what would that. but anyway i'm glad we had a better process kavanagh was already a contentious choice because of his conservative views on abortion gun laws and presidential powers but in mid september it was revealed christine blazin ford had accused him of trying to rape her when they were teenagers i've never sexually assaulted dr ford or anyone or jazz capital tried to clear his name his testimony before the senate judiciary committee raised new concerns was he too hot headed to be one of the united states top judges possibly for decades even the former u.s. supreme court justice john paul stevens called calvin all unfit for the post to the supporters called this criticism slander and insist kavanaugh should be approved judge kavanaugh was publicly accused of a crime and his reputation and livelihood weren't state so it was only fair that his accuser have the burden to prove the consensus is that the burden was not

met republican lisa murkowski said on friday she would not vote and kavanagh's favor but two other so-called swing senators signed off in support of the nominee moving capitals confirmation that much closer to the finish line by to deal with if i had him for the day and i will take him firm judge cabinet. the u.s. president donald trump has chaired the u.s. senate's decision to hold its final debate and vote but the outcome won't be known until all of the senators have actually cast their ballots and not a second before rosalind jordan al-jazeera capitol hill. will be to shine as an old professor at ohio state university he says that still has been a proper investigation into the allegations of sexual misconduct against kavanaugh . i think it's simply not true that he's been cleared of wrongdoing the white house

appears to have stage managed and limited the scope of the investigation and with perhaps most troubling about. the way in which this question is being crane is that this is not it a criminal trial. church cavanagh is not being tried for the offense of attempted rape he is he was interviewing for a lifetime position on the highest court in the united states the you know whether or not wrongdoing occurred is not tested by a beyond a reasonable doubt standard in that setting the question is just is it still credible that he was in fact culpable for that act when he was a teenager and i think the answer is clearly yes he did not really refute what dr ford had said there. and the witnesses that the few witnesses who

were allowed to be questioned by the white house. apparently didn't really go to a number of inconsistency east in that cabin the testimony or the witnesses of his case. but she's an eighteen about peace prize has been awarded to two campaign is leading the fight against rape as a weapon of war iraqi activist who was kidnapped by isis ill tortured and raped and later became the face of a campaign to free the people she shares the prize that dr dennis mccuaig has helped tens of thousands of victims of sexual violence in the democratic republic of congo john holl reports from. the 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 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 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 flee but one of the gods stopped me all of those who commit crimes of human trafficking and genocide need to be brought to justice so that women and children can live in. they are joint winners of the two thousand and eighteen nobel peace prize. laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on and combating such war crimes in its citation the committee described mcquade is enduring dedicated and

selfless efforts to end the use of mass rape as a weapon of war the more this prize is 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 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 name itself and with calls for me on mars leader aung sang suu kyi 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 four fellow committee members had decided this year to play it safe i

asked to be believe that we make our decision on the mandate we have. sometimes our decisions are very controversial sometimes they are not but not controversial does not reduce the importance of the prize in a word then no. oslo. joining us live now is tony gambino executive director of the panzi foundation which was started by dotson mccuaig a thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us and presumably you know and of what closely with dr dennis mcguire through the years what can you tell us about his reaction to winning the nobel prize and what it means to him thank you i've known dr macwhich for about fifteen years and today he actually was at his hospital in bukavu in eastern congo performing surgery he had not heard

anything he doesn't take his telephone of course into the operating room so he was finishing an operation and he said that he heard a lot of women making an enormous amount of noise and he realized that they were. raising their voices with joy and he says that is how he learned that he was the nobel of nobel peace prize winner for this year really it couldn't be a more fitting way that this amazing man was doing what he loves to do being a doctor in the operating room. helping a person in need and then he hears the cries of joy of the women of bukavu and that's how the noise comes to him. how will the nobel price a dock to mccuaig a in his way raise his profile but more importantly

costs a much needed spotlight on what it is that he's doing. but dr mcwhorter certainly hopes as do we all that this prize will raise global attention to this scourge of sexual violence which still is ongoing and actually increasing in the democratic republic of the congo and in other countries around the world dr mukwege a wants to do everything he can to bring an end to this scourge to bring perpetrators to justice to bring justice to the girls and women who have survived this horrible sexual violence and he certainly hopes as do we all that this prize will bring the world to focus more attention more energy more commitments to responding to this terrible tragedy ongoing in our world right now and indeed the one about peace prize this

