and it appears though that all the senators are going to vote the way they said yesterday and it's a foregone conclusion that he will be in the supreme court behind me for the rest of his life it's a life term a lifetime appointment how do you feel now i mean what do you feel dejected you feel energized what is your mood today i definitely feel betrayed by our senators and people who didn't listen to our voices but anything else you've just created a generation of very strong empowered women who are going to fight and we're going to do what it takes to make sure that this doesn't happen any more in the future the supreme court's an important position in this country why is it so important for you the supreme court particularly well the supreme court is a lifetime appointment so he's in there for good on top of that it's not checks and balances so if we have a republican friends and our public can run supreme court and we also have the republican president we don't really have much of a system of checks and balances things are going to get it go and do what they want to do very quickly your shirt says march a vote winning this is clearly energizing a lot of people to vote yes or no oh yes very much and we will all be out there

voting thank you very much we appreciate it mercer thank you for speaking with us that was one young young lady from other state neighboring state of west virginia not too far from here drove two hours just to be here in some last minute opposition hum this very critical day here in washington where in the next few hours the senate congress is expected vote the senate is expected to vote and perhaps send brett kavanaugh to the supreme court the highest court in the land that building you see there right behind indeed many people came to express themselves before this crucial vote thank you very much cable as all know in washington. now the interpol police agency the international police agency interpol is oss china to clarify the situation of its missing president main hall way hasn't been heard from since boarding a flight to china from the home is believed to have landed in the country but then disappeared the interpol chief held a number of security positions in china before taking on his current role his wife

has been placed on the police protection in france after receiving threats adrian brown has this update now 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 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 authorities in hong kong of refused. senior editor of a british newspaper fronted concern over freedom of speech on the chinese island

which was handed back to beijing by the united kingdom over twenty years ago to malate is asia editor for the financial times as well as vice president of hong kong's foreign correspond. club fieri in beijing recently when it staged a talk by dissident political activist still ahead for you on this program we're going to be reporting from cameroon where a travel ban is set to come into effect to stop separatists disrupting sunday's presidential election. they are. songs of change a thousand street performers converge on new york's famous high line for a unique performance. however in most to china it's been dry for a week and it still ace satellite picture reveals something congress the tibetan

plateau and that's enough to produce a little bit of rain or of course no appetite that's there in sichuan there's more rain in parts of northeast india and minima otherwise generously he's trying that's true for vietnam too that's also true for the next two days it is to be expected this time of year waiting for the northeast monsoon to be the dominant knockoffs and dry season for a few months and with the receding monsoon rains you sometimes get developments as was spinners not so much in the bay of bengal but you watch this massive cloud in our switch to forecasts it's already got a little interesting. view from space it's a cluster of thunderstorms if they start to spin and we think they will that could turn into a cycle and indeed ocean or arabian sea cycle and if you like and it's a moment it's heading towards the horn of africa now it could change course for other way it will affect the likely rainfall on the coast from our probably yemen in the next four or five days in the immediate future that comes on board ahead of

it is virtually dough breeze and humidity is not that hard it's quiet and it's dry which is to be expected but we will of course watch this. they were. they were brazen. and for nearly a decade they committed crimes with impunity. they were also decorated police officers. baltimore is once again at the center of a debate over how to police the police. they gang within on al-jazeera.

welcome back you with al jazeera live from london a quick look at the top stories now authorities in the indonesian city of polly who are reportedly considering calling off the search for those killed by last week's earthquake and tsunami as hope fades of finding any survivors as the death toll now stands at more than sixteen hundred people final senate vote on brett kavanaugh u.s. supreme court nomination is expected within hours his lifetime see confirmed after he won the backing of key senators despite sexual assault allegations. and the international police agency interpol has china to clarify the situation of its missing president hallway hasn't been heard from since boarding a flight to china from eleven days ago. when other stories are watching east fifty people have been killed in one hundred others have suffered serious burns when

a fuel tank collided with a vehicle in the democratic republic of congo it happened in the town of his son to near the capital kinshasa roads in the central african nation and notoriously bad off two years of war and neglect. meanwhile in the next hour a ban on traveling by road rail and will come into force in cameroon ahead of presidential elections on sunday country's been rocked by a violent uprising by phone separatists have threatened to disrupt the vote separatists want the english speaking northeast and southwest regions to be independent from the french speaking parts of the country protests two years ago in the english speaking wage and against marginalization by majority french speakers turned deadly when the government launched a crackdown the heavy handed response by francophone president paul sparked an armed uprising by separatists well then four hundred people have been killed and two hundred thousand displaced the eighty five year old president has been in power for thirty six years is up against eight other candidates algis there is hippa

