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4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. in a few hours time, a controversial supreme court candidate is likely to pass through a divided senate and on to the high court. a final vote is expected saturday on judge brett kavanaugh's nomination to the u.s. supreme court. as of right now, he has the votes to be confirmed, this after two previously undecided republicans and a single democratic senator announced that they would support him. looking at live images now at washington, d.c. democrats holding the senate floor open for debate tonight. cnn's manu raju has the latest now from capitol hill. >> reporter: after one of the most intensely fought confirmation battles in a generation, brett kavanaugh now headed to the supreme court. >> i will vote to confirm judge kavanaugh.

>> reporter: a key republican senator susan collins announcing that she would vote to confirm kavanaugh for a lifetime seat. and handing president trump a historic victory, amid furious protests over kavanaugh's nomination and sexual assault allegations. >> we will be ill-served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness tempting though it may be. the facts presented do not mean that professor ford was not sexually assaulted that night or at some other time. but they do lead me to conclude that the allegations fail to meet the more likely than not standard. therefore, i do not believe that these charges can fairly prevent

judge kavanaugh from serving on the court. >> reporter: collins had been under enormous pressure for weeks facing angry protesters storming her office. and forcing her to be escorted by police who blocked anyone including reporters from approaching her. the senator, even interrupted at the beginning of her speech. >> the senator will suspend. the sergeant in arms will suspend. >> reporter: senator joe manchin, a red state democrat up for reelection in november also announcing his intent to support kavanaugh has protests broke out in front of his office. >> you can listen to the people here. are you concerned about -- >> concerned basically with the sexual abuse that people had to endure and very much concerned that we have to do something as a country. but i had to deal with the facts i had in front of me. >> reporter: kavanaugh will now be confirmed by one of the narrowest margins in history,

ending a fight that bitterly divided the country. just ahead of next month's midterm elections. behind the scenes, republican leaders scrambled after collins said she'd announce her decision on the final vote later in the afternoon, with top republican leaders privately lunching with her and hearing her concerns. both parties were on edge all day as protesters hounded key senators after kavanaugh's nomination barely cleared a crucial road block to advance to saturday he'd confirmation vote. >> on this vote, the yeas are 51, nos are 49. the motion is agreed to. >> reporter: collins and manchin along with republican jeff flake all voted to advance the nomination. but lisa murkowski quietly voted no. >> ms. murkowski. >> reporter: she later told reporter it was the most difficult evaluation she's had to make, saying he is not the right man for the court at this time. now, after her speech, susan collins told reporters that she

had struggled with this decision even as she went point by point defending brett kavanaugh's record and all of the allegations made against him in that speech even questioning whether or not christine blasey ford one of brett kavanaugh's accusers was being used by democrats to derail the nomination and joe manchin i asked him if he believed christine blasey ford's ford and he said he did, but he isn't sure that it was actually brett kavanaugh who sexually assaulted her. he believes it may have been somebody else. and he also thinks that the fbi investigation was authorize on row from what he has seen siding with the but now the question is how much backlash will those two receive at home. manu raju cnn, capitol hill. >> in the meantime the u.s. president is operates mystic that his nominee will get confirmed on saturday. mr. trump tweeted, quote, very proud of the u.s. senate for voting yes to advance the nomination of brett kavanaugh.

mr. trump commented earlier this week about christine blasey ford, you will remember he mocked her during -- of her allegations during a campaign speech, a rally that he had. ford's attorney shared her client's reaction with cnn's dana bash. >> she was upupset by it. it was very hurtful ased it would be to any survivor who had the courage to come ford only to be mocked and belittled by anyone really. but certainly by the president of the united states. it was very upsetting. very hurtful. >> and we will have more of that interview just in about 20 minutes here in in nn minutes here in in nin this new let's talk more with steven erlanger, he is with the "new york times" in europe live via sky in brussels. always a pleasure to have you. as of now, brett kavanaugh has the votes to be confirmed at the next supreme court justice. however given what he said

