we are live in the east wing of the white house, wherejustice kavanagh has been sworn in at the special ceremonial swearing—in event. this has been a long time coming in this, what was a very to battle to get this moment, but we have been watching justice brett kavanaugh being sworn in. he replaces anthony kennedy, who administered the oath of office to him and we saw earlier president trump opening the proceedings and also apologising for the difficult confirmation process that brett kava naugh the difficult confirmation process that brett kavanaugh had to go to. we heard justice kavanagh talk about that senate confirmation process, saying that there is no bitterness, that he was tested but he was not changed by it. —— had to go through. my changed by it. —— had to go through. my colleague in washington has been monitoring all of this, laura, i guess the way he spoke was very,

very different to what we saw when he was giving his testimony to the senatejudiciary he was giving his testimony to the senate judiciary committee. this he was giving his testimony to the senatejudiciary committee. this was much more the man that we saw in that wall streetjournal much more the man that we saw in that wall street journal comment that wall street journal comment that he wrote, i am an independent, impartialjudge. that that he wrote, i am an independent, impartial judge. that is that he wrote, i am an independent, impartialjudge. that is certainly what he was bringing across at the ceremonial swearing—in just now. well, that's right. in fact, during that senate judiciary well, that's right. in fact, during that senatejudiciary committee hearing, a very angry, visibly upset brett kava naugh hearing, a very angry, visibly upset brett kavanaugh said that he would never be able to coach is daughter ‘s sporting team again. —— is. verity was now, pledging to be an independent, impartialjustice, verity was now, pledging to be an independent, impartial justice, and he said he will also coach. what an extraordinary event, so formal and yet such brought emotion visible. with the president starting off by apologising tojudge with the president starting off by apologising to judge kavanagh, with the president starting off by apologising tojudge kavanagh, for the pain and suffering he had been forced to endure. he said there was a campaign of personal and political

destruction based on lies. he is referring to the various allegations of sexual misconduct that women had made, christine blasey ford, who said she was 100% certain that she was sexually assaulted by the young brett kavanaugh. was sexually assaulted by the young brett kava naugh. but was sexually assaulted by the young brett kavanaugh. but the senate confirmed the justice brett kavanaugh. but the senate confirmed thejustice very narrowly. in his own remarks, he reflected what a difficult, contentious and emotional proceedings his confirmation had been, but he pledged to the ten player on the court and that he would serve the rule of law for all americans. verity is, trying to turn the page and reassure those who were appalled by this incredibly divisive process, that he will be a neutral and impartial justice that he will be a neutral and impartialjustice on the court. he did say that, although he is not appointed to serve one interest, but one nation, but yet, we have got to be honest about this, he is trump‘s

man, his nominee, the second justice that the president has brought into the supreme court. this will have a big impact. that is right. justice kennedy was the swing justice on the court and it was often justice kennedy who would decide which way it went when there was a 4—1; split. now, with the expectation that president trump and his supporters have,is president trump and his supporters have, is that he will be a reliable conservative vote, as neil gorse —ish has been since he took his seat on the court. —— gorsuch. he has weighed in on important matters in american life, everything from campaignfinance american life, everything from campaign finance laws to abortion. with the court now thought to have a reliable conservative majority, this could be a turning point, or it may be that the chiefjusticejohn roberts, feels it incumbent on him to be the more centrist voters. this

is certainly a defining appointment that the president was able to make and as he said in his opening remarks, i have been told this is the most important decision at president can make. president trump has got to pick two justices on the court. thank you much for talking us through those images, that light ceremonyjust now, all eyes forward now to the mid—term. or the time being now, thank you very much. —— for the time being. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. china's foreign ministry has defended the investigation into the man who untiljust a few days ago was the president of interpol, saying beijing is determined to stamp out corruption. mung hongwei had spent more than three decades extablishing himself as a senior figure in the chinese power structure. but his fall from grace has been swift. our correspondent in beijing, john sudworth reports. the head of interpol, an

