judges possibly for decades even the former u.s. supreme court justice john paul stevens called kavanaugh unfit for the post to supporters call this criticism slander and insist kavanaugh should be approved judge kavanaugh was publicly accused of a crime and his reputation and livelihood were at stake 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 in 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 go with a fashion heading for the day and i will take him firm judge cabinet. the us 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 shorten al-jazeera capitol hill. saudi arabia says it will allow turkey to searches consulate in istanbul for the prominent. went missing three days ago after entering the consulate crown prince mohammed bin says saudi arabia has nothing to hide but many a cooling on riyadh to verify jamal is whereabouts jamal 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 suddenly genocide what he wants is the freedom of jamal khashoggi if 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 texas 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 said 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 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 lift i called the consulate a saudi man answered and he told me the clothes 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 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 diplomatic missions as the tension centers with little or no respect for the sovereignty of other countries would have to respond. to stumble. we're going to let want to come here and out of his area including just this is a white police officer who's killing a black teenager spawn protests in chicago is found guilty of murder.

i'm neal smile along all press sets the stage for a unique performance one hundred nineteen issues in society. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast what we do have some changes that are going to be happening here across parts of europe we're starting with some very nice conditions across central europe all due to some high pressure but that is going to start to break down in those very warm temperatures that we see here across paris twenty three degrees there as we go toward saturday down here towards or at twenty one well things are going to change that high pressure is going to start to break down meaning more rain is going to be filtering into those temperatures are going to go down so paris down to fourteen degrees or down to thirteen degrees rain in the forecast there but good news for london you saw some

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widows living in one of the world's most ancient refuges. more than seven hundred years old it still upholds the charitable tradition of sheltering those with no means of supporting themselves the widows sanctuary on al-jazeera. theresa take a look at the top stories here it out is there indonesian authorities have issued new warnings about the possible outbreak of disease with rescue workers continuing to five more bodies and body parts in the rubble if death toll from last week's

earthquake and tsunami stands at almost sixteen hundred. u.s. president donald trump's pick for the u.s. supreme court is narrow lead cleared a procedural vote in the senate a final vote on brett kavanaugh confirmation is expected later on saturday republicans say an f.b.i. investigation didn't find enough evidence to support allegations of sexual misconduct against. the president of interpol the international police agency has been reported missing after traveling home to china nobody's been able to get in touch with monk hong wade since late last month french police are now investigating his disappearance. questions are being raised about the future of press freedom in hong kong after the authorities refused to renew a work visa for a financial times journalist it's a rare decision in a chinese city that takes pride on its freedoms the newspaper's asia editor victor

mallet chaired a talk by a pro independence activist in august victor mallet decided to go ahead with moderating the talk despite objections from the hong kong government and china's foreign ministry. there have been a number of high profile cases in the us in the last few years as in which white police offices of young black men on friday one of those cases over conviction of a white police officer in chicago john hendren reponse. it's the verdict that for weeks put an anxious and divided city on edge we didn't hear to the bank that day and guilty of second degree. 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. but i've heard that there's more than one for each bullet he fired

into a seventeen year old look kuan 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 vandyke 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 that knife. would be here today but prosecutors argue that vandyke had planned to shoot before he got out of his car why mcdonald was never going to walk home that. the defendant did i did that on the way to the. 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 who plan to shut chicago down if we're not convicted instead they celebrate. everywhere across the country receive justice is happening the buck stops here. and we pray and we hope that this year some inspiration and encouraged me now only to the city of chicago but all cities across america. 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 nobel peace prize has been awarded to two people who lead 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 self jonah hill has more from. him 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 saw 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 guard 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 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 that gives out the literature prize and with calls for me on mars leader and sanctuary 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 where the she and her fall 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 controversial does not reduce the importance of the price in a word them know. how to zero. well not be a moron sr says she's exceedingly proud of. class the question and today we are very happy even if she were not my sister and this had

been achieved by any it would still have raised our heads and made us happy any one of us receiving his prize is like shooting a bullet into the enemy's chest therefore today we have a very proud and pleased god willing she will always go forward and defeat the enemy we hope the rest of our women and girls who are still in the hands will be freed soon. presidential hopefuls in brazil have ended their campaigns ahead of sunday's vote supporters of the workers' party candidate for nando had died rallied in sao paolo to show their support that is trailing behind the far right nationalists jailed balsa nardo in the polls supporters of poles nardo gathered in front of his house in rio de janeiro is recovering from a stabbing attack that turkey is famous. fish market has held its last auction before closing its doors and moving.