during his testimony defending against sexual assault allegations, there are questions about whether he would be able to be above politics, an impartial arbiter as he insisted in the op-ed that he wrote. we recently heard from supreme court justice alaielena kagan a the importance of impartiality. let's listen. >> part of the court's legitimacy depends on people not seeing the court in the way that people see the rest of the governing stri structures of th country. in other words, people thinking of the court as not politically divided, not an extension of politics, but instead somehow above the fray. >> so the question, given what we know of kavanaugh, given what we've heard during that testimony, what impact might he have on the overall perception of the supreme court? >> it was very unusual to have a

supreme court nominee attacking one party in the senate hearing. that was pretty unusual. it was very unusual to have a supreme court nominee go on a news channel, fox news, before the nomination. or to write an op-ed piece saying, gosh, he wishes he had behaved differently. but the court has been seen as political for a long time. i mean, i would like elena kagan's words to be true, but they are not. ever since the famous florida chad overturning of gore's popular vote victory, the court has been seen as deeply political and partisan. now, not on every issue, but we still fight in america about moral issues that the rest of the world seems to have put to bed. issues like the death penalty and abortion. and this is one of the great reasons donald trump was elected

president i believe because even republican women who were not happy with what he has been saying in the campaign about women did not want hillary clinton nominating supreme court justices, they wanted a republican doing that. so, you know, here we go. is it a partisan court? of course it is. >> all right. well, you say here we go. looking ahead, what are some of the cases where mr. kavanaugh could have the greatest impact should he be confirmed? >> i'm not sure because i haven't studied the court. but one of the clear cases that trump had talked about during the campaign was roe vs. wade, which is the famous case that found abortion within limits to be constitutional within the united states. now, a case would have to be brought to overturn it.

that is not bripredictable. who knows if that would happen. and it is not clear that brett kavanaugh would vote to repeal roe versus wade. the point is he has been a very traditional conservative like many others on the court. what the other thing about the court that is really interesting is that i think that there are -- you know, now will be six catholics and three jews, which makes it a kind of religiously interesting court, particularly on these sort of issues of what we consider moral values. you know, brk isett kavanaugh i man of his time. and so i think that he has more modern views on a lot of issues about sexual equality and so despite what we've just been through. but we'll have to see. we'll have many, many decades to see what brett kavanaugh is like on the court. >> and politically speaking,

where does this put the democrats heading into the midterms? democrats obviously holding the senate floor overnight for debate right now. we can show our you viviewers a is happening throughout the night. the other question, what does it mean for republicans heading into november? >> well, we'll see. i think november will be very, very important as you say have discussed before. if the democrats can win back one house of congress, this would make a big difference. the anger in the country is such on both sides, let's be fair, republicans consider that the democrats have behaved badly and certain vice versa. if this turns out voters, we will have a very interesting set of races indeed. but it does raise the possibility that the democrats

could take back the senate also depending on the level of real outrage. and i'm very curious to see, you know, what will happen to susan collins in 2020. she won after all 68% of the vote in 2014. so it will be a difficult thing for her opponents to overturn. but she has taken upon herself an important vote. i think that she did try to think it through. and sometimes i wonder why we don't ask the men in the senate to take the same kind of public responsibility for their votes that we've made the women do. >> steven erlanger, thank you very much your time and perspecti perspective. so for viewers, let's talk about the process moving forward. again, the final senate vote expected later on saturday. if kavanaugh is confirmed, the judge would likely take his seat

on the bench almost immediately. the reason being that the 2018/2019 supreme court term has already started on october 1. kavanaugh could vote on cases now under consideration. however, it is traditional that only those on the bench during a case -- during the oral arguments get to vote on its resolution. now to a story we're following about the president of interpol who is missing. his wife told police that she last heard from him ten days ago and had received threats on social networks and by telephone. there is a report that he was in china, but police where interpol has its headquarters will only on say that he was not on french soil when he was last seen. cnn's senior producer is following the story live for us in beijing. stee steven, there are reports that he has been taken in by discipline authorities. tell us more about that.

