new yorkers are very receptive to al jazeera because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides. voting mostly on party lines the u.s. senate moves a controversial supreme court nomination forwards. no i'm fully back to watching al jazeera live from my headquarters in doha also ahead . the nobel peace prize for twenty eight team to dennis smith figure and now. they know region nobel committee uses this year's peace prize to take a stand against sexual violence as a weapon of war. mass burials in indonesia as recovery efforts continue

a week after the earthquake and tsunami on the island of sin away see and how one u.s. company has found out a recipe for success and growing workers with less than savory backgrounds. u.s. senators have advanced donald trump supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh sconce from ation with a procedural vote the republican controlled senate voted fifty one to forty nine for a likely final vote on his confirmation on saturday and limited debate on the controversial nominee kavanaugh is accused of sexual assault and has vehemently denied those charges it was emotional testimony last week from kavanagh himself and his accuser christie christine blousy forward before a senate committee that same committee voted in favor of kavanagh's nomination beef being taken to the full senate. in jordan in washington d.c.

for his so this was the first of two important votes on the supreme court nomination of brett kavanaugh tell us about the reaction to this decision to move to the next phase. well immediately after the vote was the nels fifty one to forty nine in favor of us starting the spinal weld of to bait before. a vote on brett kavanaugh its nomination the us president don't translate to twitter and praise the committee for voting to end the open and it fosters and to start this final thirteen hour period of debate before the final vote on whether brett kavanaugh should join the high court of course at the same time there have been thousands of people up here most against brett kavanaugh this nomination a diffuse people for his nomination loudly demonstrating at the supreme court in the senate office buildings basically trying to make their voices heard and to try to persuade those swing vote senators who haven't been able to see was saying well

where the other how they're going to vote on the nomination to make up their minds in the way that the demonstrators want them to vote yeah i was going to ask you about that ross in fact it looks like you know we've moved a step closer to kavanagh securing his position on the supreme court but how sure can we be about how key senators the swing republican votes as they're being called to unlikely to vote in the final process. the only way we're going to be certain foley will be when they take that final vote we believe as early as saturday afternoon and each senator then casts a yes or no vote that is when we will be certain even in the last few minutes jeff flake the arizona republican who basically pushed for the delay on the count and all votes so that there could be an additional background check conducted on the nominee has just told reporters that he is going to vote for brett kavanaugh unless

something toward or something unusual happens in the next twenty four hours again that caviar has been put forward by contrast lisa murkowski of another republican from the state of alaska has not only voted no to try to start this final period of debate but she has pretty much intimated that she's going to vote against kavanaugh when the final vote takes place so but again until we actually get to that period of voting we won't know people can say pretty much whatever they want as we have now seen during this process until there's a final vote we don't actually know whether count and all will get to be on the u.s. supreme court so one thing is clear and ross is that this confirmation process has intensified the polarization between republicans and democrats how do you see this affecting next month's midterm elections. well it certainly has energized the party

partisans and people who did not consider themselves political on both sides of the aisle certainly what has gotten the fault of the prosecutor in the united states is how more liberal or progressive people who have not been previously politically active have started running for office has have started raising money for candidates have started working on get off the vote efforts certainly we've seen many more people than we have in recent years. on capitol hill protesting against the capitol nomination and of course in the context of the me to believe which is a little more than a year old there is a very real national debate about such will abuse about sexual assault about sexual harassment and how the people in carrying out these abuses and attacks are held accountable you're also seeing more people getting energized especially people who voted for the u.s. president donald trump because they believe that the president has chosen someone

who is fit and has the legal qualifications to sit on the high court and so you're seeing more people talking about making certain that they are registered to vote and that they do cast a ballot in the midterm congressional elections turnout is typically a little off during these midterms but i think you're going to see more people on both sides coming out and actually getting involved in the process really because of all that has been happening here on capitol hill ok ross thank you very much from austin jordan reporting there live from washington and out of wild news the nobel peace prize has been awarded to two people leading the fight against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in iraq he is the the activist who was forced into sex slavery by i saw and not campaigns for justice has been honored and so too has congolese dr dennis mccuaig who house victims of rape in the democratic republic of congo john hall reports from moscow. at home they call him dr miracle

