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 mid-term elections that take place next month an opportunity for democrats to call back a majority in both the house and the senate. but even this would not change a simple stark fact with this second successful confirmation president trump has pushed the center of the court firmly to the right by kana al-jazeera washington and here's president on a trump speaking at a rally in kansas about kavanaugh confirmation was just a few hours ago the u.s. senate confirmed. just like joie bread. and and.

above i can really shine the judges commission. air force one just before landing. well the supreme court's had a conservative five four majority for decades but one judge tended to take a more centrist position that was anthony kennedy he was the swing vote which legalized same sex marriage up held abortion rights and he's the one now being replaced by a cavalier or even several other five foreigners have benefited right wing republicans got a few of them here for you twenty thirteen the court stopped a legal challenge to a once secret surveillance project that took an american electronic communications most importantly this was a warrantless project in the twenty thousand citizens united case the court ruled campaign finance restrictions violated free speech so now corporations and labor

unions can spend unlimited amounts to support or indeed oppose candidates in twenty thirteen a ruling weakened the voting rights act which protects the rights of black voters in southern states with a history of racial discrimination and of course in the year two thousand the supreme court actually decided who would be president in bush versus gore the five four ruling stopped a recount in florida where just over five hundred votes separated those two candidates always a pleasure to have finkelstein with us from philadelphia she's the director of ethics and the rule of law or at the university of pennsylvania law school nice to see clear one of our earlier guests was saying how we don't necessarily have anything coming up in the short term that is as big as say any of those cases i just mentioned can you tell us though what to look for long term now that we have this very solid five four majority. well that's right justice cavanagh joins four members of the court who are already very

conservative the most recent one of course being donald trump's last appointment gorsuch and that really consolidates a very conservative majority one of the most critical issues that's likely to come up in the near future are issues concerning presidential authority itself so if donald trump for example has to answer to a subpoena the question will arise whether or not he has the right to refuse to do so and this is a key issue on which we might expect this conservative now majority to side with the president very soon there will be a case involving deportations and immigrants rights this is obviously been very controversial in the country and once again we can expect the new associate justice justice cavanagh to side with a conservative now majority on the court i think it's highly likely that we will

see one of any number of abortion cases trickle up to the supreme court as many pro-life activist groups have just been waiting to bring such a case when the moment was ripe to be able to overturn roe v wade and though he did not commit on the issue and told senator collins that he regarded roe v wade as settled law it's not clear what that means and whether or not he won't at least chip away at the right to abortion so i guess then based on everything you've said then you're not too optimistic about how the court will will how it will develop i guess over the next few years or as we said before potentially decades because this is this is something long term we're looking at. well that's right justice cavanagh could be on the court for the next forty years and many of the other conservative justices are also very young and so there may be a very strong swing to the right but what concerns me more is not just the content

of the opinions but the whole politicization of the process and i don't know whether or not the supreme court can recover from the extreme partisan politics that surrounded this nomination and the very serious partisan remarks that judge now justice kavanagh made in his confirmation hearings attacking democrats and attacking the entire process there's a question about how he's going to be able to function on the court in light of the partisanship he has displayed and whether or not they'll be pressure on him to recuse himself from any number of cases so will he be the one who's always just in light of everything that's happened in the last few weeks will he be the one who's always closely watched all or watched the closeness out of all of the justices for his his leanings his decisions. yes and at this point there could be further ramifications to the way this process played out as

you're no doubt aware the f.b.i. investigation into the allegations of christine lossie ford and two other women was very constrained and the white house kept short reign on this process there were only nine witnesses who were interviewed more information may come out and it's always possible that the f.b.i. could end up reopening an investigation if the political stars aligned correctly it could also happen after the new midterms that the democrats gain a majority in either the house of representatives or in the senate or both in which case he could face impeachment and so i think that the politicization of this process and the complaints about justice kavanagh will continue and may continue to plague him as he sits on the court that's all only just begun clear

