i've. tanzania's president orders the arrests of those involved in the ferry disaster that killed at least one hundred thirty one people. also coming up all eyes on the woman accusing donald trump supreme court nominee of sexual assault and whether she agreed to appear before a senate hearing next week one palestinian dead dozens wounded troops opened fire on protesters in gaza plus. and i have always said no deal is better. off the back of a disappointing meeting with. prime minister theresa maybe news her threat to walk

away from negotiations. tanzania's president has ordered the arrest of a ferry operator involved in the disaster on lake victoria john mughal fully has declared four days of mourning for the passengers who drowned at least one hundred thirty one died and hundreds more are still missing after the crowded boat capsized near the dock on thursday malcolm web reports some of the ugandan side of lake victoria. victoria became a grave site on thursday afternoon after a ferry capsized and sank when the ferry was coming to a stop people moved from one side to the other the way to tip the ferry over nearby vessels were diverted to assist. the. we're here to rescue people if there's anyone alive with god's help we'll rescue

them as for those who have died we'll get them out too for now we're concentrating on the rescue operation as you can see specialists have arrived. just a few meters from the dog in new career we. don't know the exact number of people missing the person dispensing the ticket was drowned in the machine recording the data hasn't been retrieved. from eyewitnesses say there were hundreds of people on board. tanzania's president john magaw declared four days of mourning. for. the souls of those who've passed on. the hands of god and those who were injured maybe he'll quickly i've decided to have four days for mourning as a nation to remember those who died one. lake victoria lies within tanzania kenya and uganda some of the deadliest accident have occurred in tanzania pattern sometimes old and dilapidated overloaded one thousand nine hundred six hundred

people died when a passenger and cargo ferry sank and in twenty eleven almost two hundred people died when a ferry capsized near zanzibar. waterways are always busy because they're crucial to people's livelihood. there's always activity along the shores of lake victoria any time of day or night people depend on the lake for this a viable fisherman for fishing others for water transport and trade the people on the boat that capsized many of them were on their way home from a market when the boat to take over but now it's more than a day since the boat capsized hopes of finding any survivors and now very slim malcolm webb al-jazeera reporter uganda. the chairman of the u.s. senate judiciary committee says he'll force a vote on brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination if kavanagh's accuser won't testify on monday christian basie forces kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they

were both in high school the announcement comes as u.s. president donald trump broke his silence about the allegations white house correspondent kimberly hockett reports. after days of surprising restraint u.s. president donald trump turned on christine glossy for the woman whose testimony could to rail his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh on twitter he questioned her story i have no doubt that if the attack on dr ford was as bad as she says charges would have been a mediately filed with local law enforcement for it is a california professor at the center of an explosive allegation against kavanaugh from thirty six years ago she says that while in high school kavanagh sexually assaulted her at a party attempting to remove her bathing suit while holding his hand over her mouth and on behalf of them or on friday more than six dozen women of any some of whom have known cavanagh since high school question ford's sexual assault claim backing

cavanagh as a person of honor. integrity and a person of strong moral character kind and good natured a good man who is incapable of mistreating anyone but the final say will come from the u.s. senate which has delayed a vote on cavanagh until both can make their cases to them either publicly or privately ford is reportedly asking that kavanaugh go first in any hearing but will republicans say they're willing to listen to senate majority leader made it clear it won't matter to him in the very near future judge kavanaugh will be on the united states supreme. cavanagh's confirmation vote is increasingly in doubt democrats hope to delay it beyond the november congressional elections republicans are fighting to keep it on track fearing a democratic control of congress would do rail the nomination kimberly helped get

al jazeera the white house. melanie sloan is a partner of some a strategies which is a public affairs firm specializing in crisis management she says donald trump's approach to the issue will need a lot of his voters. in the wake of this need two year ago we've been having how the committee treats christine blasi for it is particularly important in this what is being viewed as another you fear of the woman election which is to say that the female electorate is incredibly important and they already don't like president trump and there is a big concern at how the senate jeri committee treats for board the republicans on the committee is entirely a male entirely male panel and there's a lot of concern that they can only go wrong here in how they treat her already with president trump's tweet today only needed a very important vote for him senator susan collins of maine who angrily retorted

