this is al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from the headquarters and. coming up in the next sixty minutes many fear drowned in tanzania as a ferry carrying hundreds of people saying it's. anger in austria as european leaders look to egypt to help toughen their borders further against refugees and migrants. hand in hand atop a mountain the leaders of north and south korea are wrapping up three days of talks and new promises. plus celebrations in

uganda where a pop star turned politician bobby wine has returned vowing to fight on against the government and i've decided to go to de sport as opposition grows to the decision by the world anti-doping agency to reinstate russia paving the way for its ethics to compete at international events one small. fellow thanks for joining us we begin in tanzania where rescue workers are trying to find hundreds of people after a ferry sank it happened in lake victoria near caraway island at least five passengers are now confirmed dead and thirty two have been rescued the ferry operator says the boat capsized just a few meters from the dock let's talk to catherine soy she's covering the story for us from neighboring nairobi what are you hearing about that incident. daryn we're

actually getting conflicting information about the number of bodies that have been retrieved from the lake as at this moment some local media stations saying i have two hundred bodies i have just also talked to a journalist who has spoken to a fisherman in ones where this ferry capsized and this fisherman said that he so fifty bodies being retrieved but we are yet to independently verify these figures what we also know from witnesses is that the ferry appeared to have been overloaded it has a capacity of one hundred people but sources say that it had carried up to five hundred people it had also on bowed segment bags and many other goods and was affected by bad weather there rescue operations going on of course this is

being hampered because it's at night now but these operations are expected to continue through the days we haven't received another of fishel communication from the government apart from this statement that was issued earlier on just confirming that this incident happened how common are incidents such as these well this is the most serious incident daryn in recent years there was another incident a ferry capsized back in one thousand nine hundred six a thousand people were killed that ferry you say to have been overloaded as well over the years we've also seen you know small both and other fishing vessels also capsized and seeing several people killed but you know the issue is the magnitude the number of people who have been killed so this is the most serious incident as i said that we've seen in the last several years ok catherine thank you for that update. europe's leaders will work more closely with egypt and other north african

countries to curb the flow of refugees and migrants coming across the mediterranean sea they'll look to build on cooperation deals with turkey which have helped to cut illegal migration to europe or it's the reports from salzburg where austria is hosting the e.u. summit. this is the man to whom the european union is now looking to solve its migration issue president sisi of egypt it was the surprise development at the salzburg summits the idea was driven by the rightwing austrian chancellor sebastian could who visited sisi last weekend he's come back full of praise at how good egypt is at stopping refugees from leaving your comment on the phone there are bits with egypt we have for the first time a country in north africa that is willing to intensify talks with the european union egypt has proven that it can be efficient since two thousand and sixteen it is managed boats that leave egypt for europe and when ever they have lived it took

them back to. the thousands of men women and children who have drowned in the mediterranean a witness to the total lack of a strategy from the e.u. either to help rescue them or to find a reliable partner in libya to help instead. europe now has many leaders whose biggest priority is to keep asylum seekers out egypt c.c. looks to be. the european union has found it absolutely impossible to persuade individual member states to share around asylum seekers between them but if you ask those same countries would you pay somebody else to do it then they all reach for their wallets in terms the new european migration plan is to outsource the whole thing to egypt and they see no moral hazard in getting a country with such a poor human rights records to do it's. also the e.u. if it means that egypt will run migrant detention centers whether asylum claims for europe will in future be done in cairo and they say it's still early days but more

summits focusing on egypt are being planned for december and february indeed it is the case that there is good migration management in egypt and it seems to be the case well and good but it does not mean that it's automatic it is a solution for libya where there's a very very completely different set of circumstances different issues of governance in fact almost no government in many cases if there was unity about the need to keep asylum seekers out there was just as much on trying to stop the u.k. from leaving the e.u. or at least a continued flat rejection of the british prime minister's proposed plan she now has under a month to come up with something new lawrence lee al-jazeera. or another big issue being discussed that austria is the u.k. is due to give up its e.u. membership in six months and time is running out to settle on a divorce deal one major sticking point between u.k. and some leaders has been the irish border and here is why at the moment the border is pretty much invisible allowing people and goods to pass freely between northern

ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland a fellow a u member what everyone wants to avoid after brics it is a so-called hard border where checks and inspections are reimposed threatening trade. and a fragile peace deal the e.u. and u.k. have decided to have a fallback plan or backstop if they can come up with a better solution but they can't even agree on what the backstop will look like for the e.u. version would see northern ireland continue to follow many e.u. trade rules and regulations by itself but london says this would undermine the integrity of the u.k. so they put together they put forward a broader plan for all of the u.k. to follow a common rule book with the e.u. which they believe will allow for frictionless trade over an open border. yes concerns have been raised i want to know what those concerns are there's a lot of hard work to be done but i believe that there is a willingness to do

a deal but let nobody be in any doubt that as i've always said you know we are preparing for no deal there is no counter proposal on the table at the moment that actually deals delivers on what we need to do and respects the integrity of the united kingdom and respects the results of the referendum. the moment of truth for . the european council. in october we expect maximum progress and results in the budget talks. then we will decide whether. to call an extra summit in november to finalize and formalize the deal in a symbolic and to their three day summit the leaders of north and south korea have visited the top of the peninsula as most sacred mountain amounts to. one giant took a tour around the iconic volcanic crater called heavenly it around out

a trip that's how the two leaders agreed to making the peninsula nuclear free as rob mcbride reports from seoul. this summit ended as it began rich in symbolism president moon j end of south korea and his north korean host kim jong un top of mt peck to the highest peak of the korean peninsula spiritually significant to all koreans into korean relations have seen many false starts with attempts at reconciliation often returning to threats of war but there's a strong sense moon and kim want to forge a bond so strong that they can never slip back to the acrimony of the past. we adopted a military pact to end a history of brutal and tragic confrontation and hostility. weapons for. cilla tes will be closed but there's little detail on how to fulfill them or they promise to make the peninsula nuclear free it's enough though to breathe new life back into

the stalled negotiations between north korea and the united states and could lead to a second summit between kim and u.s. president donald trump but many believe to make real progress it's now time for the photo ops to give way to detailed discussion i mean it's going to be really really difficult and the president and kim jong un don't know these things and any kind of detail which is why we keep getting these some of declarations that are very short because the detail has to be worked out by the by the experts. more skeptical observers suspect north korea now with south korean support may have other reasons for pushing for a summit and this is a significant diplomatic success for not scary because in a few months the disband told make preparations was a summit and during the summit itself they are not going to see any confrontation and this is exceptionally. that kicks their major goal is to await.

alt as soon as moon returned to seoul he broadcast live to south korea. he revealed that kim has offered a number of unspecified steps towards denuclearization but would be expecting concessions from the u.s. in return. the detail measures or the appropriate measures are things that must be agreed upon between north korea and the u.s. . it underlines moon's vital role now as go between the north koreas negotiations with the u.s. as he prepares for a meeting next week with trump whatever the outcome this summit with kim has revealed to leaders building a home grown man and then turn for a change that may be difficult to stop cried al-jazeera so malaysia's former prime minister has declared he's not a thief after pleading not guilty to twenty five additional corruption charges prosecutors accuse najib razak of illegally transferring hundreds of millions of

dollars from a state funds into his personal account while he was in office florence slowly reports from kuala lumpur. arrived in court to face twenty five new charges including money laundering and abuse of power he's pleading not guilty to receiving hundreds of millions of dollars prosecutors say the money in his bank account came from the state investment fund one be set up by now gyp eight years ago. billion ringgit the issue up to two point six billion ringgit has been used to store lender. today's charges will give me an opportunity to clear my name and prove that i am not a thief. the new charges are in addition to seven others for allegedly receiving ten million dollars from another state owned entity police in at least six countries are investigating transactions involving one m. d.

the us department of justice alleges not just and his associates stole at least four and a half billion dollars from the fund and go but the corruption scandal helped defeat not tips coalition government in the general election in may and during the sixty year rule of the bars a national party a new government led by former veteran prime minister mahathir mohamad wasted no time in reopening the investigation into one m. d. b. which is not to pay stopped police in malaysia issued an arrest warrant last month for a man named lowe take joe investigators say the fugitive is an important suspect in the one and corruption scandal. the malaysian government recently seized a multi-million dollar yacht that they say was bought with money stolen from one m d be an anti corruption detectives have questioned not tips wife. and his stepson. the court has set bail at eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars has till the end