the daily morning auctions would be going on for eighty years and have become a major tourist attraction the relocation to the size of a former gas plant has been delayed for years amid concerns that it could be contaminated the move affects not only the famed fish mongers but also fruit and vegetable vendors restaurants and other shops in the market the original site will now be used as a parking lot for the twenty twenty two in the base. citywide engagement project involving singing is taking place in new york an elevated park which is known as the high line is the stage for a unique performance by the mile long opera group a thousand performers sing about changes taking place in society and how it affects them out as there is christen salumi has been to see 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 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 wanted 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 for the focusing on a time of day associated with change. night coming no changes in. seven o'clock is that time of the day that one equates with stability and the whole i'm coming home to dad home and 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. now has been reporting all week from indonesia on the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. in the capital jakarta politicians and musicians of held a charity concert to raise funds for the victims' event raise over a million dollars. to take it out of the top stories here it out there this morning indonesian authorities have issued new warnings about the possible outbreak of disease with rescue workers continuing to find more bodies and body parts in the rubble they fishel death toll from last week's earthquake and tsunami now stands at almost

sixteen hundred u.s. president donald trump's pick for the u.s. supreme court has narrow lead cleared a procedural vote in the senate a final vote on brett kavanaugh confirmation is expected later on saturday republicans say an f.b.i. investigation didn't find any evidence to support sexual misconduct allegations against him. the president of interpol the international police agency has been reported missing after traveling to his home country china nobody's been able to get in touch with monk hong ways since late last month french police are now investigating his disappearance. the twenty eighteen nobel peace prize has been awarded to years edi women's rights activists nadia morag and congolese dr dennis will quit again campaigns for the victims of sexual violence after spending three months as an eyesore sex slave runs

a hospital in democratic republic of congo dedicated to helping the victims of gang rape not be around sister says she couldn't be more proud of her. class the question and today we are very happy even if she were not my sister and this had been achieved by any it would still have raised our heads and made us happy any one of us receiving his prize is like shooting a bullet into the enemy's chest therefore today we have a very proud and pleased god willing she will always go forward and defeat the enemy we hope the rest of our women and girls who are still in the hand will be freed soon. u.s. secretary of state might pompei is touring east asia as he seeks support to move forward on denuclearization in north korea iran and in japan within the last few hours to coordinate strategy with prime minister shinzo all day based upon pale will then go on to north korea for his second meeting with leader kim jong il and.

the europe today those are the very latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story. on counting the cost this week why people in brazil feel that the next president come save the economy and what that means for the rest of latin america and drugs above me why the world's big drug companies charge such high prices for that prescription pharmaceuticals counting the cost on al-jazeera. it sparked protests and social media campaigns the case of a judge accused of sexual misconduct but the u.s. president is standing by his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh donald trump actually thinks the controversy could be a vote winner so how will it affect the upcoming midterm elections this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm homage i'm joined the brett kavanaugh case has divided america donald trump's pick for a lifetime job on the top u.s. court is accused of sexual misconduct there was already a lot at stake kavanagh's appointment would likely tipped the supreme court to the right with huge implications for a whole range of social cultural and political issues but there may be more immediate consequences at next month's midterm elections allegations that the judge sexually assaulted a student while at college have prompted angry protests with claims kavanagh's not fit to sit on america's highest court if that translates into votes in the november poll it could swing congress to the democrats undercutting trump's legislative agenda the controversy has prompted one former supreme court justice who initially backed kavanagh's nomination to change his mind john paul stevens now says kavanagh

might not have the right temperament for the job. his performance during the hearings caused me to change my murder i think there's several. taters larry tribe among loons of those two to open professor that have ever. heard of or have written written. pieces in which they suggest that he has alienated he has. demonstrated a potential bias and unearth a potential living in cebu for the court that he would not be able to perform his full full responsibilities that i think has merit in that that criticism in that the senators should really pay attention to it for the good of the court.