to the president's tweet and said that she didn't appreciate the way or it was being treated when when the president said that she should have said something years ago so there is already biggest issue and now there's also the question of how senator lisa murkowski yet alaska another republican will vote and if lisa murkowski gets used in columns vote against against knockout and i'm. saying in the u.s. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has denied a newspaper report alleging that he discussed ousting president donald trump he called it factually incorrect the new york times says rosenstein suggested secretly recording trump early last year it timed with his firing of f.b.i. director james comey the goal according to the report was to expose the chaos in the white house well as inside is also said to have discussed recruiting cabinet members to help in the twenty fifth amendment and remove trump from office or as unsigned oversees a federal investigation into russia's role in the twenty six thousand election john

hendren has more on this from washington. it was a blockbuster report the new york times is reporting that the deputy attorney general of the united states proposed secretly recording president donald trump in the white house that report also says that he had considered recruiting cabinet members to invoke the twenty fifth amendment to the us constitution that is the amendment that allows a majority of the cabinet to remove the president as being unfit for office rosenstein broad rosenstein the deputy attorney general being reported on there has called the new york times story inaccurate and factually incorrect he said he will not comment further but he said let me be clear about this based on my personal dealings with the president there is no basis to invoke the twenty fifth amendment the department of justice issued a statement confirming that he did in fact suggest taping the president in the white house but said that he did that sarcastically the new york times says it has confirmed that other people who were involved in those discussions confirmed that

it was a serious suggestion and it said that rosenstein also suggested that other people within the f.b.i. tape the president now this happened at a time in the spring of two thousand and seventeen when rosenstein was new on the job and was reportedly upset that the president had used a memo he had written criticizing f.b.i. director james comey and his handling of the hillary clinton e-mail situation rosenstein was reportedly surprised that the president then use that as an excuse to fire komi many people have called especially republicans have called for the firing of rosenstein on the basis of this including former arkansas governor mike huckabee and a group called americans for limited government trump has been highly critical of rosenstein and sessions jeff sessions the her attorney general of the united states who recused himself and that put rosenstein in charge of the robert mueller investigation into the trumpet ministration and its ties to russia and one final thing donald trump jr has now suggested on twitter we have

a likely winner in the search for. anonymous that is the anonymous member of the trump administration who wrote in the new york times that a number of people in the administration are working to curb the president's more extreme impulses that would be another excuse for president donald trump to fire rosenstein if he thought that that was true he could fire him on that basis for insubordination. now if mainstream guys says one protester has been killed and at least forty injured by israeli fire along the gaza border fence on friday demonstrations against the israeli blockade of gaza have been going on for more than five months palestinians are demanding their right to return to their homes and land their families were expelled from seventy years ago just as a state of israel came into existence harry fossett has more on the protests. so we're here just a short distance away from the israeli border and the man you can see at the center of that scrum there is yassin where the hamas leader in gaza the second most senior

hamas official in the whole of the organization the match shows you a very interesting thing that there is a real improvement or of hamas which controls the gaza strip on this protest it is the by far the most sizable such process we've seen in several weeks of course are approaching six months of these friday protests here at the gaza border in recent weeks that they have dwindled to some extent this is large and that shows you the kind of political pressure that hamas now finds itself under because on two fronts on one it's been engaging in at least in direct negotiations with israel over a long term cease fire many people here feel that process is either collapsing or is on the very verge of collapse certainly there's been nothing to show for it so far the other front is with the rival palestinian faction in the occupied west bank which controls the palestinian authority all sorts of rumors going around gaza that after an october the first deadline which has been imposed by the p.a. on hamas for some progress on reconciliation some sort of concessions from hamas

about some kind of unified government with the p.a. that the p.a. is prepared to impose new financial pressures on the people of gaza so hamas is under pressure that could potentially explain why this protest is bigger than usual and there are still thousands of people are prepared to come here despite the risks we spoke to one young man who'd lost one leg in an earlier protest and then in another protest. it was shot in the other leg the remaining leg and he's back here again today and there are hundreds of others if not thousands prepared to do the same thing. meanwhile palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has rejected the trump administration's claims that the palestinian authority is not interested in peace talks with israel a bus did this during a meeting with french president emmanuel mccall in the hope of finding european mediators in the conflict abbas made the stop in paris on his way to the un general assembly which will be held in new york next week the trump administration had earlier all of the closure of the palestinian embassy in washington accusing the p.l.o. of boycotting peace efforts. the european council president says he is convinced