denis mukwege a congolese gynecologist who's helped countless women who've been subject to sexual violence as a weapon of war. belongs to the minority group among thousands of women and girls subjected to a systematic campaign of sexual violence by i soon fighters in two thousand and fourteen she's now an activist who speaks out for those women who can't or won't for. 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 all those who commit crimes of human trafficking and genocide need to be brought to justice so that women and children can live in peace they are joint winners of the two thousand and eighteen nobel peace prize both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on and combating such war

crimes in its citation the committee described macweb is enduring dedicated and selfless efforts to end the use of mass rape as a weapon of war the more this prize has a big meaning that although it took time for the world to recognize us the world has started listening to women and not just listening to getting to know the problems that you face understanding our problems is not enough they must realize that when you commit a crime against anyone it's not right. both mourad and move quicker the committee said have endured personal risk and cost to combat war crimes and seek justice for victims in a year in which controversy has touched the nobel named itself both with rape allegations against a member of the swedish academy that gives up a literature prize and with calls for me on mars b. the un sanction to be stripped of her peace prize the two winners of the two thousand and eighty. the nobel peace prize are likely to be considered anything but

controversial. i asked the chairwoman of the nobel committee where the she and her fall for the committee members had decided this year to play it safe i ask to be believe that we make our decision on the mandate we happen alfred nobel's will sometimes our decisions are very controversial sometimes they are not but being not controversial does not reduce the importance of the price in a word them know. how to zero. henrik or doll is the director of the peace research institute he says both recipients are deserving of the honor. these were two of our absolute favorites this mcquaid has been on our list since two thousand and ten. was it was together would then as macrae one of our absolute top favorite states here and this is an extremely important prize and we're very very enthusiastic about it i think there are multiple reasons why

this became the issue that took a mobile company wanted to record this year i mean we have of course the the me two campaign which brought the issue broadly of sexual violence to the top of the global agenda but there is also the recognition off the change that we've seen in the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and specifically the way that this has been instrumental used by the islamic state in syria and iraq we had a very direct instruction to use sexual violence as a weapon of war a you know developing manuals for for how to go about so this is also a. way to for the international community to say that you know this is an issue that is becoming more and more serious that we need to tackle through both approaches on the ground but also through international collaboration and international persecution off the perpetrators off sexual violence. it's been one

week since the indonesian island of. a magnitude seven point five earthquake that triggered a tsunami the official death toll now stands at more than sixteen hundred but bodies are still being pulled from the debris with mosques completely destroyed by the six metre high tsunami waves friday prayers were held outside military planes from twenty countries are flying in with much needed aid and supplies the united nations has spread fifty million dollars to the relief effort as wayne here reports from panel many a sleeping in the open waiting for assistance. people here escape the earthquake and tsunami but the fight for survival goes on in pollard parks have become refugee camps for those who have nowhere else to go their houses were destroyed many family members killed. yan and now they use whatever they can find to build shelters while still struggling to comprehend what's happened to them. a lot of my sister was

trapped and they're all they managed to get their out but she died my mother in law is still missing. i mean 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 or 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 president was in town we asked the mayor for an interview but his staff declined the refugees say doug grateful for the land to sleep on but they need more help than i ate the plant 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. 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 nowhere 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. a search and rescue spokesman says more than a thousand people could be buried in the ballot a government housing complex which was threatened by last week's earthquake and with the hope of finding survivors fading there is growing anger that rescue operations didn't start sooner and thomas reports. on what was the row a row of hotel they're still digging and still finding bodies after the horn sounds the machinery briefly stops and the body bag is carried out but it's not the one side is husband his body is still somewhere inside last friday he was staying at

the hotel 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 . us or so very late about how more lives could have been saved if they'd go ahead yes i'm sure. in the easiest government says it brought in twenty one heavy machines to the loo on friday forty six in total since last friday when it's running this operation seems far and professional but the

search started lights and even now it starts at nine but what i was. we hope we have more. professionals here not just the first to be saying lessons must be learnt. said ahead on. the iraq syria border and thousands of children. are stranded with no future prospects. hello again we're crossing of our we are seeing some showers here across the southern portions of the caspian sea notice the clouds pushing across that region

