this is good news live from berlin the winners of the twenty eighteen nobel peace prize have been announced and also go this year it goes to to come pain as working to end sexual violence as a weapon of war dennis who quickly gynecologists treating victims of sexual violence in the democratic republic of congo and. the human rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by the islamic state in iraq also coming up. the u.s. senate votes to advance fred come from those nominations to the supreme court the

move is likely to further polarize republicans and democrats vote for his candidate seek a second final confirmation vote is set for saturday will get reactions from washington . on the most vulnerable victims of indonesia's quake one week after the disaster authorities and aid groups grapple with how to help children who've been separated from their families. i'm glad you could join us to come pain as for victims of sexual violence the winners of this year's nobel peace prize the committee chose to own a yazidi company and not be a mirage. dennis mccuaig for their efforts to put a stop to rape as a weapon of war. nadia mourad was one of those women in two thousand and fourteen she was kidnapped in mosul and handed over to

a militant from the so-called islamic state my religion she managed to escape and described her ordeal to the u.n. security council. home and he humiliated on every day he gave me clothes that didn't cover my body i could no longer bear the rape and torture so why escaped but i was two and out of them. in two thousand and fourteen years edis in northern iraq fled i asked militants. well you see the men were killed some three thousand girls and women were taken as slaves. that night here mourad went on to become the un's first goodwill ambassador for survivors of human trafficking. dennis mccuaig is a renowned gynecologist who treats victims of sexual violence he has helped tens of thousands of women at his hospital in east congo. as

a weapon of war is dehumanize ing and he merely a ting in the. a weapon which has plagued east condo for decades here the offenders go largely unpunished. we won't be intimidated men and women must stand up together against rape and war. who quit again has already received a number of international awards the nobel peace prize now the crowning achievement in his career. and with me is the correspondence sandra piteousness and who has spent time in north in iraq with the community and visited mr macwhich as hospital in eastern congo is part of her job as a filmmaker it's a pleasure to have you here sandra so the nobel peace prize committee has said this you have decided to highlight sexual violence as a weapon of war being very specific about that so how important is this prize and

the attention that it gets to the plight of women around the world let's look at the work that dr mcwade does your know it let's be very blunt here he is a john searchin who operates on women in eastern congo who for instance have a kalashnikov you know chucked into their vaginas so just imagine the kind of horrific injuries these women suffer. and they are close to death they have lost their dignity he tries to give them just that back but dignity you know try story store whatever was destroyed and by doing so he's shining a light on exactly that these women are turned into weapons in a war you know that has slipped world's attention and today's price i think sheds some light on what is happening in east and democratic republic of the congo which has been happening for us and also in other parts of the world like iraq like what happened to not. a survivor of sexual slavery what happens to these women and

what do you know so often slips our attention right i want just to stay with doctor because she's literally dedicated his entire life to this work and a lot of people say that this prize has been a long time coming. a lot of people say so. was nominated time and again a lot of people suggest that him you know he also survived an assassination attempt because through his works of course he makes enemies but if you ask me personally i think it probably took this me two moment that the world to see him at the moment to shed some light more light on his work on his important work and on the situation of women around the globe you know not only in wars but also specifically in wars women fall victim to verbal abuse physical abuse sexual abuse and it's high time to recognize people like him and life not young laura who give a voice to these women not to mariah coming from iraq and you way north and iraq recently reporting on the plight of you. how much has the sexual violence

perpetrated against women had an impact i mean if you look at the community it's emotionally destroyed community because rape as it is sexual slavery is also associated with shame a lot of women choose not to talk about it we met plenty of women when we were up there in may who spoke to us on the condition of you know or staying anonymous they didn't want to give their names but not your moretti is choosing to do the opposite you know when she managed to free herself by running away she took a chance because the door stayed unlocked after three months of captivity she chose to revisit the troll much time and again she basically allows herself to relive those physical and mental aftershocks because with every interview she gives with the book she wrote with her work with international human rights lawyer clooney trying to gather evidence against islamic state you know she is revisiting that trauma and she has chosen to do that and to be the voice of the community which

