zero. back to go this is the news hour live from my horses in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a key vote in the u.s. senate's moves the supreme court nomination of brett kavanaugh forward while protests continue outside we'll have a live reports. supposed to celebrate the nobel peace prize and dr dennis moore who is a joint winner with iraq he activists not general rides home so this hour as the

scale of the disaster grows we have special coverage of the aftermath of indonesia's earthquake and tsunami and on people simply go to a sporting puting a u.f.c. faceoff with only one face upsets his opponent by turning up late. we'll have the latest from the way him. thank you for joining as he has treated thousands of victims of sexual violence in the democratic republic of congo she is a survivor of sexual abuse and child in iraq and they've both been campaigning against the use of rape as a weapon of war congolese doctor dentist. human rights activist. this year's nobel peace prize laureates his journal hole in also. 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 flee 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 be the unsung shooty to be stripped of her peace prize the two winners of the two thousand and eighteen nobel . peace prize are likely to be considered anything but controversial. i asked the chairwoman of the nobel committee with a she and her fellow committee members that decided this year to play it safe i

asked to be believe that we make our decision on the monday to happen for the bills we have sometimes decisions are very controversial sometimes they are last but not complete does not reduce the importance of the prize you know would them know joe know how to zero zero zero zero. susanna sarah king has worked with dr denis mccuaig in the d.r. c. and is a director of international policy and partnership said physicians for human rights she thinks a award house recognized the voices of survivors of sexual violence across the world. but were absolutely overjoyed as is anyone who's ever known or worked with him or especially those who have been treated by him the many many thousands of patients that he's literally brought back to normal life or at least as much as can be expected following the kinds of trauma that you've just heard about but i think

this year is particularly profound given. what has gone on around the world in terms of women who have suffered the shame and stigma and silencing of sexual assaults sexual violence mass rape in conflict these voices are being heard now more than ever all over the world women and not only women but male survivors of sexual violence have a platform through this prize not only to dr mcwade but also to ninety i'm a ride who has been such an outspoken voice for the years e.d. community and especially the women and girls where it's very very difficult to talk about this crime. and in other news in the democratic republic of congo at least four soldiers in two civilians have been killed in the east armed men attacked a military posts in the city of beni near the border with uganda

a rebel group called the ugandan democratic forces is believed to be behind the attack in gaza two people including a fourteen year old have been killed during protests near the israeli fence at least three hundred seventy six others have been injured they have been weekly protests at the gaza israel barrier for months the protesters are calling for an end to israel's crippling nancy an advocate as well as the right to return to their ancestral homeland. the 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 a limited debate on the controversial nominee cavanagh is accused of sexual assault which he has vehemently denied they were emotional testimonies last week from kavanagh himself and his accuser christine ford before a senate committee that same committee voted in favor of kavanagh's nomination

being taken to the full senate let's speak to ross in jordan in washington d.c. for us so ross this was the first of two very important votes on brett kavanaugh nomination tell us first about the reactions. clearly the u.s. president who nominated brett kavanaugh to join the u.s. supreme court is thrilled that the final period of debate has begun he is calling on the senate including senate democrats to vote for brett kavanaugh because of what he says is his sterling judicial record however the democrats on the u.s. senate are not inclined to vote for him except for one person who has considered a swing vote joe manchin we don't know how he's going to vote when they take the final vote for haphazardly is saturday afternoon but he was one of the fifty one senators to vote to start this final period of debate before the vote and so there

is still a lot of logging to try to get joe manchin to stand with his fellow democrats who almost to a person are opposed to brett kavanaugh meanwhile the republicans have their own effort to try to keep their voting block together even though they control the senate lisa murkowski the republican from alaska has said that after much consideration she has decided not to support brett kavanaugh she told reporters a short while ago that there are other fine candidates that kavanagh is a good man but because of these allegations of sexual assault as well as the ongoing questions about his temperament she did not feel that she can support him so. that's a sense of some of the official reaction right there also been thousands of people up here on capitol hill protesting and getting a rustic you know trying to go to senators offices to try to persuade them to vote