year to not done and not to mccuaig a is focused on the use of sexual violence in warfare and we know that the u.n. is referred to the d.l.c. is the right capital of the wild how in recent years we perhaps don't see much attention on on what is happening in the d.l.c. particularly the eastern part of the country how prolific is violence against women that unfortunately ponzi hospital which is just one hospital in is two in congo. has been receiving two to three thousand cases. of sexual violence per year for a number of years and this year already more than two thousand cases with the numbers increasing we've seen more mass rapes in rural areas near bukavu where the where the hospital is located and dr mukwege is quite worried about the intensification of this and what this means for people at risk in the eastern part

of the congo. well tony can be you know thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us on this story from the panzi foundation now the french interior ministry says it's puzzled over the disappearance of the president of interpol who went missing after traveling to his homeland china main hallway has not been heard from since he left the french city of leone where interpol has its headquarters at the end of last month a french dish official says he arrived in china but disappeared soon after knowing it was formally a senior chinese security official front says his wife has received threats after reporting his disappearance our correspondent adrian brown has more now from beijing. well so far this mysterious story is not being reported by state controlled media the reports we're getting about monk homei are 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 won't be commenting any further some important context a man who was ultimately mongst 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 held 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 so i had for you on the program fears more than a thousand people are still buried under a hotel and housing complex flattened by the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia the man who would be president we look at the leftist candidate hoping to stop brazil swinging to the far right. hello again and welcome back we're going to be seeing some better conditions here across the eastern part of australia we saw a lot of rain over the last couple days and that's good news because of the drug situation that has been going on so saturday more rain for brisbane down here through parts of sydney melbourne not looking too bad with a touch of there of twenty two degrees but that weather system that's responsible is going to slowly make its way towards the tasman sea so we'll have some residual

clouds may be here for sydney still up towards brisbane it is going to be a cloudy day few for perth though we do expect to see some clouds rolling in and a chapter there of twenty two and adelaide temp is warming up at twenty five well looking very nice across much of new zealand over the next day and that is because we are between systems so you can see one out here towards the pacific and one coming into the tasman sea so that means partly cloudy conditions for most of the two islands we are looking at auckland seeing about nineteen degrees in their forecast but as we go towards sunday things get a little bit worse we'll be seeing more clouds rolling in and the temperature there of about eighteen degrees and then very quickly across much of the newer part of asia we are watching kong ray make its way towards parts of the korean peninsula making landfall on saturday bring a very heavy rain across the area so so a rainy day few with a temperature of about nineteen degrees. on

the coast this week why people in brazil feel that the next president can save the economy and what that means for the rest of latin america and drugs and probably why the world's big drug companies charge such high prices for their prescription pharmaceuticals counting the cost on al-jazeera. i really still liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as it always does with his job. welcome back a quick look at headlines stories the u.s. senate clears the way for a final vote confirming the controversial nomination of brett kavanaugh to

a lifetime seat on the supreme court the two thousand and eighteen nobel peace prize has been awarded to get captive turned campaign and. and the congolese doctor dentist for that work against sexual violence as a weapon of war. and the french interior ministry says it's puzzled over the disappearance of the president of interpol main hallway who went missing after traveling to his home on china. when all the stories were watching a jury in the u.s. is convicted a chicago police officer of the shooting of a black teenager officer jason van dyke was found guilty of the second degree murder of the kuan mcdonald the policeman shot mcdonald sixteen times as the teenager held a knife by his side john hendren sent us this update from the court. it is rare that a police officer is charged with murder in the united states and rarer still that one is convicted but jason van dyke has now been convicted of second degree murder in the two thousand and fourteen shooting of look on macdonald

a black teenager the jury found that it was simply unjustified and they found is based largely on a videotape that surfaced about a year after that shooting the police officer had said that look on macdonald had been threatening him and waved a knife and that he continued shooting him sixteen times because look on mcdonald was trying to rise up off the ground with the video contradicted that in a jury of twelve people convicted vandyke they also convicted him on sixteen counts of aggravated battery with a firearm that could add jail time to the up to twenty years that he faces on the murder charge chicago was prepared for a massive outcry twelve thousand police officers were on alert about half of them were deployed around the city thousands of demonstrators were prepared in the streets and some activists had said that if vandyke were not convicted that they would shut this city down but instead they celebrated. a rebel attack on an army post in the eastern democratic republic of congo has left six people dead if

