we cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined. the nobel peace prize for twenty eighteen to dennis mcclure yeah. norwegian nobel committee uses this peace prize to take a stand against sexual violence as a weapon of war. and also coming up as the scale of the disaster grows we have special coverage of the aftermath of the quake and tsunami. campaigning ends in brazil ahead

of sunday's presidential election thirteen contenders but it's a two man race. live pictures from the u.s. senate as it has for a key vote on brett kavanaugh his nomination to the supreme court. has been awarded to two people leading the fight against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. in iraq the activist who was forced into sex slavery by she says the owner with congress said dennis mccuaig who helps victims of rape and outs of the award in the norwegian nobel committee said it wants this year's prize to send a message that perpetrators of sexual crimes need to be held responsible for their actions. the norwegian nobel committee has decided to award the nobel peace prize for twenty eight team two

dennis machir and now their member rod for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on and combating such war crimes. dennis mccrary gate is the hill who has devoted his life to defending these victims. rod is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others each of them in their own way. has hill to give greater visibility to wartime sexual violence so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for

their actions that are going to aim has war now or one of this year's laureates. nudge him a rod refused to be shamed and refused to be silenced four years ago i saw fighters attacked her village in northern iraq she was taken captive and sold repeatedly for sex for the lebanese. he humiliated me every day he forced me to wear clothes that didn't cover my body i was tortured i tried to flame but one of the gods stopped me and that night he beat me he asked me to take my clothes off and put me in a room with gods then they proceeded to commit their crime and i thank you since she escaped from eisel controlled mosul she has fought to put the suffering of the persecuted minority in iraq in the global spotlight not in the news so i have enough there were thousands of his eighty families and children who were exchanged

as gifts one of these people came up to me he wanted to take me i was absolutely petrified he looked like a monster i cried and said i am too young and you huge he beat me. the nobel peace prize for twenty eighteen to dennis mcrib and. on friday the twenty five year old became the first iraq to be awarded the nobel peace prize unimaginable four years ago a rod was living in the mountains of sin jar in the community of about half a million use edis practice and agent religion eisel deems them heretics when i saw fighters swept into mirage village she was kidnapped she and thousands of other girls and women were forced into sexual slavery after three months she escaped and made her way to germany where she now lives

a family was not so lucky her mother and six of her brothers were killed. and how that has been about. i implore you get rid of i still completely i went through this terrible suffering because of them i've seen what they've done to boys and girls all of those who commit crimes of human trafficking and genocide not to be brought to justice so that women and children can live in peace. iraq has spent the last four years forcing the world to reckon with rape as a weapon of war she has also spread awareness about the use e.t.s. and ensured no one forgets about the thousands who remain missing natasha going to zero. it's been a week since the indonesian island was struck by a magnitude seven point five earthquake that triggered a tsunami if actual death toll stands at almost one thousand six hundred but bodies

are still being pulled from the dead with completely destroyed by the six metre high tsunami waves friday prayers were held outside planes from around twenty countries are flying in with much needed aid and supplies the united nations has pledged fifteen million dollars to the relief effort as wayne hale reports from many a sleeping in the open waiting for assistance. people here escape the earthquake and tsunami but the fight for survival goes on in palu parks have become refugee camps for those who have nowhere else to go their houses were destroyed many family members killed. and now they use whatever they can find to build shelters while still struggling to comprehend what's happened to them. my sister was trapped under a wall they managed to get her out but she died my mother in law is still missing. after me there is some food being given out by our own but it's well short of

