a role and a neighboring village it's thought that there are around a thousand people still missing as you can see the entire community has simply sunk many meat is into the matter process called liquefaction when that earthquake struck the ground beneath the surface basically turned to mud and you can see that entire houses cars are still sitting in the mud they were spoken a lot about the search and rescue operation in the affected areas the lack of heavy equipment that has been in place where there is heavy equipment operating in some parts of but they have found it extremely difficult because of the mud and the water and very few bodies have been pulled out of this area and local government leaders national government officials and religious leaders are having discussions now about the possibility that the search for bodies may be called off here and the entire area left to be

a permanent mass grave the government also saying that eventually it wants to erect a monument here in ballarat to remember the earthquake and tsunami we're going to weather update next here on the norwegian nobel committee news is this year's peace prize to take a stand against sexual violence as a weapon of war. i was 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. from dusky sunsets over sprawling savannah. to summarize the top and asian metropolis. hello again what we are seeing some rain showers here across the southern parts of the caspian clouds moving through back who and over here towards tehran of the next day rain is going to be on the increase we do have a front that settling down so twenty four degrees for tehran as we go towards

sunday we do think that time is going to be coming down to probably about twenty degrees for you and out here towards quite city well finally down below the forty degree mark we expect to see your high temperature on sunday maybe coming up to about thirty nine degrees there while not looking too bad across much of the gulf region as well as the arabian peninsula but we are watching this area of low pressure in the arabian sea very carefully this is making its way towards the northwest and it is increasing in intensity by the time we get towards next week this could be our next cycle oh now very rare across this region to see one so we could be watching this very carefully for the potential of a landfall anywhere in oman yemen maybe up here towards parts of pakistan as well and then very quickly want to take you down here towards the southern parts of africa not looking too bad for much of the area temperatures are into the mid to high twenty's for many locations but over the next few days into sunday we do expect to see maybe a little cloudy activity coming into parts of your history as well as durban but for cape town it is going to be a nice spring day for you with

a temperature of about twenty five degrees. there with sponsored by cat time he's. responding to e.u. criticism of the hunger in foreign minister defends his government's tough policy on refugees you have three thousand five hundred fifty five refugees living illegally you're not taking go fast can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries peter seattle talks to al-jazeera.

again the top stories here on al-jazeera donald trump's pick for the u.s. supreme court brett kavanaugh has narrowly cleared a procedural vote in the senate a final vote covetous confirmation is expected on saturday republicans say an f.b.i. investigation didn't find any evidence supporting sexual misconduct allegations against him. jurors have convicted a white chicago police officer for the shooting of a black teenager officer jason van dyke has been found guilty of the second degree murder of lochlann mcdonald in twenty fourteen the policeman shop mcdonald sixteen times the teenager held a knife at his side. and the president of interpol it's been reported missing after traveling to china from france in september the south china morning post these papers reporting on way was taken away after his act crafted landed he's not been heard of since he left the city of lille. supporters of the missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi have rallied outside saudi arabia's consulate in

istanbul calling for his release because she disappeared on tuesday after entering the compound but there are conflicting reports about his whereabouts 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 photo journalists 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 manually don't know what it's like set out in genesis what he wants is the freedom of jamal khashoggi 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 tucker sovereignty has been violated. has written a great deal about human rights abuses carried out by his country's government since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin said a man he's a regular columnist for the washington post it published friday's edition with a blank section where her she'll she's writing would have appeared. his fiance spoke to al-jazeera over the phone about what's happened last tuesday. went into the consolation i was wasting the two the appointment was at one pm after a few hours no one came to me and they were supposed to come and get a phone from me but no one came i went to the door and asked security it was almost three pm security told me no one was inside and that maybe i didn't pay attention when jamal lifts i called the consulate a saudi man answered and he told me the closest and that no one is inside and he shouldn't wait here. as fears continue to roll over

a safety there is also concern about the diplomatic fallout 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 we are progressing. no respect for the sovereignty of their country is. a rebel attack on all the post in eastern democratic republic of congo has resulted in the deaths of six people the government says that four soldiers and two civilians were killed in the city of beni near the border with uganda the can be reports. the relatives of those killed. the brother of one of the victims was caught up in the attack. on the bus or that we heard heavy gunfire we ran for cover behind the house. eight armed fighters told us to lie on

