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you are the newspaper live on air were streaming online through you tube facebook live and that al-jazeera dot com well the u.s. president donald trump has openly cast doubts on the university professor who's accused his supreme court nominee of sexual assaults after days of restraint comments trump went on twitter to question christine ford's account of what happened between her and that man right there brett kavanaugh during a party in one nine hundred eighty two well the vote on cavanagh's confirmation is on hold and professor ford's lawyers are now negotiating how she'll testify against him here's what president trump said via twitter judge brett kavanaugh is a fine man with an impeccable reputation who is under assault by radical left wing politicians who don't want to know the answers they just want to destroy and delay facts don't matter i go through this with them every single day in d.c. he went on to say i have no doubt that if the attack on dr ford was as bad as she

says charges would have been immediately filed with local law enforcement authorities by either her or her loving parents i ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn a date time and place so we've been following this case very closely here on the news grid a.j. plus gives us the full background take a look. he would call me into his office for reports on education issues and projects or you

might suggest that because of the time pressures of his schedule we go to lunch to government cafeteria he spoke about acts that he had seen in part in graphic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals and film showing group sex or rape scenes. move. move. live to our white house correspondent kelly hawk and so forth has said that she is willing to testify if certain conditions are met kimberly where do things stand right now. well we know there was a late night telephone call between christine blasio for its attorneys and members

of the senate judiciary committee both democrat as well as republican today is the deadline friday the deadline that was an arbitrary deadline they were hoping to have sort of an agreement in place about the conditions under which miss forward could testify either privately or publicly we are told that no agreement was matt and that back deadline is now flexible so there could be developments a continuing on in the next twenty four forty eight hours there is still the goal of trying to hold that hearing which tentatively has been scheduled for monday looking less and less likely at the moment but the republicans still pressing ahead for that but in the midst of all of this as you pointed out the start of the show things seems to be deteriorating in terms of the character assassination that is going on on both sides now both blaming the other for trying to stall this or playing politics can to neuilly seems to get nastier and nastier by the hour so

then what does all of this i mean give us the big picture here and tell us what it means for the coming on confirmation hearing. well as it stands right now we've heard from the top republican in the senate mitch mcconnell saying that judge kavanaugh will be confirmed it seems that republicans are pressing ahead to try and have this vote out of the committee but both sides say that they want to hear from both judge kavanaugh as well as christine bossy ford first so republicans seem intent on this timeline again we've been talking about this an al-jazeera for a while why is that because there's a pivotal election in november if this vote doesn't happen before then potentially it could be completely derailed if democrats take control of congress that's what democrats are counting on they've said from the start they want to derail this nomination they feel the court with this appointment would be too conservative this is the highest court in the land that we're talking about and democrats believe this would shape law in the united states for ultimately

a generation so they have been very very determined vocal about trying to block this whether or not this plays a part is open to debate for her part christine glossy for it says that she just wants the facts out and that's what she says she's willing to do whether privately or publicly that is still being worked out so at the moment in the long answer now the short is that this is very much a nomination potentially in jeopardy both sides have different political goals republicans say they are determined to get judge kavanaugh on the highest court the supreme court ok can really hold it for the time being thank you kimberly giving us the update from the white house and the meantime you can keep up to date with the story online you can head to al-jazeera dot com click on the news tab and then go to us in canada where you will come to this article if you have any comments or questions for us here at the news grid we'd like to hear from you on these stories you can send them when to any one of her online platforms we're on twitter use the

hashtag a j news grid or handle our aging we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera there it is you can also send us a message on what's up or telegram you see the number in a moment plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine. well the death toll is continuing to climb and one of ten zinnias worst ferry disaster is the least one hundred twenty people now confirmed dead after a ferry overloaded with passengers capsized in lake victoria just meters away from the shore and hopes are fading for an unknown number of missing passengers there's no official word yet on what caused it but the government is already being accused of negligence victoria gate and the reports. lake victoria became a grave site on thursday afternoon after a ferry capsized and sank. we are here to rescue people if there's anyone alive with god's help we'll rescue them as for those who have died will get them