>> reporter: that's right. according to a hong kong based newspaper known for its connections inside the chinese government, the south china morning post citing an anonymous source saying that he was taken away as soon as he landed here and he is now under investigation for unspecified reasons. although there is no official confirmation just yet, but given what we know and the fact that he is also a vice minister of public security, it bears hallmarks of what happens to senior chinese officials when suspected of violating the communist party regulations, usually corruption. fighting corruption has been a top priority for xi jinping. and it has been very controversial because of the mediterraneans a mediterraneans -- methods and tactics deployed. they are known to snatch people and hold them for months at a time and sometimes use tore dtu

to extract confessions. and also to illustrate the point of how politically sensitive the story is, as we speak, cnn's signal is actually being blacked out here by chinese sensor cens. and on social media networks, even though his name is not entirely censored, any mention of his disappearance has been scrubbed clean. >> there is not the first high profile disappearance. an actress also mysteriously disappeared. tell us more about that. >> reporter: that's right, that was also a fascinating and some would say terrifying story. she is often compared to jennifer lawrence in hollywood because she was the country's most famous and highest paid actress. she just disappeared into thin air in june. and we dchb find out what had happened to her until a few days ago when the government

announced she had been under investigation for massive tax evasion and she was found guilty and ordered to pay back taxes and fines totaling about $130 million u.s. in total. so that illustrates the murkiness and nontransparency of this legal and political system here and that certainly does not bode well in this latest case. >> steven jiang following the story for us. thank you so much for the reporting. we'll keep in touch with you there. america's top diplomat has arrived in japan. mike pompeo making his first stop on a trip to asia. he is set to meet with the japanese prime minister abe and after that, the secretary of state will make his fourth trip to north korea. there he is set to meet with kim jung-un. the topic of denuclearization sure to be on the agenda. pompeo could also lay the ground work for a second summit between mr. kim and the u.s. president

donald trump. the newest nobel peace prize winner may not be a household name. two of them. but they should be because they are fighting an important battle for millions of women around the world. we'll tell you about that. plus thousands of people desperately waiting for aid a week after a double set of natural disasters. we'll have the latest on the recovery efforts in indonesia as "cnn newsroom" continues.

in conflict zones around the world, militants and terror groups often commit terrible crimes against women and girls and this year the coveted nobel peace prize has been awarded to two people who are dedicated to healing those wounds and stopping the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. nadia murad was kidnapped and held in slavery by isis in 2014. she now works with the u.n. advocating for human trafficking survivors. and dr. denis mukwege has

treated thousands who have been brutalized. he was performing surgery when he heard of the news that he received this award. dr. mukwege has been a nobel peace prize contender before because of his tireless fight against sexual violence. david mckenzie tracks his career. >> reporter: at the clinic, the joy for this surgeon was immediate. >> hello, is this denis mukwege? >> yes. >> first of all, many congratulations on the award of the nobel peace prize. >> it was so touching when i was operating and i hear people start to cry. >> that is lovely. so you were operating when you heard the news. >> exactly. >> how very appropriate. >> reporter: when we met him nearly a decade ago, he was already called the angel, confronting the horrors of war

with the hands of a skilled surgeon and the heart of a tireless advocate. >> translator: i can help them heal physically and sometimes it is also important to help them heal psychologically. and tell them you are not destroyed. >> reporter: for years sometimes without electricity often without water, mukwege tried to repair the victims of rape and sexual violence. conducting at least 40,000 delicate surgeries in his career. in the eastern congo, the conflict continues to ebb and flow. rape always a favored weapon, women and young girls always a target. left with brutal often life-threatening injuries, yet mukwege has never become numb to their pain. >> translator: to see these atrocities is something that dismays you. you have a feeling that you don't understand anything. you are completely perplexed by

what you're seeing. but afterwards, you have to react and the reaction is to regive life, regive the dignity that has been lost and try to repair what has been damaged. my personal joy is found in the strength of these women. >> reporter: mukwege always says silence prolongs suffering. he helps his patients fight the stigma of rape to not accept victimhood but to tee hademand . and he took their message to the global stage calling for justice, never shying from the horrifying reality that rape is a weapon of war. mukwege's brave stand made him enemies. he had to flee the country. but soon after he recognized to his work and recognized with the highest of honors. >> translator: you you can't imagine how a smile, a simple

handshake, to feel that they are loved. >> reporter: david mckenzie, cnn, johannesburg. and also the other nobel peace prize winner nadia murad endured terror and grief at the hands of isis. arwa damon reports that the pain isn't stopping her from empowering women around the world. >> reporter: so many have so much admiration for nadia murad, not just because of how she managed to survive her ordeal and emerge such a powerful figure but because she also has the courage to speak so openly about it. she along with thousands of other women kidnapped by isis back in 2000 20 14, the va-- 20 vast majority sold into sexual slavery. she managed to escape but not before being raped by her so-called isis husband and then gang raped when she tried to escape first time and was