the ground he said if we refused they will kill us all but the city of beni is in north keep the province dozens of armed groups operating in the area including the allied democratic forces which is believed to be behind this latest attack originally a ugandan rebel group they've been routed in the d.l.c. through the national park the twenty years they retreated that after a failed bid to turn uganda into an islamic state. the a.d.f. has a brutal reputation it's blamed for hundreds of civilian deaths in beni of the last three years as well as mass rape and recruiting child soldiers people living there say president joseph kabila the government has abandoned them. we are tired of this if the government has already sold this country and they should compensate us and we leave how can it be possible for civilians to be killed in the city of beni where you have the congolese army and the united nations base here. people are

struggling to deal with an outbreak of the abode of virus but where conflict is complicating the response science is helping it dozens of people are being treated with. amental new drugs for the first time but people always say want protection from the a.d.f. rebel and say they've had enough of the government's broken promises. there are a prominent critic of rwanda's president paul kagame has been freed from jail the high court granted bail to diane. on friday she was blocked last year from challenging to gummi in the august presidential election and was arrested months later. nobel peace prize has been awarded to two people leading the fight against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war one has treated thousands of abuse victims in the democratic republic of congo the other is a survivor of sexual violence and trafficking in iraq reports from oslo.

at home they call him dr miracle denis mukwege a congolese gynecologist who's helped countless women who'd been subject to sexual violence as a weapon of war. belongs to the minority yazidi group among thousands of women and girls subjected to a systematic campaign of sexual violence i saw fighters in two thousand and fourteen she's now an activist who speaks out for those women who can't or won't. 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 guards 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 and. 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 name itself both with rape allegations against a member of the swedish academy the kids of the literature prize and with calls for me on mars lead to understand through 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 alfred nobel's will sometimes decisions are very controversial sometimes they are not but not comply herschel does not reduce the importance of the price in a word then no jo to how to zero. thousands of women and children who were captured along with eisel fighters after the defeat in iraq of being kept in detention facilities these women are from around forty countries human rights watch is urging those nations to repatriate them and to hold fair trials if they had direct links with the group as a solid and job had met some of them and i'm on the iraq syria border.

the children in a nice or camp in syria tease each other and play like most others their age but because their family members lived in the rice they are not treated like ordinary children their movements are restricted just like their mothers who are married do i see 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 and is here with my husband used to fight in aleppo he was killed there i saw 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 they were not married i married this injured man needed someone to take care of him. decided to flee but the trafficker took us to a kurdish area we were arrested the moment incomes come from around forty countries almost all share similar stories thousands came to live in what i said 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 immune 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 impress on my 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

then examine about international right you have a right to go anywhere you walk us forces have trained fighters from the syrian democratic force on how to treat prisoners and some of first are under way 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 need 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 rice and rights activists see injustice breeds contempt and instability and the danger from a lack of free trial and indifference from home countries is a good. cycle of vengeance and not something that groups such as i still have taken advantage of some of the data on the iraq syria border. presidential hopefuls in brazil have concluded their campaigns ahead of sunday's vote supporters of

workers party candidates for now to her dad gathered in sao paolo about is trailing behind the far right nationalist jab also narrow in the polls supporters of both some other stood in front of his house in rio he's recovering after a stabbing attack a citywide engagement projects involving singing is taking place in new york an elevated park known as the high line sets the stage for a unique performance by the mile long opera group one thousand performers sing about changes taking place in society and how it affects them on a serious cristen salumi has been to meet them. the mile long opera consists of one thousand singers from all five boroughs of new york city and stretches through one of its newest and most popular parks. today. called the high line it's built on what was formerly an elevated railroad track. the audience is invited to move between the groups and singers as you walk through on the high line the

different stories you hear were inspired by interviews with new yorkers from all walks. of. there's no musical accompaniment just the sounds of the street i really want to make music out of all these a thousand people singing their own individual stories and they sing them very quietly and if you walk by them you hear this kind of havens of all these things kind of colliding with each other and it sounds really beautiful and nice and at any moment when you're curious you can lean in close to one of the singers and hear what that individual story is and hear it a little better the land and. the performance is called the biography of seven o'clock out there would be focusing on a time of day associated with change. no night coming no changes in the seven o'clock is that time of the day that one equates with stability and the