out to for now we're concentrating on the rescue operation as you can see specialists have arrived dozens of people have been rescued recovery efforts halted a the night and continue to summarize on friday to nearby vessels were diverted to assist we asked that citizens remain calm as the recovery mission continues we also asked for more assistance from the ministry of internal affairs. the passenger ferry sank just a few meters from the dock in the district officials couldn't pinpoint the exact number of passengers on board the person dispensing the tickets drowned and the machine recording the data hasn't been retrieved yet but it's estimated that there were hundreds of people the ferry was overloaded with more than four hundred people on board and when the ferry was coming to a stop people moved from one side to the other the wait to the ferry over lake victoria is surrounded by tanzania kenya and uganda some of the deadliest accidents

on the lake have occurred in tanzania the country's passenger boats often old and elaborate dated in one nine hundred ninety six more than eight hundred people died when a passenger and cargo ferry sank and in twenty eleven almost two hundred people died when a ferry capsized. in that case the boat was overcrowded victoria gate and be al jazeera where hundreds of palestinians have again gathered on gaza's border with israel these protests have been going on for nearly six months the palestinians are demanding their rights return to the homes and lands their families were expelled from seven decades ago harry is over there joining us from near the gaza israel barrier fence harry just tell us what's going on behind you what you're seeing this friday. well this friday compared to recent weeks of these protests here at the gaza border fence this is

a substantial crowd you can see behind me there are several thousand people still here the protest in earnest going under way about an hour ago there have been a substantial number of injuries as well we heard a large volley of life fire about fifteen twenty minutes ago when some of the protesters tore away parts of the fence and actually entered onto the israeli side we've seen several gunshot injuries victims of those gunshot injuries being taken into ambulances for now the palestinian health ministries official figure for all kinds of industry injuries up and down the border five sites is thirty but that is surely likely to to climb what's also interesting about this protest is that we were we were quite close in the heart of that big group of people you can see near the smoke behind me a little while ago and hamas a second senior most figure the head of hamas in gaza yassin was was there in a big scrum of people at the center of that so for such a senior figure to get so close in the midst of what is

a large protest i think shows you that hamas is under considerable political pressure at the moment it wants to make these big gestures these these relatively large actions because on two fronts it's been negotiating trying to negotiate at least indirectly a cease fire a long term ceasefire with the israelis many here view that as if not failed very much failing on the verge of collapse and of course it's also under pressure from the rival palestinian faction fatah in the occupied west bank which controls the palestinian authority it is putting pressure on hamas to agree to some terms at least over reconciliation between the two rival factions some kind of unified administration here inside gaza the deadline for that is october the first and so there are some things that hamas can try to do to increase the pressure both on the israelis and on the p.a. one of them is to increase the size of these. protests on fridays and as well as that has been increasing the scope and range of these protests more days in different places as well we keep saying harry that these protests are palestinians

calling for their rights off return but tell us what life is like for palestinians living in gaza today you've been there a number of folk asians. yes i mean it's and it's indescribably difficult life in gaza for the vast majority of the people here of course more than a million of gaza's two million people. palestine refugees they live in huge poverty the unemployment rate is north of forty percent youth unemployment it's around sixty percent so a lot of the people who come here are young people and they say that that yes they want to make this this action show their defiance their anger at the israeli side demand the right of return in the future to the villages inside what is now israel inside historic palestine but as well as that it is a show i think of desperation they have so little else to do to really speaking to

a psychologist recently said that they don't really have much other option to sort of show the agency and so many of them come here to do that but also some of them come here in a show of desperation in terms of even being careless with their own lives we spoke to one young man he'd lost his leg in an earlier protest he came back here it comes back here every friday a few weeks ago he was shot in the other leg and yet he is still back here and there are many many more like him who are willing to run those sorts of risks ok perry faucet thank you so while that is the scene over in gaza what's happening in paris is that the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas is there and he's meeting with the french president emmanuel mccall made the stop on his way to the united nations general assembly which is meeting in new york next week mccraw led european criticism of the trumpet ministrations decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's

