on the court the supreme court is critical to our democracy they make choices that impact our lives our futures and our children's eyes we are not going to say here and just lie down and let this country mean shann get us down we're going to get right back up keep fighting and get that change that we want even if it's not president trump though saw a different picture of the gathering the street before the vote was taken womenfolk of an oar and many others who support the very good man are gathering all over capitol hill it's a beautiful thing to see he continues and they are not paid professional protesters who are handed expensive signs big day for america this bitter nomination process could have a major impact on the midterm elections to take place next month an opportunity for democrats to crawl back a majority in both the house and the senate. but even this would not change a simple stock fact with this second successful confirmation president trump has

pushed the center of the court firmly to the right by cannot al-jazeera washington now in the past hour we have had reaction from president donald trump. so we have a great new supreme court justice needs going to be there for many years we are very very proud of him and what he and his family had to endure and it's a it's a great testament and it's a testament also to our country let's check in with deborah liz on though in washington d.c. who was down at the supreme court earlier as those protests were going on deborah looking at a tweet from donald trump where he's trying to downplay the crowd that was there you tell us what it was like. yeah it was a big big crowd oh well more than i think trump tweeted that it was just a couple hundred people in his tweet it's just factually incorrect there are well over a thousand protesters there throughout the day as i was there the entire day it was

really a day when most of the protesters that were there vast majority of them were against the nomination and now the confirmation of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court but you know they knew from the day before how the senators were going to vote so there wasn't a lot of suspense so much on saturdays there was sort of the protesters gathering together to show unity and to give one final in this way final. voice of displeasure of how this whole process went down and it was mostly women not all but i would say the majority were women this is really sparked deep divisions in the united states but i can tell you it's really sparked a nerve with many women in this country who feel that that the accuser dr for just wasn't treated right and wasn't given her fair chance or a fair shake in this entire thing right so that female bodies that you saw back and we would assume they would be largely democrat you'd say they're pretty energized by this whole thing because i'm sure the republicans at this stage would see it as

a when they got their man. yeah it is no doubt about it the protesters that were out in washington today and kavanaugh protesters they lost they lost in the sense of they lost their battle or lost their hope to try to block him from getting to the supreme court that's not going to happen he's already there he's been he's been taken the oath already in fact as a matter of fact so that's what he's lost but what a lot of the protests that we spoke to were all pointing to november and that's when the big midterm elections are and that's when they say they're going to get out and vote in huge numbers they say to turn the congress in a different way a congress that now is controlled both the house of representatives and the senate by the republican party they say this will be the thing that will drive many many democratic women to the polls and that perhaps could switch the congress to democratic and that's what they were talking about but we'll have to wait and see for those november midterm elections that are just about a month away all right thank you gabriel alexander in washington d.c.

let's pick up that same point now with political analyst bill schneider also in washington hi bill is this a case of the republicans win the battle right now but the war is still very much on going into the midterms this war has been going on for decades it's a war between left and right liberal and conservative democrat and republican and it's going to continue at the polls in november and all the way to at least twenty twenty when donald trump stands for reelection. tell us about well if we just set the politics aside for actually look at the supreme court itself that now has this conservative majority i know this is a really broad question but what does that mean in the immediate future. in the immediate future we can't be sure because there are no dramatic important cases that are likely to come before the supreme court in the immediate future but there will be cases they'll be a lot of interests who want to bring cases were guarding abortion rights and gay rights and campaign finance and all the issues about which conservatives feel the

supreme court has not treated them fairly conservatives are now thrilled that they've been fighting this for fifty years they are thrilled finally to have a majority on the supreme court and many conservatives and republicans are determined to bring cases to court where they think the supreme court will be in their favor that brett kavanaugh is going to be watched really closely now isn't he not just because of the allegations made against him but also just because of his political leanings yes he will be watched very carefully in another justice who will be watched is the chief justice of the united states who presides over the supreme court john roberts because he's now the closest thing on the court to a swing vote he is a conservative and part of the conservative majority but on some issues he's taken a more conciliatory stand with liberals and moderates for instance he cast the vote that up held obamacare president obama's health care plan he was the fifth vote to keep the obamacare plan in place and