whole i'm coming home to dad how many are coming home to a dinner and this is very far from people's lives today but it's also this fantastic moment in the day where day turns into night where people change activities they go from work to something else. the city serves as both backdrop and protagonist by walking. in a performance that reflects a changing society in a neighborhood that's literally been transformed by the park. from a rundown industrial zone to a present day magnet for tourism an investment and now a very unique setting for an urban opera kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. it is kids have you with us hello adrian sitting in here in doha the top stories

this hour on al-jazeera donald trump's pick for the u.s. supreme court brett kavanaugh has narrowly cleared a procedural vote in the senate a final vote on cover his confirmation is expected on saturday republicans say that an f.b.i. investigation didn't find any evidence supporting sexual misconduct allegations against him. jurors have convicted a white chicago police officer the shooting of a black teenager officer jason van dyke has been found guilty of second degree murder of luck one mcdonald in twenty fourteen the policeman shot mcdonald sixteen times the teenager held a knife at his side john hendren has an update now from chicago where many had gathered ahead of the verdict this city was ready for a major uprising in case the verdict did not come down the way the people wanted here in the streets it should go twelve thousand police officers run alert six thousand of them are already deployed around the city but instead this crowd has come out in militia the streets down but it is done so not out of anger but it of

celebration it's been a week now since the indonesian island of silly ways he was struck by a magnitude seven point five earthquake that triggered a tsunami the official death toll stands at almost one thousand six hundred but bodies are still being pulled from the day bri military aircraft from around twenty countries of flying in with much needed aid and supplies. the president of interpol has been reported missing after traveling to china from france in september the south china morning post newspaper is reporting mang hong wait was taken away after his act crafted landed he's not been heard from since leaving the city of lille pakistani opposition leader shahbaz sharif has been arrested by anti corruption investigators over alleged links to a multi-million dollar housing scam he's the brother of the former premier now as surely if he was ousted last year of corruption charges the twenty eighteen nobel peace prize has been awarded to u.c.d. women's rights activists not him

a rod and congolese dr denis mccuaig who rod campaigns for the victims of sexual violence mcquay he runs a hospital in the democratic republic of congo dedicated to helping the victims of gang rape. there's the headlines more news fiances here off to talk to us here next . on counting the cost this week why people in brazil fear that their next president can save the economy and what that means for the rest of latin america and drugs and money why the world's big drug companies charge such high prices for their prescription pharmaceuticals counting the cost on al-jazeera. the world. in an unprecedented move against a member state the european parliament has triggered article seven of the e use governing treaty meant to protect its core principles human dignity freedom

democracy equality the rule of law and respect for human rights including the rights of persons belonging to minorities the e.u. accuses the hung garion government led by the prime minister viktor orban of breaching those values by passing anti refugee laws manipulating the media disregarding government corruption and removing independent judges budapest annoys the accusations and defends its policies but with european parliament elections scheduled to take place in may next year could the divisions that have been exposed lead to political change across the u. we find out as peter c.r. hung garion foreign minister talks to al-jazeera. peters the foreign minister of hungary thank you for talking to al-jazeera again it's while since we spoke to you last your country is facing proceedings never

before invoked in the european union it's called article seven and it's because a country is breaching the core values of the e.u. that's what they've got to decide on there are some other thoughts by public. you still signed up to those core european values of course we are and we are not while letting them. the report which was pushed through the european parliament voted yea i read it i read it unlike so many people who are speaking about it but i read it from the very beginning to the very end and then it has a list of sixty nine sixty nine points and sixty nine accusations against hungary out of reach for thirteen points have been totally agreed upon by the government and the european commission agreed upon about nineteen points there are negotiations going on between the commission and the hungary and government as it