capital and move its embassy there and let's find out what's happening in paris bring in a toss about larsen's covering the story so what has come for and what does he want to walk away with. well my murdered by ask a very short statements off to the meeting with the french president we didn't hear from him at all my call and abbas just made it very clear that he's he was very grateful for any french support for european support for. what his needs are and what the needs are of the palestinian people and i think it's very clear with this visit that what the palestinian leader is looking for is for the french president of perhaps step up mediation efforts perhaps fill the gap left by the united states because of course palestinian leaders have phrase no communication with the u.s. administration ever since the decided to recognize jerusalem as the capital of

israel has no doubt that amount on my home has been very vocal he has condemned those decisions by the united states and really positioned himself as someone who can talk so will sides he says that's the key thing about from says that you can talk so all the different regional vetoes and that's why mahmoud abbas is really looking for support and sees him as key it's also very interesting they talked about the fact that the u.s. has decided to pull its aid from the u.n. a palestinian refugee agency now from says been quite vocal about that again the president has condemned that decision saying that france who do its best to try and make up the funding shortfall and try and raise that money and we know that next week at the u.n. general assembly abbas will be there my call will be there but we know that french ministers will hold a meeting on the sidelines of the u.n. g.a. and in that meeting they are expected to talk with their counterparts from countries like turkey jordan and other european nations on how to fill that

shortfall in funding left by the u.s. so those would be some of the things discussed today in paris by these two leaders ok natasha butler thank you and we're covering our boss the story online and you can head there for more information our online team has also put together some of the most powerful images from the right of return process that harry was telling us about since they began in march and you can find those pictures under the in picture on al-jazeera dot com. a clearly frustrated british prime minister has demanded that e.u. leaders come up with new ideas to resolve the brics at deadlock tourism is just returned from a testy e.u. summit that's where european leaders flat out rejected her proposals over the future of northern ireland may as accusing the e.u. of trying to break up her country i will not over to the result of the referendum nor will i break up my country we need serious

engagement on resolving the two big problems in the negotiations and we stand ready now the in joining us from downing street that a series of maize official residence in london so what would you say is the aim off that statement made by the prime minister. well durian it's important to remember that it wasn't shuttle but it was a rain started she got back from the e.u. leaders summit seen last year where many commentators said that she had been humiliated by the likes of the e.u. council leader donald tusk and france's president mccraw who said in no uncertain terms her proposals for a future relation ship the so-called checkers plan simply will not work freeview asli we've heard from around europe that there are problems with that because it entails for example being in

a kind of customs union for goods and food products but not for other areas and not according to the european union breaks its own rules but this was blunt language and even in some people's opinion trolling from donald tusk on twitter online with a picture of him in series i'm a over a cake with a caption no sherry meaning no cherry picking that's what they accuse the british government of trying to do so she came out fighting she said it's not acceptable to simply reject our proposals without an explanation and your own counterproposal saying the boys back in the european union's courts she does are also have her own critics here within her own party some of whom favor a no deal break sits and so she is putting out the message that her plan is still the only one that she's putting forward perhaps it's brinkmanship as well telling a european counterparts that she really is prepared to go to the wire if they don't

budge but a very capacity to budge perhaps is rather more limited than britain's at the moment ok and thank you and for a look back at what happened just twenty four hours ago in salzburg between may and e.u. leaders you can head online to on to c.n.n. dot com and you can read more about it in this article european leaders pour scorn on british p.m.'s bricks it fine. oh doctor describe it as an in-situ is disease that's declared war on our minds the incidence of dementia and its most common form out simers disease is exploding or misinformation and stigma persists which is something the organizers of world alzheimer's they are hoping to change right now about fifty million people right around the world are living with dementia that number is expected to triple to one hundred fifty million that's within the next thirty years on average there is a new case every three seconds which means there have been more than ten just since

we introduced this story to you and sarah's back and sarah people are using the internet to put human faces to this disease what are you seeing. and it's being done by sharing personal stories when you look up the hash tag day on twitter this is one of the first pictures that pops up jenna in the case tells the story of her grandparents who've been married for sixty seven years her grandmother has severe alzheimer's and her granddad isn't too well either they are inseparable and psychologist sabrina brennan she addresses stigma with this photo hair of ha and mother she advises if you know someone she says with dementia don't be scared away just by dementia we did office and she says they sang as well and you can see that in that photo now lots of people are also sharing unique projects to help people and families know how to deal with that disease of how times were in the early hours when i when i was very well i want to wait my husband and i often something

