this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at seven. in a test of support for president trump's supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh — us senators narrowly back a motion to advance his nomination to a final vote. the yeas, 51. the noes, 49. the motion is agreed to. a man who pushed a 90—year—old passenger onto tube tracks in central london has been found guilty of attempted murder. the government faces criticism for not alerting mps to problems in disposing tonnes of medical waste and body parts despite convening an emergency committee to discuss it last month. it's irresponsible that the health department and environment agency still have not told of the full fa cts still have not told of the full facts about what is going on in an issue where environmental health questions are being raised and we still do not know the full facts.

it's completely unfair on the local community. one week after an earthquake and tsunami hit the indonesian island of sulawesi, hundreds of people are still missing. the death toll stands at more than 1500, but there are fears more than a thousand people could still be buried under mud and rubble. a u—turn for unilever — the consumer goods giant scraps its plan to move its headquarters from the uk to the netherlands. and waking the giants — thousands turn out in liverpool to see the huge puppets for the last time. good evening. the appointment of president trump's controversial nominee for the us supreme court, brett kavanaugh, is in the balance tonight.

earlier today, the us senate narrowly backed a motion to take a final vote on whether he should get thejob. 49 senators voted against the motion and ifjust two others join them in the vote tomorrow, then judge kavanaugh‘s appointment will be defeated. a small handful of key senators have still not made public how they intend to vote. more than 300 people were arrested last night, while protesting against judge kavanaugh, who denies historical claims of sexual assault by several women. and there have been more protests today. 0ur correspondent, gary 0'donoghue, is on capitol hill in washington. an interesting day to day. just explain to us how close this notice and to those key names are now look good for everything. well, it's about as close as it gets but that is how the senate is at the moment in terms of the balance of power. what we've had the day in this

procedure although it is to vote, one from each side flipping, so one democrat voted for the procedural vote to go ahead and a republican voted the other way so the 51—49 ‘s bullet was maintained there are still some people who are within those numbers you have not confirmed how they will vote on the real thing in itself. —— the split was maintained. here is dianfeinstein and what she thought on two—day's prose readings. —— here is diane feinstein and what she thought. judges are intented to be, quote, evenhanded, unbiased, impartial and courteous, end quote. however, at the hearing last week, we saw a man filled with anger and aggression. judge kavanaugh raised his voice, he interrupted senators, he accused democrats of, quote, lying in wait, unquote, unquote, and replacing, quote, advise and consent

with search and destroy, end quote. he even went so far as to say that doctor ford's allegations were nothing more than, quote, a calculated and orchestrated political hit fuelled with pent up anger about president trump and the 2016 election, end quote. quote, revenge on behalf of the clintons, end quote. how could he? this behaviour revealed a hostility and belligerence that is unbecoming of someone seeking to be elevated to the united states supreme court. now, there are a number of undecideds spell as i was saying earlier, susan collins, expecting her, a republican, to announce how she will vote on the final confirmation, that is expected within the next hour and it is also geoff flake, the man who triggered

this extra enquiry by withholding his full backing for the process. he had not definitely said one way or another as though the indications from him are that we will be a yes when comes to the final vote and is another day or so to go before that absolutely happens so staff will leg still up absolutely happens so staff will leg stillup in absolutely happens so staff will leg still up in the air. 0ne absolutely happens so staff will leg still up in the air. one man trying to attentive daughter's wedding in montana tomorrow but this has created a divide down partisan lines. here is mitch mcconnell. the cross round of anger, fear and partisanship blow strong these past weeks. they have harmed a good man and his family, they have tarnished the dignity of this institution but all of it can end today. the time has come to vote. the senate stands on the threshold of a golden opportunity. we have the opportunity to advance the nomination of incredibly

well—qualified and well respected person to a post that demands such excellence. we have the chance to prejudge brett kavanaugh on the supreme court for his distinguishable service that will make us and our nation proud for years to come. but we have the opportunity to do even more. to day we can send a message to the american people that some core principles remain u nfettered some core principles remain unfettered by the partisan fashions of this moment. facts matter. fairness matters. the presumption of edifice is sacrificed. we are also hearing that there is one democrat senator whom i not make the vote tomorrow because part of the vote tomorrow because part of the consequence of having to schedule this thing on a weekend, we