is normally the procedure in the european union and there are some thirty seven points which are qualified lies i mean i i went through all of them because i represented the government twice on the committee meetings which prepared the meal you had your chance to make your case yeah i fly to the european parliament made the comment four hundred forty eight millions voted against you just one thousand seven voted for yeah and you know here's a cheating because you just read this you don't read abstentions forty eight yet and and this is the key issue here normally according to european contracts the way decisions are being made by the european parliament is the following you have the yes votes. and on the other side you have the no votes and the abstentions and for some reason this case our leaders of european parliament made the decision to leave the votes of abstentions out of consideration if you add the abstentions this

resolution is not best but obviously the rules of the european parliament are that you don't the abstentions otherwise or you go you do that's that's that's actually why it was cheating because you do at the abstentions just look at the treaty very right only over political parties in the european parliament were guilty of cheating it was a cheating perhaps we should widen this because this is part of a big discussion i think going on in europe and going on in the world about the way the world should be governed and it's come up in the recent un general assembly in new york very different visions given for example by the french president emanuel mccraw and the us president donald trump he's talking about a series of powerful sovereign nations and going against global governance whereas the french president is talking about keeping up multilateralism which side are you on. well actually we always take hungary on site so i the live is simplifications

where there are i'm pro american or pro french because i'm pro hungary and but what i can tell you is that there are many points in the foreign policy of a donald trump which i respect a lot first of all we do respect that that he respects silver anything he respects strong states he respects countries sticking to their identity they are culture they are a heritage. you know when when when when the french president speaks about multilateralism and i look at these european policies i am a little bit concerned because the the measures he would like to see in the european union would be rather unfavorable for hungary and comes with tax had one. and all of this kind of stuff you know and migration are absolutely on two different sides the president and his vision about europe when it comes to

migration it comes to social issues when it comes to taxation when it comes to economic issues is totally totally showing to another direction compared to our vision about the future of your let's explore this a little further i'm just going to read you a quote from president micros address to the general assembly nationalism always leads to defeat if courage is lacking in the defense of fundamental principles international order becomes fragile and this can lead us as we already seen twice to global war what do you make of that i don't want to commend the virtues of the french president because they speak for themselves but it's about nationalism is national go to good or bad thing but what does nationalism mean in this regard i mean i don't know what he was speaking about because i don't know his fortes what i can tell you is that we are under accusations in europe many times of being nationalistic. another thing is the following we are a country which never will give up the right to make the

decision about the future of hungary on our own the will never give up the right to make a decision on our own between we would like to live together in our country and even never give up the right to decide about whom we would like to enter whom we would like to let and thirty three of our country and whom we don't. reveal all this be a nation of freedom fighters we don't like call on the elitism sometimes on the french foreign minister a french president speaks about hungary they speak as if you were a colony of them so i think a mutual respect mutual respect it is what is lacking. from the global for global set of foreign policies currently but as we go into a form of mutual government for some things that is what the european union is some areas yeah decided at the european level yeah that's right that's right we are part of european union meaning that's part of our silver and they think. we practiced

together with the european union no problem with that the problem is with intentions to change the treaties which direct the operation of the european union change of the treaties in a democratic way there are some intentions for that and this is something that we reject we fing that european union needs to undergo some reforms because obviously if you look at the performance of the european union you see that the competitiveness is is versioning no question and in order to become again competitive in the in order to be able to be successful in this global race of economy and trade we have to make some changes this is what we understand and there is a debate now between the e.u. we do good reason by the way because there are at least five to manders history type of challenges ahead of us like migration like the friend of terror then there just security of war in ukraine so it's obvious it's obvious that we have debate about these issues because eventually we have debate about the future of europe if

not now when there are historic challenges so i don't think that having a debate within the e.u. about the future would be bad news bad news is that the democratic right of taking part in this question's is kind of supposed to be taken away from some countries which do not represent the mainstream that's that's a problem that's very anti democracy let me take you back to april and the election you had a very successful result yes record turnout seventy percent of the people showed up and we received forty nine point six percent of the vote so it means for continuous election for a continuous constitutional majority in the parliament so you can change the constitution again change what you want you want to if you want to tell me was it a free and fair election of course there was an election mission from the o. s. c.e. that produced a pretty damning report it said there was intimidating and xenophobia rhetoric media bias and opaque campaign finance. but i mean just simply not true