of the month to make full payment florence ling. will once more head on the al-jazeera news hour including our investigation into shocking cases of animal abuse in chinese marine parks why u.s. sanctions on iran have hit iraq's religious tourism industry during an important event for muslims and josh was part of can trade verbal blows one more time ahead of saturday's big heavyweight title fight find out what they said coming up in school. we shall die trying that's the masses ugandan pop star turned politician bobby winds a liver to supporters as he arrived home promising to keep up his anti-government fight hundreds of his supporters turned out to welcome him defying a government ban wine has been receiving medical treatment in an american hospital for what he says are torture injuries he sustained in

a ugandan prison he's been one of the most vocal critics of president yarima seventy. three point. three because. what is this. from the. sex me my passport i mean i don't know where they are but. i know that to be welcome webb was outside home and sent us this update. as soon as the plane that will be one was in touched down on the tarmac in heavy international airport and he left the aircraft people traveling with him say he was bundled into a police car arrested and taken away he was arrested they just say he was escorting him home and then they eventually brought him here to his house near a still hundreds of supporters gathered outside they were waiting here for him to arrive we spoke to him a short while ago he said great and that he's still in pain from the injuries that

he sustained when he sustained when he says he was tortured just a couple of weeks ago though the government denies that his soldiers to shoot him while he was in the tension crucially the security agencies today were trying to involve trying to avoid the embarrassment of having a procession all the way from the international airport down the forty kilometer road that leads to the capital that built up area it's been probably one of many supporters that they wanted to avoid a raid with thousands of people out on this. cheering him on they managed to do that by kicking him out of the green i mean yeah at least ten people have been killed in the philippines after a landslide burry dozens of homes in two villages near a city many others are trapped under the rubble the landslide was triggered by heavy monsoon rain just days after northern philippines was battered by its most powerful typhoon the sear. reports from it's a gone where decades of unrestrained mining have made the landslide that followed the storm all too common. living.

the last time very long spoke to father was two months ago now she wishes she had left it so long before getting in touch again. andrew took up or was buried in a landslide in the good province on saturday when i went up and glanced at the corpse i recognized him by his favorite sweat shirt that i had given him i'm just glad he was in one piece and wearing my gift and you was among more than thirty miners who took shelter in the bunk house with super tight food monk could struck. a village was this sure when the storm triggered the landslide recovery operations are underway but they are proving extremely difficult especially in the region or infrastructure has always been a major challenge decades of unrestrained mining has made many areas of his

mountain range precarious and dangerous despite government warnings illegal mining is rampant here the department of environment has ordered the temporary suspension of all such operations in the region and local officials are promising to be more strict with their money tory. but the bigger question now is whether this disaster is actually going to change anything because tragic as it may seem disasters like this one has been commonplace in the country of grinding poverty this is why many people here are calling on the national government to act with political will and to find a long term solution on the problem of illegal small scale mining operations otherwise this is just going to be part of a long and endless cycle of poverty and devastation for every disaster a story of courage renewable design was one of the first to join the rescue teams

he ended up being trapped in mud and floodwaters but he says he has no regrets about trying to help. things but when i was called in to help i didn't hesitate there was no doubt in my heart i knew i was going over there to rescue people and never would have been able to forgive myself if i just sat very and did nothing while people were fighting for their lives. many of the miners had traveled long distances to work here all for a chance at a better life. risking so much for very little return. for each body pulled out here i dream. province north philippines. the u.s. government is partly crediting a twenty three percent fall in terrorist attacks last year to the defeat of feisal

in iraq the u.s. state department's latest annual survey details around eight and a half thousand attacks half of them in five countries including afghanistan where the taliban's been staging a resurgent campaign the other four countries are rock the philippines in zero pakistan the u.s. again accuses iran as the world's of being the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism the state department says the fifteen month blockade on cats are is hampering regional counterterrorism efforts. is the director of the gulf studies center at caspar university he says the report reveals a lot about america's perception of iran. iran has been mentioned in the report around five four four times and the context was a repetition of what of what's been mentioned two thousand and sixteen reports are basically linking iran with the sponsoring terrorism in the context where the

linkage between iran has been around how that's happening in syria some of the militias are brought by iran. and i think that is that is reconfirming the perception of iran in the united states we cannot you know ignore the fact that the united states since the withdraw of the nuclear deal is sort of very clear policy of. putting iran back to the square where it is you know a rogue state where the state is not actually supporting terrorism and sort of demonization of iran and this is absolutely confirming what the united states tried to do in the since june two thousand and seventeen the united states actually signed very clear you know human to. counter terrorism the report is actually confirming that steps and and the measurements take by the government. it shows that how much you know the iran that is cooperating with the united states