just going to talk and you can guarantee somebody out straight away you didn't feel alone and it was great in. a society based in the u.k. shed this video about the helpline it has set up for people with dementia and you can also find plenty of advice online. oh. the organization way back has created a virtual reality film giving people with alzheimer's an opportunity to relive moments from the past and they've posted this video on twitter showing how it works and how excited patients were to relive those moments now most of the conversation about alzheimer's seems to focus on the elderly bot the world health organization has been very clear that while age is a big risk factor dementia is not a normal part of aging smoking and drinking alcohol they say can make you more susceptible to it and recognizing dementia too late does have

a negative impact on treatment so here are some of the signs to look out for now we only use our keys or phones at times but that's pretty normal but it's repeatedly having a memory lapse could be a sign of dementia now the alzheimer's association warns that difficulty completing for me it's also home could also be a warning sign and people with alzheimer's may have trouble following joining a conversation even especially when it comes to vocabulary and familiar phrases for example calling a watch a hand croak now at the moment there's no cure bot there raised a lot of people have been sharing this video made by the british charity saying it's a disease and not means it can be cured. it's been very heartwarming to see the uplifting stories and messages that people are posting on world aids day so do you share yours with us the hash tag is a janie's grid's sara thank you let's not speak to dr keith fargo he's joining us

from chicago via skype is the director of scientific programs an outreach of the alzheimer's association thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera how significant and important is world alzheimer's day for you. well it's of major importance to you mentioned some of the statistics are they are with the million people but they across the globe today having all serious disease and that's back to discuss iraq and very rapidly you know unfortunately. in terms of doc hours and cents this became a trillion dollar disease this year you know that it's the seventh leading cause of death across the globe is this is a major issue and anything we can be done to raise awareness about that issue is a positive but let me ask you this why is it supposed to skyrocket i mean this is a really startling statistic that within the next three decades the number of people living with some sort of dementia is going to reach one hundred fifty million. well it really has to do with changing demographic thinks people are

living longer all across the globe and as you mentioned age is the number one risk factor for all timers disease but i also do want to reiterate something else that you said which is that dementia is not normal aging dimension is caused by specific diseases of the brain which means is that they can be overcome just like other diseases have been overcome though as we age as a global population we do expect more people to elop dementia unless we can find cures and treatments to slow that down or stop it and that's where the importance of the science comes in with other major diseases we've made huge strides and in some cases curing people of certain kinds of cancer reducing the number of deaths due to heart disease and stroke and we can make those same kinds of advantages in dimensions science through supporting research why is it seemingly a struggle to find a cure up until this point and are you hopeful that

a care will be found how close are we. i'm very very very hopeful and the rest of the scientific community as well. you know the this is a disease that affects the brain and the brain is an exceedingly complex organ in the body and so it's a very difficult not to crack if you will to try to find cures and treatments for dementia but researchers today have tools that they've never had before any governments have really stepped up to provide funding for all timers disease and dementia research precisely because it's costing the them so much right now to provide care for people with dementia and will continue to cost more in the future and so many governments have stepped up to fund new research into dementia so to reject things are actually on the horizon and to major research ok good to know dr kay fargo we thank you for speaking to us on jazeera thank you now if you're

watching us on our facebook feeds what's coming up for you is the iraq iran for talking about full option and ahead on the news read a racing their identity an investigation finds china is separating muslim weaker children from their families and forcing them into a state run orphanages. hello again we're here crossing the we are looking at conditions that are fairly dry across most of the area now we do have some clouds here pushing across the southern portions of the caspian and then out of northeastern turkey we may get a shower or two that will head towards back who probably by saturday night into sunday morning as well time just for aleppo maybe thirty three degrees as we go towards the end of the week and then down here towards quit city how about forty two degrees with baghdad coming down

a little bit actually to about forty degrees for you well over here towards arabian peninsula we are looking at conditions fairly dry for most areas but as we go from saturday to sunday we are going to see more clouds particularly down here across arabian sea so from the sky all the way down to salaam coastal clouds few in attempt to there of about thirty two degrees but up towards dubai how about abu dhabi seeing thirty eight device in about the same conditions and then for doha thirty nine degrees and a little bit better in the humanity and then across parts of africa particularly south africa we are seeing one front about to push through a lot of clouds here in the interior for cape town a little bit drier a little bit clearer with the temperature there of eighteen degrees but over towards durban and johannesburg well that is where we expect to see some very heavy rain showers possibly during the day with a tempter durban of about nineteen in johannesburg about twenty four. is a popular filming location in france when it comes to stories about drugs crime and