a lot of conservatives were angry about that and resented that so he's going to be the man whose vote is looking looked at very closely as well as kavanagh. politically speaking tell me what this past week has been like in washington i mean every week it seems we have some major political drama but this one just it just felt like it had this added edge to it. it did i compare it to another extreme division which was one hundred and some years ago the division over the dreyfus case in france which is a division over into semitism in this case it had to do with feminism with women's rights with sexual assault but this was a division that struck right to the heart of american society it was partly over men about men versus women but the bigger division wasn't men versus women the big division was republicans versus democrats this really started a year ago when the meat to movement started that accused in which women accused

men of sexual assault and sexual harassment many of the men were guilty and didn't fight the charges it hasn't been political until now suddenly the entire me too movement has become an issue of partisan discord and a lot of men like president trump have been outspoken in saying finally men are willing to defend themselves and speak up and they did so in direct admiration of brett kavanaugh his testimony it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for your time. we've got plenty more ahead of you this news hour as cameroonians head to the polls opposition parties are scrambling to mobilize votes against one of africa's longest serving leaders. i'm just talked about there in the french port of say where the aquarius migrant rescue ship is waiting for a country to step forward and register it so it can continue its mission at sea. manchester united back on track paul will have all the details

a little later. flattened neighborhoods in indonesia. may soon be declared mass graves the search for those missing after the earthquake and tsunami is continuing and president all victims must be found but so far the rescue operation has been slow it has been difficult heavy machinery can't move in areas where the strength of the earthquake transformed hard ground into mud more than sixteen hundred people are confirmed dead and there are growing concerns about the outbreak of disease when hey reporter now from a neighborhood in 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 a lie 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. the most difficult thing when searching for bodies

here is that there are sometimes you'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 and 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. on the. plane hey al jazeera indonesia. to brazil which is gearing up for what's been described as the

most divisive election in its democratic history election officials have distributed ballot boots and electronic voting machines ahead of sunday's vote one hundred and forty seven million voters will choose from thirteen candidates for president and pollsters say it's highly likely none of them would get the fifty percent necessary for victory that would mean a runoff vote the top two candidates later this month to raise about with this update for us now from sao paulo. we're here in the city also polo where hundreds of people have gathered to protest against the possibility that jaded voice and i will become president next precedent they're asking those four and decided to vote for anyone except him here he's the out out with five a man had a head out to him because it's. sexist. homophobic it's like the new hitler and that's what i said terry what does it mean if

president elect him and. it mean that. he. seems like. nazi a kind of fake because if not forever it was a secret and it's sad that. mobile phone. places to say that we are related to. others thank you very much. the last day of campaigning here in britain so full that and i don't feel waiting around fifteen countries at the workers' party it's effective to win in iraq at the beginning and made him feel to me to be fit for the job that's where you and a few of you for example i'm from in order to appeal to his voters to vote for him and if election even though wants it out of popularity have increased in recent days it may not be not him going in the first round so that's to rise above that

we've also got a latin america edison to see a new man with more on how both gained popularity. four years ago jade a punk for 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 to 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 views of bullets are not a former army captain they can stand out from the rest he had buyers brazils and chile's 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's not outspoken fascists he does mobilize fascist sentiments in the brazilian society. the sonata says gays should be beaten into turning straight and that most women deserve lower salaries than men and should stay home to care for their children. but bulls are not all 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 their his supporters joyfully mimic also not his favorite gestures gesture with the gesture of combat against the criminals and corruption that has our country in tatters. but books are not a strongest support comes from here. brazil's large and influential christian evangelical churches they transcend racial and social lines and 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 childe vote for. me 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 they show no mercy against crime has won him up laws 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 wilson out as lead in the race to become brazil's next

president in human al-jazeera rio de janeiro as the same mention the election in brazil comes as murder rights have reached record levels just to have a look at this actually last year sixty three thousand three hundred eighty home asides and just to give you an idea of what that actually represents the murder rate in the u.s. is just over five homicides per one hundred thousand people in brazil you're looking at thirty one per one hundred thousand people roughly seven. and our brazil's poor northeastern states including rio grande they do not take a record of the majority of all the science while prosperous regions like sao paulo had much lower murder rights most victims tend to be poor young black men living in cities increasingly they're dying at the hands of police officers a total of five thousand one hundred fifty nine people were killed by police last year that was an increase of twenty percent on the previous years. from a wildly uncertain presidential election to one with