do not know who it will be at this stage but there may be a possibility of carrying them off with the guy who needs to go to his daughter's wedding so you can see ins endoweds of the process but it is built on a razor edge here. —— you can see ins and outs. what are you expecting tomorrow? this has had some twists and turns on the way. there is a certain level of confidence in the republic leadership. they would not have scheduled this vote if they did not think they could wind. it is still tight, this individual or that individual could still do something different, just takes one or two to change their minds, that can happen in any sphere but they do seem reasonably confident, they would not wa nt to reasonably confident, they would not want to be defeated and push ahead with a defeat so i think they will get the win but who will have kuwait another day to see for sure but there will be a much clearer indication in 45 minutes and susan

collins from maine makes her position and intentions a bit more clear. thank you. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 and 11:30 this evening in the papers. our guests joining me tonight are benedicte paviot, the uk correspondent for france 2a — who's also president of the foreign press association. and claire cohen, the women's editor at the daily telegraph. a man who tried to push two people onto the tracks on the london underground has been found guilty of attempted murder. paul crossley, who's 46 and from east london, said he had chosen his victims at random and hadn't intended to kill them. one of those he pushed was the 91—year—old former boss of eurotunnel, sir robert malpas, who was left with a fractured pelvis. richard lister‘s report contains some shocking images. watch the man in the macintosh coat, sir robert malpas, aged 90, and he never saw this coming.

sir robert is badly hurt. commuters tried to raise the alarm. eventually one of them pulls him to safety. little earlier, another attack at another station. tobias french just avoids the train pulling in, but his assailant escapes. when passengers finally grabbed paul crossley, he said he knew what he had done was wrong. he told the court he'd had an allergic reaction to his schizophrenia medication. this was a most shocking incident and the victims in this case were extremely lucky to have survived. this could easily have been a double murder investigation. paul crossley showed no emotion during the proceedings. the judge has delayed sentencing until a psychiatric report on him has been completed. the police stress this kind of attack is extremely rare, but for these two men it could easily have been far worse. richard lister, bbc news, at the old bailey. a criminal investigation

is underway after hundreds of tonnes of medical waste, including body parts, were left to pile up at incineration sites in the uk. healthcare environmental services have the contract for disposing of much of the hospital waste from england and scotland. the government has been urged to explain why it did not tell parliament it had convened the cobra emergency committee last month to discuss the problems. here's our health editor hugh pym. one of the main sights at the centre of this medical waste saga, in west yorkshire, the company allowed a backlog of voice to build up at centres in england and scotland which should have been sent for incineration. the regulator, the environment agency, told the government in july, ministers discussed it at a meeting of the cobra emergency committee last month, but it was only revealed yesterday and local mp yvette cooper told me mps should have been informed sooner. i think it's irresponsible that the health

department and environment agency still haven't told us the full facts about what on earth is going on, on an issue where there are environmental health questions being raised and we still don't know the full facts. it's completely unfair on the local community. the other main site is in lanarkshire. at shotts. the company is run from here. a new facility was opened in april by princess anne. the managing director wasn't available for comment today. the company had a contract to remove and dispose of medical waste, including body parts, from hospitals. now unions are questioning whether this sort of work should ever have been outsourced. this is a really solid example of what happens when we start to regard services that should be central to our public services, services like cleaning, catering, portering, as those that can easily be contracted out and we can

devolve ourselves of responsibility. the department of health and social care covering england said in a statement... the environment agency said as part of its enforcement action it had partially suspended the company's permit here at the normanton site. that means it will not be able to receive any more hospital waste for incineration while it concentrates on trying to reduce the backlog. health care environmental services say there was a shortage of incineration capacity and it had been warning the authorities for some time. with enforcement action under way, it's not clear what this will mean for the company's future and the ability of the nhs to dispose of its medical waste. let's get the thoughts on this from the former chair