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and on the. ferry disaster that happened in lake victoria at least one hundred twenty seven people are now confirmed dead that is the latest figure we are getting malcolm webb is covering developments from the ugandan side of the lake. so we're saying we have one hundred twenty seven people confirmed dead and he hopes of finding more survivors. well that's the latest number we've got from the tanzanian also it is and that's the number of bodies of people that died that they pulled from the water and i don't think we were expecting now to find people still alive in the water it's been well over twenty four hours since the boat capsized. should just correct you know about the location where actually it got a port which is in camp are uganda's capital and that's on the northern tip of lake victoria the ferry accident happen down there in tanzania about three hundred

kilometers in that direction on the southern side of the lake but the ports around the lake are all very similar and you can see some of the kind of boats that are in use just here the lake for the large part fairly calm it does have storms and so on and these boats i've been in them several times before these kinds of ferries and so on generally quite safe in till they're overloaded and that's when the problems tend to begin what we do know about the boat that capsized in tanzania that classy was about one hundred people but survivors and eyewitnesses from the port where it set off as it had at least two hundred maybe even three hundred people on board at the time of course that makes it very unstable prone to capsizing also have to bear in mind that in places like this there are a lot of people who don't know how to swim so even though the ferry in tanzania was actually fairly close to the shore when it did capsize lot of those people process and also able to swim it's very difficult for them to survive or survive until rescuers are able to get there and mark i'm not the first time that

a disaster of this scale has happened. it's not happened every so often lately toria in tanzania kenya and uganda those the three countries on which the shores of lake victoria lie it's also happens in the in the indian ocean off the east african coast just a few years ago also in times and there were a ferry that was designed only to work on lakes it was actually being used to ferry people between the towns in the mainland and the occupant i'll go down the bar some islands out in the indian ocean according to the engineers that design that boats it should never have gone to sea but very operated managed to find that boat was using it in the ocean on one still the day capsized on that occasion three hundred people drowned of course it's a boat far away from the shore it's all when the campsite happens given as well that they just said if people can't stand it can be very difficult for rescuers to get there in time to save many people that's all ok malcolm webb thank you malcolm

reporting from harlow. now the ugandan pop star turned politician bobby wine is vowing to fight and free millions of his fellow citizens from what he describes as slavery after returning from the u.s. the thirty six year old has rattled the government of president yarima seventy who's been in power since one thousand nine hundred eighty six though a political novice wine is particularly popular among young ugandan he was in america being treated for injuries he say it says were sustained while in ugandan police custody the speaker robert amsterdam was joining us from washington d.c. he's a member of bobby wines legal team thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera so bobby wine tweeted about his return to the country and what he went through about twenty four hours ago we now we know that he is facing a charge of treason over his alleged role in pelting the president's car with stones what's next for him now that he's back. look we don't know

as you may have seen from my twitter feed we actually have pictures of ugandan police beating and kicking bobby wine supporters mercilessly they did everything they could to disband a procession that was going to bring bobby back to the capital this is a country without law in terms of how the military and the police behave so there is no guarantee he is going to appear in court as he is bound to do but from there we have absolutely no idea what the government has in store for him are you preparing for the worst. well we are preparing and the ugandan team of very able lawyers are preparing for every eventuality when he was here we took all sorts of medical evidence and i have a twenty five page statement in terms of the torture and beatings he sustained from

a a torture squad that has been set up by the ugandan government so i think what's important about bobby is as he says it's not just him his own role it's the fact that he's emblematic of the vast majority of young ugandans who feel displaced and oppressed by the present government. so then let me ask you this if you say that as a country without law then why did he return home and not choose exile. because he's incredibly heroic and acted against my advice and that of many others who said that he could not sustain another beating or torture as he had just undergone so it is it is clearly a simple matter of personal heroism and total dedication to the people of uganda you yourself recently wrote that the international coude the international community response to uganda in this moment is crucial what are you saying there