organisation that tracks criminals across international borders, is not meant to go missing. but this is china and today's foreign ministry briefing was dominated by questions over mung hongwei's whereabouts. would you accept that it is extraordinary to have the head of interpol removed in the circumstances and what conclusions do you believe the international community should be drawing? translation: this case demonstrates that the communist party is firm in the fight against corruption. anybody who violates the law will be seriously punished in accordance with the law. that tough message comes from the top. president xi jinping, seen here at a few days ago overseeing a military drill, has used his sweeping anticorruption drive to target dozens of senior officials. mung hongwei is simply the latest to be caught in the crosshairs. at a press conference in

france, close to interpol headquarters, mung hongwei's wife kept her identity hidden. but she showed reporters at the last message her husband sent from china, a picture of a knife. mung hongwei's appointment as head of interpol was seen as appointment as head of interpol was seen as a appointment as head of interpol was seen as a sign of china's growing cloud on the world stage. his demise is proof of its unreconstructed communist politics at home and it confronts the international community with a truth long known here in beijing, if he can disappear, so can anyone. another beneficiary of the communist party system has been taken down by it. china will say it shows no one is above the law, critics will say it shows no one is safe. lets keep the focus on china. the boss of china's transplant

system has denied claims that organs are still being taken from executed prisoners. the former health minister huang jeiyfu claims there are plenty of organs available from patients in intensive care, as well as the rising number of people registering to go on the country's new organ donation system. but campaigners claim there is a thriving trade in organs from prisoners of conscience to meet transplant targets of up to 100,000 operations a year. matthew hill has this investigative report. she seems so used to seeing korean visitors at. this undercover reporter ca ptu res visitors at. this undercover reporter captures a korean patient recovering from a liver transplant, at hospital in china. the suspicion is there is a roaring trade in organs being harvested by the chinese regime. in other countries, it can take years to be —— to find a suitable organ, but here it is only weeks. so where are they coming from? china admits it used to take

organs from executed prisoners and claims it stopped the practice in 2015. this campaign believes organs are still being harvested from prisoners of conscience. this man —— this man, who was released from the education labour camp last year, claims healthy practitioners of his movement were given in basic and u nwa nted movement were given in basic and unwanted medical test. donald trump in thejail unwanted medical test. donald trump in the jail hospitalfor a unwanted medical test. donald trump in the jail hospital for a few times they took my hand inside a window and then they would have a rubber band wrapped around my arm and took the needle over there and take the blood out. not just the needle over there and take the blood out. notjust me, all the practitioners. they would beat you up. they choose places like your legs, your arms and see your hip part, but your organ part they do not touch. i have come to a

gathering of international transplant surgeons in madrid. the doctor in charge of china's organ donation scheme was prepared to take a few questions. he said, "so far there were half a million volunteers". is that really up to deliver all of the transplant in such a huge country? he claimed organs came from some of the 6 million people who died in the intensive care. china has yet to allow transplant surgeons from abroad to inspect their hospitals are announced. —— unannounced. artillery is greater transparency, the suspicion will remain that prisoners who are in

detention, other source of the organs of. —— word until there is. —— word until there is. —— until there is. it's ten days since the indonesian earthquake and tsunami brought massive destruction to the northern part of sulawesi — but today there are signs of some normality returning. children began to go back to school — not for lessons, but to help clear up their classrooms. it's hoped formal learning can begin again soon. teams though are still searching for more of the victims, trapped beneath buildings. nearly 2,000 people are known to have died, and many more are still officially missing. joshua meares is from world relief and spoke to mariko oi from the indonesian capitaljakarta. we are still in the emergency response phase. right now is that keeping people are live and planning what to do next. distributing water, food, hygiene, places to stay. that is where we are at. it probably for the rest of this week. we are talking about how difficult it is to get to the palu city alone, but also

smaller villages. what has been your major challenge? i think that is exactly it. access. the liquefaction process , exactly it. access. the liquefaction process, it destroyed roads, it destroyed ways to get into places and the government is doing the best it can stop it without lots of heavy equipment moving things around, but just getting to places, especially in the more remote places outside of palu, there is a lot going on that we cannot access yet. your organisation of the sea has quite a lot of experience dealing with these kinds of disasters, what is the psychological impact on children, for example? it's unbelievable. i was just talking with our fuel co—ordinator last light as she was telling us a story of a young boy, nine years old, playing with his friends and he watched the ground swallow u p friends and he watched the ground swallow up his friends. how does that impact the child? to know that the place that they called home is no longer safe. i think in the next six months are big part of our response is going to be around