of the uk public health association john ashton who joins me now via webcam from dentale in the yorkshire dales. thank you for speaking to us. what are your thoughts when you thought about —— heard about this story? firstly, do they ever learn? this brings back memories of the older hague all the leg organ scandal. not so hague all the leg organ scandal. not so long ago, there was disposal of clinical waste inappropriately, foetuses being treated and treated inafairly foetuses being treated and treated in a fairly cavalier fashion so there is the full aspect of respectful disposal of organs and body parts but there is also the issue of potential biohazard and clearly that is recognised by having convened cobra last month so it is a serious matter and the environment agency seeking about, no prosecution

underlines that —— speaking about criminal prosecution. it is hard to say there is no risk when you're faced with this kind of biological, hazardous material, so what we have here? we have yet another failure of a whole system with nobody a p pa re ntly a whole system with nobody apparently in charge and passing the bark. there is mentioning the contracting culture and i hear there is an implication of subcontractors. who should be at shoring safety? who should be doing it? it was about the public health england, set up as a national agency five years ago, but since 2013, public health‘s beanpole in two directions, highly centralised to london and bits of it had been put back into local governments were a lot of it really belongs. —— has been pulled. i would

say you cannot repent and prevent this kind of thing from happening. —— you cannot prevent. it will centralise more expertise and drag it away from the regions and the local level. what we really need is to build back the town hall as the centre for public health hazard has beenin centre for public health hazard has been in the past... john, can ijust jumped in very quickly? what do you make of the argument that the incinerators did not have the capacity? we need to know more about it. in recent years, there has been a raising of standards for incinerators and the kicking out of action of a lot of old incinerators that did not heed up to a higher temperature to prevent the spread of dioxins that are very toxic. —— taking out of action. you need to build upa taking out of action. you need to build up a lot of weight, get burnt

up build up a lot of weight, get burnt up to 1200 degrees to prevent it from happening so with this particular wakeley made a very high temperature and it may be case but they're all disagreeing with each other. there is no clear line of control, nobody seems to be in charge and it is embarrassing as well as squalid, so it must be very upsetting for people who think... that perhaps they lost one's parts have been lying around in a shed somewhere. —— a loved one's parts. should it go back to public power? we need a review. i was personally a regional director of public health for the northwest for 13 years and we think we did a good job but that has been significantly weakened. the expertise, money, highly paidjobs of all been concentrated into london and the south—east, and the town hall has been given just crumbs from

the table. 0k, we have to leave it there for now but, john ashton, thank you. the headlines on bbc news... in a test of support for president trump's supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh, us senators narrowly back a motion to advance his nomination to a final vote. a man who pushed a 90—year—old passenger onto tube tracks in central london has been found guilty of attempted murder. the government faces criticism for not alerting mps to problems in disposing tonnes of medical waste and body parts , despite convening an emergency committee to discuss it last month. the consumer goods giant unilever, which makes products from dove soap to marmite, has decided not to move its headquarters out of the uk after all. the company had planned to close its uk hq in london and operate instead out of the netherlands. but most shareholders were against the idea.

our business editor, simonjack, explains why. you either love it or hate it, and enough people hated the idea of unilever scrapping its uk headquarters for the company to shelve its plans. formed nearly a century ago when the dutch company margarine unie merged with british soapmaker lever brothers, the company has always been headquartered in both london and rotterdam, employing 7500 people in the uk and 3000 in the netherlands. since then, it has grown into a global consumer giant, producing brands such as pg tips, persil washing powder and magnum ice creams. its london home was opened in 1932 and it has been in the ftse 100 index of leading firms for decades. that means some pension funds that track the index have to own it. leaving would have meant they would have had to sell it. bad news for savers and why this investor voted no. unilever is a very profitable company, with growth prospects all over the world. and if it had left the uk index, many uk pensioners and savers

would have lost the ability to benefit from the future profits and dividends of the company. so a determined group of city institutions managed to shut the exit door in the face of the company management, who still believe abandoning its london hq was the right idea. scrapping their uk headquarters here was not to do with brexit. the company insisted it was to make it simpler, more nimble and better able to protect itself against foreign takeovers. but shareholders' insistence that a company like unilever belongs on the london stock exchange will be a welcome pre—brexit boost. this is great news for london. it comes as a real shot in the arm at this time of uncertainty, in particular. it confirms london's status as one of the world's leading global financial centres. you know, we've got more european headquarters of global companies than anywhere else and it is great to know that unilever is here to stay, too. unilever is not the only