simply not true there was free and fair elections you know furred continuous time we won a constitutional majority. these allegations are just being serious to restore it to say that if you had been to hungary at that than you would have been able to say that this is nonsense but this was a monitoring mission from a respected body yes yeah but i say it's nonsense what about the claims that the public television clearly favored your party and that there was a government information campaign that went out two weeks before the poll that was against migration and matched one of the main themes of your party's platform it's all over the world that governments run. information companies about the most important issues when the most important issue for your party which you want to get elected on this is the most important issue in hungary currently if it was not the most important issue then we wouldn't have received forty nine point six percent of

the votes in the country and i'm telling you what it migration was not. the most important issue all in hungary if you look at the last five national elections in europe you know there was only austria slovenia hungary and then sweden in all in all countries migration was the number one topic during elections with a good reason by the way because this is something that bothers a people in europe with a good reason because people christian political correctness i have been all around this debate and it a good reason because i think people really want honest and straightforward speeches in this industry god so and if you see the results in hungary in still be in the in austria endure in in italy in all four cases those parties have gained the most votes which we have a credible program how to how to. how to protect the security of the country how to

protect the security of the citizens of the given country clearly one issue is media freedom it came up in that report do you already quoted you said it read it from beginning to end in terms of the media in hungary most of the media is friendly to your government. it's not true look at the internet i mean come on i understand hungary a language is very difficult so foreigners can be misled very easily by saying such kind of lies but if you can speak hungary i'm and if you look at the internet i mean you will hardly find hard to find government friendly our web page is the most the most viewed or most watched or most read internet the web page is very heavily . critical or hostile whatever to the government when it comes to television when it comes to television the morse you television is have only had really hostile that r.c.l. yeah haven't you hostile so what are we speaking about you know these are these are

against perceptions that that freedom of speech freedom of gather assembly is being violated no it's not you know not only the european union but the united nations put together some reports saying that freedom of assembly is taken away from hungary and people i went to see the commissioner i sat. to the table beater and said look i came here because there is a very serious issue you wrote in your report that in hungary freedom of assembly is taken away from the people could you please tell me what case you are referring to and she had no clue she said that you know i just came two days before does report was issued and and idea that it's was a staff to put together but come on you know this is this is very very irresponsible they have behavior uses the same thing about the us see no say about the european commission is this some conspiracy against you i don't know whether it's conspiracy but these are lies i don't know whether they do it to get there or not but you know it's a very serious because you see it here many people watch this program and thank you

for invitation because i can explain and then then such kind of things are said about hungary that there is no freedom of media and then i ask you please tell me what journalists what media outlets have been under torture or have to suffer have has anyone applied censorship it's about ownership as you teach and whether there is no news of friends of the prime minister well we can go back to communism and say that private ownership is not the law of the media but do we really want to do so ok let me raise i don't want to have an answer just what happens if a private owner sells a newspaper for example is that the fault of the government or i tell you what there was a daily newspaper. which was partly owned by the socialist party no one had a problem being that no one raised the issue at how it is possible that the leftist party partly owns a daily paper you know isn't it interesting that whenever

a left or liberal parties are involved there no one raises this question it's so we book rhetoric it's so double standard and so ridiculous that i'm going to raise another area which is the judiciary and this time i'm going to raise something that was a report from hungary from the national judicial council in may it casts doubt on the autonomy of the garion judiciary and damning an analysis about the way that the senior judges have been hired and the role of hand. who is a long time friend of your prime minister yes and so the problem is well the problem it will create a problem and the problem is that judges aren't being fairly selected what do you mean under judges who are who are favorable to the government are being selected was the suggestion in this report who are day judges judges who sit i don't

know on crew criminal cases on know any judges who have been selected because of their friendship or not friendship to the government there are many rulings on the courts which we'd bowl like but as an as an individual citizen i think i have the right to like or dislike court decisions as a politician i cannot comment because then i would harm or while late the independence of judiciary but i don't know about any judges who would have gained positions just because being funded to government. but you reject that allegation even though it came from the main group of hungary and judges there's a big debate about the reform of the judicial system within the judicial system so this is not a debate between government and judges this is a professional debate within the judicial system getting back to the issue of migration that you've had so much criticism on in fact our first interview was in