frankly don't have a lot of voices speaking for them sandra basis month thank you rick. let's shift to some breaking news this hour and the u.s. senate has held a first for central vote on president trump supreme court candidate senator has not only voted to advance a nomination of judge brett kavanaugh by fifty one votes to forty nine with that he is one step closer to a lifetime appointment of the country's highest court a second final votes to confirm his nomination is expected on saturday and of course this comes after several women accused common all of sexual misconduct one of those women christine blood before testified about her lead sexual assault before the senate judiciary committee last week. stephens is in washington and he joins us now with the latest stephanie what does this all mean this is a first procedural vote well that was

a so-called cloture vote and what that means is that with this vote the senate made sure that the debate time for until the next vote can happen is limited to thirty hours maximum that means senators have now up to thirty hours time to debate. the case kevin out so to speak and with this procedural vote it is now possible tomorrow or within or after thirty hours to vote to have a up and down vote on the nomination of mr cavanaugh as supreme court judge so looking at it from this end does this mean it's a close case is does he have a shoo in is he guaranteed this position all could the wavering republicans for example have an impact on the vote tomorrow. close case by no means oh no you nailed it there is still three republicans who are wavering who. reserve

themselves some wiggle room in decision making if they want to go with kavanagh meaning voting yes for the nomination of mr cavanaugh that is jeff flake from arizona susan collins from maine and lisa murkowski from alaska now susan collins the senator g.o.p. senator from maine said she will decide today at three pm local here in the afternoon if she's going to vote tomorrow if this vote happens tomorrow and it looks like it will now. she will vote and she will decide by three pm today our time here in washington if she's going to vote yes or no so this is going to be exciting and ongoing drama here in washington so ongoing drama on capitol hill but outside have been people who've been demonstrating do you think this will stop the demonstrations. well no and yes so it won't the demonstrations will go on protests will go on until saturday this is

very clear because protesters tried to really hammer home for the republicans and for the republican senators. from the states the voters are coming from too that if you vote for kevin or we will pay you back in november they chanted yesterday and said all along november is coming november is coming now having said this these are liberal left leaning organizations who organize those protests and of course they are energized if they assume that kevin or we'll get the supreme court judges job past tomorrow they will be having energized and will be more so energized to go to the polls in november and cast their votes not for republicans and republicans are aware of this and frightful of this on the other hand all of this all of this just serves one purpose that this country so say many many experts and observers here

will be fall more so into a split along the fault lines of the political divide right now stephanie ones with the latest in washington thank you time now for some of the other stories making news around the world french police have opened the former south korean president. right from a south korean president lee myung bak has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison a court found the seventy six year old guilty on several charges including bribery and embezzlement. imprisoned ukrainian filmmaker on legs says so says he has ended his hunger strike sense of was jailed on terror charges which rights groups call politically motivated he refused food for more than one hundred fourteen days demanding the release of all ukrainian political prisoners. a week after a devastating earthquake tsunami hit indonesia so low as the island supplies have begun trickling into the region authorities have now put the death toll at more

than sixteen hundred the search for survivors is continuing but hopes of finding any more people alive are fading. as shake of the head says it will be to a disappointment for this french and indonesian rescue team only hours earlier they detected signs of life under the wreckage of this hotel impala on the indonesian island this in a way you see now they go on. we strongly believe there was hope now we have nothing at all we tried everything we wanted to save time by using different machines and scanners to listen and we tried everything and we've had no response yet not far away the village of pets has been completely destroyed buried in a sea of mud and debris relatives of those missing no there's little hope of finding anyone else alive. my family lived in this village

it is so lonely that i don't know where they all know i can't find my mother. hospitals in the area are already overflowing with casualties. tents have been set up to care for the injured. and the death toll is rising all the time. outside the city of palu a mass grave has already been dug locals of volunteering to bury the dead. are crying every time. aid agencies are warning that more than six hundred thousand children have been affected by the quite tsunami in the chaos many have been separated from their parents. but finally aid is beginning to trickle into the worst

hit parts of sulu way z. with so many in need of humanitarian help it can't come soon enough. christiane ronaldo eventers have been criticized for their reaction to rape allegations made by an american woman against the portuguese flare on twitter the italian football club initially praised him for his professionalism since joining the summer a second tweet goes on to say that the alleged events did not change their opinion of him calling him a great champion now this stance has been widely condemned on social media and the club's share price has actually fallen five percent all rinaldo has vehemently denied the allegations and threaten to sue german magazine dish vigo which first reported on the story a week ago. well that's all we have for you this hour just stay tuned for another news update at the top of the hour thank you for

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