what's needed there's still a lack of basic supplies around the affected areas including here in the heart of palu city where people have been camping for a week despite all the money from the indonesian government and all the offers of assistance from foreign governments no one's been able to supply the people here with temporary toilets or adequate shelter. part of this camp is on the grounds of the mayor's office those sheltering here say he's only been to see them once when the indonesian prison. he was in town we asked the mayor for an interview but his staff declined and refugees say die a grateful for the land to sleep on but they need more help than i ate the bad i can tell you there are some toilets over there but they are full of excrement so i eat only once a day so i don't have to go maybe everyone is ok at the moment but if they don't sort it out we will have disease here some people are waiting for space on military flights out others say they have no where to fly to everyone is scared of more earthquakes and wondering when or if they'll be able to go home when hey al-jazeera

palu indonesia. well a search and rescue spokesman says more than a thousand people could be buried and government housing complex which was fastened last week by last week's quake and with hope of finding survivors fading there was growing anger that rescue operations didn't start soon as andrew thomas reports. on what was the row a row of hotels they're still digging and still finding bodies after a horn sounds the machinery briefly stops and the body is carried out but it's not be one side as husband. is still somewhere in sight last friday he was staying at the hotel on business the couple spoke to in the afternoon three hours later their worlds collapsed. and his son drove eighteen hours straight here.

when we arrived there was nothing going on even though we could hear people crying for help some local people tried to help using their hands but they couldn't do much without machinery. have now spent six days sitting by the hotel waiting while we were talking the horn sounded again another body had been found but it was another lady's mother and very disappointing from the government of the little. very late about how more lives could have been saved if they'd go ahead yes i'm sure. into these years government says it brought in twenty one heavy machines to do one friday forty six in total since last friday when it's running this operation seems and professional but the search started late and even now it stops at nine but the. next time we hope that we have more. us. in the professionals here

just the first to be saying lessons must be learnt after thomas al jazeera part of indonesia. president of enter poll has been reported missing after traveling to china one hallway has not been heard of sense he left the french city of leone at the end of last month adrian brown has more from the chinese capital beijing. well so far this mysterious story is not being reported by state controlled media the reports we're getting about monk homei a coming from france that's where the international police organization has its headquarters in leon and that's where he lived with his wife now she apparently contacted police because she says she hasn't heard from her husband since he returned to china last week we don't know if he was summoned back to china because he's still a vice minister of public security and that was the position he held here in china

before he was appointed president of interpol in two thousand and sixteen the first chinese person to hold that post he's also been a director of the counterterrorism office here in china a very senior law enforcement officer now interpol has issued a statement saying that this is a matter for the authorities in china and france and they will be commenting any further some important context a man who was ultimately monks boss was jailed for corruption in two thousand and fifteen and then a nother man who was a vice minister of public security was also jailed for corruption in two thousand and sixteen and al jazeera has a stablished that his name was removed from a tea party committee in april two thousand and eighteen just a few months ago now it's not unusual for prominent figures to disappear here in

china a tycoon from china disappeared from a hotel in hong kong twenty months ago he'd been wanted for questioning here in the mainland and hasn't been seen since and then in june a well known actress vanished she suddenly popped up just this week following an investigation into her tax affairs and then of course we had the cases of the hong kong booksellers who also vanished only to. reappear again after several months of being told on the mainland now there could be an innocent explanation for moms disappearance but if he hasn't appeared by monday then i think the chinese authorities will be facing demands for some sort of explanation his present donald trump is edging what he calls which countries around the world to cough cough up finances for american military support and republican rally in minnesota pointed his finger at saudi arabia saying the kingdom security is indebted to washington we

defend countries that are very rich they don't pay us or they pay us a small percentage take saudi arabia which you say they have some money so we defend and they pay a small percentage i said excuse me king salmon is my friend do you mind paying for the military. they're paying for thirty percent i said you might pay. the u.s. senate is due to hold its first crucial vote on president trump's nomination for the supreme court and the coming hour the senate is currently debating the controversial choice of brett kavanaugh you can see chuck schumer the senate democratic leader cavanagh's nominations been marred by allegations of sexual assault by at least three women the vote is taking place today after an f.b.i. report into the allegations which cavanagh to nine. she's live for us and

washington d.c. just talk us through what's happening in the senate specifically today. well specific this is what they call it cloture vote it's basically a vote to end the debate on it the nomination and to then proceed in the next day or so to a final vote on brett kavanaugh its nomination to become the ninth member of the u.s. supreme court so of course because this is been such a controversial and contentious nomination process pretty much any senator who wants to comment on the merits and the merits of the nation is taking an opportunity to do so we have already heard from the ranking member on the judiciary committee dianne feinstein as well as the chairman chuck grassley right now on the floor of the senate is chuck schumer who is the senate minority leader or the leader of the democrats in the u.s.