punished for it. but her ability to speak out is really perhaps serving to break a stigma of silence that so many other women are afflicted with because it is so hard to speak about these things in a society not just one like iraq, but across the entire world. she embodies not only that determination to fight, to not loud one's spirit to be broken, but also a more broader movement among women, women who refuse to be silenced no matter what culture it is that they are in, women who are saying no to violence, no to sexual violence to be used as a even with nweap, embodying this movement for change. and she has said on numerous occasions that she wants to be a voice for change, a powerful voice for women, not just in her home country of iraq, but across the world. arwa damon, cnn, istanbul. around the world and the u.s., you are watching room oig. still ahead, christine blasey

ford endured grueling testimony about brett kavanaugh's nomination. still ahead, her attorneys tell cnn about her reaction to the process, how she is responding to criticism and what she wants now. plus, russia is being mocked after being caught in an alleged spy plot. cnn's matthew chance reports from moscow. stay with us.

you're watching "cnn newsroom" live from atlanta. i'm george howell with the headlines we're following for you. judge brett kavanaugh will likely be confirmed as the next u.s. supreme court justice. one republican senator says that she will not vote for him, but three previously undecided

senators say that they will. the final vote expected later on saturday. cnn of course will cover it live. the president of interpol is missing, his wife says that he disappeared ten days ago. a hong kong newspaper reports that he was taken in for questioning while on a trip in china. interpol will only say that he was not on french soil when he was last seen. voters in brazil head to the ballot box to elect a president on sunday. opinion polls have the right wing candidate bolsonaro leading with 35% of the vote. the former president de silva was the frontrunner, but a court barred him there running because he is serving a 12 year prison sentence for corruption. here in the united states, the nation is bitterly divided about the likelihood of judge brett kavanaugh getting a seat on the u.s. supreme court. senators voting in favor of kavanaugh are struggling to explain their vote.

>> i believe that she is a survivor of a sexual assault and that this trauma a has upended her life. nevertheless, the four witnesses she named could not corroborate any of the events of that evening gathering where she says the assault occurred. >> i believe dr. ford. something happened to dr. ford. i don't believe that the facts show that it was brett kavanaugh, but i believe something happened. >> and christine blasey ford, her attorneys say that her client is satisfied, she told her story and does not plan to have any future plans to purchase you sue the matter further. the attorneys spoke with dana bash about it. >> have you heard any regrets from her about coming out the way she did? >> i don't think she has any regrets. i think she feels like she did

the right thing and this was what she wanted to do, which was provide this information to the committee so they could make the best decision possible. and think that she still feels that that was the right thing to do. so i don't think she has any regrets. >> if you were to do it all over again, knowing what you know now, could this have been done in a different way with regard to senator feinstein, the fact that she didn't tell anybody, they says that it was because she was abiding by the wishes of professor ford, so forth. in retrospect, should it have been done differently? >> i can't speak to the process. what i can speak to is when victims of sexual assault and violence go to their congresspeople, when they go to their senators, and they ask for their information to be kept confidential, i think that that is a request that needs to be respected. victims get to control when and how and where their allegations

get made public. now, if we want to look at all the things that went wrong in this process, there are many. there are many process issues that need to be addressed. but i think senator feinstein respected the wishes of her constituent and that was the right thing to do. >> and does professor ford feel that way as well? >> absolutely. >> president trump i'm sure you saw mocked your client's testimony at a rally in mississippi on tuesday night. the crowd who were obviously big trump supporters applauded. did you speak to professor ford, did she see that and what was her reaction? >> she did. she was upset by it. it was very hurtful as it would be to any woman, any survivor who had the courage to come ford only to be mocked and belittled by anyone, but certainly by the president of the united states. it was very upsetting. it was very hurtful. >> so one of the things that has