finkelstein joining us from philadelphia thank you so much. plenty more ahead view on this news hour cameroonians heading to the polls as opposition parties scramble to mobilize the votes against one of africa's longest serving leaders it's. a mantra thomas in the village of south the polish city in indonesia we've just flown in on the first helicopter to reach this remote village bringing in a people here say is desperately needed and later in sports as a marine has manchester united back on track paul will have new details at about ten to the hour. now people who've been out protesting in brazil in a final push against the far right presidential candidate jaya both sinatra voters head to the polls on sunday and elections that are being described as the most

fractious in the history of brazilian democracy to rise about has this report for us. not him sang his women and men on the streets of sao paulo. they're asking the undecided voters to vote for anyone except. the former army captain who is leading the presidential race in brazil. now. this. oh well. it's like the new hitler in the twenty first century thirteen candidates are running for brazil's president scene but poll say it's become a tall man race between walter nat'l and fattah mandela that the who replaced former president. as the workers' party candidate. he says that if he's elected people like her will be at risk her whole family took to the streets to support how that's campaign that things were different when lula was in power we had schools my son is

a professor now because he went to school. opportunities to the people and her dad who continued this policy. serving a twelve year sentence for corruption was banned from running the workers' party strategy to help the mound or that when this election has been to say that voting for him is like a vote in for results home or president eleven feet off the problem is that that strategy didn't work in many parts of the country where people are furious with the corruption that happened while the workers' party was in power. in spite of the criticism from some adults numbers have continued to rise since he was stabbed early in september even among those who once voted for. has expressed his admiration for brazil's former dictatorship once or beleaguered tory birth control for poor people and once brazil out of the un because he says it's run by communists and really says he will vote for him but this is

a game of those who i'm certain that the change in brazil with a new attitude and a new political structure we have to punish the corrupt politicians analysts say there's a reason why wilson at us popularity has radically increased in the past month as this attack on both an outdoor which. was a shock for the country but the most important thing was that both now had free time not. as an advertiser but in the in the headlines he was always in the new. even though volatile anatomy when this election round poll suggests he will have to go to a second round in the ballots it is then when people whole center left parties will unite against the one man they see as a threat. or one of.

capitalized on as corruption which is undermine support for the traditional parties what began as a routine of money laundering pro back in two thousand and fourteen ended up establishing brazil as ground zero in latin america's largest corruption investigation just to give you a scale sense of the scale of what was called operation carwash a construction giant at the center of the scandal was found to have paid three point three billion dollars in bribes over a decade two hundred and eleven people have been convicted including many powerful politicians from across the spectrum the most widely covered case is that of the silver the former president who's serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption and money laundering also the outgoing president has been charged with taking bribes investigators have an audio recording of him allegedly authorizing hush money for a potential witness and another high profile case is that of surgery a couple whose taken bribes in exchange for a limpid games and world cup related construction contracts the former governor of rio state is now serving a fourteen year sentence. and from

a wildly uncertain presidential election to one of the fan favorite cameroonians have seen only one president for the last thirty six years the opposition just seems too divided as they try to unseat paul as he morgan reports from the capital you're on 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 who has been in power since one nine hundred eighty two zero she is promising to tackle the major challenge of corruption charges. security six years of suffering it's thirty six years too long thirty 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 their 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 camp the leader

of the opposition cameroon renaissance movement or m.r.c. president paul bear will extend his thirty six yr rule over cameroon where the 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 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 because he has been there for six years and many cameroonians. we for him. 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 for seven more years of what voters already know he will

morgan al-jazeera. now flattened neighborhoods in indonesia sort of a.c.i.m. and may soon be declared mass graves the search for those missing after last week's earthquake and tsunami is continuing president joked that we don't know says all victims must be found. but the rescue operation is slow and difficult heavy machinery struggling to move in in some areas where the strength of the earthquake actually turned the hard ground into much more than sixteen hundred people are confirmed dead and there are growing concerns about the outbreak of disease well in and around. and is now in full swing and under thomas joined a convoy of helicopters from indonesia's disaster management authority which was the first to reach a remote mountain village called pippi korto inaccessible by road. for more than a week they have been isolated cut off by cracked and it's mountain roads so for the people of p.p. coro the sight of two helicopters bringing relief aid and news was thrilling.