so just how did we get here in july donald trump nominated brett kavanaugh to replace retiring supreme court justice last month accusations against cavanagh by dr christine blazin ford surfaced in a washington post article she accused him of sexually assaulting her at a college party in the early one nine hundred eighty s. both ford and cavanaugh testified before the senate judiciary committee for details her claims kavanaugh tonight them the white house then gave the f.b.i. one week to investigate the agency's report was sent to the white house and the senate republicans are pressing ahead hoping to get cabinet installed before next month's midterm elections. all right now to our panel of guests in washington d.c. jeff houser executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research rina shah conservative commentator and republican strategist and consultant and john f. injure a democratic strategist and former communications director at the at the democratic national committee welcome to you all in thanks for joining us today john let me

start with you what does it say about the damage that this may have done or may do to the reputation of the supreme court that former justice john paul stevens now says judge kavanaugh might not have the right temperament for the job you know how to supreme court has always been political but it's important for the credibility of the court for the integrity of really our entire system of government that we be able to see them as our supreme court justices as people who do aspire to look beyond partisan fights and uphold a higher vision of the law what justice cavanagh did it his hearing last week literally threatening democratic senators say what comes around goes around. is unprecedented unbelievable. cuse in him accusing democrats of taking revenge for the clintons it really does politicize the court in a way that i don't think we've ever seen before and now trust in government is

a more sacred thing for democrats in general they are the party that believes that government should be able to get things done whereas republicans since ronald reagan have been dining out on this idea that the government can't get anything done so in a sense there's a larger benefit to the larger republican project but just in terms of the integrity of our court in the integrity of our government it could do immense damage arena had republicans or president trump with drawn this nomination would this fight from your perspective still be playing out the way that it is. it most certainly wouldn't look when justice course said she was going through this very same process democrats supported him we know three democrats went through and voted for him and he had no such allegations of sexual misconduct arise i don't think it's too much to ask the republicans in the senate to put forth and vote for somebody that doesn't have these allegations against him such as judge cavanagh look this goes back to a problem here of the boys will be boys thing and it's something that sort of

arisen because of the me too movement here in the united states the actions that judge cabinet as being alleged to partake in are from when he was a teen and when he was collegiate. a young college guy of all places so this is something i'm really very saddened to see play out this way in twenty eight thousand i thought we would believe women and that we would probably put forth someone else jeff regardless of how this is playing out publicly privately how concerned are republican lawmakers about judge having lost him. unfortunately i think the bulk of them may not be that concerned i think that brett kavanaugh was chosen by donald trump to be a partisan figure the fact that red cavanagh was partisan was not revealed for the first time last week this is a man who was one of the senior lieutenants to ken starr in the one nine hundred ninety s. when bill clinton the impeachment effort against bill clinton was underway he

someone who was involved in the contested presidential election of two thousand as a lawyer he's been involved in partisan fights with democrats for more than twenty years in washington d.c. and president trump nominated brett kavanaugh knowing that there are potential constitutional crises coming down the line with robert mueller a special prosecution tromp and his ties to russia in the twenty sixteen election and various other fights and put up brett kavanaugh to be a partisan ally and i think the vast majority of republican senators were fine with that and his nomination was like it was going to pass up in intil these allegations arose and of course it still may all right president trump clearly doesn't think any of this will hurt his party's chances in november in fact he believes the controversy will actually benefit the republicans he tweeted the harsh and unfair treatment of judge brett kavanaugh is having an incredible upward impact on voters

the people get it far better than the politicians most importantly this great life cannot be ruined by mean and despicable democrats and totally uncorroborated allegations reno let me ask you what do you think when you hear that i mean at the beginning of this saga president trump seemed to be by his standard somewhat restrained he even said that the testimony that was offered by dr ford was credible now you see this onslaught you see this mockery and you see tweets like this. what does that say about where this process is. well number one nobody should be surprised at the fact that he mocked a woman who's alleging that she was assaulted sexually it's a very very low and despicable moment for the state of public affairs in this country when when we see this happening but when he was a candidate he mocked a disabled reporter so while i'm saddened by it i'm not surprised i will say this the president when he was a candidate and into the time he took the oval office to this day has nearly twenty

allegations of sexual misconduct against him clearly he does not respect women american voters who voted for president trump no this they have no problem with that they don't they have no problem with his massage any more than anything else and so when he took to the the rally pulpit last week and mocked her it was a moment where he sort of mobilized his base to say midterm elections matter to us get out and express how angry are with how this innocent man has been treated the the phrase that the right is using right now particularly women on the right are saying that cavanagh was not given due process what they are forgetting is that senate judiciary committee hearings are not a court of law and while they say they believe dr ford they're not sure that she was a able to corroborate and essentially prove that it was brett kavanaugh who assaulted her and that's what president trump railed against saying that she basically could not be trusted and wasn't credible where is just a few days prior he tweeted saying she was credible he's a flip flopper john there are democratic lawmakers who have been suggesting that