one way or the other most of them asking senators who is to vote against brett kavanaugh so it's been a rather contentious few days up here on capitol hill was a fair is a vote on saturday. afternoon as we expect. what's the likelihood of cavanagh being confirmed how sure can can we be that he will get the votes that he needs. well there's a question one republican has already said that he's not going to be here on saturday because his daughter is getting married and he's going to walk her down the aisle so that's one less republican you know out of fifty one now you're down to fifty what they would try to do is to perhaps to try to really persuade joe manchin who is a democrat from a state that supported donald trump in the two thousand and sixteen election to reflect the will of the people who supported the president support the president's nominee crossed the party aisle and joined the republicans on this vote there's no

confirmation that joe manchin will do that there's also the question of whether they could actually retain jeff flake he's the person who asked for the one week delay to look into these allegations of sexual abuse against brett kavanaugh in the first place and even though floyd because mel told reporters that he is inclined to vote for for a cabinet on saturday he said that's going to happen just as long as nothing else comes up and so given that things seem to have been happening really without any warning in the matter of the capitol nomination we really won't know fawley until they actually take the vote on saturday all right ross thank you very much for that ross in jordan my for us on capitol hill and as ross mentioned dozens of people have been protesting on capitol hill both for and against common aa as senator sessions have been galvanized have galvanizer of americans on both sides of the aisle just weeks before mid-term elections on november sixth some of these women

were on to frank republican senator lisa murkowski from alaska who opposed taking kavanagh's nomination forward on the senate floor they say her vote supported victims of sexual assault. right now is a really really tough time for survivors and i just i want to say that i'm really proud to be an alaskan today i'm so incredibly proud of my senator we're sending a message to survivors i'm a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault and my experience as an alaskan native woman who was homeless in alaska for many years was that i was discarded and thrown away i was not believed and and my mission is to make a way for other people that are coming behind me so that our doors are open so that we change this narrative about not believing women and about not valuing vulnerable people and so i just want to thank you smart koski so much for standing with us and i and i hope that you stand firm. more head on this news hour including. i was all of a job on the iraq syria border and i'll tell you why thousands of women and children

previously associated with are stranded with no future prospects. and in sport two of christianity or not those biggest sponsors voiced concerns about rape allegations against the football player. it was exactly one week ago this friday that an earthquake and tsunami told through the indonesian island. in the days since the scale of the catastrophe has only grown more than sixteen hundred people have been killed and almost seventy one thousand have been left without a home many are now sleeping in the open way in haiti coverage from a campaign panel that has been set up for some of thousands who've been displaced. difficult to believe isn't it that it's been a week already since that disaster since the earthquake in tsunami as you mentioned that destroyed so many homes killing so many people particularly the tsunami that

roared down the coast taking everything with it before crashing into the city all still so much going on there is a search and rescue mission that is of course still underway right around the effected areas although as each day has passed it's increasingly turned into a search for bodies rather than a search for survivors still also many communities around the disaster zone crying out for help saying that they have not received substantial assistance in the form of a from the outside and then the homeless they as you mentioned the government saying around seventy one thousand people rendered homeless other estimates put it much higher at around three hundred thousand many of them sleeping now out in the open in areas like this waiting for substantial assistance. people here escaped the earthquake and tsunami but the fight for survival goes on in parliament parks have become refugee camps for those who have nowhere else to go their houses were

destroyed many family members killed. now they use whatever they can find to build shelters while still struggling to comprehend what's happened to them . my sister was trapped and they're all they managed to get their routes but my mother in law is still missing. after me there is some food being given ask them about on 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 highest of 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 though 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 grateful for the land to sleep on but they need

more help and i know i hate the plan 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 nowhere to fly to everyone is scared of more earthquakes and wondering when or if they'll be able to go home. so clearly some desperate situation some desperate scenes in areas like this where people are camping out as is always the case in situations natural disasters like this some of the most vulnerable children with me now to talk more about this is the baby coaching from save the children thank you for joining us so what are you seeing out there. in affected by this disaster we had in. more than forty thousand children out are protected by disease. some of them already been transferred