what do you want the international community to do well i'd like the americans to stop arming the torture squads in uganda i thought i don't think it looks good for the west to constantly focus on providing military equipment to heads of state who are abusing their own people that would be a great start and i think beyond that international fora like the i.c.c. and others need to take a look at what is starting to be clear evidence of crimes against humanity occurring in uganda against political opponents of the regime we have lists of disappeared we have lists of those poisoned we have lists of those murdered and we need to wake up to what is happening in uganda today and when president erema seventy dismisses the treatment of why in the treatment which you say includes torture and abuse and he calls it fake news right do you react to that. well

firstly i despise that term as it's used in the united states because dictators like me seven the then jump on to it and what's what's sad about that comment is that there was all sorts of video of bobby wine entering a court room where he was unable to walk where his face was swollen beyond belief in his eyes almost shut that isn't fake news that's torture and people like me seventy should not be modeling themselves an individuals like vladimir putin in that in trying to sweep under the carpet massive human rights abuses taking place on his watch and when we save it he certainly does have some support in the country but for the government they see him as just causing trouble for you personally why did you choose to be part of bobby wines legal team. because when you were asked desire was by human rights and geo to assist someone who they understand was

being tortured as a lawyer you simply can't say no all right well we'll leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from washington d.c. thank now our show the stream recently sat down with bobby wine himself in washington and asked him about his or geo and if he believes he has a future in ugandan politics so you can watch that show by heading to al-jazeera dot com clicking on shows and then the stream let's take a look at some of the other stories making news right around the world and vesta gay sent by the associated press news agency shows a systematic campaign by the chinese government to strip young we're muslims of their language and culture the un has said around a million muslims in the asian jang region have been rounded up and howden so-called reeducation camps the chinese government denies this mariana hunt has

more. when mary petrov old with her husband and young baby to turkey to visit his sick father she lived for of the children with family the oldest was eight the youngest just three but that trip appears to have coincided with what the united nations says was a systematic campaign by the chinese government to round up muslim wages and other minorities under the pretext of countering terrorism and religious extremism and. made it says chinese authorities weren't just targeting adults her children were apparently taken to the soften it she hasn't heard from them since then or her no on the can to become a let me after i got the news i was so upset i wanted them to grow up with me. isn't true every time i think of them i think of the things that have happened i feel horrible there isn't a day when i haven't cried. all the so many pages now living in exile unable to

return to shinji ngo she believes her children were swept up in a large scale campaign aimed at replacing the muslim leader identity with the chinese one something the chinese government denies. gens consistent measures are intended to promote stability development harmony and at the same time strike against ethnic separatists and terrorist opposition movements according to the law . abdulrahman i mean doesn't buy the official chinese line from cash he fled china five years ago after what he says was repeated her arrest meant of her his activism and writings since then his wife was a wristed and he hasn't heard from his five children his daughter is thought to be at this so-called bilingual school but a sign at the front gate tell students to speak only mandarin on campus. to lose them in russian obviously it's brutality it's even worse than being killed what the chinese government's doing is torture. some analysts say china is repeating now

widely condemned colonial practices of taking children against their will from their indigenous communities weavers here the education system as one of the primary threats to their future as a society is a weaker society and to their families to get there they made it describes an overwhelming sense of despair and i want to tell them i was so sorry for going with . despair at being separated from the children she loves despair that the next generation of we may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriam hall and his era. the kingdom of swat seanie formerly known as swaziland is holding elections half a million registered voters will elect fifty five parliamentarians while the remaining ten will be appointed by the king the third himself human rights activists have criticized the run up to those polls political parties were banned

