senate votes not only to advance fred capitols nomination to the supreme court the movie is likely to further polarize republicans and democrats at odds over his candidacy for a final confirmation vote is set for saturday. welcome to the program two campaigners for victims of sexual violence are the winners of this year's nobel peace prize the committee recognize the work of years e.d. campaign and not hear more at least. in trying to end the use of rape as a weapon of war. nadia moved out has been kidnapped tortured and sold into sex slavery no just twenty five she's been awarded a nobel peace prize for her efforts to stop it happening to other women in twenty fifteen she recounted her experience at the hands of a soldier of the so-called islamic state. equally all men 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've done a lot over. the last year she returned to her home in northern iraq where i asked kidnap thousands of years of the women and girls the men were killed. since finding freedom has used her voice to farther the fight for the years east and other victims of sexual violence. she will share the award with dr denis mccuaig our known congolese surgeon who over the years has helped thousands of women blighted by sexual violence and war torn eastern congo. news of their war two reached him in the operating theater sending his hospital into party more and. more. this prize has a big meaning now although it took time for the world to recognize as the world has started listening to woman marries up was. amid the celebrations plenty of stories that speak to dr mcwade his character and the power of his word. either come on now he's getting the award because he looks after as you report you so i'm looking right now and that's why we're all happy. that i did actually what i suffered and faced a lot of rejection from our husbands after we were raped they said we would infect them with diseases but mcquade he enlightened them and now we have peace in our families. yet later dr mcwade dedicated his price to all women when did by conflict and confronted by sexual violence. from the nobel peace prize is not the first time the world has recognized in his mccuaig his work has previously won the united nations human rights prize and the right livelihood award often referred to as the alternative ask us. as a member of the international jury for the right livelihood award at the st denis mccuaig use at work in the democratic republic of congo at first hand she joins us from cologne welcome to day w a tell us about the quakers work. dennis mcquade as an ecologist so he is known as the men who men's women technically really doing surgery on the atrocious. injuries women suffer from sexualized violence in eastern congo of for the past twenty years. but he also makes sure that he provides that he treats the women as a human being gifts restore state dignity he provide psychological care he provides legal aid because you have to be aware that rape as it is something where a lot of impunity happens that means even if the perpetrator is known does not call to justice so you make sure that women get legal aid to actually sue and get convictions on the perpetrators you make sure that the women are able to find a living giving for example micro finance helping them to start an existence so it's a very holistic human ness that gov croce is following and he has been treating over fifty thousand women since he started pumping hospital about twenty years ago wow this work has made him an a minus. yes i mean he doesn't only treat women holistically but he also calls out the root causes for this violence he says very clearly this is not an ethnic issue this is about resources the international community failed to do to fight for stability and ease some congo the more in stable ease some congo the easier to extract the resources rare earth especially colleton which is necessary for all of our mobile phones for example and he's very very outspoken addressing the root causes and also saying that men have a role it's not a women's issue men who are not finding that what is happening are in you main he says if you don't call it out if you don't call it rape or rape and are against it then you are accepting it so that made him a lot of enemies several of his bodyguards have been killed and we as a foundation also work on protecting all our it so we help them to build a new house inside inside the hospital compound so you are safe with his family to stay there good talking to you have thanks so much for telling us about the work of benazir mccuaig union cronan from the. from the right livelihood award thank you thank you for having me. let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world aid agencies in indonesia are warning that more than six hundred thousand children have been affected by last week's earthquake and tsunami the number of death has not risen to more than sixteen hundred seven hundred others are believed to be missing. and police in france have opened an investigation into the disappearance of manhole why the chinese head of interpol the international police body is family in the french city of leone have not heard from him since he left for china at the end of last month with the chinese authorities no into public commenting publicly on the case. here ologists have uncovered a well preserved shrine in the ruins of pompei it's a lavish and richly painted garden save in the hope that right after the explosion of mt vesuvius in seventy nine eighty experts say it was found in a particularly dangerous area of the site which had not been explored before. to the united states to where the u.s. senate is held a first procedural vote on president trumps the supreme court's nominee said this is voted not only to advance the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh by fifty one votes to forty nine with that he's a step closer to a lifetime