twenty fifteen at the height of the of the migration crisis and you had some very tough questions there then since then you've basically given up letting people into hungary isn't that right we do not allow any illegal migrants to the territory of the country what about refugees we have a field of the green border so the only way you can enter the third tour of the country is a legal way so go there to be a border crossing point to show your travel documentation and you can come in and then what about here if you're a refugee but how can you come how can you be a refugee if you if you are surrounded by peaceful countries well sometimes countries fallen to here to let refugees in what do you mean they take refugees as a part of a research program yes but my question i'm not taking any warning you're not allowed to get on it no or don't want to take part in that i can tell you something . those people who arrived to hungary and those four hundred thousand about which you know we've spoken to for some fifteen years but it was in the height under and they were coming through country diego yes they they came through at least five

peaceful countries so my question is. whether anyone could show me can't because they have rooted it anyone could show me any point in international regulations which would say that you have a right to wake up in the morning dick a country that you would like to live in any nora to get there while it's your ease of borders it's not a human the right the human right is that you are in trouble you have to you are forced to leave your home you go to the first safe place where you're going to be taken care of but it's not written anywhere that you are allowed to lade the border between two peaceful countries because you want to get through know those people who came to us came from turkey greece must donya sometimes bog area serbia croatia five six safe countries my question is how can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries my question is about refugees who need to find somewhere to live and the european union has come up with ideas to spread them around europe right now or as i understand it from the

latest statistics i can find you have ten million people in your country and three thousand five hundred fifty five refugees living in a hungry you're not taking your fair share there are people who are fleeing the war they're fleeing famine don't some of them isn't it fair for you to take in some we are taking part in the burn sharing because respond already more than a billion euros on protecting the sort of the border of the european union this is number one number two we have launched a program which is called hungary helps we are spending millions of euros on helping the community is in the middle east. because you know when when the bishops come to us the christian bishops come to us from the middle east they always ask us please do not help our people to leave the area because our communities will be eliminated please help us to be able to return and please help us to be able to get

stronger their you know what you said our bishops you know you only have been helping christians we have a special program to help christians and we are not muslims. we are a christian country we feel responsible for the for the christian people and these are no other no other targeted program for the christians we do it so what we do is the following we have rebuilt religious for the christians their day used to be a living for centuries and they were forced to leave. villages where they can return we are building schools there are covering expenditures of hospitals are building cultural institutions we are giving hundred scholarships every year fully finest by the hungry and state to be able to get more to be able to be more competent more competitive how can you say that we don't take the fair share what about corruption transparency international puts you below montenegro on its list of corruption montenegro can't get into the e.u.

because it's too corrupt what do you make of some allegations for example that the your prime ministers used public funds and channel e.u. funds to lake palatal to two areas where he has close friends and relatives with properties that's as being a ridiculous number and ridiculous through are to accuse the prime minister of such kind of issues number two is being ridiculous he's not be all he's not in on the accusation is the anyone could be guilty of something but this trip but it's but it's a it's a lie that the montenegro is not a member of european union because of because of corruption there is not true but simply a lie and it's a simply a lie that the prime minister uses probably funds for a private reasons it's not. so i have to say i have to reject that and it's and it's a really a scandal that the such kind of things can be said to be honest and these are the sort of consequences that these are these are the sort of allegations that are out there some of these things are in that report that went to the european parliament

what happens next because clearly there's a procedure in europe and what are you going to do next well you know in this case the general affairs council which is the body of the ministers responsible for europe integration of the member states comes together and based on the viel of the presidency which is now austria and then you have hearings one or two. three incidentally is run by a conservative government that is in the same european peoples party as you one that and and and they didn't back you one vote one party of them one party of them is number of the open people's party. then they didn't back you that's important and it's part of the chancellor so well you must be disappointed you know i understood that friendship and politics must not be computers anymore but anyway so . one or two hearings and then afterwards the real be put on the agenda of the