and delivering on their notes on a promise is there is very clear message not only to the country to the world that is actually a serious fight against terrorism in the region i think that is something for a country need to take it seriously russia and turkey are still working out the details of a plan to avert a syrian government offensive in rebel held province under the agreement of fifteen to twenty kilometer wide demilitarized corydoras to be set up to keep government troops and rebels apart that may and it lip are confused about how it will work as stephanie decker reports from antakya just over the turkish border. the demilitarized zone. agreed on by turkey and russia is due to be established around fifteen kilometers from here it's a topic on everyone's mind one of the. demilitarized zone will be a separate zone between or send the regime turkey will ensure our side and russia

will ensure their regimes in order to prevent any battle i think all the factions will accept this because turkey is pushing forward and we are with turkey but these fighters a coalition called the national liberation front are believed to be backed by turkey and getting them to fall in line will be easy the problem may be with groups that have been deemed terrorist organizations like the formerly known as the nostra front and accused of having links to al qaeda. i don't think hyatt to reality will disappear they will break up and join the other factions there is no way that turkey will accept them staying in a loop so what if the s. and other groups refuse to abide by this deal their positions remain unclear what will turkey do and what happens next will government forces be taking over these areas over time there are many more questions than answers that confusion is also felt in medicine in the city about ten kilometers away from the agreed. i gave that

i feel i don't have any or what's happening a lot of foreign states are involved and you don't know anything so. this is not the end of the revolution there are twenty million people who wanted the region to fall that twenty million wanted to liberate syria there are twenty million who want to see the victory flag on the presidential palace but it is seen to be the last stand of the armed opposition how much of it lives future will be decided militarily and how much will be decided politically remains unclear what is clear damascus is adamant it will take it back stephanie decker al-jazeera. an al-jazeera investigation has uncovered shocking animal abuse in china as marine theme parks current affairs program want to a nice to spend two years looking into how animals are being mistreated in a multi billion dollar industry steve chara ports. i think the public aquarium performances in china are entertaining

mix of defying tricks i suppose animals feel i need some displays of the affection i don't need. but exclusive behind the scenes video obtained by one of one east reviews a much darker picture no telling president or channel your union border city and our. workers who asked not to be identified the animals such as seals sick with skin diseases and cataracts are abandoned in places called dining rooms left to swim in their own urine and feces for the horses so who knows who the owner you will woman goes i didn't. want. the bench or you just drove the car no you see it. i all.

in and come and be my old bottle deal over two years one of the nice documented many more sick and dying in america. this beluga whale looks like it's playing with some young visitors now see that's aggression but iommi rose one of the world's best known marine scientists says far from being happy this behavior indicates it's overstressed by captivity. if you see the same animals consistently responding in an aggressive open mount threat way to the people at the underwater viewing window then that starts telling you a bigger story that maybe this whale and particulars under stress she says conditions in china are the worst she's ever seen anywhere with dolphins and baluga swallowing debris and display areas far too cramped the tank for these green balloon guys is so small it's hard for them even just to turn around.

roll says not only is there widespread abuse but animals are dying prematurely this is just one way conveyor belt and it ends in death at the other end premature death and this is supposed to be entertaining managers of the marine park didn't respond to our requests to discuss mistreatment the parks are now so popular there are more than sixty in china with a dozen more being built. there appears no way in to china's aquarium park and for their captives no wind to their misery steve al-jazeera china and you can watch program china caging the oceans while tonight at twenty two thirty g.m.t. right here on al-jazeera still to come in this news hour palestinians living in jordan accuse saudi arabia of blocking them from performing has also getting hooked the exit bishan that's examining addiction while trying to break myths and

taboos and find out why rugby players are being asked to cover up their tattoos are back in a moment. hello there recently we've been seeing some showers over the northern parts of turkey but there's a sinking southwards now and you can see quite a few of them over the northern parts of iran instead i think there could be a couple more here as we head through the day on friday but the rest of that cloud has largely broken up as we head through the day marty's top temperature will be around twenty degrees and force in tehran will be in the high twenty further south it should be still very hot one force in baghdad at forty three and four to eight city will be getting to forty five here in doha still hot and very few made in that humidity is making sure the temperatures don't look too high on the thermometer so