anglo—dutch company. the biggest payer into uk pension funds is royal dutch shell, who are watching this process carefully. the message seems clear. uk investors want the world's biggest companies to call the uk home. simon jack, bbc news. the death toll continues to rise in indonesia after last week's earthquake and tsunami. at least 1500 people are known to have died but rescuers fear the final death could be much higher as they try to reach remote areas on the island of sulawesi that have been cut off. 0ur south east asia correspondent jonathan head has been speaking to people in a village in one of the worst hit areas where they're struggling to cope. if you want help in palu, you have to turn up and demand it. and even that doesn't always work. these men have come from a village submerged under a sea of mud. i met them yesterday after their request for government

aid had been turned down. but today, when we went to see how they were living, camped in the local mosque, our arrival coincided with that of a police truck carrying some much appreciated rice and noodles, albeit enough only for a couple of days. "they showed up out of the blue", said this man, one of the men i had met in palu just as the supplies were running out. "we're really happy. " it was a welcome opportunity, too, for some community outreach by a police force accused by some locals here of insensitivity to their plight. these officers wanted to correct that impression. "this is actually our own food", said the colonel. "but we heard about these people and we felt sorry for them." so many of palu's inhabitants are still living like this. day—to—day challenges are hard enough.

but their biggest concern is over when and how they can get back to their homes. i was taken to see where the torrent of mud had swept across the village. so they are telling me there were four houses here that have just completely disappeared. yes, totally buried under the mud. there is nothing left of them at all. without heavy machinery, which they don't have, there is no hope of clearing out this much mud. and there is another worry. the bodies of those caught by the mudslide. well, we have reached a point in the village where there is a really strong smell because of a body that is buried in some of this debris. they cannot get it out. it is really distressing the people who live here and it gives you an idea, with all this mud, just what an immensejob it is going to be to get these villages back to some kind of normal life again. that worry was brought home to them

later when a search and rescue team brought a corpse to the mosque. a reminder these people really don't need of the immense human cost of this disaster. jonathan head, bbc news, palu, indonesia. the new leader of plaid cymru has described brexit as having left wales "at the mercy of westminster". speaking at the party's conference, adam price compared brexit with the sinking of the titanic. he said voters should be given a chance to "avert disaster" through a fresh referendum on any final deal with the eu. but it's the people that are left locked in the third class cabins below. we've got to break that deadlock. we've got to give people a chance and a choice to avert a disaster for which it is they that will pay the heaviest price. which is why we say it's time for a people's vote. applause at their annual conference, the green party have suggested

that the amount of spare time people have should be used as an official measure of wellbeing. the party says a "free time index" of time spent away from work or commuting would be better than gdp, which focuses on economic activity. it's time to shift away from the culture of work that sees us work harder and harder. the longer and longer. 0ften about with the leg reward your satisfaction and to recognise that true freedom will only be found in people have more control of their time and how that time is spent. that is why we are announcing the idea of a new free time index. greens want the next budget and every future budget to include an economic indicator that measures people's leisure time. time and they are not doing work or doing work on a long, new. free time to

have a family life, relax, pursue things they care about. it should be a name of god and to see a yearly increase in his free time index so the quality of time which is truly our own becomes the real measure of well—being. applause the manager of the star footballer cristiano ronaldo says he is doing well and is "ready to return to action" despite being accused of rape. shares in the italian football club juventus, where he plays, have fallen by five percent following the allegations which date back to 2009. it comes as new pictures emerged of the footballer in a las vegas nightclub which are said to show him with his accuser kathryn mayorga. cristiano ronaldo strongly denies the allegation made against him. the head of an nhs trust at the centre of scores of allegations of poor maternity care says he won't be resigning. his comments come as a former nurse tells the bbc that problems on maternity units have been not been properly addressed for almost two decades.