morgan has more than. one of the final rallies before polls open for some this presidential election opposition candidate joshua oshie is trying to gain more support to help replace president who has been in power since one nine hundred eighty to who she is promising to tackle the major challenge of corruption card says saunders of laws security six years of suffering it's thirty six years too long thirty six years as an entire life don't let them know you and they say there is no money up there is a lot of money that is either poorly managed or stolen board and we will stop this sunday's presidential election will be the seventh since ken rudin independence from france in one nine hundred sixteen and paul b. a has run in all of them the eighty five year old is the oldest president in africa critics call him the absentee president because he's often out of the country has been accused of manipulating results in previous elections to retain power and he's accused of keeping a centralized system of governance that's resulted in

a campaign by india speaking cameroonians for secession from the french speaking dominated government in his only campaign rally the president promised to crush the secessionist campaign if he wins again. i don't see still have to restore peace in the northwest and southwest regions which have been bruised by the abuses of the suspicions and give both regions all the satisfaction they're entitled to expect particular them against the excesses of their so-called liberal races. one of the mine presidential candidates withdrew from the race two days before voting anticorruption lawyer a kerry moore now wants his supporters to vote for this man maurice come to leader of the opposition cameroon renaissance movement or m.r.c. president paul b. it will extend his thirty six yr rule over cameroon well over seventy years if he wins opposition parties they will consider the elections rigs if that's happened and there's concerns of violence following election results despite several attempts to form a solid coalition against president beyond the opposition is divided some analysts

see the division will make it difficult to see the president it's very difficult for them to be able to win in front of president be because he has been there for six years. many comer noons. we've. been if tired of the frog has been president for just. some opposition supporters appear confident of victory the election may be the start of a new era for cameroon for seven more years of what voters already know people morgan al-jazeera. in india at least twenty three endangered asiatic lions have been killed by a rare virus over the past month the animals died from canine distemper virus or get in the forest in india's gojira state where the last remaining species live.

india's government is being urged to take immediate steps to save the remaining animals about thirty other lines are being kept in isolation while they undergo tests. now hundreds of protesters have gathered in paris in support of a migrant rescue vessel the aquarius docked in the southern port city of musée on thursday but might not be able to leave again if panama confirms its intention to revoke the ship's registration this means they'll be no charity rescue ships operating off the libyan coast in the past four years over fifteen thousand of drowned while attempting to cross the mediterranean equerry says it's rescued almost thirty thousand people and the has more now from paris. demonstrators here in paris all wearing orange or shirts and t. shirts that say to symbolize the life jackets on the whole of the aquarius ship and they are joining the two charities behind the aquarius doctors out borders and s.o.s. medicine iranian calling upon european leaders any country really to try and reregister

you corneas because what happened last month was the panama withdrew its resident registration now the crew say they believe that is because of pressure from italy the far right government in rome has closed its borders to the aquarius it says it doesn't want any more migrants thriving on its shores and there's no doubt that anti immigration sentiment across europe is married to the aquarius rescue boat a lot harder but this is a boat that in the past ten years has rescued thirty thousand people out of the central mediterranean area a fifth of those are children many of them unaccompanied underdogs the crusade when we met them in march in adult friday what they told us was that every hour every day that passes they know that out there in the mediterranean sea there are people who could be in peril who desperately need lifesaving assistance and for them it's very difficult indeed being stuck in that board knowing that they call do the work that they are tossed to do the remains of begun two days of voting on

a constitutional amendment that would make it harder to legalize same sex marriage the vote has raised concerns that nontraditional families will be discriminated against a conservative group initiated the referendum being held on saturday and sunday and the influential remaining off a duck's church is backing it. there now the opera singer months are out to lose due to his duet with freddie mercury became the anthem for the one thousand nine hundred two barcelona olympics has died at the age of eighty five. with. was admitted to hospital in barcelona last month and died early on saturday morning families requested her cause of death not be released about the mercury's helped introduce her to a new generation of fans. now thousands street performers in new york are on song and on track

a using an old railway line to voice how changes in society are affecting us all cristen salumi explains. 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. they called the high line it's built on what was formerly an elevated railroad track. the audience is invited to move between the groups of singers as you walk on the high line the different stories you hear were inspired by interviews with new yorkers from all walks of life. 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 for the focusing on a time of day associated with change the night coming changes. 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 past or.