we saw the helicopters coming down and i knew it would be bringing help for us there's never a mobile phone coverage here so into the easiest disaster response team had no idea what they'd find the information was positive the earthquake was strong here but there were no deaths and no serious injuries it's all the rush of people coming down that hill to this book will feel as the two helicopters we came in landed there isn't that much damage in the expel age or they need to things that normally come in by road villages needed rice made since baby milk and fuel and biscuits i mean i know the moment we need a doctor to know there is a little clinic here but a nurse who runs that was in power last week we need to get her back. all the headache up to this with just twenty five minutes on the ground before heading back to pollute on route experts from indonesia's disaster management authority looked

down to see what other areas most obviously need help we saw landslides which had reshaped mountains and obliterated roads but no destruction of homes on the scale of the tim palmer. on the outs. of that city the full scale of the liquefaction which it swallowed suburbs was clear. aid is now pouring into the ways of the activity a poly weapon is for next week and as you see it now so many helicopters here a lot of a logistics support our economy it's still very much needed andrew thomas al-jazeera . south a partner in the. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei was on his way to pyongyang for more talks on how to achieve a nuclear free north korea. fourth trip to the north's capital this year and his second round of talks with leader kim jong un the u.s. wants progress in the efforts to rid the korean peninsula of nuclear weapons after

kim said he would work towards dean your conversation during the singapore summit with donald trump back and share. still ahead view on this news our going going gone the british street artist banksy makes art history with his most daring stunt yet. i'm natasha popular in the french port of mass a webby aquarius a migrant rescue ship is waiting for a country to step forward and register it so they can continue its mission at seeing. and support things getting just a little heated ahead of one of the biggest fights in history paul will have all the details a little bit. nice pink skies by the taj mahal. or is the sun sets in the city of angels.

how it's still raining off and on in sichuan a bit of snow up on the high ground as well that position will probably last next couple of days but that represents the anywhere part of china mostly it's a fine looking and still warm picture for most of china right about the thirty mccoll way for hong kong all has to be young shankara still cold when beijing admittedly but the weather's similarly quiet and sunny the showers actually even further west just over the border in northern vietnam across in minot all that extensive anymore the rains are slowly dying out which is to be expected we've still got quite a few showers showing across the philippines and borneo fortune the line that is coming sasa the sun means rather more frequent showers now at least in the north the sort of ways you can see it going across to us west papua that's not going to improve anything the shelves going bit more extensive on their way size but there are gaps between them and the concentration is largely to the west so that includes singapore kuala lumpur and

a good part of sumatra but to say probably more sunshine than shasta most pass and that's true still surge of a body but increasingly the cloud shows up and here to wrong sundays picture by the time we get to monday the story is much the same with showers still and so the way . the weather sponsored by qatar and he's. she's seventy years old she's a hard worker she's cool and a best friend. to get mad they work to make their dreams come true. do you find kicks off its asia series with china's little rock star. at this time on al-jazeera. fresh perspectives new possibilities. debates and discussions it's only one piece on

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cavanagh president trumps supreme court pick has been sworn in after a contentious vote in the senate follows thirty hours of intense debate for and against the candidates who was subject to an f.b.i. investigation into sexual. assault allegations and flattened neighborhoods in indonesia. may soon be declared mass graves following last week's earthquake and tsunami more than sixteen hundred people are confirmed dead and there are growing concerns about the outbreak of disease well it is funny reaching the more remote parts of central sulawesi but instrument undergoing reports from city survivors don't know how they will even begin to rebuild. this is what's left of. everything that she worked hard for it's gone after last week's earthquake but the

scene in the mud 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. little is 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 came no erupted this mud surfaced fifteen meters from underground and then it started to drag homes and people in waves in waves of mud and walk 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 that 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 while he had and sat 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 to test 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 acts of resistance they say because