thought he say four soldiers and two civilians were killed in the attack in the city of benny near the border with canada a rebel group the democratic forces which opposes ugandan president are in the seventy is believed to be a high new assault. to indonesia now a search and rescue team say more than a thousand people could be buried in a housing complex flattened by last week's earthquake and with hope of finding survivors fading there's growing anger that rescue operations didn't start soon andrew thomas reports now from the scene of a collapsed hotel where bodies are still being pulled from the rubble. at what was the row a row of hotels they're still digging and still finding bodies after the horn sounds the machinery briefly stops and the body is carried out but it's not the one such as 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 leighton's mother a very disappointing from the government of the. us or so very late about how more lives could have been saved if they got here yes i'm sure. in the easiest government says it brought in twenty one heavy machines to only one 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 stops at nine but what i was. next day we hope that we have more. to others what has been the professionals here not just the first to be saying lessons must be learned after thomas al-jazeera poll to indonesia. two people have been killed in the latest protests along gaza's border with israel one of those killed was just fourteen years old protests in writing have been taking place at the border fence that divides the gaza strip from israel for months gazans are calling for the right to return to their ancestral homes in israel as well as an end to the economic blockade on the territory human rights groups are calling for saudi arabia to verify the location of missing journalist jamal khashoggi it disappeared on tuesday after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul but there are conflicting reports about his whereabouts because he is a strong critic of the saudi government as reports from istanbul the sites

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 protest 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 the man we don't know what it's like that argument is what he wants is the freedom of democracy he entered the building of the consulate he had to get out of there safe and sound the turkish government has to take action and take care of democracy because turkish 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 for man he's

a regular columnist for the washington post it published friday's edition with a blank section where her 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. went into the cancellation i was waiting little the appointment was at one pm after a few hours no one came to me they were supposed to come and get the phone for me 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 a saudi man answered and he told me the closest and that no one is inside and. as fears continue to grow over a safety there is also concern about the diplomatic fallout that could occur as a result of his disappearance if indeed it is proven that the saudis have kidnapped

him and or taken him out of the country which would mean that your progress sighted through this report much like missions as detention centers with little or no respect for the sovereignty of other countries would have to respond. to stumble. or campaign is now over in brazil's presidential election with two days of rest before sunday's vote jabil scenario is still the front runner despite not campaigning since his near fatal stabbing four weeks ago. well the far right candidate leads the latest polling on thirty five percent that's three points up from the previous poll on cheers day is closest rival fernando had died from the left wing workers' party is on twenty two percent after a place in jail former president bill a to silva the other candidates are way behind including henrique a maryland as from the ruling brazilian democratic movement is on just two percent

with no one likely to get fifty percent of the vote it's almost certain to go to a runoff between both sonar and her dad in three weeks time the latest poll says that would be almost neck and neck with both the narrow and forty four percent and had data on forty three you see in human has more now on fernando had died who's trying to redefine a political party that's been mocked by allegations of corruption and fraud. this son of lebanese immigrants to brazil could not be more different than the left wing legend whose place he is running for president of latin america's largest country less than a month ago former sao paulo mer fed none to her dad was releasing the silvas running mate a soft spoken academic by the side of the popular in charismatic former president but with lula now barred from running as he serves a twelve year sentence for corruption and dad has been forced to step into his shoes if he can get lost as that they will still believe we have received a mission from president lula mission to look into the eyes of the people and

remind them of the time when together we built a very different country. the dad was listened to cation minister and promises to return to the days when the workers' party implemented social programs that is didn't millions of brazilians from poverty that memory has helped transfer some of lula's popularity to have died. especially on the industrial outskirts of sao paolo with the workers' party was born because it's. the working class that gave us dignity before dipping we had no access to credit cards we always took buses never an airplane. living more dice doesn't know much about had that only whom he represents. had dads biggest strength is also his biggest weakness he needs the support of these workers who are part of the lure of hardcore support base but that means he can't this isn't some self form of former

president who millions of other brazilians identify with his country's worst ever a corruption scandal. that themselves is under investigation for taking illegal campaign contributions in two thousand and twelve a charge he denies and although he's regarded as a moderate within his left wing party it's a hard sell. i think a dog is no fool and would not be a toy in the hands of his mentor but right now he needs to stick to live image to make it to the second round. but as his followers chant is her dad and her dad is lula the unlikely candidate has little time to convince the undecided that he wouldn't be the puppet of an imprisoned former president you see in human i just saw. a leading critic of rwanda's president paul kagame has been released from prison they are aware garra spent more than a year behind bars after she was arrested along with her mother in september two

thousand and seventeen she was barred from running against the government in last year's election and faced charges of incitement and fraud high court judge that were gar and her mother household bail on friday but said they won't be allowed to leave the capital kigali. pakistani opposition leadership as sharif has been arrested by anti corruption investigators over alleged links to a multi bit million dollar housing scam is the brother of former premier no was shareef who was ousted last year over corruption charges is the first high profile arrests since pakistan's new prime minister in iran concept to power in july and vowed to clean up politics. oh much more in everything we're covering right here the address is al jazeera dot com they'll find comments analysis and video on demand you can watch us live as well the address is al jazeera dot com.