judge kavanaugh may have perjured himself not just in this round of testimony but in previous rounds of testimony for the confirmation of of other judges if if there is this blue wave in november if democrats were to retake the house and possibly even the senate even though there's a much narrower path to that and many are saying it's unlikely sure do you believe that democratic lawmakers would try to open more investigations into judge kavanaugh and possibly even have him impeached. yeah absolutely i don't think the likelihood of him being impeached in this climate in the sense sorry impeachment is a is a funny term and with this comes up with the present trump and now with judge kavanaugh because the vote to impeach to get the process underway i think very well could happen because i think the democratic base would demand it of people this is not just a political moment anymore this is a cultural moment we have been yahoos dads who believe something like forty million

american women who've been the victim of sexual violence and so this is personal in a way that we don't see most political issues playing out so yes i do think he has given lots of testimony that conflicts with documentary evidence i do think you could see that pursued although because of the tribalism that we see no matter how big this blue wave is mathematically you're going to need republicans in the senate to be able to actually remove someone whether it's cavanagh or trump from office and i don't see that necessarily happening very easily although you know with with conclusive proof of of lying maybe maybe you could price couple republicans off to jeff let me ask you when it comes to the midterms do you see all this play more favorably to the advantage of the democrats at this point or the republicans. i think the conventional wisdom is that it's going to be mixed and it's very depends on the nature of the race and who are the key voters republicans have been saying

since this began that their base is enthusiastic and that there is going to be higher turnout i don't think democrats were expecting to win because republicans failed to vote i think they were more democrats were expecting to win because their base which tends to not vote in midterm elections tends to only vote in presidential elections was in fact excited so i think you're going to see both bases performing well the big question remains how is this going to be seen by those voters who maybe are traditionally republican but are turned off by trump and i would think that ultimately speaking those more moderate republican voters are going to potentially vote democratic now because brett kavanaugh. underscoring the qualms they may have about donald trump as a person and because he personify so many of the same problems with treating women not only respectfully but of avoiding physical assault so i think in the end it

might help democrats but republicans are certainly claiming to the contrary and i don't know that we know one month from now how it'll play out last week there was this incredibly dramatic five or six minutes video that captured senator jeff flake being cornered in that elevator by these two women who were sexual assault survivors. what i'm curious about is at that point jeff flake indicated that he was going to vote to confirm brett kavanaugh and then after that he called for this f.b.i. investigation do you believe that it was the fact that was captured on video that really change the calculus of where he stood in all of this. i do agree with that because when lawmakers see the the real i guess you can say more than anything else the attention that social media tends to give to these important decisions in a way that there was not before there is some degree of change there and what he

did was call for the f.b.i. investigation and said he couldn't really move forward without that happening but look he's a political animal as well he's not running for reelection so in my in my gut i know that jeff flake knows that he doesn't he can make these tough choices and he doesn't have anything to lose but this is how our system works so what he did was essentially give him self cover to vote yes to say that there was an investigation and that this investigation brought forth pretty much nothing which is what we're hearing from senator grassley the head of the committee and so it gives them cover to essentially vote yes on cavanagh because something was done and that's that's really all that moment did i was hoping for a little bit more but even to get to that point the pressures that come from from having been captured on video i think got to him and but again in the end made him make a political decision that i don't think move the needle very much john what about the fact that there have been these really large protests in washington d.c.

i mean there were there were these huge protests in the hart senate building on thursday where there were hundreds if not thousands of women that were you know confronting senators minhas well do you think that lawmakers in washington. have been completely surprised by the outpouring when it comes to this by the emotion involved by the by the number of protesters that have been confronting them or do you think that they've been expecting this more and more considering how all of this is really dividing along partisan lines. well i hope so because i went down and protested on monday and got myself arrested doing this to i think there is an unusual moment that's the first time in my life that i've done anything like that and i think that you see more and more people stepping up and saying this is just not ok for various different reasons many of them very personal and i think you saw that come through with the video of the women at the elevators the survivors there and i do think that there is this human outpouring of emotion and this human to

human connection that that is at least letting the senators know that even if they do go ahead and make their political calculations the same way they would have without it that there's going to be this is going to last in the american memory that this is this is going to be a moment that's not just a political moment in the republican party right now is that in danger of defining itself as the party of sex criminals for a generation obviously democrats have not been totally innocent in that area in the past but they are making strides to get rid of that and the republican party now as we see with donald trump doubling down on this guy who he himself admitted was very credible is essentially embracing this very old patriarchal attitude that certainly next generations of voters young voters are are not ok with at all jeff what about what about this f.b.i. investigation i mean were you surprised at the last minute it was actually called