the e.u. and u.k. can still find a compromise on a break sit deal down task was reacting to british prime minister theresa may who were accused of failing to provide better options than her plan which was rejected of a summit in austria neve barker reports. reeling from her bruising you summit to resume a delivered a defiant ultimatum to europe the e.u. should be clear i will not overturn 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 she hoped for warm words from her counterparts at thursday's eve summit in salzburg she was instead met with an unequivocal rejection of her latest breaks it plan every

mother's share their view of the positive elements in the czech proposal. just a tremor comic operation will not work. not least because the truth is undermining the single market the putdowns continued on tusks instagram account a piece of cake wrote task sorry no cherries a jibe at britain's perceived cherry picking of bricks of proposals that suit the u.k. but no one else the french president emanuel mccrum said he would never accept a deal which damages the e.u.'s integrity and said those promoting the idea that breaks it will be positive for britain are liars to resume a responded saying it was time for the e.u. to show britain some respect throughout this process i have treated the e.u. with nothing but respect the u.k. expects the say a good relationship at the end of this process depends on it. teresa mayes breaks

it strategy was drawn up at her country retreat checkers in july it opposes a u.k. e.u. free trade area and a common rule book for industrial and agricultural goods to prevent exports and imports from getting stuck at borders. but the e.u. and u.k. can't agree on what will happen here on the border between northern ireland a part of the u.k. the republic of ireland and a u. member the u.k.'s promise there will be no return to a hard border but it's rejected the e.u. is a backstop plan to keep the region aligned with its trading rules it's something we will never agree to set to resume a it would mean breaking up our country the frosty response to teresa mayes proposal has inflamed tensions among hardline brecht the tears within her own party they believe the e.u. are pushing for more concessions from the u.k. but there for a dog period will mean leaving me you will be increasingly more and more pointless

they want a clean break from brussels with or without a reason may be but this latest message to europe may help restore some confidence from brics or tears who believe she hasn't been tough enough the prime minister says there's currently no counter proposal on the table this is an impasse with no solution in sight. al-jazeera westminster still ahead on al-jazeera we need some of nigeria's so called money wives a young girl sold into slavery to repay their parents' debts. treasure in iraq. being treated more like a rubbish dump. by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello again we're here across parts of china we had a couple days of nicer weather but unfortunately the rain is back in some locations

we're not talking about heavy rain but it is going to be widely scattered across most of the areas so down here along the coast for hong kong cloudy becoming rainy as we go towards the end of the weekend term just about thirty two degrees where the rain a little bit heavier there up to the north we are seeing a line of showers all the way across from shanghai all the way to do that is a stationary front really not going to change too much over the next few days so it is going to continue to rain in one location there well up towards the philippines we are looking at a little bit better conditions of particular over towards luzon where we do expect it to stay partly cloudy for the next day or so the heavy rain central parts of the philippines over the next few days here on saturday but as we go towards sunday you'll notice some circulation up there in the corner that is a new cycle developing it's not going to be making its way towards the philippines we think it's going to be making its way up towards the review islands but the philippines could be seeing some showers heavier showers with some of those feeder bands pushing through well heavy rain pushing across parts of india over the next few days even though the monsoon is in retreat this one system area low pressure is

going to continue to spin across that region free range from new delhi all the way to bangalore about mumbai heavy rain for you at twenty one degrees there. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of count falcon bene dot. tast by the security council to mediate between arabs and israelis. his death was one of the darkest days in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the count on al-jazeera.