the chief executive of the trust, simon wright, says he has a difficultjob to do and has apologised to any families who've been failed over the past two decades. from the beginning, michael buchanan's report contains some distressing details. the forceps were used. the baby comes out, there is no cry. i thought, no, she is dead. i know. julie hughes' daughter should be 16 today. but memories and medical records are all that remain. she says staff failed to spot the baby was in distress. i remember saying to the lady who's got the little pink badge... sorry — i get upset. she is dead. leave her. no, no, no. and these people are around her, trying to recover her. they worked on herfor 20 minutes. i said, please leave her alone. and that was it. no more. i held her, said goodbye. and went home empty—handed.

her daughter's birth was brutal. the forceps delivery leftjulie needing reconstructive surgery. she said no investigation was carried out into what happened to her baby or to her. this former nurse who wishes to remain anonymous spent more than a decade at the maternity unit of the trust and says mistakes were rarely investigated properly. when i was there, i don't think we learned from it. i think it was a case of, we will cross our fingers that it doesn't happen again. if you don't learn, you risk repeating errors. eva is three, happy and healthy. but her mother andrea is anything but. her daughter's forceps delivery left her with an open wound for nine months and ongoing incontinence problems. she has had two major surgeries and may need more and suffers with depression. it has just totally changed

our life as a family. my daughter is ok, and i am grateful for that. but we haven't had any more children. i feel upset, the fact that i am perhaps not the only person this has happened to. more than 100 allegations of maternity errors over nearly 20 yea rs have currently being investigated by an independent review. all adding pressure to the trust's chief executive. he refused several interview requests from us so we went to interview him. are you out of your depth? not at all. i have a difficultjob to do and intend to see it through. i want to take the opportunity once again to save that for any parent, any mother, who has had issues, please talk to our organisation. we want to make sure we take the learning on board and we are deeply sorry for any harm that

has occurred to any baby in our organisation over the last 20 years. as well as historical problems nhs inspectors have concerns over the current maternity services but the trust insists its care is safe. for those who have been failed before, they certainly hope care now has improved. michael buchanan, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello, a mixed weekend. tomorrow can england and wales see most of the ring bearer scotland and that the northern ireland see the best of the brighter weather. then it is a reversal with wet and windy weather. this area of cloud and rain straddling central part of the country is a weather front that will continue to pep up as the night wears on. to the north, apart you may view showers, generally clear

and pretty cold and into the south—east, another mild night with this leg mist and fog gathering. another drab day from out of england and wales, heavy rain at times which will become confined to more eastern areas as we wear on. further north, but from the odd shower, it is a fine day to come. bright, cool, and feeling much cooler across the south east compared to friday. for sunday, wet and windy across scotland and northern ireland, sunday seeing the best of the sunshine in england and wales. hello this is bbc news. the headlines... in a test of support for president trump's supreme court nominee, us senators have narrowly backed a motion to advance his nomination to a confimation vote. the senate decided by 51 votes to 49 to make a final ruling on brett kavanaugh‘s appointment this weekend, even though he's been accused of sexual assault. a man who pushed a 90—year—old

passenger onto tube tracks in central london has been found guilty of attempted murder. paul crossley, who's a6, told his trial that he didn't intend to kill the man. the government is facing criticism for not alerting mps to problems in disposing tonnes of medical waste and body parts, despite convening an emergency committee to discuss it last month. the shadow health secretary, jonathan ashworth said it was "quite staggering" that parliament hadn't been informed. one week after an earthquake and tsunami hit indonesia, more than a thousand people are still feared buried under mud and rubble. more than 1,500 people are already known to have died following the disaster. and still to come on bbc news, thousands turn out on the streets of liverpool to see the giants, as the huge puppets return for the third and final time. let's get more now

on the investigation into the hundreds of tonnes of human body parts and medical waste that have been piling up at sites in the uk. one of the sites is in normanton, in west yorkshire. it's owned by the hospital waste disposal firm healthcare environment services, which has put the blame on a lack of incinerators. luxmy gopal reports from west yorkshire. the grisly backlog has been building up at the normanton site of health care environment services. the firm is used by many hospitals in the country to dispose of human body parts and medical waste, for example, after surgery. the waste should be incinerated in a timely way but it has been piling up. 350 tonnes of it on this site alone last month, five times the limit. the company is blaming the backlog on a shortage of high—temperature incinerators.