from this place to the nearby city and then we are just. one hundred children are. being displaced and experience. all of them have experienced. what you can monitor and also some of them already suffered from these psychological distress so a lot of concerns going forward in the weeks months and years ahead what are some of the vulnerabilities in the immediate aftermath of a disaster when we're talking about children. been separated from their parents and then we tried to register and then doing the family tracing and a new creation for them and obviously you're specifically involved with children

with save the children but a lot of criticism of the government's performance in response to this disaster that it's been slow people haven't received enough aid if any why is it seemingly taking so long in your opinion. the access is the biggest challenge just to reach those acted by tsunami. yes and that's one of the concerns that we couldn't manage. and distribute the supplies on that area and it's improving now it's improving the government actually dropped the supplies by air and also we got the roadblocks that have been or so i think all been all right thank you very much that is a baby coaching from save the children clearly doing a very important job we mentioned criticism. the government one of the main ones has been a lack of heavy equipment here from the outset rarely to begin clearing away the

rubble to speed up the search and rescue operation and the recovery operate operation right now the government says from departments it has eighteen excavates is in the disaster areas continuing that work there are some from private companies as well helping but the government says it needs hundreds more to continue with that work effectively well let's go now to my colleague andrew thomas who is across town in part of city outside the rural hotel which is one of the most severely damaged buildings still some people missing inside that building and drew you have traveled around some of these disaster areas over the past week what's your sense of how the government has handled the response well talking to family members of those who are missing the response has not been fast enough as you say when the earthquake struck exactly one week ago now this hotel the row row row what is now left of it with one of the buildings most badly damaged there between fifty and

seventy people inside when it collapsed no one to know exactly how many so far in the search operation which so that white saying and watching has been painfully slow so bodies have been pulled out but they do feel they search operation have been too slow and they got going much too slowly as well i think it got going. more lives could have rethought. store row row 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 so deadly when saga's husband. is still somewhere inside 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. and 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 like a new song 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 leighton's mother a very disappointing from the government of little us are so very late about how more lives could have been saved if they'd go ahead yes i'm sure indonesia's 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 unprofessional but the search started lights and even now it starts each night at nine but you thought i was but the next day we hope that we have more.

us. in the professionals here not just the first to be saying lessons must be learnt. well that issue of not being able to see after dark has real consequences another hotel wine that was really badly affected in the earthquake is the mc you're about two or three kilometers away from where i'm standing and when they were searching about twenty four hours ago now i wrenched team of specialists sense into very high tech equipment used white find some way and they thought they detected a heartbeat but it was about this line yesterday a couple of hours earlier because it was getting dark they couldn't do any active searching well they say that may have been a false positive their machinery may have given them an era but nevertheless they had to stop for the night when they went back this morning and then that same clever machinery in trying to text signs of life there were none and that is what were you both who we saw around this hotel and we've seen in previous days the well

but the search operations got going through slowly and they're not going even now at a fast enough place. yes certainly a devastating story there the one about the make you a hotel one of many of course that we have come across over the course of the past week thank you andrew well we talk about the homelessness there is also nothing for people to do here there is no work the city the affected areas have largely really being closed been shut down since the disaster struck on friday a week ago and that's partly why we have seen so many people those amazing scenes at airports thousands of people lining up there waiting for hours trying to get a place on one of the military planes that is getting people out of the disaster areas well let's go now to jim duggan who is also in city. thing shopping mall in palu also severely damaged remember we saw the indonesian

president joko widodo in challen twice over the past week he said one of the main priorities is to restart the economy we're starting to see signs of that or is it fun to really talk about those sorts of things well when we're seeing that we're seeing economic movements little by little but i guess what we're seeing is just a response to the needs that the emergency response needs of the people here of those who need to respond to the needs of those have been displaced now i am at a one of the many shopping complexes there have been destroyed here in tell you i'm going to step aside and just show you the magnitude of the devastation of this shopping complex this is just the same thing the main street here in for lou and this is part of a big shopping complex as you can see the third floor is completely caved in and it's happened exactly a week ago at this time when mom operations are busy yes there had been losing