a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera tanzania's president has ordered the arrest of a ferry operator involved in the disaster in lake victoria four days of mourning has been declared for the passengers who drowned at least one hundred thirty one died and hundreds more still missing after the crowded boat capsized on thursday. u.s. president donald trump s challenge judge brett kavanaugh as accuser over a sexual assault allegations in a tweet christine basi forward saying if the major target was so terrible she would have reported it to police and the health ministry in gaza says one protester has been killed and at least forty injured by israeli fire along the gaza border fence on friday demonstrations against the israeli blockade of gaza have been going on for more than five months. now thousands of protesters have marched across parts of

northwestern syria demanding president bashar assad be removed from office before i knew constitution is drafted the protests come as russia and turkey announce they have confirmed the borders for the demilitarized zone in rebel held province xina holder reports from be able. to push the syrian president who has survived an eight year rebellion against his rule the opposition has been all but defeated all they have left is their voice and. no constitution no reconstruction until a third leaves power that is there tomorrow and it's a message syrians in villages and towns across the rebel controlled problems of loop are sending to the international community. we all are afraid this new constitution would not be any different and it won't be in the favor of the opposition we are concerned because some countries are no. moving closer to the regime. per week there were fears of

a major assault against the province today there is a sense of relief following a deal between russia and turkey that will at least for the time being prevent bombing and displacement. russia and iran gave priority to ties with turkey over regaining control of at lib turkey had warned a government offensive in the province would be a breaking point in their alliance but it wasn't just that a bloodbath would hurt russia's efforts to convince the international community to pay for syria's reconstruction and support a political process that the judum mises assad's government but the united nations says there is still potential for a lot of fighting in civilian populated areas turkey and russia didn't say how they plan to implement a demilitarized zone free of so-called radical rebels but yan egeland's humanitarian task force was given some details it seems turkey backed rebels could play a role on the ground what i understand is that the so-called war on terror is not called off in the country that will be in the future air raids

against the listed organizations that will also be fighting between on groups and activists and the so-called terrorists the so-called radicals. there is and will be many civilians in these areas. three million syrians who live in half of them already displaced from cities and towns under state control for them reconciling with a government that has killed so many people is not an option they hope the international community feels for now the west has shown resistance to work with us heard but many fear a political transition away from the syrian leader is no longer a priority for the center for their answers either. there's been more fighting inside the neighborhoods of libya's capital tripoli at least eleven people have

been killed most of them civilians attempts by the un to impose a cease fire or fail to end the violence at least ninety six people have died in fighting since the end of august. the tiny southern african kingdom of east what teenie formerly known as swaziland is holding parliamentary elections which critics are calling a farce political parties are banned from taking part voters must choose from individual candidates for fifty nine seats while the remaining ten will be appointed by king was twenty to thirty him self he also appoints the prime minister and cabinet and has veto power over legislation. girls as young as five decades of slavery and sexual exploitation in parts of africa they're being sold from one owner to another to settle their parents debt a part of a tradition known as money marriages algeria's armitage various reports from the town of in nigeria. result is one of nigeria's top towards distillations but in the shadow of the mountain some larger audience continue an

ancient tradition with child protection workers say condemns young girls to a life of slavery and sexual exploitation. i couldn't richard is a missionary who rescues girls who have been sold off for so called money marriages the money goes to buy outrightly you know and no call can even be trucked a girl before she's born and a man will wait it will if it takes forty years in the new in the man days the brothers can still go to get their brothers money wife if there are hundred homes in better of it you would have hardly ten that do not have one or two more name marriage money marriage right is going on there so you have over ninety percent of families involved in this kind of marriage the history twenty one young women in the past nine years community leaders say the practice was banned years ago that it

was there but there it is stopped at things right in one thousand and their money a woman talking about it was not done people come up to say i am looking for a way after mary. in the family you are like in their family when you are in their family maybe someone is sick or one isn't there it has a mother and the police or that damn william william william was the implant on one and is true also i was. five year old miracle was married for money just a few weeks ago she now lives with some missionaries who say she's pulled by the marriages happen she was bored to please her teenage sister who died was herself a policeman wife couldn't have a baby with her own or. rosita he was rescued nine years ago i was about ten years old well in. my father's day when i was seven years and when i was