it says the excess waste is being stored in secure and refrigerated containers. the health department says there is no risk to the public. but the head of a local action group says he has been worried about the site for a while. if somebody came to you and said they have got five times the legal limit of anything been stored on your doorstep, you would be very, very concerned. and we are very, very concerned. people should have been doing something about this years ago. five times the legal level? it is unacceptable. however, reaction was mixed among people in normanton's town centre, a mile down the road. i don't see the problem really, as long as it is secure. i honestly don't believe, you know, if they can't get rid of it, they have got to store it. having worked in the nhs for 36 years full—time, this is the tragedy of outsourcing to private companies. it's not a nice thought, is it, you know? to think there are things like that on your doorstep. it doesn't bother me at all. they will get it sorted one way or the other. and in case it doesn't get sorted, the mid yorkshire hospitals nhs trust told us it has contingency

arrangements in place if needed and is reassuring patients that there is no impact on clinical service. 0ther trusts in the region have a similar message. in the meantime, the company is now under criminal investigation by the environment agency and faces enforcement action to clear the excess waste. luxmy gopal, bbc news, normanton. france is continuing to exchange information with chinese authorities over the disappearance of the president of the international police agency — interpol — after he travelled to china to visit family. meng hongwei hasn't been seen since he left his home in the french city of lyon, where interpol is based, a week ago. the alarm was raised by his wife, who said she had not heard from him since his departure. our correspondent in paris, hugh schofield, has more details. meng hongwei went to china a week ago, last saturday, on a plane and has not been heard of since.

it was his wife, as we heard there, who went to the police saying she was very, very worried. and the french police opened an investigation, but once they'd established that he had left france, which they did pretty quickly, he boarded that plane. it becomes a matter for china. and the french will no doubt be asking for information from their chinese counterparts. but quite clearly this is a chinese story, something has happened to him in china. there is all sorts of speculation what. maybe it is a personal thing, maybe it's an accident. for sure the main speculation is that he's been summoned back or he's been detained for questioning because of some kind of score settling or political infighting in the communist party. it had been noted here that this man, meng hongwei, rose to prominence in china under the aegis of zhou yongkang who was the previous sort of security boss in china, but who fell from grace heavily under the current president xi and is now serving

a life term prisonment. so is this part of the fallout of the downfall of that security chief who used to be his boss? we don't know, but it's also worth noting that there's a pattern of the chinese detaining well—known members of the diaspora who come back to china and then holding them and not necessarily holding them forever, letting them go again, but giving them a severe and worrying time under interrogation for maybe some weeks. meng hongwei's disappearance seems to fit in with a now familiar pattern among china's senior communist party officials. it also follows the highly publicised disappearance of one of china's best known and highest paid actors fan bingbing three months ago — who has now reappeared with a bill of £112 million in unpaid taxes and fines. we can get some more analysis on this from steve tsang looking at these disappearances, we

can go on as far as saying they're forced detentions, we had defied book—sellers who disappeared a number of years ago. and we see an aura you seeing similarities between the cases? i think at the moment it is too soon to draw a clear conclusion on why he has disappeared. we do not know for sure that he has been disappeared by the chinese state. it is a reasonable expectation that given his seniority, he would have to be authorised by someone very senior if he were to be disappeared. now, if he were to be disappeared. now, if he was not head of interpol then he would fit into the pattern of senior officials who are being put under investigation disappear and then up

reappear when they're put on trial. let's just say that china are holding him really is in china and he has not been allowed to speak out, it depends how this is spun. it would not be very good for china's image, would it? he is a very prominent official in an international organisation. they we re international organisation. they were excited when he was first appointed this position. absolutely right. the chinese government him and it was a major success for the chinese government to have a deputy minister of public security to head interpol, which can put a lot of criticism of chinese human rights abuses aside. if they are detaining meng hongwei, they will have to have a very good reason because otherwise they are throwing away a huge