as well as for baquba down here towards the southern coastline we are seeing some heavy rain showers and that will also be affecting possibly the northern area just to the north of tehran of the next few days so let's take a look at your map as we go towards sunday as well we are getting a little bit better but temperatures are cooling off as that system starts to bring some air in from the north there down here towards quite city will finally below forty degrees were defective see about thirty nine degrees as your high there on sunday as you make a way down here across the gulf well not looking too bad for most areas we are seeing some of course that storm system out here in the arabian sea we'll be watching that very carefully over the next five to seven days as it makes its way towards the northwest but till then we are looking quite nice across parts of oman miska attempt a few of thirty three maybe sing about thirty two clouds starting to filter in by the time we get towards sunday and then very quickly across parts of south africa we are going to be seeing some showers down here towards the south making their way

towards cape town over the next few days we do expect to see attempt a few about twenty four degrees getting a little better in johannesburg partly cloudy conditions with a temperature of twenty six. since its inception in one nine hundred sixty one the kuwait fund has been supporting people's livelihoods in over one hundred countries by funding projects in an array of sectors. ranging from infrastructure to health and education. these initiatives ultimately help to radically poverty. and promote sustainable development.

welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera u.s. senators have advance donald trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh last confirmation with a procedural vote the republican controlled senate voted fifty want to forty nine for a likely final vote on his confirmation on saturday and limited debate on the controversial nominee is accused of sexual assault and has famously tonight those charges. the nobel peace prize has been jointly awarded to dr denis play gay and morag the norwegian committee says it wanted to use this year's award to honor those fighting sexual violence as a weapon of war and friday prayers in indonesia have been held outside after mosques were destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami one week ago hundreds of thousands of people are still waiting for food and medicine nearly sixteen hundred

more than sixteen hundred in fact have been killed. women and children detained after the defeat of i saw in iraq are being held in detention facilities human rights watch is urging nations to repatch their citizens and hold. trials for those accused of being associated with the armed group osama bin job it has more from on the iraqi syria border. the children in the niece or camp in syria tease each other and play like most others their age but because their family members lived in their eye so they're not treated like ordinary children their movements are restricted just like their mothers who are married to i say fighters or supporters could leader is among them she was brought to syria by her husband now for the journey her children cannot go home to tennessee with my husband used to fight in aleppo and he was killed there as well brought us to a hostel which was run by cool woman one woman even gave birth in a toilet but she wasn't allowed medical help no one could go outside and they were

not married i married this injured man who needed someone to take care of him we decided to flee but the trafficker took us to a kurdish area we were arrested. the women in camps come from around forty countries almost all share similar stories thousands came to live in what i still called its california after the group took control of large parts of syria and iraq but everyone who lived with the group is now seen as an accomplice. this eerie in teacher says her first husband was killed by the syrian government and she remarried a moroccan man so her three children would be taken care of we have nothing to do and i know i says we don't care about them they are very bad people you know and they put my imprisonment husband and one must imprison and i don't know which prison he is all the time i was looking for him and they told me just go back to home you are a woman it's forbidden to go i don't you know the reason why they imprison him is just for smoking you are thinking that you are feeling from hell to heaven and you know actually we are in another hell it's miserable situation here. some iraqi and

syrian women have been sentenced to death for their alleged crimes but rights workers say finding women guilty by association is not a fair process first and foremost trials should be fair there's no there's no way around that i mean we can start from the assumption that trials will be fair and examine turned in about international right you have a right to a fair trial anywhere you look u.s. forces have trained fighters from the syrian democratic force on how to treat prisoners and some efforts are underway to repair treat at least some of the women and children it's a difficult situation and very tragic expression for the children i know a lot of countries have expressed interest in bringing the children back to their country depending on where the fighters are from but right now that problem still needs to be solved rather than just putting them in a camp but many countries do not want anything to do with the people who lived under eisel rights activists see injustice breeds contempt and instability and the

danger from a lack of free trial and indifference from home countries is a continuing cycle of vengeance and not something that groups such as i still have . taken advantage of from a job with zero zero going on the iraq syria border and joiners on saturday for part three of us hamad bin javits reports from our crime way we look at rebuilding efforts in towns destroyed by isis fighters u.s. person donald trump is urging what he calls rich countries around the world to cough up finances for american military support at a republican rally in minnesota again pointed his finger at sarge arabia saying the kingdom security is indebted to washington we defend countries that are very rich 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 solomon is my friend do you