thirty eight degrees will be our maximum but it will still feel very very hot and very very sticky they could be a little bit of cloud just flirting with the coast of oman at times so so lalah will get to around twenty eight or twenty nine degrees and maybe with a bit of drizzle at times and down towards the southern parts of africa we've had lots of cloud here recently and you see that area of cloud just pushing its way northward to now cross parts of been forcing cape town then we should see a little bit more in the way of brightness as we head through friday and if you do manage to see the sun sixteen degrees will feel fairly pleasant that sixty one in fahrenheit is still a lot warmer meant for the force in durban though will be all the way up at twenty two and ten in a river in the sunshine will be at twenty six. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts full cabana dot. tossed by the security council to mediate between arabs and israelis. his day that

would prove one of the darkest days in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the count on al jazeera. a year ago president threatened to destroy north korea what will happen this year when he and other world leaders visit new york. this time there's a new dimension trump is expected to chair the u.n. supposed to go to the security council. and he has iran in his sights. extensive u.s. coverage. on.

the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour at least forty people have drowned after a ferry capsized in tanzania it happened in lake victoria near the caraway islands thirty two people have been rescued so far europe's leaders will work more closely with egypt and other north african countries to curb the flow of refugees and migrants coming across the mediterranean sea the e.u. has previously struck cooperation deals with turkey and libya south korea's president who die and has returned from three days of talks in north korea declaring that leader kim jong un is willing to quickly dispose off his nuclear weapons. further progress will depend. robert kelly is a professor of international relations at the university in south korea he says he'd be surprised if north korea eliminates its nuclear arsenal. the north koreans

but that the years developing these weapons they're critical for north korean security of the see them as deterrence against a possible american led regime change strike as what happened in libya and iraq and yugoslavia there are good reasons for the north koreans have nuclear weapons it's pretty obvious why they have them so they're not going to give up everything probably go to something i think we can probably talk them into something maybe a freeze maybe a mild rollback but but going to zero no that won't happen my sense is probably a freeze is the best we're going to get out of the north koreans and then maybe we can get them to roll back a little bit but they're going to ask for an awful lot certainly sanctions relief that's a really big one that that's really obvious one to the americans are really prioritize using sanctions also peace declaration some kind of formal end of the korean war so that north korea doesn't feel that it needs sort of this gigantic military and has to be sort of in this very oppositional relationship with the u.s. and south korea but the war also cost the russians undercuts the rationale for the u.s. military to be in south korea and then generally aid i think the north koreans just want cash north korea's

a very poor place they want to access the global economy needs to since that kind of mix is probably more what they will require shall muslims are commemorating i should rot the time of fear when they mourn the death of the prophet muhammad's grandson a man hossein was killed in the battle of karbala in what is now iraq thirteen hundred years ago saying as death was a major factor in the split into two main sects of islam sunni and shia some shah beat themselves to express their grief for the pain pressing suffered by u.s. sanctions have made it harder for a rainy and muslims to travel to iraq to mark. rob matheson reports from baghdad. intense and vibrant a shooting in the iraqi city of kabul. the crowds which used to pack the shrine of a mom who's seen no smaller because thousands of iranians can't afford to be here as the ship we date on we came to iraq because we love to visit the holy shrines but the economy crunch means many iranians can't afford to visit. osher

a day. iranian shia worshippers usually travel to kabul at this time of year but iran's been hit by u.s. sanctions since august the value of its currency the reaal has plunged for the iranians getting to college is expensive now and for some even the price of a hotel room is simply too much of in their cars off the hotel business in karbala in previous years was booming now we can only make ends meet last year we had more than two hundred seventy big iranian religious groups staying at my hotel alone now there are just seven small groups. from the economic point of view the u.s. economic sanctions on iran have really affected iraq's religious tourism when iranians come to my shop to buy souvenirs most of them can't pay i sure is marked by prayers perceptions and food handed out at stores like this one all over iraq is held on the tense day of the holy was of mahogany and it marks the death of

a mom for saying one of the grandsons of prophet muhammad who many see almost when i was the third in line. he died thirteen hundred years ago in a battle where the city of karbala now stands for my new year put him on year ago iran's currency was in good shape and now we have financial problems but ryan's will strive to come here during holy month i'm hot around. for shia muslims the show is a time of reflection and remembering i many iranian worshipers may also remember this uses it as a time of financial hardship matheson's al-jazeera back to. palestinians in jordan say they are being prevented from traveling to saudi arabia to perform muslim holy rites the saudi arabian embassy in amman has refused to comment but palestinians say the message is clear victoria getting the reports the haunch pilgrimage is a religious duty on muslims hope to fulfill at least once before they die it's one

