolating russia exposing the fact that these are actions of a state this is acting in a reckless an indiscriminate manner this is not the actions of a great power this is a van actions of a pariah state and then the u.s. justice department weighed in indicting seven russian g.r.u. agents in connection to

a series of hacking attacks as well as charges of money laundering wire fraud and identity theft it is evident from the allegations in today's indictment that the defendants believe that they could use their anonymity to act with impunity in their own countries and on the territories of other sovereign nations to undermine international institutions and to distract from their government's own wrongdoing they were wrong most of the world's advanced spy agencies conduct cyber espionage but this wave of intense coordinated diplomatic pressure on russia highlights the sense that even by the shadowy standards of international spying russia has overstepped the boundaries of what is acceptable paul brennan al-jazeera. time for short break here al-jazeera when we come back the lawyer of the woman accusing football superstar cristiana with knowledge of right tells a las vegas court she was inspired by the me to lose that ball in the stay with us .

from long flowing in the winds to an enchanting dance that breeze blew the. hello there we're expecting a fair amount of rain in shanghai over the next day or say this is all things to watch typhoon to siphon itself to stay away from land it's running northwards but it's still a throwing plenty of cloud of rain towards the west and it looks like shanghai will have rather a wet day should begin to clear up there which we had through the day on saturday and the temperatures will be up at around twenty six degrees further south largely fine and dry for us here hong kong up at thirty and even as he had down towards parts of it now been over looks fine unsettled with hanoi at thirty two before the tools the south are there's plenty of showers here some sunshine coming through in between as well but you can see the pockets of heavy downpours that we're saying at the moment people showers are likely as we head through friday particularly in the northwestern parts of borneo but also further west is looking pretty soggy through

parts of thailand and all the way down through k.l. and into singapore as well if we head further towards the west it looks like carolina is going to have some very heavy downpours over the next few days it really doesn't very wet there could well be more flooding out of this not only here but also in town want to do as well so this whole region is one to watch over the next couple of days the rains really will be heavy further north and largely fine and dry for many of us now not poor up to thirty to three degrees new delhi about thirty four so hot but it will be dry. there with sponsored by the time race. he lived in brazil's largest for that. one day the police king. thousands of others he disappeared. witness follows a family's epic struggle for justice which became a national cause and sent shock waves through the upper echelons of the political

establishment in the shadow of the hill on al jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera top republicans say there is no hint of misconduct in the f.b.i. report into supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh but senate democrats argue the report into sexual assault allegations is incomplete the senate's expected to vote on cabinet later this week. yes vice president mike pence has accused china of interfering with american politics and technology he says beijing's using economic and military tools as well as propaganda to advance his interests in the u.s. his comments come after donald trump accused china of interfering in the upcoming

midterm elections and hundreds of thousands of people are still seeking aid on the indonesian island of slow ways after an earthquake and tsunami hit a week ago more than fourteen hundred people have been killed looting has become a problem in the military as orders to shoot on sight. wellcome painting in brazil's polarizing presidential race is wrapping up ahead of sunday's vote preparing for the last televised debate which will begin in the next hour or two is about this update from. well we're two days from the election and this final. ball tonight a won't be attending but we do know that of the same time the debate is happening every quarter which is a never ever angelika network will be airing an exclusive interview with him so he ever jellicoe churches calling it a way for their followers to vote for and i don't until now the strategy by the

workers' party for five member why that has been mostly to link to former president we see nothing new in order to increase his chances of becoming brazil's next president while that strategy is expected to change today from on the about is expected to be much more aggressive in the way we've been treated by the workers' party saying and telling that. voted against for example a poverty fund but never doubted to vote in order to increase his salary there's also tweets that are comparing by the workers' party that are comparing it. with health there so obviously there is a change in strategy here both when i don't chance of becoming brazil next president have increased in recent days mostly because the people think chanted and rage with a workers' party with the corruption that happened while the workers' party was in power and also the recession that has been hitting this country for the last two

years peru's former president alberto fujimori has warned that if he is forced to go bouts of prison he will die for jim recorded his dramatic call that a mobile phone whilst in the hospital in lima peru supreme court on wednesday overturned a medical pardon for him the decision could force him to return to jail to serve a long sentence for human rights abuses. iraq's new prime minister has to choose a cabinet and presented to parliament within thirty days but for a. government to survive he'll also have to tackle the more pressing problem of growing unrest in the southern province of basra where protests against corruption and poor public services continue my meadow has the latest from baghdad. the bustling portal basra provinces south and. a crucial lifeline to the country's economy every day tens of thousands of tons of imported goods are offloaded at these dogs more than three million but also oil field tankers distin for the global