senate we expect to hear from a number of so-called swing vote senators in the coming hours but the test vote is supposed to start at about fourteen thirty g.m.t. in about fifteen minutes time that's going to be a real test of whether or not brett kavanaugh looking to get at least fifty one votes which is what he would need in order to be confirmed to join the supreme court today is that we saw brett kavanaugh. an opinion piece in the wall street journal and he felt that he needed to respond to criticism that he was too emotional in the testimony that he gave to the senate judiciary committee last week do you think that was necessary has it managed to sway the senate says one way or the other. well it really depends on whether or not the swing vote senators can be persuaded by this number one the op ed is coming

a week after his testimony and so there are some critics who have said that if he felt remorseful about his performance during his testimony a week ago thursday he should have come out much sooner and said that he regretted doing what he did but he was reacting as someone who felt that his reputation and more important that his family were under attack there are others who say that it doesn't matter when brett kavanaugh came forward with this op ed that it's important that he is setting the record straight from his vantage point ahead of the senate final vote there's also the fact that no other raj additional nominee has ever done anything of this sort engaged in a public relations campaign as it were in order to be voted on to the supreme court or any lower federal court for that matter and it's not just this op ed which brett kavanaugh has had published in the wall street journal recalled that last week he

did a sit down interview with his wife with fox news channel again very unusual but given the stakes that both political parties have placed on the seating of this vacancy on the supreme court is perhaps may well be the new normal ok rather than john mccain press i on the senate votes in about fifteen minutes from now a moment thanks very much. so i have here on al-jazeera take a closer look at this is often about peace prize when the congolese delta dentist mccuaig. hello again it's good to have you back well here across china we are looking at some fairly nice conditions for most of eastern china that for shanghai you have been picking up some clouds in the rain shower and wins because of kong rain now

congress will be making its way towards the north so conditions will be getting better for you and you will be breaking out so here on saturday no he too bad maybe some windy gust or two with the temperature there of twenty five degrees then as we go towards sunday better conditions a little calmer winds and about twenty six degrees few than down here towards hong kong we do expect to see maybe about thirty degrees as your high well across india we're on the lookout down here for the potential of some flooding what's happening is here across the arabian sea the development of a next system and you can see that circulation right there we'll talk about that in just a moment but we do expect to see a lot of heavy rain here down along the southwestern coast and that could produce some localized flooding over the next few days so you can see the rain continues across much of that area and that system we're talking about well that system is expected to develop here across the web in c. and make its way towards the north so parts of oman either parts of yemen as well could be on the lookout for this or lexx week up here towards doha attempt

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and there again you're watching his reminder of our top stories this hour the nobel peace prize has been jointly awarded to dennis quaid and. norwegian tracy says it wanted to use this year's award to honor those fighting sexual violence as a weapon of war. friday prayers in indonesia been held outside after mosques were destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami last week hundreds of thousands of people are still waiting for food and medicine nearly sixteen hundred people have died. and the president of interpol has been reported missing after traveling to china many a home away has not been heard from since he left the french at the end of last month a french judicial official says he arrived in china but disappeared soon afterwards . brazil's presidential candidates have been taking part in their final debates

before the first round of voting on sunday as islands of frustrated increase in violent crime several high profile corruption scandals and a stuttering economy trey's about reports from sao paulo. the last debate before the elections on sunday something dramatic. did not want to miss. i am worried about what is already happening in brazil we need to tackle fascist ideas there is a complex polarization of our society but we can't forget what's been happening in brazil over the last few years it's important we vote on sunday so we can keep its democracy. seven of the presidential candidates attended the debate in. the frontrunner former army captain john edwards and nigel skipped the t.v. global citing doctor's orders after being stabbed during a campaign event one month ago instead he gave a recorded interview to t.v.