a firm favorite cameroonians have seen only one president for the past thirty six years and the opposition seems too divided in their bid to unseat paul b.-a reports from the capital you one day they have been pushing to get their supporters out to vote on sunday. 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 paul beyond who has been in power since the one nine hundred eighty two zero she is promising to tackle the major challenge of corruption charges to force security six years of suffering it's thirty six years too long six years as an entire life don't let them tell you when they say there is no money there is a lot of money that is either poorly managed or stolen and we will stop this sunday's presidential election will be the seventh since cameroon gained independence from france in one thousand nine hundred eighteen and paul b.n. 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 and his only campaign rally the president promised to crush the secessionist campaign if he wins again. overseas 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 this so-called liberations. 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 compton leader of the opposition cameroon renaissance movement or m.r.c. president paul bear will extend his thirty six to rule over cameron by end of the

seven years if he wins opposition parties say 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 say 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 b. because he has been there for six years and many cameroonians. we've. been if tired of the fact that he has been president for just. some opposition supporters appear confident of victory the election may be the start of a new era for cameroon or seven more years of what voters already know he will morgan al-jazeera. still ahead for you on this news hour. you could be inside syria

and a couple of steps you're in iraq i was on a big job with an i'll tell you what the iraqi security forces with the help of the u.s. led coalition are doing not just to man the border but also to boost the local economy . and then spoke things getting a little heated ahead of one of the biggest fights in the history paul will have all your support but later on. out of the temperature contrast sir truss the u.s. maintains itself you may be can't see it from this except this is the clue when you get a line of something white developing usually storms us a good division attempt she's in the moment we have got the warmth to the south and a long way east was in washington thirty degrees even ots was up at thirteen

degrees so is the line of the temperatures change because on this side you see snow is up on high ground in utah wyoming idaho that sort of area but that snow itself shows much colder air which may well come a bit further south than following twenty four hours from time to get to monday for example it's still snowing yep here it is and it's still raining hard not division in temps she's a twenty eight in the sunshine in washington marker contrast in two in calgary back on the pacific coast pretty woman san francisco too as to the potential for showers exists as far south as south california arizona. go down towards the gulf of mexico in the caribbean this really reflects a thing called the itc's it was the line of rain around the world it's not a complete conference it has a bit of a dog right across guatemala nicaragua and el salvador and that area the right has been persistent and will continue.

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year on the news hour here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories sources have told al-jazeera prominent saudi journalist may have been murdered inside his country's consulate in istanbul turkey as prosecutors a wide nervous today show into the disappearance of jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate on tuesday. president supreme court pick has been sworn in after a contentious senate vote follows thirty hours of intense debate for and against the candidate who is subject to an f.b.i. investigation into sexual assault allegations. can flatten neighborhoods in

indonesia and may soon be declared mass graves following last week's earthquake and tsunami more than six hundred people are confirmed dead and there are growing concerns about the outbreak of disease it's well it is finally reaching the more remote parts of central sort of icy but it's genuine duggan reports from city survivors don't know how they will even begin to rebuild. this is what's left. everything that she worked hard for it's gone after last week's earthquake what. the market was up to here i tried to run to my neighbor's house there i ran i ran into flowing much but i held on to a plant for a while and that's how i survived. village in central sulawesi was a home to around four thousand people. left with the ninety percent of the village

is obliterated it is hard to make sense of this devastation survivors here tell us it was as if a volcano erupted this mud surfaced fifteen meters from underground and then it started to drag homes and people in waves in waves of mud and rock four kilometers from their original location rescuers here tell us they don't even know where to start digging they fear half of the population here is dead homes schools mosques all swallowed by mud and rock. hundreds of survivors are displaced here as well as many other areas in central sulawesi. we met. in one of the mosques just outside the village wide tells us this was not his place of prayer the mosque in the village is gone his parents and brother died in the

earthquake too but he says he is not alone but on. his store lou on the nose humans like us never really know the real reason why this happened this disaster is the best for defeat food because the more faithful we are the heavier the trails are given the best us survivors is on the all give village to try to salvage whatever slept on their belongings some of them refusing to leave the devastated area the spite the danger and certainty and act of resistance they see because they know their suffering is in permanent. duggan al jazeera essential silhouettes see indonesian pakistan's opposition leadership has been jailed for ten days for alleged links to a housing scam back in twenty fourteen sharif was arrested on friday in the whole

his detention means he will not be able to campaign at a violations next week hundreds of activists from his pakistan muslim league no was part reaping alone in gathered outside in support of the courthouse he is the brother of the former prime minister nawaz sharif who was released on bail last month as he appealed his conviction on separate corruption charges. now united nations officials visiting the lake chad region say the conditions of millions of refugees there remain critical they are still living under threat of violence from fighters and depend heavily on humanitarian assistance managers says a report now from my ducati. and how children return to term empty and that. they're going to bed hungry. for the past five months here and her family have been begging on the street this evening they came back with nothing.