opportunity of making china work well as head of interpol. just talking about this, steve, there is this history of political disappearances, you have got political dissidents. just how far are the powers of the chinese state? if the chinese government wants you the communist party want to, the message is that however seen yet you may be, wherever you are, the party will get you. that is the message which was also sent in the case of others. nobody is above it all, u nless others. nobody is above it all, unless of course you are the president. thank you very much for that. this year's nobel peace prize has been awarded to two people who have campaigned against sexual violence in war. one is a congolese gynaecologist denis mukwege, the other a yazidi human rights activist nadia murad. the nobel committee said they wanted

to send a message of awareness, that women are being used as weapons of war and the perpetrators should be held to account. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports. a peace prize to fight one of the worst weapons of war — sexual violence. 25—year—old nadia murad was brutalised by islamic state fighters. it all came back when she returned to her village in northern iraq last year. horrific memories of being raped every day for months. her mother and six brothers killed, when islamic state stormed into the yazidi heartland, including their village. nadia spoke of it when i met her in new york with her lawyer. translation: i went to visit my family home a few months ago, it was completely destroyed.

isis had left nothing behind. it is going to be hard to forget but at least we are working now to bring those criminals to justice. at least that is something, a tiny victory. and today in eastern congo, sweet celebration in a place known for its pain, the clinic where gynaecologist denis mukwege treats victims of sexual violence. translation: the prize has a big meaning that although it took time for the world to recognise us, the world has started listening to women and not just listening but getting to know the problems that you face. understanding our problems is not enough, they must realise that when you commit a crime against anyone, it is not right. they call him the miracle doctor. in congo's war, sexual violence so severe many require surgery. they have used the world's podiums

to fight for justice, now they are armed with a powerful prize, to try to end one of the worst crimes of war. lyse doucet, bbc news. the giants have appeared on the streets of liverpool again tonight. huge crowds are lining the streets to get a glimpse of them. it's their final visit to the city. our correspondent danny savage has been following in their footsteps. it is thirsty work walking the streets of liverpool, even if you area giant. streets of liverpool, even if you are a giant. this extraordinary, huge, mechanical clock was going down a storm today. operated by a tea m down a storm today. operated by a team of nearly 20 artists, the giants here are becoming the stuff of legend. he and his master woke up

in the centre of liverpool this morning before setting out. they are huge and they have all these mechanical bits and the design of the vehicles that drove them and it was amazing. what is so special about them ? so special about them? the mannerisms, the puppeteering, everything about it. between now and sunday these giants will not more than 20 miles across merseyside with hundreds of thousands of people expected to turn out to see them. the dog, had a great time. climbing ona the dog, had a great time. climbing on a bus shelter and stopping to be a pampered pooch. what was it like to manicure a giant dog? very difficult but we did our best and it was excellent, a wonderful experience. we are so happy that they have come to liverpool and included us. there is also a third giant, washed up on the shore of the wirral. the operators are mainly french but some locals are involved too. i am controlling the rope that

is attached to the giant's right hand, helping him to walk in the most natural way possible. it is a very physically demanding role, i have never done anything like this before. it is ten years since liverpool was europe's european capital of culture. every artist wants to perform here now, all the artists had a love for the city but now they really want to perform here. this is all about moving spectacle of street theatre on a grand scale. for the next 48 hours, merseyside really is the land of giants. danny savage, bbc news, liverpool. ok, it is now time for news watch. this week the bbc‘s politicaljournalism comes under the spotlight. hello and welcome to news watch. the

dancing prime minister garnered most of the headlines at this week's conservative party conference but did the bbc do itsjob in covering policy as well as performance. and has the way we have got to talking about politics on the news just got too rude and argumentative? the party conference season is when we expect a leading politicians to set out their big ideas in the full glare of the media spotlight. sometimes though they declined broadcasters invitations to submit themselves to questioning and this week that led to a row. on tuesday, representatives from the bbc, sky, itv, channel 4 and channel five complained ina itv, channel 4 and channel five complained in a letter to downing street about what they called the prime minister's lack of availability for television interviews during her