for. i was not surprised that it was called for because it always represented a kind of obvious way for the center of the senate to neither immediately vote no or yes and the u.s. senate always likes to prefer to postpone decisions and so the f.b.i. decision the f.b.i. investigation was a logical thing for the voters in the center to demand what's been very disappointing is that their demand was far too they get it was an f.b.i. investigation at the direction of president trump himself as the other guests have pointed out credibly accused of sexual assault and as you might imagine trump did not tell the f.b.i. to actually talk to the witnesses who could have corroborated deborah near as and dr christine was the fords allegations so there is an absence of top level corroborating evidence but because the f.b.i.

was expressly told to not find that evidence so unfortunately the f.b.i. investigation which was a reasonable step turned out to not be a real investigation and as a result it's really just a sham that's a shame and i wish that the people would call for it a week ago had been much more specific when they had made that call. what about the what about republican voters in the united states right now i mean how are they split along is it along gender lines right now is it the never trumpeters and those that are that are for trump i mean where does this put the republican voter when it comes to the midterms what's been going on when it comes to cavanaugh's confirmation. well many would argue that never trump has been dead and i've been part of that movement since day one having been called the poster girl for it when i lost my delegate seat for speaking out against the current president however look here's the thing there is a faction of the republican party that has given in to everything that the

president says they believe that everything he's saying is truth that is the magath faction and they will do anything to support him anything he says is again like i said propped up this truth and so there is another set of us that is concerned about the future of democracy worried about this partisanship that marks this era of politics in washington and we just hope that there would be principled leaders who could stand up we had hoped we'd find them in lindsey graham and jeff flake and susan collins and lisa murkowski but at the end of the day these are political animals who have to run for re-election and people do like their seats i'm a proponent of term limits i don't know how many republicans at this very moment support that but what it does indicate to me this current climate is that republicans who support the president feel that judge kavanaugh is being wronged and they are worried about their sons i've heard as i've talked to many republican women about them being falsely accuse i think it's a bunch of malarkey i junked that judge kavanaugh should've been withdrawn and that

was where we should have left it to sort of interrupted you i thought you were done there in a john you heard reno just just mention term limits and then actually bring you to my next question because you know there are more people in the u.s. that are expressing an opinion that supreme court justices should not be appointed for life in their lawmakers that have espoused that view as well is there any chance that in the coming few years in the coming few decades from your point of view there could be a movement or there could be lawmakers that could come to some sort of bipartisan consensus that would try to limit the terms for supreme court justices. bipartisan consensus very loose of these days i think but then again the idea that donald trump would be in the white house was inconceivable a couple of years ago and i do think that there's going to be a very serious conversation now about the makeup of the court because as we talked about before it's not going to be seen as legitimate the way it is especially with this guy on it if he ends up on it but in general i think both parties have real

difficulty with the confirmation process right now and nobody is enjoying what's going on in washington right now and it clearly doesn't make sense or inspire confidence in our supreme court or judiciary in general and so i do think you're going to see a real conversation what form that takes what proposals come out i think is a little premature to say yet but yeah the very existence and functioning of the supreme court there is now in serious question the way it works jeff this is playing out twenty seven years after anita hill's testimony this is playing out during the me two era i mean what does that say about the state of play in the united states that this is happening right now. i mean you can look at it you can be optimistic or you can be pessimistic the optimists would point out that most polls show either more people believe dr basi for it as i do then judge kavanaugh or it's tied but i think the consensus is most people believe dr bosley for and

that was not the case in one thousand nine hundred one at the time and a strong majority supported clarence thomas and he was ultimately confirmed with the support of the american people if cavanagh is to be confirmed in two thousand and eighteen he's going to be confirmed basically because the republicans just listen to their base which is a diminishing minority of americans so it basically says that there's been progress but that progress has certainly has many many more miles to go that we need much more progress we need to believe women and we're not there fully as a society powerful institutions do not believe women but some progress has been made so i would caution against being too pessimistic or too optimistic we only have about two minutes left here so please just be mindful of that how much has all this done damage to the credibility of the supreme court and how much has all of this done damage to the credibility of the senate. you know i think the trust that

younger americans will have in our institutions is going to greatly diminish after these midterm elections there's just no refuting that because when we see peaceful protests that has happened many times since president trump took office and the games don't seem to be made that really erodes the trust a millennial is like myself where we believe that when you elect somebody to represent you they take all facts into consideration when we look at what seems to be a good old boys club and remains as such in two thousand and eighteen where we're making great strides in other fields women overwhelmingly are more educated the men of the united states have higher degrees rather and where we've taken a place in the workforce that is so different but we don't see that reflected women are under represented in today's u.s. congress the numbers are so bleak and so i think to both men and women it will make sense that why should we trust these institutions if they don't change for us when we get out and we peacefully protest and we vote so there at some point will be