council itself you know the gathering of the heads of state and government of the european union and there you name a decision must be made if if any sanctions will be applied and i've got other people on your side of course we do the polish and the czech prime polish government and czech prime minister made it very clear that they would veto any kind of sanctions against hungary we are not the only country against which this this procedure is going on because the similar kind of procedure has been going on against poland but this it's much it's in a much more advanced face let's with this way because it has been started as far as i remember last year already and we made it very clear that we would veto any kind of sanctions against the boers because because the the critics on pause are just being ridiculous i mean that's on the reform of judiciary and i i'm not british sure that all those who put these allegations on the polish have read. the new laws and understood the reform procedure i have spent

a lot of time with that because i really wanted to be sure what i say about their issue and and i really studied they are a judicial reform they want to make it they want to make procedures quicker they definitely made decisions about the highest score but i mean that they are and they are a government they are directed by the people so they have to govern the country to the satisfaction of the people and i don't see that they would have committed anything against the again the contract of the european union we have european elections next year do you feel that perhaps the european parliament action could backfire given there are lots of populist nationalist parties around europe the potentially might support you. i think that that the european parliament elections we have a big stake i mean i i would say the biggest ever and it's going to take place next may a totally new type of commission and and i'm pretty sure that the new set up of european

parliament will be established do you see some split in the european union or will parties like yours and governments like yours try to change europe from within what i can tell you is that we take part in the debate about the future of the european union there are two concepts at least in the rivalry in the federalist tick over a mystic we see how we feel and we we definitely take part havoline the debate with you represent our position central european countries have very similar kind of mindset in this regard pretty much common sense i think it's not without a good reason that the central europe in the region is now among the most successful regions of the european union if you look at the growth figures for example our average growth is twice as high as the european average overall so we tried to be a girlfriend to the to the. union and we see very all these debates and all but i think you know having a debate about the future of e.u. is a very democratic thing there are some that say if hungary was not

a member of the you and it was applying now given the things that were in that parliamentary report you wouldn't be sepsis these sorts of the are members of your opinion i know but you would you accepted no you don't meet the criteria yeah we do be sure we do. it. for mr peters ianto thank you for your i appreciate thanks for the opportunity i . the nobel committee has announced the joint winners of this year's peace prize denis mukwege and nadia mourad al-jazeera has been granted the exclusive international rights to interview the winners after the awards ceremony here and also low in december the nobel interview on al-jazeera. from cutting edge

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hello i'm adrian finnigan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a white police officer who's killing of a black teenager sparked protests in chicago is found guilty of murder. new details emerge about the disappearance of interpol chief making home way has gone missing in china. and fears that more than a thousand people are still buried under hotel and housing complex flattened by the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia. brett kavanaugh the man nominated by donald trump to maintain a five four conservative majority on the u.s. supreme court is a step closer to being appointed republican say that an f.b.i. investigation didn't find any evidence supporting sexual misconduct allegations against him democrats say the probe was a sham the senate narrowly agreed to advance governor's nomination and

a final vote is due on saturday was lynn jordan reports from washington the motion is agreed to. the u.s. senate is now taking what should be the final step needed to approve brett kavanaugh for the u.s. supreme court thirty hours of debate and a vote the process has been delayed for nearly three weeks due to allegations of sexual assault a special senate hearing to review the allegations and a one week delay for so the f.b.i. could investigate thank you. senator jeff flake a swing vote was pressured by sexual assault victims into calling for the delay and yet despite protests out of his office and a review of the f.b.i. support flake says he will vote yes on cap and on a new kind of oh yes tomorrow. something big change so i don't see. what would but . but anyway i'm glad we had a better process cavanaugh 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 as capitol 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 kavanagh unfit for the post to the supporters call 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 i did deal with if i hadn't from the day i will go to canned firm chad's 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 horton al-jazeera capitol hill a jury in chicago has convicted the white police officer of murdering a black teenager the city was preparing for riots if demonstrators as had not been satisfied with the outcome but outside the courthouse and in the city instead there was some abrasions john hendren reports from chicago. where it's the verdict that

for weeks put an anxious and divided city on edge we've been hearing that day and. that really. a white chicago police officer jason van dyke was found guilty of the killing of a black teen a crime that carries a sentence of up to twenty years in prison then sixteen times ok but i've heard that there's more than one for each bullet he fired into a seventeen year old like kwan mcdonald in two thousand and fourteen van dyke was convicted of aggravated battery with a firearm. the teen was armed with a knife later found closed and shown walking away on police video it was van dyck who emptied the chamber the only officer to fire when video of the killing emerged a year later protesters filled the streets the trial featured cheery sometimes testy testimony from the first chicago police officer charged with murder in decades his attorney mounted in impassioned argument and dropped dead i thought.