that they were not going their situation is desperate sometimes we get a little help sometimes we don't know we don't looks after ten children and grandchildren all of them lost their fathers to us these are some of the most vulnerable victims of the violence trapped in camps like this one would not have to go back to they depend on for their sisters and their fear that. they will start. some forty kilometers from the camp their stories a bit better for the people of. the community and all of the drums to welcome the united nations for helping rebuild their homes school and hospital all destroyed. in twenty fourteen. well the united nations says the situation remains desperate. hundreds of people every day are coming fleeing from a. terrorist insurgency. people.

the u.n. says it's changing its approach our aim is not to keep people in refugee camps it's not to keep them. at the receiving end of food supplies medicines and basic support it's to help them recover their livelihoods. many of the victims of return who cannot cultivate their farms for fear of being attacked making them rely on hand. i did a conference in bali last month raised a billion dollars for humanitarian assistance in the lake chad region and now the pledge of one billion dollars to help recover. amount it workers say will help two point four million displaced and millions of others affected by the fight. for a few who are beginning to resettle they can afford to smile and celebrate at least . common. ground.

syria's rebels are withdrawing heavy weaponry from an area in northwest province it's a buffer zone as part of a joint plan by russia and turkey that is a verse had a massive assault by government forces on the rebel strongholds the deal requires armed fighters within the demilitarized zone withdraw their heavy weapons by october ten people in iraq's western desert are struggling to rebuild their lives months after the defeat of eisel the army says attacks in the area continue sporadically which is delaying the rebuilding efforts and the return of many residents reports from all claim on the iraqi syrian border. this road leads to the syrian capital damascus time is the last iraqi town before entering syria and all to the last place where i see fighters were pushed out from. that's why security forces here keep an eye on who goes in and out with. the term is secured by dozens of checkpoints by army and. still there are small groups which

pop up here and try to disrupt security and stability of the town. just a third of all crimes quarter of a million residents remain because of security concerns and slow reconstruction said on much marcum onto a way sink the basic services to be restored but so far nothing's happened we call on the authorities to speed up play work to bring us water and electricity and everyone knows that we have no services we depend on private generators it costs ten dollars per ampere and we can't afford it most of us are unemployed and we can't find jobs. iraqi forces know their long term success after isis defeat depends on providing solutions in these remote towns and villages in. the people witness i suppose destruction in atrocities that's why it's key to strengthen the relationship between the forces and locals and we admit that security forces sometimes have flaws but the ministry of defense intelligence and military establishment a closely monitoring whoever tries to do bad things and to create the relationship

between us and the people the fear and lack of opportunities are shared across. the vast desert which was ruled by eisel and even in the greener pastures on the banks of the euphrates. these women told us that their relatives went missing and derisive and it's a struggle every day to put food on the table further upstream is the syrian end of the river euphrates they're. still hold a few pockets the syrian democratic forces on that side and the iraqi security forces on this and have been able to clear almost all areas from isis but the question remains. whether they'll be able to maintain the peace after winning the war. this meter fluctuates with the wind instead of electricity the biggest challenge here is rebuilding isolate stripped underground cables and power generators for copper and brass now millions of dollars are required to restart just this substation which used to cater for three districts and notice your me at

this and people on a daily basis keep asking us how we have progress in restoring the power grid people are fed up from displacement and want to go back home they want incentives and hope this is only achieved by getting power back people in time see electricity and water and life and they need it desperately in conversations their worries outweigh their hopes but in the end they say hope is all they can hold on to osama bin job it all does era and time on the iraq syria border protesters in paris demanding a rescue ship be granted permission to get back to sea to rescue more refugees and migrants in distress the aquarius has been stuck in the french port of must say off to panama withdrew its registration last week that has the story. demonstrators in paris angry that the french charity ship with a mission to save lives in the mediterranean sea is being prevented from doing its job panama revoked the registration of the aquarius last.