in the people of uganda hear their story on and talk to al-jazeera. al-jazeera. fully bad people this is the news hour live from the headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes tanzania's president orders the arrests of those involved in the ferry disaster that killed at least one hundred thirty one people all eyes on the woman accusing donald trump's supreme court nominee of sexual assault and whether she'll agree to appear before a senate hearing next week also this hour one palestinian dead and dozens wounded as israeli troops opened fire on protesters in gaza plus rising from the ashes

specialists are called in to help brazil restore damaged artifacts after a fire destroyed the national museum. thank you for joining us tanzania's president has ordered the arrest of a ferry operator involved in the disaster on lake victoria john michael forty 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 on thursday malcolm wave reports from the ugandan side of lake victoria. victoria became a grave site on thursday afternoon after a ferry capsized in time. when the ferry was coming to stop people from one side to the other the wait to the ferry over nearby vessels that are thirty to assist. you when you. 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 dock in the u. career when a district officials don't know the exact number of people missing the person dispensing the tickets drowned and the machine recording the data hasn't been retrieved some eyewitnesses say there were hundreds of people onboard. tanzania's president john mcafee declared four days of mourning. for. the souls of those who've passed on in 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 on. lake victoria lies within tanzania kenya and uganda some of the deadliest accident have occurred in tanzania pattern your boats are sometimes old and dilapidated overloaded nine hundred ninety six one

hundred people died when a passenger and cargo ferry sank in twenty eleven almost two hundred people died when a ferry capsized near zanzibar. waterways are always busy because they are 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 their survival fisherman for fishing others for water transport and trade the people on the boat that capsized many of them are on their way home from a market when the boat it 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 port uganda. in other world news the chairman of the u.s. senate should just cheri committee says he'll force of vote on brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination if his accuser doesn't testify on monday christine

basically ford has asked for more time she says cavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school u.s. present donald trump says she should approach to the police when the a major incident happened at house correspondent kimberly hocket reports. after days of surprising restraint u.s. president donald trump turned on christine blazin ford the woman whose testimony could darrelle his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh we have to fight for him not worry about the other side and by the way women are for that more than anybody would understand on twitter trump question ford story 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 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 some of whom have known cavanagh since high school question ford 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 congress republicans of offered to let both make their case ford hasn't yet agreed prompting republicans to issue an ultimatum to testify or congress begins voting on the nomination on monday he was born for the u.s. supreme court he was born for it. and it's going to happen 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 jake phallus caney is a director of the federal courts program at the center for american progress he says republicans need is a trying to rush through kavanagh's nomination. dr boisselier ford has consistently asked to be treated respectfully through this process and to have a full investigation of what took place before she comes to the senate it is really unfortunate that the senate republican members don't want to treat her with the respect that she deserves as a survivor and also apparently in order to get the entire truth she's asked that there be other witnesses that are called in the seem to be denying that request as well last night in her lawyers response and request they did request that that still be a precondition of the hearing but they didn't say that it was a mandatory precondition of the hearing and when republicans responded this afternoon they did not include that as

a part of the offer for wednesday afternoon so it it appears that that will not be a part of whatever happens potentially depending upon what it is that she and her attorneys agree to but that doesn't make it any less wrong the fact that the senate judiciary committee committee members seem to be rushing this process through without really looking into what happened and calling all the potential witnesses that could eliminate the american public about what took place now earlier i spoke with melanie sloan from some a strategies at public affairs for specializing in crisis management she says trump's approach to the issue could i.e. made a lot of its vote is. in the wake of this mini two year that we've been having how the committee treats christine blasi for it is particularly important in this what is being viewed as another beer 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 jerry committee treats footboard the republicans on the committee it is entirely male entirely male panel and there is a lot of concern that they can only go wrong here in how they treat her already with president trump's tweet today he alienated 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 ford was being treated when when the president said that she should have said something years ago so there is already a this issue and now there's also the question of how senator lisa murkowski get alaska another republican vote and if lisa murkowski gives use in columns vote against against not cabinet he's done. well even jenny call christians a key in their push to confirm kavanagh to the supreme court many of them support president because he promised to appoint conservative judges one of the most