helping children, helping adults regain a feeling of normality, processing the trauma that they have experienced and learning how to be safe again. normal kids can go to school, go home and are not traumatised. that was joshua mears from the world relief organisation speaking to us from jakarta. when barack obama was president, he made a point every night of reading ten of the letters which had been sent to him at the white house. he had plenty to choose from — millions, in fact. he has opened up the files to share some of the messages he received. take a look at this. his wife and two children pay $1002 per month for health insurance. —— $1200. dear president obama, i am writing

to tell you about $15 my familyjust donated to your 2012 campaign. is about wanting to say that $15 mean something these days. $15 is to speak to something these days. $15 is to speakto —— something these days. $15 is to speak to —— special pizza dinner, it has won an arctic is disingenuous film at the school cinema walked out orders to. is getting fresh fruit instead of frozen. dear president obama, you are good at correcting homework. i wonder if you could take a look at this, partly the highlighted portion at the back. how did i do? thank you. it gives you a sense of what is best about america. it inspires you and makes you want to work that much harder to make sure that that spirit

is reflected in our government. barack obama ba rack obama that just barack obama thatjust sharing some of the many letters that he received while he was at the white house. will keep a focus on the white house, the current president, president trump, has held a special ceremonial swearing—in ceremony in the east room of the white house for his us supreme court nominee, justice brett kava naugh, his us supreme court nominee, justice brett kavanaugh, who has been sworn in as the latest member of the us supreme court. this was a special ceremony becausejustice kavanagh had special ceremony becausejustice kava nagh had already special ceremony becausejustice kavanagh had already been sworn in during a private ceremony on saturday, just hours after his confirmation vote in the senate. we brought that like you, right here newsday. —— live to use. —— live to you. walsh i am at the international monetary fund and summit at bali where we will be getting an assessment of the global economy in just about an hour's time. google is

doing away with its social network google plus. after user data are half a million people was exposed. welcome to asia business report live from singapore. the us — china trade war wobbles in emerging markets and the fear of contagion are just some of the risks global finance chiefs have to be discussing. and the world bank's international summit is in bali. our asian business correspondence is in bali covering their meetings. what are we expecting from the report? at the last world economic outlook that we got from the international monetary fund earlier this year, they said that economic growth of the global

economy was certainly at a steady pace. they pointed to some risks on the horizon, some things that you andi the horizon, some things that you and i have discussed on the channel and i have discussed on the channel a great deal. trade tensions because of the trade war, emerging market contagion and the fear of more political uncertainty in the future and how the strait tensions can actually affect investment for policy makers as we go to 2018, the end of 2018 and into 2019. these are things i have been hearing of the summit in bali kicking off today. we will get the assessment from the imf inafew will get the assessment from the imf in a few hours time. it doesn'tjust affect advanced economies but it is also something at the top of minds of developing countries like indonesia as we heard from the indonesian finance minister when she

spoke to the bbc. we see that globalisation and relationships among emerging and developing countries are a win—win, mutual benefit and relationship. while developing companies continue to invest and become a middle income. there is a convergence. today with this uncertainty, this confidence is no longer guaranteed. this is going to bea no longer guaranteed. this is going to be a serious setback for the world development.” to be a serious setback for the world development. ijust got back from parlux whether country has been hit by the tsunami and earthquake. can indonesia pull this off? absolutely. this has been at top concern. this is a immense for a

country to pull off. the event itself is thought to have been costing the country billions of dollars. the government has come under criticism from the opposition that it under criticism from the opposition thatitis under criticism from the opposition that it is going ahead with this kind of event in the aftermath of this earthquake. having said that, from people i have been speaking to hear, there is a sense that if the imf had pulled out of this event, it would not send the right kind of message about the indonesian economy andi message about the indonesian economy and i think this reflects that the event going ahead is that there is a great deal of confidence in indonesia to be able to pull it off. google is shutting down much of its social network after state of 100,000 people on google plus was exposed. the company said a bug in