he'd be here today but prosecutors argued that van dyke had planned to shoot before he got out of his car why mc donalds was never going to walk home that night. the defendant did i did that on the way to the scene chicago which still bears some scars from the infamous one nine hundred sixty eight riots was prepared for an outcry the city's twelve thousand police officers were on alert many of them already deployed around the city as protesters began to gather at city hall officers had a one hundred fifty page contingency plan demonstrators had planned to shut chicago down a vandyke were not convicted instead they celebrate. everywhere across the concert recedes police injustice is happening the buck stops here staccato and we pray and we hope that this is the race in encouraged me now only to the city of chicago but

all cities across the mere. thought of the verdict put the city police on notice that the residents or chicago will no longer simply accept police shootings of young black men john hendren al jazeera chicago. the president of interpol has been reported missing after traveling to his home country china from france snow has been able to get in touch with me on way since late last month the french police are now investigating the disappearance of french official says that he arrived in china but went missing soon afterwards adrian brown reports from beijing . well so far china's government has said absolutely nothing about the disappearance of monk home way the first chinese citizen to become head of interpol state controlled media is so far not reporting this story either and any mention of his name on social media is being deleted that is i think a reflection of just how sensitive this cases but in hong kong the south china

morning post newspaper which has connections to the chinese government has been offering more information it says sources have told them that mung was taken away after his plane landed in beijing it's believed he left france on september the twenty fifth and that he was taken away to an undisclosed destination and that he was now quote under investigation although it's not specified what he's being investigated for now before monk took up his position with interpol in two thousand and sixteen he had been a vice minister of the public security bureau that made him a very powerful man now some important context his boss had been a man who was jailed three years ago for corruption joe young kang had been basically the j. edgar hoover of chinese politics the securities are of china and then in two

thousand and sixteen another vice minister of public security was also jailed for corruption so there is a pattern emerging it is quite possible the monk found himself on the wrong side of the political divide in china at a time when president xi jinping is intensifying his anti corruption crackdown supporters of the missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi have rallied outside saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul calling for his release because she disappeared on tuesday after entering the compound but there are conflicting reports about where he is jamal ashar 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 photo journalists 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 a man who they don't know what it's like set out in genesis what he wants is the freedom of jamal 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. has written a great deal about human rights abuses carried out by his country's government since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin said a 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 spoke to al-jazeera over the phone about what's happened last tuesday. went into the consolation i was waiting near the to the appointment was at one pm after a few hours no one came to me and they were supposed to come and get

a phone from 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 lifts i called the consulate a saudi man answered and he told me the closest and that no one is inside and he shouldn't wait here. as fears continue to roll over her safety there is also concern about the diplomatic fallout 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 we are progressing. i did think of this diplomatic missions as detention centers with little or no respect for the sovereignty of other countries. have to respond. it's been a week now since the in the sea and island of super ways he was struck by a magnitude seven point five earthquake that triggered a tsunami the official death toll stands at almost one thousand six hundred but

bodies are still being pulled from the day bri military aircraft from around twenty countries are flying in with much needed aid and supplies zero as way hey is live for us now from the village of a row up much of which was destroyed in the earthquake one thousand people are believed to be still missing wayne as we said it's been a week now what's the latest on the search for survivors. we're on the scene behind me in the community of or what's left of it is quite remarkable really the entire village and the neighboring one perturb simply sank to the ground with the earthquake struck if you have a look behind me the road we're standing on just completely vanishes and drop some three four five meters down there and when it dropped it took absolutely everything with it houses shops mosques and of course many many people disappeared into that

mud in the liquefaction process as it's known with the earthquake struck just over a week ago the ground beneath the surface simply too.