important gatherings have a go at this taking place in washington right now she have a tensile reports. the values voter summit is organized by the family research council and christian evangelical group that says its goal is to defend family values and religious liberties in practice the group is best known for its attacks on muslims and the gay community the southern poverty law center which monitors right wing groups in the u.s. calls it a hate group by the way it represents an integra party of donald trump space we are now officially end session white christian evangelicals long ago put aside their skepticism of donald trump's godliness because he pledged to nominate justices to the supreme court of the united states who would rule in favor of christian fundamentalist belief eighty percent voted for him in the election and loyalty to trump remains high but there is a feeling among christian evangelical leaders but republican members of congress

own doing enough to protect supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh from attack he's accused of drunkenly sexually assaulting a young girl when he was seventeen at a party in the early eighty's i thought he might inadvertently kill me christine blasi forward said cavanagh denies the allegations and here are the values voters summit support for kavanaugh remain solid if you walked in anywhere and said i have i want to report on a sexual assault yes ma'am. when did this happen thirty six years ago excuse me. thirty six years ago yes do you have a eyewitnesses where there are two witnesses but they both deny it happened. are you concerned about the allegations of sexual assault. not that much subpoena didn't get to be found i don't know if i'd even come out foden more because the republicans have to stand up for something and that's what the republican leadership fears are already nervous about lou turnout if the trump base believes

the president's claims that the republicans will sweep the upcoming midterm elections boid by his brilliant performance the polls suggest otherwise i'm out they lose the favor of reliable voters like the evangelicals it will be a disaster which is why they're pushing for a swift confirmation vote but the risk for republicans is that if the government is confirmed without seeming to have a fair hearing or investigation into the allegations it will in region independents and women voters to turn out in force in the member against. washington saying with the us the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has denied a newspaper report alleging that he discussed ousting president donald trump the new york times says he suggests it secretly recording early last year after he fired f.b.i. director james comey to expose the chaos in the white house he's also said to have suggested recruiting cabinet members to remove him under the twenty fifth amendment rosenstein who oversees a federal investigation into russia's role in the twenty sixteen election as this

mystery poor as factually incorrect 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 is 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 involve 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 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 anonyma. 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 was true he could fire him on that basis for insubordination plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including. and i have always said no deal is better than a bat off the back of a disappointing meeting with the e.u. leaders u.k. prime minister to resign or when you said threat to walk away from bracks in negotiations last why donald trump's latest tweet has failed to stop oil prices from rising and in sport highlights from the record breaking round of call from oliver fisher on the european tour.

the health ministry in gaza says one port 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 and a simians 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 fawcett has more on the protest. 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 is yassin where the hamas leader in gaza the second most senior hamas official in the whole of the organization matches to a very interesting thing that there is a real improvements 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 this friday protest here at the gaza border in recent

weeks that there 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 pa. just to remove 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 tried to come here despite the risks we

spoke to one young man who lost one leg in an earlier protest and then in another protest 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 abbas made the comments during a meeting with french president emmanuel mccall he 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 has ordered the closure of the palestine liberation organization's office in washington it accuses a group of boycotting peace efforts. police have fired tear gas at anti-government protesters in mali's capital bamako the demonstration was called by groups opposed to the results of last month's election your brain will become a caterer was reelected as president but the opposition claims elice widespread hold rigging will be inaugurated later on saturday. there's been

a more fighting in 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 cease fire have failed to hand the violence at least ninety six people have died in fighting since the end of august. thousands of protesters have marcia cross parts of northwest and syria they're demanding president bashar assad's removal from office before a new class addition is drafted the protests come as russia and turkey say they've confirmed the borders for a de-militarized zone in rebel held it late province in a heart of reports from beirut. they chant against bashar assad the syrian president to a survived an eighty year rebellion against his rule the opposition has been all but defeated all they have left is their voices. no constitution no reconstruction until a third leaves power that is their demand it's

a message syrians in villages and towns across the rebel controlled province of idlib are standing up to the international community. we 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 now moving closer to the regime. program x. 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 it 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 ises 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 a country that will be in the future erodes against the listed organizations there 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 the serious. three million syrians who live in atlanta half of them already displaced from cities and towns under state control for their reconciling with a government that has killed so many people is not an option they hope the

international community feels the same for now the west has shown resistance to work with assad but many fear a political transition away from the syrian leader is no longer a priority for the center for their answers either bankrupt. the european council president says he is convinced the e.u. and u.k. can still find a compromise on a break sit deal donald tusk was reacting to british prime minister theresa may who accused the leaders of failing to provide better options than then her plan which was rejected at a summit in austria of reports reeling from her bruising each use 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 checkers propose of death adjusted framework for comic corporation 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 rulebook 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. and 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. has a backstop plan to keep the region aligned with its trading rules it's something we will never agree to said to resume a it would mean breaking up our country. the frosty response to to resume his

