the investigation is that we need to understand what's really really happening it's it's this is a cut this is shifting the conversation it's going to eclipse gender it's going to include eclipse race and we're finally going to be able to make this a conversation about power and when that happens we're going to be able to have a real conversation about equality in this country because it's not there right now do you feel like you are speaking to power do you feel that people here standing outside of the u.s. capitol are standing up to power and if so our lewdly we are raising our voices whether power chooses to hear us or not i'm not entirely convinced of that but that's not going to go back and we're not going to back down we're not going to stop last question very quickly where do you go from here is going to be on the supreme or we go to november midterm election absolutely thank you nancy i appreciate it thanks for speaking to us well there you heard it from one person that vehemently opposes judge brett kavanaugh i think you heard it from her emotion she speaks for thousands of people that were here. talking about how they wanted

their voices heard heard until the very end their vote for kavanaugh going to the supreme court or not should be happening in the next hour and a half to two hours kate thank you for that game and is on to live for us in washington. neighborhood scene indonesians in a way sea island may soon be declared mass graves as a sage for those missing after last week's earthquake and tsunami continues president djoko we don't know says all victims must be found but so far the rescue operation has been snow and difficult neighborhoods in some parts of sin away and have been destroyed heavy machinery can't move in areas where the strength of the earthquake transformed hard ground into mud the death toll now stands at more than sixteen hundred and they are concerns about the outbreak of disease when he reports from ben arwa a neighborhood in panama city which has been at the center of the disaster. most of this suburb of palu city is reduced to a vast wasteland of rubble and debris which is shrouded in the smell of decaying

bodies when the earthquake struck the ground turned to mud and sank by several metres in a process called liquefaction hundreds of houses collapsed the search for the missing goes on but the government is considering calling off the operation that's unimaginable for people who want a chance to say goodbye to their missing family members. seven hundred month i hope my sons are still alive even if i can't meet them again i want to see their faces for the last time even if they're dead i want to see them. mahmoud comes here each day and watches the search teams hoping for any sign of her children there was and again today the area they're searching here was the field at a preschool presumably people thought it would be a safe place to run to when the quake struck but the ground beneath them turned to mud and swallowed them up so far they've pulled thirteen bodies out of here. those

with the grim task of searching the deep mud say they don't want to give up either but sometimes it's overwhelming when. the most difficult thing when searching for bodies here is that there sometimes we'll find a body but the area isn't clear enough to get it out it can be dangerous for us to some survivors such as this boy whose mother was killed come back searching for positions and memories of those they lost. the government says people who used to live here will be relocated at a memorial built to remember the disaster but survivors don't want their home to become a mass grave and want to eventually return. we're sons were born and raised here we have to build this see the again because we have to survive and we are strong it will go on as the day draws to a close some of the few bodies found are brought out for identification. they may be some of the last from this area to have

a proper farewell. wain hey al jazeera indonesia. convoys of helicopters are now taking aid into areas cut off by road andrew thomas is on one of them and has this report.

area. more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including brazilians repair to go to the polls in the most divisive election since the country's return to democracy thirty years ago and it's for things get a little heated ahead of one of the biggest fights in history all the here with the latest. for us china's civil liberties and human rights are once again under the spotlight into paul has to clarify the web ounce and while being of his chief men home way banks family and friends say they haven't heard from him since he flew to china last month french police already investigating his disappearance maying is a former chinese vice minister of public security

a china correspondent adrian brown has more 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 kind 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 right from on this let's speak to steve stang who is the director of the china policy institute school of contemporary chinese at the school of contemporary chinese studies he joins us via skype thank you very much for being with us so all is menc home way and why are chinese authorities so tight lipped about his

disappearance. well first of all let me clarify i'm the director of the show was china in situ not the china policy institute now mongoloid was a fool ministerial rang official in china even though he held the rank of lice minister before he was appointed to the interpol so he was a very senior figure he was also until earlier this year a member a member of the central committee of the common his party so again that put him in the top two hundred fifty most powerful people in china so for somebody in his standing for him to be detained the order would have to come from pretty much the very top so do you think he is being detained well the complete

silence all of the chinese media when the rest of the world is making a big fuss of it and him being a chinese citizen and will negate practically a confirmation that the chinese government has now got him under detention this otherwise dinah's meeting with him in you should write and his disappearance as bad a hallmark so what happens to senior officials when they're being suspected of violating party rules what would he be investigated for. well when he you ventry reappears and if he is not being released in the next few days so that's the issue can be if you like brush aside then he will publicly reemerge in coal contesting to his crumbs for whatever he's been charged all and be sentenced for that. it is somewhat all which to

see it as a simple corruption case because he's already operationally left the chinese government or two years working at the interpol sold to go back to him or his story corruption charges when he is charming back to china. for interpol seems very very unusual you say historical case they can wait until he's british term at interpol before they get ok thank you very much for speaking to us. thank you very much for speaking to us steve sang from the school of oriental and african studies are joining us there from the u.k. apologies for getting your title wrong earlier thank you so much for joining us. head on al-jazeera. i'm natasha popular in the french port of mass a wealthy aquarius and migrant rescue ship is waiting for a country to step forward and register it so it can continue its mission at sea.