from running and campaign rallies were restricted the southern african kingdom is among the world's last remaining absolute monarchies vietnam's president trained has died in hospital after a serious illness he was sixty one the communist government says he had been sick for several months while his role was largely ceremonial he was one of the country's most powerful leaders with a record of cracking down on dissent he was the front runner to become general secretary of the ruling communist party conservative ecuadorian politicians are calling for the south american nation to strip julian a songe of citizenship speaking in quito the group presented documents which they say show irregularities in his citizenship process it was granted to his son just part of ecuador his efforts to allow the wiki leaks founder to leave the country's london embassy he's been holed up there since twenty twelve fearing that if he leaves he'll end up being extradited to the united states to

libya where bodies are piling up in the capital tripoli that's as rival armed groups battle for control at least eleven people have been killed overnight most of them civilians attempts by the un for a cease fire agreement have failed to end the violence that's forced dozens of families to escape their homes at least ninety six people have been killed since the end off august mahmoud at the head joining us from tripoli what's it like now would you what's the situation. will. the sound of heavy gunfire has been heard in several parts of the city since yesterday and the clashes has been continuing and the southern and central. districts of the libyan capital now so many civilians have been forced out of their houses because of the clashes as you know during in a stray rockets have been landing in populated areas killing so many civilians and

demi properties and their houses their health ministry the best the tripoli based health ministry says that eleven people have been killed since yesterday and that includes eight civilians are also it also adds that over three hundred people have been. wanted since the beginning of the clashes and since yesterday till this moment thirty three people have been wanted in the clashes now also the ministry of was that ninety six people have been killed since the beginning of the clashes on august twenty seventh between rival groups now the clashes that have been switching from the southern suburbs to the libyan capital tripoli to the central suburbs of the capital that's where the positions of the center of security force that is backed by the government is now so many people in there in and around the there of

the fighting area have been forced out of their homes because of the clashes the human suffering is excessive abating especially aid agencies say that they are trying to reach out to the people there and also their power generating units in around the clashes areas have been damaged by the fighting and so many parts of the capital tripoli have been witnessing blackouts and power cuts for the last. two days. thank you for that update from tripoli and we breakdown what's next for libya with a middle east scholar who discusses the challenges hampering efforts to achieve political transition in the country this is online at al-jazeera dot com. now the maldives president abdullah yamin is looking for a second term on sunday in the elections that critics and exile say are a foregone conclusion. barak because there is alarm about political oppression on

the muzzling of media in the maldives. the biggest concern is that this scientific nation is slipping back into the also tarion rule that it should call a decade ago when we picture the old days you think of a luxury holiday destination but for many islands is life is far from that and they're looking for a leader who can fix corruption like the island leasing scams revealed by an al-jazeera investigation two years ago and further evidence uncovered this week implicated president abdoulaye i mean but he insists he's done nothing wrong but his government is also accused of silencing critical media crushing dissent and jailing political opponents on frenzy charges and then there's china it's battling india for regional crowds and this is where the tiny area is in the middle of the indian ocean is almost five thousand kilometers away from china beijing's influence has been closing in china's been bankrolling many of the infrastructure projects

boom during president means time in office i mean is presenting himself as a nationalist focused on economic development including infrastructure projects built during his term and this development you mean is campaigning on has been funded by an estimated one point three billion dollars in chinese loans a debt equivalent to more than a quarter of the maltese g.d.p. now observers wonder if this city's the island nation vulnerable to china's demands as for sunday's election will activists have told human rights watch that the government made sudden changes to the vote counting process which human rights watch believes will compromise transparency. patricia rather gusman is asia associate director and what she's written is that maltese authorities have detained critics most of the media. misuse the election commission to obstruct opposition candidates to ensure president you mean a victory on election day and these are allegations also echoed by former mohamed

nasheed star he's the formal devean president he's living in exile in neighboring. the zealots. but drugs are not absorbed by any. official international institution or group. has pulled out of the common road and therefore the common goal is not of those who would have been union and the united nations phone but that the process to the election was sold flawed and that of dilution that would be an endorsement of the process. now an anti corruption engine maltese tweeted its concerns over the dick difficulties excello accredited in-session observer groups and media off facing to end the maltese dictorial commission released a list this is this terror of accredited international one says but some of those

on journalists who've been tweeting to say that they yet to receive a visa to enter the maltese now those include journalists from the wire a.f.p. and figure and the last thing that we have is a tweet by emmanuel davila he works for a figure and he says he's he was asked to pay a fee of one thousand five hundred dollars to process his visa during sara thank you all we do have an interesting opinion piece on al-jazeera dot com and the author here argues that the upcoming vote in the maldives is just another indication of the death of democracy her goes on to say that there are already signs that the electoral process is flow flawed you can read his analysis online at al jazeera dot com. and just a moment paul will join us with. tell us about the american football. giving it's. a way to celebrate. world whether.