market while busting up pumps millions into government coffers every day very little of that reaches its residents and i are kind of mentality there is no life here we've been totally neglected we have no clean water no electricity no jobs we keep wondering how we have sunk to this level. now is what is the government for fifteen years we've kept hearing promises without action we're still seeing any efforts to save us from this mystery. in the impoverished suburbs of iraq's second largest city a simmering soup of garbage and rule see which is a common sight. the grievances boiled over in early july when thousands took to the streets to protest what they say is government neglect the protests what you get after thousands of people got sick drinking contaminated water after five months of political crisis they're out finally has a new leadership moments of the but i'm sorry a cut from all fun and out was elected president by parliament he topped the

lobdell maddi a shia and former minister to form the next government as prime minister. the job is huge and the future of bossa is central to their success feel her love i believe that the current shift in politics in iraq however tiny is driven by recent events in basra it's important for the new leadership to understand that failing in basra is not an option and would mean total failure for them. to calm rising anger and tension in basra the outgoing administration announced two months ago a multi-billion dollar emergency plan to restore facilities and vital services in the region this time though the people of basra refusing to settle for what they call token improvements many say that unless there is many change in the political system under the new administration funds for development may once again end up in

the pockets of corrupt officials how about the well jazeera. yemen's cholera outbreak is accelerating quickly the world health organization says about ten thousand suspected cases and are reported every week thirty percent of them are children under five years old if left untreated cholera can kill a child within hours intensified fighting over the summer and the civil war has damaged the water supply which may have caused a spike in colorado. zimbabwe has started vaccinating people living in urban areas that tries to contain its worst cholera outbreak in a decade it's already killed forty nine people and infected thousands more the reports of the outbreak of cholera started hearing grenville a pool so that the capital harare around half a million people will receive an baxi against cholera in the next few days another million doses will be administered in other densely populated areas of the capital next week. the government says it's made good progress in containing the outbreak

no deaths have been reported in more than a week and the rate of infection has slowed down. we are thankful for the effort the disease is under control zimbabwe's biggest cholera outbreak was ten years ago more than four thousand people died back then health officials and the international community accuse the government of not responding to the emergency fast enough people living in harare say lessons have not been learned. race should have reacted faster and they responded late and by then many people had died they should have been much quicker. typhoid and cholera outbreaks occur regularly in zimbabwe because of dilapidated ruta and sanitation facilities there are concerns that the government's vaccination program which is focused on the capital is not comprehensive enough. going out they should also go to the rule

areas to give these doses so that this disease doesn't affect the whole country the vaccination program has begun just before the onset of the rainy season which normally increases the risk of new infections the government says it's planning to raise thirty five million dollars to treat the current outbreak and to vastly improve harare's water and sanitation system victoria gayton be al-jazeera. tesla z o e n n musk has appeared to mock a government agency on twitter just days out the negotiating a settlement to keep his job loss has suggested the securities and exchange commission was helping investors betting on test a stock to fall it sued must last week for alleged fraud after he wrote on social media he was considering taking the firm private must agree to pay a twenty million dollars fine and step aside as justice chairman for three years the winner of this year's nobel peace prize will be announced on friday and there's plenty of speculation about who will win the historic award jonah hole has more now

on the possible contenders. so it's that time of the year again when the nobel committee is preparing to announce the winner of the famous peace prize everyone's trying to guess who's in the running well it's just that it's a guessing game because the shortlist is always a closely guarded secret. among possible winners looking at world events ethiopia's prime minister has been mentioned for peace moves between his country and eritrea with war raging and fears of famine in yemen the un's world food program has been suggesting very very very aware of. the refugee crisis and the deaths of those crossing the mediterranean remain in the spotlight with the un's refugee agency the u.n.h.c.r. and groups like s.o.s. meditate on the possibly in the frame the bookmakers favorite seems to be a three way when between north korea's kim jong un the south korean president moved in and yes donald trump for their joint efforts to avert