in a performance that reflects a changing society in a neighborhood that's literally been transformed by the park. from a run down industrial zone to a present day magnet for tourism investment and now a very unique setting for an urban opera kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. from a small time graffiti artist in the english city of bristol to international pop superstar banksy is no stranger to headlines or public but his latest stunt has left the art world in shock or some are calling it banks thieves on locos at a london option house doest and laughed at one of his best known self destructing in front of their very eyes the girl with the balloon painting it just sold for more than one point three million dollars when it was sucked into a shredder hidden in its frame the artist himself documented the moment on instagram with the caption going. gone the auction house off the set that this was

certainly the first time a work of art had self destructed to coming under the hama. now the skies above new mexico filled with hostile billions for the albuquerque international balloon fiesta well and five hundred of them floated off the ground as dawn broke over the state in the western united states is the forty seventh fiesta to take place and it's also become an opportunity to showcase some regional culture especially for native americans and live in the state as much more in everything we're covering right here the address al-jazeera dot com. here's a quick look at the top stories now authorities in the indonesian city of poly were reportedly considering calling off the search for those killed by last week's earthquake as hopes fade of finding any survivors the death toll from the quake and tsunami now stands at more than sixteen hundred with thousands more people missing

international aid has started to reach the disaster zone where hundreds of thousands are need of assistance to stop the spread of disease. we've heard what diary are reported from our medical team and. problem we're at a pen time so providing basic medical therapy to affected populations we're also doing can been going to health and human bringing you know awareness among the the affected population on what to do and what not to do indeed crikey through that you know they're avoided from. the indeed the final senate vote on judge brett kavanaugh as u.s. supreme court nomination is expected within hours senators have been giving their final testimonies for and against cavanagh's approval for close to thirty hours kavanaugh seat looks all that confirmed after he won the backing of key senators despite an f.b.i. investigation into sexual assault allegations made against him by three women. the

international police agency interpol has asked china to clarify the situation of its missing president making holloway hasn't been heard from since boarding a flight to china from leone eleven days ago is believed to have landed in the country but subsequently disappeared. authorities in hong kong have refused to renew a work visa for the to mallets the asia editor for the financial times it's prompted concern over freedom of speech in the chinese island which was handed back to beijing by the united kingdom over twenty years ago at least fifty people have been killed and a hundred others seriously burned after a fuel tanker collided with a vehicle in the town of his son two in the democratic republic of congo where odes in the central african nation in a tory asli band after years of war neglect many villages had rushed to the scene to collect a leaking fuel. iraq today with all of our top stories coming up next on al-jazeera

its fault lines but much more news follows in just over twenty five minutes time to stay with us. three years ago faultlines went to baltimore during the historic uprising following the death of twenty five year old freddie gray in police custody the city's pain in anger over decades of police abuse had reached a boiling point and the nation took notice i can't tell people not to be angry you know they have a right to be angry this is the time to accept they could do with it if. we were going against baltimore flooded the streets to demand accountability and

when the federal government launched a civil rights investigation and the officers who arrested gray were charged with crimes it looked like some accountability might come. but at the same time another police scandal was brewing. during the chaos of the protest a police officer named wayne jenkins was actively running a drug operation he took prescription drugs that were stolen from looted pharmacies and resold them on the black market but that's not only was doing. them plain jenkins was a sergeant in charge of a powerful unit of plainclothes detectives their job was to take firearms off the street but this f.b.i. evidence revealed that the officers operated as a gang within the police department profiling residents breaking into homes stealing cash trafficking drugs and looting the city of overtime pay what did they

do and. what did they do. it was crooked cops around it don't bad things the people. in two thousand and seventeen eight officers were arrested in one of the worst american police scandals in a generation faultlines returned to baltimore in the midst of that scandal which raise questions the communities across the us have been asking for years how do corrupt officers remain on the street and who should police the police to these officers were finally caught who caught them the u.s. attorney's office and the feds as it were. and that's at scary because one. because of an outside agency didn't step in they'd still be offered.

the f.b.i. use wiretaps to close its case against baltimore's corrupt cops this is audio from those recorded phone calls but. want to. talk to the detectives can be heard plotting their next crimes so if i want to report when their paychecks arrived they bragged about stolen over time. right but i look at. it there's a lot and as the f.b.i. closed in the detectives joked about the brazen schemes of their boss.