proposal has inflamed the monks hardline broke the tears within her own party to believe the e.u. were 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 why but this latest message to europe may help restore some confidence from bric cities 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 these balk at al-jazeera westminster. police in india have arrested a catholic bishop has been accused of repeatedly raping a nine franco is a bishop of the northern indian city of jalandhar and one says he assaulted her repeatedly between twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen activists have been campaigning for his prosecution since june bishop mccarton ised 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 will only be accessible to law enforcement agencies excuse me. still ahead on al-jazeera thailand's military rulers loosened their rules on political meetings but campaigning is still a step too far plus the archaeological treasure in iraq that local say is being cheated more like a rubbish dump and sport peter will be here with the latest ahead of the joshua off came the heavyweight well title fight. from flowing on in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze. 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 our new cycle developing which is 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 bringing rain 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. is a popular filming location in france when it comes to stories about drugs crime and radicalization tired of negative stereotypes youth worker it's nanny do you mean it's reclaiming its image by putting its younger that is behind the camera. this truth be don't often hear told by the people who the film. and then these words this is zero on al-jazeera. to president trump finding asylum in the us has become harder than ever i am putting in place a zero tolerance policy. if you are doing a cold we will prosecute you and that child may be separate from you

thousands of families escaping violence now face separation detention and deportation as the u.s. closes its still. no shelter oh now. you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me fully back hebrew a reminder of our top stories tanzania's president has ordered the arrest of a ferry operator involved in the disaster on lake victoria four days of mourning have been declared for the passengers who drowned at least one hundred in one one hundred thirty one people died and hundreds more are still missing after the crowded pulled capsized on thursday. the health ministry in gaza says one protester

has been killed in at least fourteen jered by israeli fire along the gaza border fence on friday demonstrations against the israeli blockade of gaza been going on for more than five months and the head of the u.s. senate's judiciary committee says he'll force a vote on brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination if his accuser doesn't testify on monday christian ford wants more time to decide she says kavanagh sexually assaulted her in one thousand nine hundred eighty two president trump says she should've told the police back. now donald trump has again hit out at rising fuel prices his comments come as a body of the world's top oil producers considers posting production by up to half a million barrels a day they increase would counter falling oil supply from iran because of u.s. sanctions ahead of sunday's opec meeting in algeria trump tweeted we protect the countries of the middle east. they would not be safe for very long without us and yet they continue to push for higher and higher oil prices we will remember the

opec monopoly must get prices down now while the price of brant crude oil is close to four year high is trading at just under eighty dollars a barrel that's still well short of the two thousand and eight peak of one hundred forty seven dollars oil prices have risen by iran forty percent in the past cme man a share tack in is an international oil an energy consultant and former researcher at opec he says a member countries will be united in their decision i think overall the opec countries will keep their cohesion they have done it in the past in spite of differences that the media exaggerate between iran and saudi arabia for example and i think over all together and as well as non opec members russia who are in unison now i think they would react to this they're not happy and definitely very upset by the tone of president. trump says commons ordering this this meeting

really is not to decide their level this meeting is the joint ministerial monitoring committee and they're going to look at the status of the order market supply demand and outlook for the next few months and it is the opec meeting before meeting cut the conference in early december that will decide the options are to to expand order to stop trying to increase production to replace for the iranian the loss of iranian crude yes or no and where they're when they do that what country should do that over all each member of opec or should it distributes of a different coat these are the details which i think they will try to avoid and not going into. thailand's military government is lifting a ban on political party meetings more than four years after a call but they still aren't allowed to campaign or organized street gatherings for

an election which could be had in february when hey reports from bangkok. for years after having their power taken away the leaders of the poor thai party are able to meet again without fearing arrest since the coup that removed thailand's largest party from office political gatherings of five people or more have been outlawed but now the military government has partially relaxed its ban on political activities. i told the board the what's happening now proves that we are still alive and we are proud of what we have therefore we will continue to do activities and those activities have proven popular with voters for years may be too popular a tie and its predecessor parties have won every election since two thousand and one but the military backed by some of thailand's most rich and powerful people organized to coups against them since the last overthrow in two thousand and fourteen the government has delayed a return to democratic rule several times with