it's a quick look at the top stories this hour donald trump supreme court nominee is cleared one of the final hurdles towards clinching the job on america's top judicial body on this vote the yeas are fifty one the nos are forty nine the motion is agreed to . the republican controlled senate voted fifty want to forty nine to set up a likely final vote on cavanagh's confirmation on saturday republican senator susan collins in the democratic senator joe manchin have said they will support the nominee in my fervent hope is that brett kavanaugh will work as the divisions in the supreme court so that we have far fewer five four decisions and so that public confidence in our judiciary and our highest court is three stories

mr president and i will vote to make him firm judge cap and. the two thousand and eighteen about peace prize has been awarded to the women's rights activists ninety a mirage and congolese dr dennis mccuaig murat is campaign for the victims of sexual violence after spending three months as an isolated life. hospital in the democratic republic of congo dedicated to helping the victims of gang rape the french interior ministry says it's puzzled over the disappearance of the president of interpol who went missing after travelling to his homeland china main hallway has not been heard from since he left the french city of real interpol has its head courses at the end of last month. his wife has also been threatened since she reported him missing jurors have convicted a chicago police officer of the shooting of a black teenager in two thousand and fourteen officer jason van dyke has been found guilty of the murder of the kuan mcdonald the policeman shot mcdonald sixteen times

as the teenager held a knife by his side. and a rebel attack on an army post in the eastern democratic republic of congo's left six people dead the authorities say four soldiers and two civilians were killed in the attack in the city of beni we have a board out with uganda well you're up to date with all our top stories out meggs counting the cost looks at brazil's presidential election and the wall pharmaceutical industry stay with us. the nobel committee has announced the joint with some of this year's peace prize denis mukwege and not to move. now to syria has been granted exclusive international rights to interview the winners after the awards ceremony here in oslo in december the nobel interview on al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finighan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera

a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week brazilians fear the next president can't save the economy find out what that means for the rest of latin america also this week drugs money why the world's big pharmaceutical companies charge such high prices for life saving pills. plus a new minimum wage at amazon but some say the trillion dollar company must do better. now when the national museum of brazil tragically went up in flames last month many saw it as a metaphor for their own struggles this is a country where there is widespread unhappiness at the deteriorating quality of life inequality is one of the problems brazil's six richest men have the same wealth as the poorest fifty percent of the population that's around one hundred million people according to walks from international rampant corruption is another issue among tea billion dollar bribery probe called love

a jato or car wash highlighted the kind of special treatment given to the few reform is now needed to bring down debt to tackle violence and fix the unjust public sector pension system civil servants often retire in the early fifty's on full pay yet those born in full veil as well without access to basic services and zeros to see a new woman has this report from northeastern brazil. sixty five year old mother. can't read or write or even sign her name but what she does know is how to work. i started working in tobacco fields when i was nine my father had died and my mother couldn't make ends meet. the story is repeated in the nearby sugar fields generation after generation men work under the merciless sun of northeastern state . i started when i was stand i'm forty four now i couldn't find

any better job my father did decide we never went to school but my son does and. i hope he will be able to get a better job because this is no way to live. in northeastern brazil is heavily populated which makes it a magnet for politicians seeking election help in this slum there's no sewerage running water or other basic services sixty percent of the people here are not live in poverty their needs are so great and their pockets so empty that they are easy prey during election time for politicians they can come here and buy their votes for as little as ten dollars. wilton via that is a catholic deacon who works in the slum appropriately named after the virgin of the poor seventy percent of residents are illiterate. of course if i'm a politician and i give culture and education to people i'm in pairing them and if

i'm in pairing them they may not vote for me so that's why it's in their interest to keep things as they are because then they can just keep coming back here at election time with empty promises that people grasp onto in the northeast as in the rest of brazil blacks in mixed race are the most disenfranchised. it's a vicious circle of inequality aggravated by a severe recession and government just. that's left thirteen million brazilians unemployed and even more living in extreme poverty with the view this economist says a clonic structural problem is to blame i lost them. medium and long term development goals for our country investing infrastructure held education and job creation that requires political coordination that always eludes us no matter who is in government. and even if the next government can start the recovery process those living here at the bottom of the social ladder will be the last to benefit. joining

us now from london is edward loss of edward is the last in america economist at capital economics edward good to have you with us on counting the cost again if the incoming administration of brazil can't fix the system is this going to lead to a financial crisis well i think it's it's probably not. a financial crisis i mean i think obviously.