of the five pillars of islam saudi arabia is the guardian of its holiest sites including the kaaba in mecca. palestinians living in jordan say saudi arabia is allowing politics to taint rituals which should be sacred saudi arabia is fighting the palestinians and islam at the same time other palestinians even with a jordanian passport say they're being banned from visiting saudi arabia if they don't have a national id number two company representatives in jordan were wary of speaking on camera because of potential repercussions in saudi arabia but this operator agreed so long as his identity was concealed. passports of all been rejected by the saudi consulate they informed us not to bring these passports again to get a visa to go to saudi arabia so this has to get it really affected to talk companies. the saudi arabian embassy and a man refused to comment but palestinians off furious i don't live in

a very good joke the decision represents no respect tell us the latest on a conference any reason to petition for such a decision. more than two million palestinians live in jordan and the hashemite kingdom has become their second homeland it's long been believed that israel would like to make the state permanent hoping palestinians would then forfeit their so-called right to return to palestine but are not out of trouble this is a decision by trauma it's an absolute american decision amos to give the jordanian citizenship to the palestinians this is just the latest in a series of u.s. setbacks the palestinians including moving the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem palestinians say the eastern part of the city should be the capital of their future state and the u.s. government stopping hundreds of millions of dollars for palestinian refugees from the united nations relief and works agency. whatever saudi arabia's reasoning many

palestinians and others say they should be allowed to fulfill their sacrosanct obligations as muslims big turia gates and be al jazeera the former pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has been mourning the death of his wife at home after a court put his jail sentence for corruption on hold upon release he was greeted with a crowd of jubilant supporters come on hyder reports from outside cerise home in lahore. all you really. know was daughter and son in law captain. going to special ed croft and the city of lahore once considered to be a stronghold of the shiny family and washington he drove straight to his farmhouse situated on the outskirts of laura. you're already dead they are in a state of mourning because just over

a week ago. was the wife of the teatime pakistani prime minister mr know why should he died battling cancer in our london clinic oh board brought back he was released on parole and was allowed to spend five days on his farm house in order to complete the ritual of the death of his wife and i watch sheriff of course is now going to be consulting in the parking lot. to try to dry on their folly. for the upcoming election if they do rain heat. it will prove that you know why should he fail to covering politically but right now no why should you fairly made it clear that he doesn't want any political activity because it's also got money. right now we see just a handful of supporters and all media and police forces. across

pakistan day will be a sense of disappointment because the people of pakistan wanted to believe and they war did for change. and there is no china. in general or outside if you run khan is in power or not goes to work and lovely hood for a family's well these politicians are the least bold it about the plots of the poor people. however there are people who know washington eve well declared it created a lie she said about this thought i would because he. lead that has got to be least put on prison by the court to be. out here to welcome him and v.b. will support him last but i don't know why should he really be free until their decision by i doubt we're heading the appreciated it is going to be a temporary affair legal experts warn that the order of legality if data hanging over their shoddy family u.s. president donald trump says it would be unfortunate if the woman accusing his

supreme court nominee of sexual assault did not appear before the senate judiciary committee christine bossie fourth says she wants an f.b.i. investigation into her allegations before she testifies publicly our white house correspondent kimberly halakhah reports. i'm optimistic donald trump surveying the damage in north carolina from hurricane florence but back in washington trump was dealing with a very different storm surrounding his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is such an outstanding man very hard for me to imagine that it is a go cavanagh's been accused of sexual assault by this woman christine blazin ford ford says she was fifteen when a drunk seventeen year old cavanaugh pushed her into a bedroom at a party groped or attempted to remove her clothing and held his hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming three years ago cavanagh hinted at the culture of his

exclusive high school georgetown prep based on a very familiar phrase what happens at georgetown prep stays at georgetown. senators say for deserves to tell her story congress has given her the chance to speak privately with senators or publicly at a hearing on monday i just want to say to the men of this country to shut up and step up and do the right thing but ford has not yet committed to a hearing and is pressing for the f.b.i. to first investigate the thirty six year old claims republicans are accusing democrats of playing politics deliberately drawing the process out to delay a hearing and to rail cavanagh's nomination if she shows up as a credible showing that will be very interesting in rob make the decision an investigation of ford's allegations could take months and would be devastating for republicans eager to push this nomination through before november elections when