its software meant information that people believed was private has been accessible to third parties. the company knew about the issue in march but didn't inform users or regulators. here is more from our technology correspondent dave lee in san francisco. the matter in which it is saying that make the manner in which it is shutting down is under the global —— unbelievable stop it would have been impossible for third parties to get access that users thought were private but what google said was they didn't think that issue crossed the threshold where they had to disclose it to either regulators or indeed the public. we are hearing about the data being exposed and google, as a result, has simply said, it you know what? google plus is just not worth it any more, we are going to shut it down. people been using it quite sometime

so people been using it quite sometime so it's no big loss to either google or regular people that use the internet. we keep hearing about hacking and leaking of data on other social networks. should users be worried? we will probably look back on this year as an simply shocking one for data security. big sites, they should have it are protections. people will continue to use these services because they are such a pa rt services because they are such a part of daily life but after this year, we might be a bit more conscious about what they we share and how open we are with these companies that say they are doing their best to protect their data but it seems time and time again we are hearing this data has found its way to leave these companies in not ideal circumstances. people to year, i think, 2018, for how we see our

personal data on the internet. in other business news, making headlines, the 2018 noble prize has been awarded to paul roma. the winners have addressed some of the most impressive issues today. —— oppressive. it is how climate change affect economic growth and also how the clinic forces affect how willing companies are able to produce new ideas and innovations. it showed the markets before we go. global markets fell on monday and that is all because of the fear over the us china trade war. the us secretary of state mike pompeo was in beijing

where he received not so welcoming welcomes from beijing. china criticising the us for trade tariffs that have been imposed on chinese imports and that continues to affect asia markets as they reopened. this is how they ended. japan's nikkei was closed yesterday and we will monitor how the market reopens this morning. that is it for asia business report. we will have more from oursummit in business report. we will have more from our summit in bali next hour. thanks for watching. there is warmth and sunshine in the forecast and one more day of rain forecast and one more day of rain for scotland and northern ireland. by for scotland and northern ireland. by the time it pulls away later on tuesday and three the early hours on wednesday, past of the western highlands could see around 200 millimetres —— parts of the western highlands. this front has been

hanging around fora highlands. this front has been hanging around for a few days. still with us on tuesday and still bringing strong winds and outbreaks of rain into northern ireland and scotland, always heaviest the further north and west you are. through the day, it will push northwards. there is an a thing dry arriving and increasing amounts of sunshine across england and wales as the cloud through the morning fins and break. maybe a bit more clout through the north of england and anywhere northwards of wales will see the strongest of the wins on tuesday. —— thins and breaks. lighter winds in the south and cabbages between 17 and 20. 16 and 17 for northern ireland and scotland. through tuesday evening and into overnight, our band of cloud and rain continues to work its way northwards so for much of the uk as we started wednesday morning, it will be dry with clear skies, the odd patch of mist and fog and a mild

start to wednesday. the warm air continues to push its way up across the uk through wednesday and you will see temperatures rising. the warmest day of the week. our front finally clears away in the far north—west of scotland, just some cloud and patchy rain first thing in the morning before it finally moves away and for much of the uk, it is a fine day. a fairly noticeable south—eastern breeze later in the day. perhaps some showers through the evening. you can see warmer area extending right across the uk and we will see temperatures widely in the low 20s celsius into north england and east anglia could see to it is up and east anglia could see to it is up to 24. bands of rain working its way up especially across the west. a

cooler feel further west. as we go through friday, keep an eye on this because we could see some wet and windy weather gales are likely across the uk, barry unsettled by the end the week. —— very unsettled. i'm kasia madera in london. the headlines: after weeks of division, justice brett kavanaugh is sworn in as the latest member of the us supreme court at a special white house ceremony. the senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional. that process is over. my focus now is to be the bestjustice i can be. you sir, and the historic scrutiny,

we re prove n you sir, and the historic scrutiny, were proven innocent. thank you. —— under. china says its investigation into the detained ex—interpol chief is proof it's determined to stamp out corruption. i'm mariko oi in singapore.