and going going gone british street artist banksy makes history with his most daring stunt yet. force one and all gets back to business on the field for his capture ventus paul be here with that story to stay with us back after the short break. and i wish i was a developer of the southern caspian have been pretty big recently i'm pretty sure i've been flash flooding around the higher ground this part of iran as a whole mass is moving slowly northeast was change a season really than the forecast is a line of greatness which suggests clyde and potentially showers even to the south and lying back through iraq bitterly to say the reliable there but the occasional showers possible certainly has been disturbance in the eastern med recently and low

temperatures are slowly coming down the chance of rain is still low but the no longer impossible to the south of that though it is a dry picture of the arabian peninsula for the next day or two it should be draws no preventing breeze our human is not overly high but coming up from the arabian sea quiet possibly this will be a cyclon developing and therefore incoming can eventually rain not into tuesday most likely insulin after it's all gone quiet again satellite doesn't reveal very much in the way of anything coming out of the sky either a few showers still indoors and maybe just touching something madagascar forecast wise well it's a thirty one in botswana twenty six in cape town so it's warm but it's also dry the not the picture you want to see at least in cape town.

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welcome back you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me for the back to a reminder of our top stories sources have told on just about saudi officials through into the turkish city of istanbul and visit to consulate on the same day that a dissident saudi journalist went missing jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on tuesday. u.s. present donald trump to speak for the supreme court brett kavanaugh is expected to be formally confirmed by the senate in about an hour's time these are live pictures from outside the u.s. capitol where a growing group of protesters are gathered against common also possible appointment several have been arrested and the death toll in indonesia as

a quake and tsunami has risen to more than sixteen hundred president djoko we doto says all victims must be found and not by worries about outbreak of disease as more decaying bodies are being pulled from the rubble. to brazil now and we're less than twenty four hours away from one of its most unpredictable elections in recent times one hundred forty seven million brazilians will head to the polls on sunday to elect their state governors and a new president all eyes are on the presidential race there are five main candidates controversial far right candidate. is in the lead according to opinion polls and this is despite not having campaigned in the last few weeks after he survived an assassination attempt trailing him is former mayor fed mando had dogs he was fixed by the workers' party after their main candidate former president lula da silva was barred from running because he is serving jail time for corruption also from the left is the democratic labor party's ciro. gomez he's an experienced politician and i'm not professing and then there's around oh i'll come in who is

running on a platform of privatization and social program cuts finally this former environment minister marina silva the sustainability network's candidate is a strong voice on green issues and latin america at its embassy in newman has more now on how she aborts the merrill gains popularity. four years ago jade a punk isman from an obscure ultra right wing party was considered anything but a presidential contender but a long running political and economic crisis in brazil has transformed him from an eccentric into a potential savior for millions of brazilians tired of crime corruption and liberal views no you don't reduce violence with flowers to be clear weapons don't cause war and flowers don't guarantee peace the the views of bullets are not a former army captain they can stand out from the rest he had buyers brazils and chillies former dictatorships condones torture and supports arming ordinary

citizens he proposes obligatory birth control for poor people whose offspring he thinks wouldn't make good citizens i think that he walks on a very thin line of fascism because even though even though he is not outspoken fascists he does mobilize fascist sentiments in the brazilian society. the sonata says gays should be beaten into turning street and that most women deserve lower salaries than men and should stay home to care for their children. but bulls are not a has tapped into the fears and frustrations of brazilians and anti-globalization anti establishment stance no one like donald trump or the philippines revealed that with their his supporters joyfully mimic also not his favorite gesture yesterday with the gesture of combat against the criminals and corruption that has our country and. totters. but bullets are not a strongest support comes from here. brazil's large and influential christian

evangelical churches they transcend racial and social lines an echo his belief that fundamental christian values are under attack especially from left wing parties even though she doesn't like his six just views brenda that says. my main reason is because the family values the values of procreation between men and women because we are losing those values and as elsewhere here in the slums of rio de janeiro also matter how to show no mercy against crime has won him applause murder rates here in brazil have reached record levels and so many that we don't mind when he says things like the only good criminal is a dead criminal nor are they frightened when he promises to put members of the military in his cabinet. his running mate is in fact a retired general who does not rule out military intervention if necessary and yet nothing including