democrats could potentially take control of congress can really help at al-jazeera the white house proposed tax increases and economic chaos in argentina aren't expected to do much for the reelection chances of president. and his main rival next year has major problems too including a corruption scandal she can't get rid off our latin america editor of the c o newman has more from one of sirees. as he struggles to lift argentina from it's a cute economic crisis president. limited chances of reelection next year would appear to have received in an intentional helping hand from his main rival former president cristina fernandez the kishner is facing a barrage of corruption charges and is only being kept out of jail because of her parliamentary immunity as a senator. or begin. as a competitor having christine affected by so many corruption indictments is

certainly not an undesirable sonali or for mockery. in fact a newly published poll suggests that the only candidate that could defeat evil elections were held today is christina care and yet the fiery populist politician is still very much in the race. the charges of corruption against christina on all the front pages. which she runs impermeable to the attacks against her for the simple reason political support comes from argentina's poverty for the poor the issue is not corruption but inflation in the price of food which has gone up three hundred percent on democracy we tested the theory at a bus stop. she stole too much i doubt she could. but her daughter disagrees. with mack for you can't live i vote for christina with her we were much better off. and unless my economic recovery plan shows results by the second

trimester of next year many believe kishner will have the road paved for victory argentina is not brazil former president who is serving on a twelve year prison sentence and was declared ineligible to run as a candidate in next month's presidential elections here even at this. is convicted on one or more corruption charges she is still eligible to run as long as he has an exhausted all of the appeals process which could take years by then she could already be president a scenario that horrifies those who believe corruption is the root of argentina's problems second only to its current economic turmoil you see in human al-jazeera when the sight. of thousands of cattle and pro independence activists are out in barcelona they're marking a year since the wave of demonstrations that kicked off the spanish regents the session to strive last year protesters are demanding the release of prominent

separates us from prison they were arrested in the aftermath of a referendum on. the region's independence that was deemed illegal by spain's national government. for some it's sugar for others it's cocaine alcohol gambling even shopping or potential addictions on the subject of a new exhibition opening in london just a bold one went to look a table made of sugar by the dutch artist known as a tell you a one no he's making a point about our dictions to consumer products just like sugar having the latest phone can make us feel good for a short time but when it fails. daniel reagan's art is very personal and looks it is addiction to self harming that coping strategy regardless of what it is it's self destructive and then be off the mark to dealing with part of the guilt and shame that leads to more overwhelming feelings

which links back to guilt and shame the show spans art and science contemporary artists using the expertise of neuroscientists psychologists to get a better understanding of all addictions including new obsessions like social media and screens. gallery visitors are taking part in further research for david this is where the coffee begins to have its effect i think income for all to see it was pointed out that. it's a blind test of caffeinated versus decaf to study the placebo effect it's an important component in drug studies. technological innovations like detailed brain scans are helping scientists to figure out why some people get addicted and eventually even predict who's at risk there with children sky. in their i.q.'s and forestall to zero we had a look at that reading reward system and in fact you can predict who is going to

use alcohol more and who's going to become who's going to use alcohol less. than. a creepy video considers how we calculate our self-worth does our social media feed truly reflect us or is it a fabrication of happiness. artist catriona beals video game looks at how we are enticed to engage as long as possible rewards are drip fed. the online experiences can be enjoyable but like all addictions the brain's chemicals react respond and at some point want more. jessica baldwin al-jazeera london.

hello again time for the sports news with peter thank you very much the world anti doping agency is facing mounting criticism over its decision to end russia's three year ban for state sponsored doping waters' executive committee voted overwhelmingly to end the suspension at a meeting in the seychelles it paves the way for russian athletes to once again compete and that they flag at international events this use in flies in the face of several athletes and anti doping bodies who feel russia have not done enough to earn reinstatement namely preventing access to their labs and refusing to publicly accept the mclaren report which uncovered the government backed doping of more than

one thousand athletes the water president craig reedie said today the great majority of waters exco decided to reinstate risotto as compliance with the code subject to strict conditions the decision provides a clear timeline by which water must be given access to the former moscow laboratory data and samples all he says they will reinforce the ban. so russia's lair must still allow access but as you can imagine over in moscow the chief of risotto welcomed a reinstatement by wada. purpura sure it's the first step and a significant one it opens the way to international competitions for athletes and federations moreover opens the possibility of competitions to be nominated in the russian federation in fact this is a result of very very hard work risotto are happy but there is widespread dismay among many athletes and anti doping bodies who before the vote urged water to stand