gotten republicans really enraged is the fact that during her testimony, professor ford told the committee that she wasn't clear that there was an offer to you, her legal team, from the committee to have the committee fly out to california and have a private conversation with her, interview with her, as opposed to flying her for a public hearing. is that true? >> no. we as counsel informed-er all the options, we showed her all of the correspondence. and what they were offering was to send staffers to called cal to interview her. dr. ford wanted to speak to the committee members themselves. and i think what you saw in the hearing is that dr. ford got a little confused and thought that senator grassley was suggesting that he himself would have come to california, which was not what he had offered at all. >> the allegation that they are

making very blatantly is that she has lawyers, you two, who are democrats who wanted to have a public spectacle. >> dana, that is such ludicrous accusation. we've been listening to it and we have not wanted to respond to it because it is such a distraction and deflection. our client was advised of every single option given to her by the committee. she saw every single communication. she is a smart woman. she wanted to testify before the senate judiciary committee, not speak to members of his staff. >> if judge kavanaugh becomes justice kavanaugh or even if he stays on the federal bench he is on now, would professor ford like impeachment proceedings to begin? >> professor ford has not asked for anything of the sort. what she did was to come on forward and testify before the senate judiciary committee and agree to cooperate with any investigation by the fbi. and that is what she sought to

do here. >> so she is not going there on impeachment, she does not want him to be impeached? >> no. >> we are also hearing from members of christine blasey ford's family. her sister-in-law spoke to cnn about the backlash that ford has received for speaking out against brett kavanaugh. listen. >> i think when her sexual trauma involved being laughed at and being helpless and both of those things have happened, she's been laughed at by the president of the united states with people applauding and laughing. so i can only imagine from what i know about trauma that she is probably feeling a whole host of intolerable terrible feelings right now. >> in the meantime demonstrations against kavanaugh's confirmation are planned around the united states. one of the biggest scheduled for washington, d.c. in the coming hours. the planned parenthood action fund, sierra club and naacp are

among those supporting the rallies. several have already taken place this week against brett kavanaugh. now to russia, fighting back against being accused of carrying out worldwide cyberattacks. moscow says that it is all hysteria and spy phobia it says. the united states, united kingdom, australia and new zealand are among those pointing fingers at russia and identifying spies. just this week the netherlands announced that it expelled four officers of the gru, a russian intelligence agency. they were accused of planning a cyberattack on the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. but despite their reputation, officials say that the agents behaved a lot more like mr. bean in james bond. matthew chance explains. >> i'm here to see pegasus. >> reporter: it is too easy to mock a bungling spy.

more johnny english than james bond, he is dubbed the russia's gru agents after a series of embarrassing blunders. take the four agents recently expelled from the netherlands. not only were they caught red handed trying to hack the global chemical weapons watch dog, but one of them even had a moscow taxi receipt in his pocket showing a right from gru headquarters in the russian capital to the airport. great for accounting, not good for espionage. of course even the best secret agents can make mistakes. not that long ago, russia mocked british spies after filming them using an electronic gadget disguised as a rock to receive information. and it is just a few years since an alleged cia agent was unmasked in moscow and shown on tv wearing a particularly bad blond wig. the concern about the recent

sloppiness of russian spies though is that they don't seem to really care about being caught. the suspected gru agents accused of poisoning the skripals in britain earlier this year made little attempt to hide their tracks. the pair were repeatedly caught on cctv traveling to and from salisbury even novichok the poison used is identifybly russian. and their story unconvincing is one word that springs to mind. >> translator: our friends have been suggesting for a long time that we visit this wonderful city. >> translator: salisbury, a wonderful city. >> translator: yes. >> translator: what makes it so wonderful? >> translator: it is a tour wrist city. they have -- tourist city. they have a famous cathedral there. it is famous for its 123 meter

spiral. it is famous for its clock. >> reporter: implausible deniability, that is one way of seeing it. the kremlin sending blunt message to its enemies. >> every agent would carry a pen that looked just like that, completely innocent, but click it twice -- >> reporter: plain old incompetence though cannot be ruled out. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. >> got to love mr. bean there. still ahead, we're following this tragedy in indonesia after double natural disasters. rescue workers there are not giving up the search for anyone who could still be alive. we'll have the story ahead. stay with us. ing