record owned by anyone jellicoe church at the same time that the debate was happening. boy did. you not call me corrupt i have always fought for the union of all brazilians however the leftists divided us the workers' party did not work and they betrayed workers in the country second place candidate for the man the head that was handpicked by jailed former president. has been trying to prove that his party is the solution for brazil. the workers' party has been trying to turn things around by posting a video comparing. with adolf hitler but the strategy so far has failed to turn polls around even though there are thirteen candidates this election has become a two man race. out on federal. support for most and i think raised in recent days with some analysts saying that he could win in the first round ballots and the

reasons why are many analysts say brazilians are voting against corruption and against the workers' party whose image has been tarnished by the largest corruption scandal in brazil's history. it can only be explained by the abandonment of the state these are the people who suffered most in brazil's crisis in the last three years with violence unemployment and corruption so maybe they prefer to have a little bit of hope of getting jobs even if that means reducing democracy. south america's largest democracy is heading to the polls on sunday the results will indicate which path brazil chooses to take. i will. and i'll wager jointly awarded. nobel peace prize says the congolese doctor is the most unifying symbol of the international effort to end sexual violence in war. thousands of victims of rape in the democratic republic of congo and has repeatedly

condemned governments for not doing enough to stop sex abuse reports. says. he's known among his colleagues and those whose lives he saved or helps to rebuild as dr miracle. this is congolese gynecologist denise macwhich working at the puns a hospital which established in the democratic republic of congo for two decades he has tirelessly works to treat and protect women who have suffered sexual violence and he has risked his life doing so in two thousand and twelve men stormed his home in south kivu province killing a member of his staff. who quickly fled the country but returned in two thousand and thirteen to make this my decision to come back to because it was motivated by the fact that i was determined to pursue the fight against sexual violence which is taking place in eastern congo the second reason was the determination of the

congolese women whether it's women in the d.s.p. or women of the country that a band and their cause were too strong for me to resist. the war the d.l.c. officially ended in two thousand and three but violence between government troops and rebels with foreign backing continues particularly in the mineral rich east of the country. the quick history chief tens of thousands of rape victims women children and even babies. only have. the rebels proceeded to rape me in front of my children after they shot my husband there were four of them and after that they started a gun inside my vagina and that's how i got this condition. has described rape as a weapon of mass destruction the norwegian nobel committee praised mccuaig for repeatedly condemning impunity for mass rape and criticizing the congolese government and other countries for not doing enough to stop sexual violence against

women as a strategy and weapon of war stratford al-jazeera and it has signed a five billion dollars deal to buy the russian s four hundred missile system that's despite the threats of u.s. sanctions on countries that trade with some russian defense funds or at a haunted house war. an indication that longstanding ties between russia and india are a strong as ever president vladimir putin is in new delhi to finalize a multi-billion dollar deal that includes india's riches of the russian is four hundred missile system it was delayed because of u.s. sanctions on russia but prime minister narendra modi has decided to forge ahead anyway with the he gets a sanctions waiver from washington or not is that aspiration and believes developing the strategic partnership with russia is the culmination of our common aspirations a lot of things have changed in this world but the friendship between russia and

india will never change. these four hundred thirty as part of a major upgrade of india's military is demoted to cost as much as one hundred billion dollars and aimed at countering regional threats particularly pakistan and china india has been shopping around sourcing what it needs from a number of countries the us is it second biggest supplier but russia is number one india has some big budget items on that shopping list from russia the biggest and most contentious is the s four hundred it's russia's most advanced long range surface to air missile system capable of taking down bombers jets missiles and drones at a range of three hundred eighty kilometers it comes with a price tag of around five billion dollars india also wants naval ships and military helicopters three billion dollars with their new delhi has signed off on