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hello broken george is there live from doha i'm martin that is also coming up mystery surrounds the disappearance of interpol chief among hong weigh in china. president supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh set to be confirmed by the senate after weeks of controversy. the nobel peace prize has been awarded to a service in the congolese doctor for their work to end sexual violence. and we'll towards his him into the new warnings about the possible outbreak of disease with the rescue workers continuing to find more bodies and body parts in the rubble. from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated. there also considering winding down search efforts there fishel death toll currently stands at sixteen hundred forty nine however in areas like ballo village that's just outside of

palm city it's believed as many as a thousand could still be buried under thomas has more from palin where he's been following aid efforts. around the city now i have to go through some most people who need it many thousands of people are still living out in the open air or in tents they're required to go back into that damaged like that happens it's all because of the risk of optus jokes but they all get saying now plenty of drinking will plenty of like sick food like rice and noodles here in the city yeah it has to offer is a different case when you go at some of the provinces not going to pick up arrived at the airport old a saturday as there was friday trying to assess from the villages the health even of the villages itself the damage council from this city so they need supplies to come in now you told us about the operation because an exception is here now not yanks but by all the rescuers that we can see that they're no longer looking for

survivors as much as anybody still alive more than a week off that is why i can see not be struck but they all still looking for bodies here at the shopping center in the center of town at the roller a hotel which was completely destroyed by the earthquake thirty three bodies of you so i get out from there excitable number that i bring out each day windows on one side bar on saturday while we were there in the two hour period on friday yesterday they brought out three inaccurate alarms and that already was lower than that i can see how the number of bodies as they digging into that rubble well another of our correspondents wayne hay has been to another part of palin in the village of balad he sent this report. we're still being told to prepare for a much higher death toll and that is predominately because of communities like this in polish city here in bala row 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 mud of 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 iraq 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 local government leaders national government officials and religious leaders who 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 to remember the earthquake and tsunami police in france are

investigating the disappearance of the president of interpol that's the international police agency monkey way hasn't been heard of since he flew home to china late last month he was china's vice minister of public security before he joined in to paul is that china correspondent adrian brown. 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 now

the u.s. secretary of state is in japan to coordinate strategy on achieving a nuclear free north korea after meeting prime minister shinzo abbé might compare is due to go to north korea for a second round of talks kim jong un that they see the live shot from tokyo where might compare is have a. in talks with the foreign minister of japan todd o'connor and as i mentioned before she in zoabi who is also in that room he then goes on to north korea for his meeting with kim jong un and you'll remember that kim and u.s. president donald trump agreed to denuclearize the korean peninsula at a summit in june there is no agreed plan of action so far donald trump's choice for supreme court judges narron who cleared a procedural vote in the senate a final vote on brett kavanaugh confirmation is expected later on saturday republicans say an f.b.i. investigation didn't find any evidence to support sexual misconduct allegations

against him roslyn jordan has more 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 the so the f.b.i. could investigate. 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 motto. something big change see. what would but. but anyway i'm glad we had a better process kavanaugh was already

a contentious choice because of his conservative views on abortion gun laws and presidential powers but in mid september it was revealed christian 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 kavanaugh 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 knob. many moving capitals confirmation that much closer to the finish line i did go with a heading for the day and i will vote to confirm judge kavanagh. the us 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 saudi arabia says it will allow turkey to search its consulate in istanbul for the prominent saudi jenna's jamal. he went missing three days ago after entering the consulate crown prince mohammed bin sound man says saudi arabia has nothing to hide but rights groups according on riyadh to verify show because shock is whereabouts tomorrow 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 demond 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 to manually do what it's like said i generalized 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 tech is 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 sandman he's

a regular columnist for the washington post it published friday's edition with a blank section where his 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 till the appointment was at one pm after a few hours no one came to me they were supposed to come and get the 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 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 protocol or 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 it would.