. more than a week after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck indonesia, the

hope of finding survivors is fading. rescue teams are still searching for more than 1,000 people who are missing. but they are mostly bringing back bodies. officials say more than 1500 people have died and that that number will likely rise as information from remote areas continues to trickle in. joining me now from palu, we have the coordinator with c.a.r.e. emergency response. we appreciate your time. first of all, it he will us about tus -- tell us about the difficulty of getting to the remote areas and of course finding people who may still be missing. do you later me, are you with us? >> yes, i'm here. >> thank you again for taking time with us. we are looking at images of what teams to be so many people in this area where they are searching for people who could be missing. talk to us if you would just about the difficulty of getting

out to those remote areas. >> first of all, thank you for th this. what i am hearing -- there are a lot of people [ indiscernible ] people are trying to leave because of the water and food of course. >> and again, we're looking at this image, these live images right now from palu, indonesia where it is 4:46 p.m. and again, what we're seeing so

that you understand it, we're seeing so many people who are all together in what seems to be an area where they are searching -- still searching for survivors. what is the mood of people there? just given what everyone has gone through. how are people dealing with this so many days on? >> some people still are buried. and they also have from the government and ngo for basic needs of food and water, but of course the number is not enough. hello? >> still with you, yes. go ahead and continue. we may be having some technical issues with his phone. but again, what he has explained

is that the search continues there and it will certainly take some time, an extended amount of time, search many, macertainly s possibly months to reach out to those rural areas and find people who are still missing and continue to recover bodies. we begin appreciate his time there on the phone from c.a.r.e. indonesia. and of course if you would like to help victims affected by this earthquake and tsunami in indonesia, you can find the link at cnn.com/impact. that is where you can find again links to organizations that you can trust that are working on relief efforts there. in nigeria, the parents of a kidnapped school girl tell cnn that the terror group boko haram is threatening to kill their daughter if its demands are not met. farai sevenzo has the disturbing details from nairobi. >> reporter: there are real concerns in northeast nigeria about the fate of a 15-year-old

girl who was abducted along with 100 other of her school mates from the government technological college in the northeast. over the last couple days, her parents nathan and rebecca have issued a december from the plea for the government to try to do everything that they can to bring their daughter back. they say that the militants have threatened to kill her daughter this october if their demands are not met. we know in the past it usually involves exchanging of money and the freeing of captured boko haram insurgents. we don't know what stage these negotiations are at. and we do know that october, no firm fixed date, but october is when reportedly the militants have said that they will kill the 15-year-old. and the president is very keen to be seen to be on the side of those who are aching for better security up in the northeast of

nigeria. he tweeted that i spoke with rebecca to reiterate her determination to bring her daughter back home safely. there are over 1,000 kids taken by boca that a rko haram since . and the fate of leah no one quite knows what will happen to her. farai sevenzo, cnn, nairobi. >> thank you for that reporting. you're watching news being ro"n" we'll be right back. what do harvard graduates

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a movie star is buzzing about meeting new zealand's prime minister. and one very special guest. anne hathaway posted the picture that you see here of her and the prime minister on instragram on friday. but it looks like the real star of the show was the prime minister's baby. hathaway says she spoke with her at the u.n. and praised her for supporting paid paternal leave. this next story is the cinematic gift that keeps on giving. the movie a star is born, the

for yourself version is out in the u.s. and the uk. and this latest rendition has critics raving for hitting all the right notes. david daniel has this report. ♪ ♪ aren't you tired trying to fill that void ♪ >> reporter: bradley cooper plays heavy drinking musician jackson mane who falls for a young singer in a star is born. >> i don't sing my own songs. i don't feel comfortable. >> when you are in that environment and you create something that we're all proud of, it bonds you forever. and that is just -- i guess just luck that i happened to find myself working with people with such huge hearts. >> reporter: lady gaga plays allie who lacks confidence. >> almost everyone likes the way i sounded but not the way i

look. >> i think you're beautiful. >> reporter: a star is born is also cooper's feature directing debut. >> i think i got to the point i was so clear with the story i wanted to tell and i think maybe people felt that and they were willing to trust me. that i was going to take care of them. >> reporter: the film is generating oscar buzz for its the a littcting, directing and . ♪ in hollywood, i'm david daniel. thanks for being with us. i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. let's do it again, another hour of you news right after the break. news right after the brea.

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