appointment on the country's highest court a second final vote to confirm the nomination is expected on saturday this comes after several women accused him of sexual misconduct one of those women christine lacy fought testified about her alleged sexual assault in front of the senate judiciary committee last week this. case. let's get the latest from mr evans events in washington a welcome steffen will brett kavanaugh get the job. good question i don't have an answer for you yet at this moment susan collins the g.o.p. senator from maine is speaking and is supposed to announce her decision if she will vote for the nomination and for the confirmation of bret kevin a next supreme court justice so josh so this is going to happen as i speak and if she votes for a yes then it is pretty much a done deal for the republicans and they will be looking positively towards a vote tomorrow somewhere in the afternoon local time here tomorrow and saturday if she says she's voting against the nomination of mr or confirmation of mr kevin all then it's getting a little bit more complicated but she had lunch with the g.o.p. leadership and the g.o.p. leadership mitch mcconnell came out and said he'd slow cooking positive fully into the future so he's confident that he gets the vote off miss collins and with that mr kavanagh's fate will be he will be the next or another supreme court judge but that all waiver of those talk us through the. republican senators and which way they are likely to go. yeah the waivers were jeff flake that's the senator you remember who was confronted in the elevator very impressively by two women by two survivors of sexual assault he already announced that he will actually vote for the confirmation of mr brett kavanaugh so there is no weakening anymore. by jeff flake lisa murkowski the g.o.p. senator from alaska she also came out with a decisive statement and said she will vote against mr cavanaugh so the question is and the wiggle room here is with susan collins who is speaking right now and who will decide if she goes with or against mr given all and last but not least joe mentioned democratic senator who voted in the last vote today to get the vote out to the senate floor tomorrow for that to happen so that's the democrats senator democratic senator from west virginia and he is kind of skipping the line of the democrats in sitting probably are siding with republicans at least it looks like this right who knew pumpkins could be so interesting exciting stephens even in washington thank you. well the capitol controversy has become a flashpoint in the me too movement against sexual harassment by men in power it's been a year since the movement took off spot by explosive allegations against hollywood producer harvey weinstein a year on me too remains a powerful force on social media social media editor john had read hostile welcome let's take a look back at them how did mean to say the made to social media movement that we know it began a year ago but actually made two began in two thousand and six and it was established by an american civil rights activist named to run a book but it wasn't until the harvey weinstein's story broke that the rest of the world really heard about me and that was because of a tweet by the american actress melissa milan she writes here if you've been sexually harassed or resulted reply to these tweets reply me to to these twenty fold the women who've been a soldier and write me to resist at this we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem and within a day how to million people responded to these tweets and many millions more on facebook too and so then this sort of ignited this movement where women all around the world in all sorts of fields spoke out about men often very powerful men accused of sexually abusive behavior but it wasn't just into time and it was all the old tops of industries like the take industry the media industry sports academia and you know we're learning things that we didn't know a year ago and this is all happened in the space of. sorts of conversations in the service office or some of those rights a lot of the stories that have come out of me too are of women speaking often for the very first time about their results that have happened many many years ago and this is led to another conversation as to why people white so long to speak out if they indeed do at all and a good example of this is donald trump republic lee questioned why. dr christina just heard from. long to make these claims of brett against brett kavanaugh this spot another hash tag on me too and it's called why i didn't report some of the stories are quite sad one person writes i thought it was normal and that i'd probably brought it on myself i thought nobody would care i thought i wasn't important enough to bother i thought i was alarmed and from the actress daryl hannah puts me to a lot of people feel it's trial by internet without due process of people on the other side of the fence feel that quite often their legal systems don't protect victims enough before and afters assaults and this is why they turn to social media too to have their voices heard which is part of the reason my made to you has exploited it just a great thanks so much. it's time to remind you of our top story this hour the nobel peace prize has been awarded to two campaigners working to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon that is mccuaig as a cog in the session and helps women and girls while victims of rank he says the all of them with not your marotta a new cd human rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery. that's a choice of today to more at the top of the hour of course around the clock on the web site announced in w dot com have a good. time. nico is in germany to learn german. published in the. why not learn with him online on the mobile and free to suffer from c w e learning course nico speak. to me.