a second nuclear power plant to be built by russia and given the green light for indian as true north to train and russia in preparation for india's first space mission sit for twenty twenty two. analysts believe the deal is important for mahdi's government ahead of next year's elections there. been a lot. coming to libya about india. more the government deflecting before the administration all of this but a good deal with that i should start did not want to be seen as to more the best not to want to be seen. giving good to the american per se just people in their course to the parliament reductions early next year the u.s. also has a lot to lose if relations with india deteriorate american arms contracts with india are worth billions and the country is an important strategic ally as the u.s. tries to counter china's influence in the region prime minister modi will have to

find a balance between addressing his country's military needs and maintaining good relations with washington maidana hond al-jazeera peru's former president alberto fujimori says f. he's forced to go back to prison he will die here old recorded a dramatic message on a mobile phone from his hospital bed in the mail on wednesday the supreme court overturned a medical pardon for him and system could mean for him henri being returned to jail to serve a sentence for human rights abuses the philippines president has revealed he may have cancer or to go to tatay says he's waiting for repeat test results for up a lot of his and his digestive tract and coat on being concerns to test his health after he missed two official events on wednesday. see. criticized a government agency on twitter just days after negotiating a settlement to keep his job because just of the securities and exchange commission

was helping investors betting on testers stock to fall and sued most last week last week for alleged fraud after the c.e.o. wrote on social media that he was considering taking the private ask agreed to pay a twenty million dollars fine and step aside chairman a three year. this is observe these are the top stories the nobel peace prize has been jointly awarded to dennis. and. and always says it wanted to use this year's award to honor those fighting sexual violence as a weapon of war friday present in indonesia been held outside after mosques were destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami last week hundreds of thousands of people are still waiting for food and medicine sixteen hundred people have died the

president of ns a pall has been reported missing after traveling to china langholm way is don't be heard of heard from since he left the french city of leone at the end of last month a french dish official says he arrived in china but disappeared soon afterwards the u.s. senate is due to hold its first crucial vote on president trump's nomination for the supreme court in the coming hours the senate is currently debating the controversial choice of brett kavanaugh his nomination has been marred by allegations of sexual assault by at least three women the vote is taking place today after an f.b.i. report into the allegations which cavanagh denies ever being present revealed he may have cancer says he's waiting for a repeat test results for abnormalities in his suggestive tracks and have been concerns for to taze health after he missed two official events on wednesday. i know you see clearly but they have to wait for that. but i would tell you that it's

going to it's going to. be the third stage of no more treatment i will not only in this office anywhere transit's in brazil's presidential race have gone head to head in the last televised debate before sunday's vote for right national poll serrano was absent from the debate citing doctors' orders as he recovers from a stopping attack last month and india has four said with a five billion dollars deal to buy russian f. four hundred missile systems despite the threat of u.s. sanctions on countries that trade with russian defense firms abilities are intended to punish russia for its annexation of crimea and alleged interference in the twenty sixteen us elections as i had lines more news that al-jazeera after the stream. he was the world's most wanted underworld banker. until a year long undercover operation finally took him down. when he goes inside the

billion dollar bust. i'm grace mahara a fashion model and founder of nonprofit projects you're in the story. i am finding out ok today we discuss why macedonians are the odds of a proposed name change for the country a move that could lead to e.u. membership so what's in a name imo they could be allowed to as your thoughts or leave them in our live you tube chat and you too could be in the stream. my cydonia future remains uncertain that's off the referendum to rename the country failed voters overwhelmingly voted on sunday in favor of changing the name to north macedonia and back to more than ninety percent of voters supported the change but only third.