ten years into me. rose has received psychological counseling and taught some skills she says she's found confidence has a new boyfriend and the baby. but says our past stands in the way of true happiness . the boy parent yet then deployed a missile bought him a new life. i mean they've been made to not be the. victims through the practice of selling girls into slavery and forced marriages still continues in some communities around here and encouraged by the elders only a few of them get rescued and organizations working to support the victims say they've been threatened on many occasions and want to stop their work that when i couldn't reach it's missionary work for the grace chapel of nigeria and collision course with people here i don't have

a music group they're working around me but i can't go to assess my bank anymore because i've been promised that any time on scene on the ranch i will regret ever come into that i rely on many here say money marriage could take a long time to write again before that happens countless numbers of young girls face a life of prichard poverty illiteracy and slavery armitage greece al-jazeera better. place in india have arrested a catholic bishop who has been accused of repeatedly raping a nun franko mullah kali is the bishop of the northern indian city of jalandhar a nun says he assaulted her repeatedly between twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen activists have been campaigning for his prosecution since june bishop malakar denies the charges. and india has launched its first national sex offenders register the names and details of more than four hundred forty thousand convicted people of sex attacks are on the database it'll only be accessible to law

enforcement agencies. now some of the most significant archaeological discoveries in iraq have been made in some you know asco says a city should be protected as a world heritage site but iraqis living there say some landmarks are being left to crumble matheson reports for twelve centuries the spiral minaret of the great more schizo model has survived storms and wars but perhaps its greatest danger is from neglect and. this is the first time we've seen the spiral minaret since two thousand and three i'm shocked there's been no temp to restore or no rubbish baskets no proper benches for visitors if this landmark was in any other country it would be a piece of art. in two thousand and seven they already badly damaged city of samarra was protected as a world heritage site by the us. it was hoped that it would encourage world

visitors and business but more than a decade later little has been done and. also it's a little different to the pyramids and any other piece in the middle east. history an archaeological site but it doesn't have a proper attention. so model lies on both sides of the river tigris north of baghdad it marks the site of a powerful islamic capital the ruled over the abbasids empire which stretched from tunis here to central asia for a century it's estimated eighty percent of it still lies undiscovered. but the spiral manana that has gone through dark times even the nearby park that was built not long ago is also neglected the authorities should be investing in such a historical landmark so that archaeological tourism can florida in summer a city. iraq's in the process of rebuilding its present day cities after decades of violence but for a country which is said to have

a wealth of archaeological treasures the people of somalia say that iraq should be protecting its history too rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. well again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera tanzania's president has ordered the arrest of a ferry operator involved in the disaster on lake victoria four days of mourning has been declared for the passengers who drowned at least one hundred thirty one died and hundreds more are still missing after the crowded boat capsized on thursday u.s. president donald trump s challenge judge brett kavanaugh as accuser over a sexual assault allegations in a tweet from called christine for saying if the alleged attack was so terrible she would have reported it to police kavanagh's friends and colleagues have also come out to support women from every phase of judge kavanagh's life those who know him

best have stepped forward to say that the allegation being leveled against him is false and we are proud to stand with brett. the health ministry in gaza says one protester has been killed and at least forty injured by israeli fire along the gaza border fence on friday demonstrations against israeli blockade of gaza have been going on for more than five months meanwhile palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has rejected the trumpet ministrations claims that the palestinian authority is not interested in peace talks with israel abbas did this during a meeting with french president emmanuel markhor in the hope of finding european mediators in the conflict abbas made the stop in paris on his way to the un general assembly which will be held in new york next week. the u.k. prime minister theresa me has accused the e.u. leaders of failing to treat the u.k. with respect after the unequivocally rejected a plan on thursday may said her e.u.

counterparts had not explained why they believe her chekist plan would not work there's been more fighting in the southern neighborhoods of libya's capital tripoli at least eleven people have been killed most of them civilians attempts by the un to impose a ceasefire fails to end the violence at least ninety six people have died in fighting since the end of august and police in india have arrested a catholic bishop franco after he was accused of repeatedly raping a nun the nun says she he assaulted her repeatedly between twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen activists have been campaigning for his prosecution since june. denies the charges against him inside stories next on al-jazeera.

tromp protect the u.s. president's choice for supreme court judge is accused of sexual assault as well as allegations of riots and smear campaigns and midterm elections due well. this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the high stakes standoff is underway in washington.