they know their suffering is in permanent. duggan al jazeera seek essential silhouettes see indonesian pakistans the opposition leadership has been jailed for ten days for alleged links to a housing stand back in twenty fourteen sure he was arrested on friday in lahore his detention means he won't be able to campaign ahead of by elections next week hundreds of activists from his pakistan muslim league no walls party down there in support outside the court he is the brother of form no one serif was released on bail last month as he appealed his conviction on separate corruption charges. now yemen's hooty rebels have detained a number of students in the country's capital sixteen female students were among those arrested for protesting against the economic hardship in the sun are the prices of basic food stuffs have sought after three and a half years of civil war the media media labelled the students mercenaries who

were quote tasked by the aggressors to plant rumors and disturb public peace israel assert new restrictions on guns own reaction to protests along the border israel's defense ministers ordered the operating zone for gaza fishermen to be scaled down from nine to six nautical miles of a door leave him and threaten further measures if what he called violent incidents continue israeli forces have killed at least one hundred eighty three palestinians since the weekly protests began back in march syria's rebels are withdrawing heavy weaponry from an area in northwestern province this buffer zone as part of a joint plan by russia and turkey that's a verted a massive assault by government forces on the rebel stronghold the deal requires armed fighters within the demilitarized zone withdraw they have the weapons by october tenth. we want people in iraq's western anbar desert a struggling to rebuild their lives months after the defeat of i saw the army says attacks in the area continue sporadically which is delaying rebuilding efforts some

of binge of aid has this report from al qaim on the iraqi syrian border. this road leads to the syrian capital damascus i hope i'm is the last iraqi town before entering syria and also 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 they're trying 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 i'm much more commom to what we're waiting for 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 walks 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 eyesores destruction atrocities that's why it's key to strengthen the relationship between the forces and locals the security forces sometimes have flaws but the ministry of defense intelligence and military establishment are 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 in their isis and it's a struggle every day to put food on the table further upstream is the syrian end of the river euphrates very. still hold a few pockets the syrian democratic forces are not 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 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 nasi or 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 a long time see electricity and water of life and they need it desperately in conversations their worries outweigh their hope but in the end they say hope is all they can hold on to osama bin job. on the iraq syria border. the

protesters in paris are demanding a rescue ship be granted permission to get to sea to rescue more refugees and migrants the aquarius has been stuck in the french port of must say after panama withdrew its registration last wage as the full 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 revoke the registration of the aquarius last week the ship to sail unless another country agrees to break the storage we. use to. states to help us and to help first. finding a new rubber band for. 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 seated who 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 so it's a conflict. zone environment they're in there we're at since the organizations operating the aquarius doctors without borders and. say panama withdrew their registration under pressure from italy's government denies the claims but in june it closed italian ports to the vessel growing anti immigrant sentiment in europe is making work with his crew harder the crew say that what's particularly difficult for them is that they know that every hour every day that passes out there in the mediterranean sea they're all vulnerable people. lives possibly in danger and while

the aquarius is stuck here in the port of mass say they can't help it it's disheartening to see that. loss of life and humanitarian crisis are not at the forefront of european politicians priorities and that's something that we call on our european countries to take into account fifteen thousand people have drowned in the mediterranean in the past four years most have been searching desperately for many other people take for granted a safe place to call home somewhere to build a life unless the aquarius is given new registration documents to sail soon the crew fear that many more lives will be needlessly lost partner al jazeera say. romanians have begun two days of voting on whether to change the constitution to ban same sex marriage in the photos raise concerns that nontraditional families would be discriminated against a conservative group initiated the referendum and then the influential romanian

orthodox church backed it up saying it protects the status of the traditional family nearly 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 bosnia and herzegovina government highly complex structure divided along ethnic lines that mirror a fragmented population david chaser explains the bosnian muslim village of pod group was within sniper range of the front line joy in 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 was three years no party is welcome in. the a solar was distilling plum brandy was french when we came to talk to him. he said he was looking for a job in germany young people are deserted villages like his forty percent.