firm against russia in fact they were to no votes within water itself including its vice president linda hill and she said it was wrong to welcome or solder back until they had fully and transparently met the roadmap today we failed the clean athletes of the world it's a similar feeling from the chief of the u.s. anti-doping agency travis tygart who says water put the wishes of a handful of sports administrators above the rights of millions of clean athletes and the dreams of billions of sports fans and more strong words from the whistleblower who exposed the russia doping program in the first place dr go to your chin cough through he's lawyer jim walden he described waters decision as the greatest trick against clean athletes in the limbic history our sports correspondent lee wailings has more to help unpack the story on what's been one of waters toughest days in its eighteen year history. wilder's reputation is in a very difficult position here you could say this is close to being the biggest

crisis that ever had you remember that one doesn't sort of sit above all sports water is actually funded largely by the international olympic committee so they have to study in with the i.o.c. and have to try and get on with them and they have been under pressure from the eye and so you want a very cozy relationship with russia at a high level to find a way to win state them and of course this goes against the incredible findings originally where there was over a thousand russian athletes in different sports were implicated so you can see people looking at this as usual the public that are watching these events and watching these sports wondering can i trust any of this now of course let's not make the mistake of talking just about russia it's only russia that has athletes who died be the first to say that this is a widespread problem throughout many nations and throughout such

a large range of sports but i think what's happened here is that over the last few years so widespread so wide scale was the russian doping that if proper action could have been taken then to bind russia in these sports for a year is well can we trust anything we see in sport. has been a topic of conversation ahead of saturday's world heavyweight title fight between anthony joshua and alexander provided can the russian failed to drugs test back in twenty sixteen but after serving a short ben he's got the chance to take all four of joshua's belts if he wins their fight in london joshua admits it's not good for the sport and once tougher sanctions. my opinion is you know if you're on drugs you get banned simple as that yeah and then number two it's not for me to make that decision are not part of can me by just do you believe in a fair fight you know i mean it's not like. i'm just trying to prove my swing i'm going to. knock you out in damages my partner is helping me often and i should be

more severe because. i've always been in the business in boxing those folks in myself whining about what the committees if they're not a judge's order referees it there and you know me so much as my opinion they should be a bit more civility. my job in this issue is to show. the non-drug she is a strong that's what i have to do not have to fight. if they were so you know concerned about drug cheats and he would have been a president. obviously the powers that be have let it happen and he seems to be a man that she and i just have to deal with them. ladies european tour paid an emotional tribute to spanish amateur player silly about akin who was murdered in the united states this week play was suspended for a minute's silence at the mediterranean open in spain twenty two year old back in one the european ladies' amateur championship earlier this year on monday she was found dead on a golf course in iowa where she was studying at university homeless man has been

charged with first degree murder it's exactly one year to the day until the rugby world cup kicks off in japan. but tournaments organizing committee held an event in tokyo on thursday to mark the three hundred sixty five day countdown it'll be the first rugby world cup held in asia and the first hosted by a nation outside rugby's traditional top tier it all kicks off with hosts japan against russia on september twentieth twenty nineteen. we begin our final countdown . we confidence but not complacency every second counts and i know that the passion of the people the dedication of the government the cities and the organizers we can and will deliver a very special and a game changing rugby world cup arigato. but bad news for any players heading to the world cup with tattoos world rugby has asked

them to cover them up in japan so as not to offend the chap anees locals who have long associated tattoos with the notorious crime syndicates now in sport there often seems to be one team will play with an unfair advantage and you might think that this is the epitome of that take a look at this a race between a fighter jet private plane an electric car a formula one car and a superbike the five competitors face still fed an airport runway in turkey and it was not the jets or the plane that crossed the line first instead the superbike took first place we really good if it from the back. and that's all the sport will have another update again later on during ok we'll see you later on thank you very much for that and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera lauren taylor and our colleagues in london will have more news for you coming up in just a couple of minutes.

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solution no upfront or italians on al-jazeera. forty two dead and hundreds more fear drowned after tanzanian ferry sinks in lake victoria. live from london also coming up. migration tops the agenda at an e.u. summit in austria with leaders looking to egypt and north africa for help. pop star turned politician bobby wine makes a triumphant return to you go.