a nuclear war on the korean peninsula but keep guessing because not only are the experts usually wrong but one close peace prize watcher i spoke to said the committee's been getting it wrong for decades. they have entirely forgotten the real alfred nobel the real speaks about the champions of peace. who are doing the work to create the brotherhood of nations disarmament and peace congresses the core activities of the peace movement at the time this is a prize for the grassroots not for the militarist state leaders lots of people think they got it wrong with anxiety see who won in one thousand nine hundred one with calls for the now leader of myanmar to be stripped of the prize because of military violence directed at the range of people that may cause the committee to play it safe this year who knows and that's the point no one does jonah hill

al-jazeera in oslo. five time. world footballer of the year question or naldo a strain with the ventus for the first time since last week's accusations of rape the thirty three year old denies us all the woman at a las vegas hotel back in two thousand and nine i was there was paul reads as more . christiane i rebelled i pulled into the event is training complex in cheering on thursday the day after using twitter to deny he had a right to woman one of the biggest names in world football has been accused by american catherine majorca of assaulting her in his las vegas hotel room nine years ago she told the german newspaper spiegel that she had been paid three hundred seventy five thousand dollars by rinaldo to keep quiet my oga has now filed a civil lawsuit against the portuguese player whose own lawyers have threatened to sue the newspaper for damages in early two thousand and seventeen we found first traces about this incident in june two thousand and nine and we kept digging and

search for more documents and went outside to get some open field research went to las vegas for example and gathered as much information as we could about this case this is a very sensitive case obviously police in las vegas have since reopened the complaint my oga made at the time in which she didn't identify her alleged assailant her lawyer says she's now been emboldened to name or naldo because of the me too movement that followed last year's allegations against movie producer harvey weinstein. and which also inspired us a gymnasts to testify against dr lowery last set before he was jailed for sexual assault in january this year the. need to movement was very important to catherine. in her decision to. consult with us and go forward in this case. i think she looks to the women who

are involved in the two movements he rose in his tweets on wednesday ronaldo said rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything i am and believe in kane as i may be to clear my name i refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense a day earlier he had released another denial on instagram fake fake news they want to they want to promote. by my name. we're not all that has been left out of the squad for his national side portugal for the next two matches under what the team says was a preexisting agreement. i know christiane over now and i well i fully believe what he says and i know he sees it my perspective would not carry out a crime at least kind i do not believe that me and. my old his lawyer says the instant has left her suffering from post-traumatic stress depression rinaldo is due

to play in the italian league against you deny easy on saturday with the date of a possible court appearance in the united states yet to be announced paul reese al-jazeera. all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen there press al-jazeera dot com. a quick check of the headlines here top republicans say there's no hint of misconduct in the f.b.i.'s report into supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh but senate democrats argue the report into sexual assault allegations is incomplete when is the senate is expected to vote on cabinet later this week. turkey's foreign ministry has summoned saudi arabia's ambassador over the disappearance of a dissident saudi journalist saudi officials say jamal khashoggi disappeared after he left the consulate building in istanbul the turkish government believes he's

still inside the admin living in self-imposed exile writing columns critical of the kingdom and the crown prince mohammed bin salma there we spoke to jamal khashoggi his fiance on the phone who explained she was with him out of the consulate when he disappeared. because it happened on the second of toben i mean jamal went to the consulate in istanbul to get some paperwork for marriage jamal went into the consulate and i was waiting near the door the appointment was at one pm after a few hours no one came to me they were supposed to come and get the phone from me but no one came i went to the door and asked security it was almost three pm security told me no one was inside and that maybe i didn't pay attention when jamal lift i called the consulate the saudi men sit and he told me they closed and that no one is inside and you shouldn't wait here hundreds of thousands of people are still seeking aid on the indonesian island of slow ways it often earthquake and

tsunami hit a week ago but the fourteen hundred people have been killed looting has become a problem and the military has orders to shoot on sight western governments of united in condemning russian cyber attacks the u.s. is indicting seven russian intelligence agents the netherlands detail the for the temp to hide the un's chemical weapons watchdog and the u.k. is accusing russia of conducting a global campaign of malicious attacks the kremlin denies the allegations campaigning in brazil's polarizing presidential race is winding down the head of sunday's election candidates are preparing for the last televised debate which will begin seeing the far right nationalist jaya both tomorrow is leading in the polls will not participate. all right those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera the inside story stage.

the head of a u.n. team looking into possible war crimes in yemen has accused saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of interference the panel says both sides of the conflict are to blame for rights abuses but what can this inquiry achieve in yemen this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm a gym yemen has been at war for more than three years now the region's poorest country has been reduced to even further misery as the saudi iraq coalition continues to battle with the rebels for control now.