a near fatal assassination attempt that hasn't allowed him to campaign for almost a month can seem to diminish his lead in the race to become brazil's next president see in human al-jazeera rio de janeiro and any three and a half million bosnians are expected to vote on sunday in elections that are being seen as a test of the country's unity abbas and has again a government is a highly complex structure divided along ethnic lines that merit a fragmented population david chase a reports. the bosnian muslim village of pod gro was within sniper range of the front line during the war of the early ninety's the scars and memories from those days still haunted they have a simple message for the politicians standing in these elections you've been lying to us for years no party is welcome in. of the a solo act was distilling plum brandy with friends when we came to talk to him those are very few

he said he was looking for a job in germany young people are deserted villages like his forty percent of them are unemployed nationwide. but if you wanted to date twenty three years after the war we are still inexplicably isolated we are forgotten like we're in the middle of nowhere the whole village is indignant. the sewage system is breaking down and they get all their water from pipes coated with asbestos time and again they've been promised new roads if they'd all been fulfilled these dirt tracks would now be a metre thick in concrete. distrust in the whole political process here is now at a record high seven out of every ten registered voters believe these elections will be neither free nor fair bosnia's political system is one of the most complex anywhere in the world it ended the war but virtually guaranteed

a failing state there are a dizzying array of candidates bosnian croat and serb one hundred twenty eight political entities fifty three parties and thirty six coalitions that all levels of government the process has been hijacked by political parties is controlled by the political parties and even those that are going to institution that are supposed to ensure that there is an integrity in the whole process are largely under control of political parties and to complicate matters even more the leader of the serbian entity inside the country is actually calling for its independence citing the heritage of the convicted a war criminal rather than carriage. also must not fail our first leaders starting with mr courage who believed he and the people he led needs to build republika srpska to be an independent country election monitors in sarajevo say they have observed

a record number of irregularities including bribes blackmail and threats to voters they described the situation as chaotic. failure to update polling records also means the dead will again be rising from their graves to vote whoever wins the people say they will lose again david chaytor al jazeera is very a verb. hong kong's immigration authorities fused to renew the vsa of a prominent foreign journalists raising concerns of a clampdown on press freedom the decision is being linked to an event the journalist hell set involving an independent activist in august david upon and has been at the immigration department where people are demanding ounces ok i tell my family i'm not going to jail very many are calling it a revenge tactic victor mallet asked vice president of the foreign correspondent club had defied the beijing government and the hong kong government's objections and refused to cancel an event involving an independence activists for another city

said the political party funded by that independence activist has been banned under national security grounds that's the first time that's ever happened and just weeks later when mallett went to renew his work visa wright was rejected right here trying to encourage over the past few years the process of just deterioration of freedom has been excessive rate and it is what results and we should. do international community of a homegrown people he's very angry about the section but was told the press they are working with freedom and they should be respect the. what used to story the protesters are calling this a disgrace that they say the journalist is being punished for not toeing the government line boy who's now this is an alarming development particularly for the media community on kong has always been a base for foreign journalists where they can operate without restrictions and the reason regime here has always been seen as transparent and fair for the financial

times the amount of work says this is the first time they've encountered such a problem it was not believed a lot of heat from home people like me who was born and raised in hong had never thought that one day the international media would be expelled from hong kong like that we believe that such things would only happen in china hong kong has semi autonomous status and enjoys freedoms not seen across the border. mainland china but since landmark twenty fourteen pro-democracy protests the chinese government and the hong kong government have made our precedented moves to limit political activity and freedom of expression raising fears that it's just a matter of time before hong kong becomes just like any other city in china. and returning now to our top story on this news hour and the mysterious disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi he went missing after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on tuesday now turkish officials have told al-jazeera that a delegation of saudi officials fifteen of them in total arrived in istanbul and

visited the consulate on the same day that jamal went missing let's speak to belong now who is a journalist and director of golf matters he is live from london i know you've known jamal khashoggi for a long time you you're a friend of his turkish officials now saying that saudi officials arrived in istanbul and visited the consulate on the same day that jamal khashoggi disappeared do you think there's a link between these two events yesterday. apologies for that we seem to have lost connection there with our guest in london let's hope we can reestablish it and go back to bill law in just a few minutes his back he's back ok bill bill can you hear me. yes i can hear you but what what i'm what i was saying was that the saudi authorities have claimed that you militia she left the consulate well if he left the consulate why did he

not then immediately seek out is just a was waiting outside for him the fact that fifteen saudi officials arrived at the concert the same day is very very suspicious and i think very ominous that the saudis them form in regard to the forcible repatriation of critics of the regime its restudy princes in two years were kidnapped from three european cities and repatriated i'm very very concerned that a similar fate as the ball and djimon hounsou sheet and i feel very strongly that the saudis have questions to answer and they remain incapable it seems of answering those questions what turkish officials on not saying at this point is whether the saudi officials that left the stumble after arriving there on teesdale left with jamal khashoggi do you believe he is still on taxes soil or is he somewhere else.