attempts at losing over the last few days and now this has been basically taken under control by state forces they have just started clearing operations the main area the main entrance of the building complex has been slowly being cleared they're pulling out cars that have been stuck now this whole thing is under control of the minute she should know they have rescuers have not actually access that mall yet no one has been taken out they're receiving a rescue operation has not started so you can just imagine the agony of so many families waiting for news about their loved ones now when that situation is similar all across by lou and other neighboring districts we drove around coastal areas communities bridges homes schools mosques whole lives. but when you talk about reconstruction it's just not going to be in one area alone it's all about raising one community to another one and as you mentioned you know the issue

of schools basically the vice president actually mentioned earlier that they intend to rebuild and open schools within the next month that emergency operations are going to continue for the next two months and they will continue bringing in more help as much a possible we're seeing foreign volunteers coming in here and getting involved but what we see basically is indonesian government leaving all of these operations a lot of machinery going around trying to clear day three they expect that to happen many months but then again that is just the clearing part the reconstruction the rebuilding thing is something that is going to last for years and that is something that even the indonesian government that wayne. thank you very much yes there is still an all whole lot of work to do as i mentioned the search and rescue operation still very much going on even though the cries for help these signs of life slowly but surely over the course of the past week have faded away. in panto

indonesia they're still ahead on al-jazeera india's billion dollar deal with russia that could lead to sanctions from the u.s. fast brazil's last discounted dates sites to claim the top spot in the highly charged presidential election. and there's a nasty crash in practice for the moto g.p. race in thailand pete i'll be here with an update on the form of world champions recovery. 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 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 seeing 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.

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welcome back you're watching the news hour with me fully back to our reminder of our top stories the nobel peace prize has been jointly awarded to dennys mccuaig a n.i. general ride the norwegian committee says it wanted to use this year's award to honor those fighting sexual violence as a weapon of war 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. and they have been mass burials in indonesia one week after an earthquake and tsunami killed more than sixteen hundred people hundreds of thousands of people are still waiting for food and medicine. now it's an unusual attack on a close ally but u.s. person donald trump has been taking on saudi arabia for not doing enough to pay for american military support he made these remarks or at least two times in a week on the campaign trail ahead of the midterm elections we defend countries that are very rich they don't buy us or they pay us a small percentage like saudi arabia which is say they have so money so we defend them and they pay a small percentage i said excuse me king solomon is my friend. do you mind paying for the military. was.

there thanks for thirty percent i said you might pay. we protect saudi arabia would you say the rich. and i love the king king solomon but i said. we're protecting you you might not be there for two weeks without us you have to pay for your military. it was. was it when japan is going also contributor japan we protect japan that has a small percentage we project south korea they pay us and by the way we're doing great on north korea but south korea they're going to reimburse since they're going to reimburse hey josh on is the executive director the app center in washington he explains why trump would criticize one of the strongest middle east allies what he wants basically is to increase the flow of oil to the west in order to bring down

the prices he's concerned about the impact of rising oil prices on the economy of the united states. and the west he's afraid that opec under the leadership of saudi arabia and probably in coordination with the russia is not cooperating enough to do that to increase production and to bring down prices supporters of missing saudi journalist america shogi have rallied outside saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul demanding his release he disappeared on tuesday after entering the compound but there are conflicting reports about his whereabouts jamal shine reports. the site outside the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul resembles a crime scene more than it does a diplomatic mission police have cordoned off the entire area around the building monitoring anyone who enters or exits three days have passed since renowned journalist jamal khashoggi went missing after entering the consulate to process

paperwork on friday photojournalists and human rights activists gathered to demand his release they believe that the saudi authorities kidnapped him and are either holding him hostage inside the building or have secretly sent him abroad nando we don't know what it's like that identifies what he wants is the freedom of democracy he entered the building of the consulate he has to get out of there safe and sound the turkish government has to take action and take care of democracy because teka sovereignty has been violated. he has written a great deal about human rights abuses carried out by his country's government since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin sandman he's a regular columnist for the washington post it published friday's edition with a blank section where she's writing would have appeared his fiance too afraid to identify herself on camera spoke to al-jazeera over the phone about what's happened last tuesday. when.