mind paying for the military. their parents or thirty percent i said you might bank at least four soldiers in two civilians have been killed in the eastern democratic republic of congo authorities say armed men attacked a military holes in the city of beni near the border with uganda a rebel group called the ugandan allied democratic forces is believed to be behind the attack india has signed a five billion dollars deal to buy the russian s four missile system as despite the threat of u.s. sanctions on countries that trade with some russian defense firms mariana hunt has more. 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 member relives 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 pitches is 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 u.s. 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 its 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 esther notes 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 of. commentary in india about india that the more the government then effecting people the drum i've been a session on this but a good deal with their actions so that they do not want to be seen as to more the

best not to want to be seen. giving good to the i made a good person i just people in debt to the parliament reductions at least next year the u.s. also has a lot to lose if relations with india deteriorate american contracts with india are worth billions and the country is an important strategic ally as the us 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. the un's refugee agency says it's deeply concerned for the safety and security a seven room hinge amende deported from india to myanmar on thursday the un says the men were denied access to lawyers and their applications for asylum were not assessed it says sara removal has left thousands of muslims who live in refugee camps in india worried that they could also be deported hundreds of thousands over again jeff in very fleeing violence in myanmar in the past two years most of them

seeking shelter in bangladesh. preuss former president alberto fujimori says if he is forced to go back to prison he will die they tear old record or a dramatic message on a mobile phone from his hospital bed in lima on wednesday the supreme court overturned a medical pardon he was given the decision could mean for him henri returns to jail to serve out the rest of his sentence for human rights abuses here. today i would like to tell the all thora teasin politicians please do not use me as a political weapon because i no longer have the strength to resist it i would like to ask the president of the republic and the members of the judiciary one thing only please don't kill me if i go back to prison my heart will not be able to endure it it is far too weak in order to go through it again do not sentence me to death. the unemployment rate in the u.s. has fallen to its lowest level in almost fifty is in new figures just released one

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market and helping to keep people from returning to prison if people don't have a job after release or soon after their likelihood of committing another offense goes up astronomically for cardwell the experience has been life changing. how the right amount of skill to go anywhere else because they give you nothing. and the more people who can support themselves the less who will need public assistance a sweet deal for all cristen salumi al-jazeera yonkers new york. the and again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. senators have advance donald trump supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh sconce from ation with a procedural vote the republican controlled senate voted fifty one to forty nine for a likely final vote on his confirmation on saturday and limited debate on the controversial nominee kavanagh's accused of sexual assault and nighest those charges the

nobel peace prize has been awarded jointly to dennis mccuaig a.n.i. dam rod know each in committee says it wanted to use this year's award to honor those fighting sexual violence as a weapon of war friday prayers in indonesia have been held outside after mosques were destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami one week ago hundreds of thousands of people are still waiting for food and medicine more than sixteen hundred people have died india has forged ahead with a five billion dollars deal to buy a russian s. four hundred missile systems despite the threat of u.s. sanctions on countries that trade with russian defense firms the penalties are intended to punish russia for its an exception of crimea and an agent if you are in sydney twenty sixteen u.s. elections at least for city soldiers and to civilians have been killed in the eastern democratic republic of congo authorities say armed men attacked a military post in the city of beni near the border with uganda a rebel group called the ugandan i live democratic forces is believed to be behind

the attack the president of interpol has been reported missing after traveling to china mang hong way hasn't been heard from since he left the french city of leone last week a french edition official says he arrived in china but disappeared soon after. and the un's refugee agency says it's deeply concerned for the safety and security of seven men who were deported from india to myanmar on ferries say the un says the men were denied access to lawyers and their applications for asylum were not assessed it says that remove all has met thousands of muslims who live in refugee camps in india worried that they could also be deported. they're upset with headlines on al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story.

it's sparked protests and social media campaigns the case of a judge accused of sexual misconduct but the u.s. president is standing by his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh donald trump actually thinks the controversy could be a vote winner so how will it affect the upcoming midterm elections this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm. the brett kavanaugh case has divided america donald trump's pick for a lifetime job on the top u.s. court is accused of sexual.