hello again paul is here to talk about what's been trending in the world of sport

and it's golf but it's not tiger woods paul so who is it the other crazy to have a golf story that's not about tiger woods unless you've been tracking golf on twitter in the last couple of hours you might not know who this next guy is all the fish is best finish since turning pro twelve years ago was a single win in twenty eleven but now the englishman has golf fans in a frenzy after making history with the lowest round ever on the european tour fischer's shot fifty nine in the second round of the portugal masters on friday that round included an eagle and ten birdies the player who's ranked two hundred eighty seventh in the world just missed out on going one better but he still squeezed in under the sixty score line haas the first time a player has done that forty six year history of the there's only been ten rounds on the sixty and all of them have been on the u.s. p.g.a. tour. as a great feat in and you know it was it was great so he made history here in portugal

was a great one and you know it's a great moment for the europeans one of the myself to fifty nine so you know it's chuffed with it by going out of the traumatic level power and then and i'm sure in that is you know just a great day all round. well only three other professional golfers have gone one better than all the fishes score in that round japan's ryo ishikawa did it in twenty ten when he went on to win the crowns tournament by five strokes stephen yeager was the next to shoot a fifty eight at the ellie mae classic in california in two thousand and sixteen he went on to win it to that same it for me u.s. open champion jim fury also carded a fifty eight at the travellers' championship but it wasn't good enough as he finished and it's high for fifth well all the fishes achievements have got more experienced players sitting up and taking note including four time major winner ernie els the big easy as he's known tweeting his congratulations ryder cup star in

poulter who's busy preparing for next week's competition filled his tweets with hand clapping m o g's and hash tag respect while golf commentator you and murray says that europe must have some ryder cup team must have some ryder cup same if a guy not even quoted in the team shoots a fifty nine now imagine supporting a team that's gone six hundred and thirty five days without a win you might think you'd never get to celebrate again but the n.f.l. is cleveland browns finally ended that epic losing streak on thursday and they and their brand new quarterback became top worldwide trends baker mayfield was the number one pick in the draft and was brought on when tyra taylor was concussed at that point they were fourteen nothing down to the new york jets but mayfield's n.f.l. debut led the browns to their first win since december twenty sixth dane as they want twenty one to seventeen. for the browns gave bacon mayfield the game winning ball in the locker room to mark the occasion and the twenty three year old says

cleveland are going to be happy with a winning streak of just one game it's it's not the only way we're going to celebrate you know it's a building block for us and it's a good things but there's still a lot we can work on. and that's the great part about it well we're nowhere near where we want to be but we're in a good spot right now to you know build a foundation and keep going now despite his performance as this n.f.l. journalist points out the win still goes on the record of the injured quarterback tyra tyler and mayfield's career record is still zero while the browns on bacon mayfield were a top trend with more than a million tweets one of those from former cleveland cavaliers basketball star le bron james now the l.a. lakers who congratulated the browns and cleveland's police department also said we want white oak gods the free beer thing ok cleveland stay calm while what the police are referring to is the bonus for cleveland's longsuffering funds for ages

of bear had been chained up around the city which the browns promised would be unlocked when they finally won they fulfill their promise no reports of out of date in the interim as yet. well you can tweet me pilot race hate it will be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now on the back to during thank you very much for that well before we go just take a look at some of the pictures coming in to us from the gaza israel barrier fence that's where for the twenty sixth week in a row that's almost six months palestinians are protesting against the israeli blockades they're also demanding they and their families be allowed to return to lands they were forced to leave there are no deaths reported so far this friday but since the demonstrations began months ago more than one hundred eighty palestinians have been killed by israeli forces and thousands have been wounded we'll have more on the story coming up in just a moment on al-jazeera but that'll do it for this newsgroup keep in touch with us

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