well what i have been informed from from i think a very good source is that he is already in saudi arabia that he was i believe taken out in a vehicle with the money plates and was. flown out of the country and as my understanding is that he is now in jeddah and he's being held in jeddah. again if this is not the case then it's up to the saudi authorities to answer some serious question i don't believe they're answering those questions i think what we're seeing is in a sense a replay of the hariri incident where this extraordinary affectively a kidnapping of the prime minister of another country and only with the intercession of the french a french president not drop that situation defused itself i think the saudis are again miscalculated your manager she is is it is a well respected journalist a man who has written critically yes of the regime but also thoughtfully and in and

constructively and he has said that he supports vision twenty thirty which margaret so much is pushing forward and yet he's seen as a threat the saudi authorities have said that to market and to the consulate in istanbul and methods the crown prince has even said that he's willing to allow turkish authorities visit the consulates. you know so what do you think the strategy is here that they seem to be open to the idea of ona interrogation fishbowls all authorities to investigate. d think it's deceit. well i think yes they're prepared to have turkish authorities going to the constant because as milo she is no longer there. in terms of of what this means for the saudis it's strange relations with the church the church are furious about this because joel is actually as you are she's fiances a turkish citizen this is

a again i think another. blunder by the saudis and by bombus online it again underestimating the significance. and the importance of tamala show she and i don't want to fact i believe that carried out which is an extrajudicial kidnapping of one of their own citizens to tell tell us more about you know. and why he was such a prominent he is sorry such a prominent voice. and you know the did did he have concerns about his safety. yes i think i think has or she has for many years he's always pushed the envelope but in terms of he's a secular he's liberal he has it is pushed the saudi society to move forward he was sacked as it is you're going to walk on because he pushed too

far he was sacked again he came back as editor about a rotten was sacked again he has always been someone who is prepared to push the envelope he's a pragmatist she understands the terrain of saudi arabia he really i think is it is a committed journalist he balances a stories and he is someone who simply because he is a critic of their regime is seen as a threat mahmassani if you look at what he has done that he has met may have made sweeping arrests of businessmen and senior princes all of whom had contacts with with the west right here is here is a rested women who basically would support vision twenty thirty two militia she is going to record as saying you support special twenty three these are all people who would support vision his mom gets all man's vision and yet he is he is incarcerating them a bit below just one last question before we let you go you mentioned the a much

kidnapping of the lebanese prime minister saad how reby and how france intervened in that case who could intervene in the case of democracy which country could inferences saudi crown prince and the new regime in riyadh. well i mean sadly the country that could influence most is the country is least likely didn't want and that's america don't trump detest the washington post that the newspaper which i did my lunch as it was writing its own but just days on the underground was on trump is not going to come to our. aid unfortunately the british government has said nothing the silence is deafening i don't know who will step up i'm hoping that perhaps the europeans will step up and make some noise i think is important in these days these debt that he has been see is and we still don't know where he is

a lie believe that he is in saudi arabia that pressure is kept up that the saudis are forced as happened with very are forced to acknowledge that looks we made a mistake and some sort of. approach needs to be brought forward so it jamal actually she is released as i say i'm very very concerned right now and i would like to see more pressure brought to bear certainly by the british government i don't expect anything from the americans thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us been launching a staff from one to thank you. the protests as in paris and demanding that a rescue ship be given permission to get back to sea to rescue more refugees and migrants distress korea says talk in the french port city of must say after panama with joe as resit mass week attash about now reports from our say. demonstrators in paris angry that the french charity ship with a mission to save lives of the mediterranean sea is being prevented from doing its job panama revoked the registration of the aquarius last week the ship to sail and

this is not the country of greece to break history it's we. lounged three robyn states to help us and to help first. finding a new rock bands like. the moments we still haven't received any response since those days the aquarius has been docked in the southern port of maps say but this is where the crew would rather be if you were very likely requires began operations two years ago it's rescue thirty thousand people on the treacherous sea crossing between libya and europe migrants and refugees fleeing violence and poverty the crew says most of the survivors are deeply traumatized people who are actually caring for it's in their bodies. from their time in so it's a conflict it's zone environment where.