that's the voice of detective jamil raymond p. pleaded guilty to a host of robberies and conspiracy to resell guns and drugs. so this is rames plea agreement from two thousand and seventeen but rames plea revealed something even more shocking he had committed crimes for nearly a decade he admits to crimes dating back to two thousand and nine sometimes detective ram stopped residence in broad daylight and dropped them on the side of the road. that's what happened to gary brown. you know if we don't. in about. age and you don't think about it took my money like a long time well before you both know. we did hear

a lot of stuff like that oh i think a lot of us the feeling that for you they just took the money. hold on little girl . what did you think when he told you that the police stole that money plus our luggage that they were supposed to see. you know believe they were actually police it still is money yes but isn't that who do you think did it then were you who they were i thought they left like a posse. and. they were monsters and they were. it was two thousand and nine and brown was driving up this street in west baltimore cash in his trunk which he planned to deposit at the bank but before he could get there ran into other plainclothes officers pulled him over. he say cut the cough and go so i cut the coffee i got out he begins to go through the car open the doors and all the trunk takes a couple off for me so come on y'all in his writings buddies get in the car pull

off he didn't give me a such. a context he didn't say nothing but. the officer still eleven thousand dollars from the trunk so brown went to this building to complain even though it doesn't look like it this is actually the internal affairs building where residents are supposed to go and file complaints against officers total office interiors baltimore stationary company it's like they're in cognito inside this building the police department investigates its own officers but these misconduct investigations are secrets in maryland and twenty two other states and officers disciplinary record is kept confidential why do you think they made the buildings internal affairs building so obscure the internal affairs division does appear to have laid this covert operation right i think that they believe or are conducting these top secret investigations and so why would we want the public to come in here interfering with that so that that's

a problem. internal affairs has the power to discipline officers but in cities across america that rarely happens when brown was robbed baltimore's internal affairs division ruled against officers only seven percent of the time. these are the confidential files from the investigation of detective ray i'm well it's a good one it's difficult to get a copy but a whistleblower gave them to civil rights attorney josh inslee and i'm going to shock the cops going to want to he said she said in baltimore city you know on the law but this wasn't a he said she said return affairs investigates it they bring these guys in they take statements they take statements or mr brownlee polygraph everybody and graham fails the polygraph you know did you rob this guy had no zero probability of deception greater than ninety nine percent. internal affairs caught detective ray and in two of his colleagues in a series of lies area allegations of misconduct sustained misconduct general

sustained graham could have lost his job false statement sustained and they go back to duty sustained john farnham. they rob somebody need to go polygraph he failed but that's not what happened graham appealed the ruling in a trial bored of his fellow officers cleared him of wrongdoing i mean it's like getting caught tiptoeing out the window with the with the mask in the bag and the dollar sign on to that of the crime scene and that's still not enough. then what is you know what getting data by the feds that this is the only stop that is to be so notorious that the actual u.s. attorney's office has to come in and take you off the screen the police department on the street and the public remained in the dark state law treats these cases and these officer misconduct allegations his personnel records their health confidential and not able to be released to the public officers are actually public

servants they have the public trust and they are of course there to protect and serve the public and so when they have violate the public or accused of violating the public is something the public should know. brown never got the stolen money back and he didn't know that ray him had stayed on the force. one day when i was watching t.v. and his picture popped up and i saw some of it took my money play of city sold drugs with another former police officer and how did you feel when you saw that munch on par with fresh. thinking i told him that i would the internal affairs told him to my money ten years when you're just getting. when you have people in the neighborhoods and you say look at these police rob you they be true they plant drugs on you discipline we know they do. and. we're going

to send them back out there anyway it's a reflection of this whole stance that the city has in the value of their lives. and that's the problem and that's where riots come from gets back. i was wondering if anybody was. just supposed to protect and serve. y'all ain't going on there that they're not to listen anything they're just enforcing for. dan we have no respect we have respect for them. you know. the corruption was not limited to detective or am. after the two thousand and fifteen uprisings here the department of justice began a civil rights investigation of policing in baltimore. the d.o.j. found that police here routinely violated people's rights. and internal affairs had enabled those abuses. and this report the d.o.j.

found that internal affairs almost never hold officers accountable in baltimore between two thousand and ten and two thousand and fifteen they ruled against officers accused of serious misconduct only two percent of the time. let's be honest this is not something that just exists here in baltimore but this whole you know giving additional deference to law enforcement and treating law enforcement as if they're somehow above the law above the people is just a culture it's a mentality. during the obama administration department of justice attorney jonathan smith revealed a national trends. d.o.j. investigations of some twenty american cities found the police had failed to police their own finding that accountability systems are an adequate and broken and that in general affairs is not designed to identify and address serious misguided police

officers is a common finding in place department after police department after police department what makes this scandal so serious and significant and political is that over time the department has failed to address its own issues its it failed to engage the community and mistrust has built up. we're for our form isn't always pretty it's messy sometimes in baltimore this man was hired to tackle the problem soon after the protests in two thousand and fifteen kevin davis had a lot of work to do this place was a mess there was no accountability here a lack of accountability in internal affairs contributed to making these guys the monster so they turned out to be davis made it a priority to improve internal affairs the division began to rule against.