a tentative election date set for late february political parties are slowly coming back into the open being able to gather legally is a significant milestone for the political parties but those that oppose the military government like good time i know they still have to be very careful about what they say and any mistakes could be used against them i the new future forward party touted as a potential coalition partner for poor thai is already in trouble three party executives are charged with violating the computer crimes act for suggesting politicians are being approached to join a pro-military party. and eight leaders of time i were charged in may with sedition and breaking the ban on political activities for organizing a media conference to criticize the government experts say those prosecutions are a sign that the lead up to the election won't be free and fair without a lot of more to come in the sense that if the party or any party would come across

to the. party that would be likely to take to. the case to the election commission or constitutional court to the solve their political opponents a prime minister prayer is proving than not on a level playing field who led the coup isn't ruling out staying on as thailand's leader after the election. and at times he appears to be in campaign mode even though campaigning remains against the law for political parties wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. cambodia has pardon an australian filmmaker who was jailed on espionage charges james ricketson was arrested in june last year after using a drone to film an opposition party rally he was sentenced to six years in prison last month. an investigation by the associated press news agency has found evidence of a campaign by the chinese government to strip young wigger muslims of their language

and culture the un believes about a million muslims in this change young region have been rounded up and are held in so-called reeducation camps something the chinese government denies mariana honda has more. when many pit traveled with her husband and young baby to turkey to visit his sick father she left four 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 we give the minorities under the pretext of countering terrorism and religious extremism and. made it says chinese authorities weren't just targeting adults who children were apparently taken to the soften a judge she hasn't heard from them since her no on the vocal and after i got the news i was so upset i wanted them to grow up with me. wasn'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. many pages now living in exile unable to return to sion jiang 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. 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 cush he flipped 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 show them 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 . dispirit 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 us secretary of state my phone pale has announced reports

of reeducation camps where we gores in western china he was speaking in washington at a conference on the stage of religious freedom around the world hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of leaders are held against their will and so called riyadh to kazan camps were forced to endure severe political indoctrination and other awful abuses their religious beliefs are decimated yet noms president has died at the age of sixty one the ruling communist party says trying dyke won had been sick for several months here morgan looks back at his life. grand icon's time in office was brief but marked by domestic crackdowns and a bid to stabilise relations with the united states he was sworn in as president of vietnam in april to sixteen the sixty one year old had been a public security minister and police general areas which had been the focus of criticism of the nation's human rights records under his rule vietnam launched

a crackdown on corruption and dissidents posting on social media he'll also be remembered for a major expansion of the power of the ministry of public security and the police and the larger vietnam political system he quite clearly has made the ministry of public security now one of the preeminent organs of power in that country and it continues to affect the lives of daily via the maze and not of her positive way i mean in terms of rights violations he was he was the leader of the band abroad one try to stick to vietnam's policy of non-alignment whereby the nation doesn't rely too heavily on any one superpower and exploits rivalries to its own gain he quoted various international leaders from poland to iran and was the last head of state to see cuba's fidel castro before his death but vietnam's maritime disputes with china in the south china sea and its long term concerns over its northern neighbors territorial ambition has seen its edge a little closer to the united states one sign billions of dollars worth of deals

with the us president donald trump and pursued a trade pact after the us pulled out of the transpacific partnership once enemies on the battlefield and the u.s. defense secretary james mattis to discuss the prospect of military cooperation between the two countries in march as a sign of his growing relationship a navy aircraft carrier with five thousand soldiers and pilots on board anchored near the port city of the land this was the first time that had happened since the end of the vietnam war in one nine hundred seventy five and the historic visit carried a message to another superpower despite the fact that vietnam is one of as many as five or six country. within the association of southeast asian nations that has territorial claims disputes with china it's the only one of those five countries that has this consistently spoken out against china and even if you accept the fact that it's that it's that it's citing principles of international law and international norms freedom of navigation etc is done very selectively in contrast

to the lack of it here and to those norms domestically in vietnam nonetheless i think the government of vietnam should be applauded for standing up for for their rights in the south china sea visa v china and clearly the late president would have been part of that decision to do so the rule of president is largely seen as ceremonial but clunks posting was seen as a stepping stone to becoming the communist party chief and thus the nation's top leader. friday was. a disease awareness day and as people live longer more and more are developing the disease in their later years a burden of care often falls to sufferings families while reynolds reports from washington or los angeles sorry the month of caring for her ninety one year old mother is truly a labor of love she wants my attention twenty four seven kids like a three year old florence garcia was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease twelve

years ago martha quit her job to take care of her mother i didn't know where to start i didn't know what was going to happen i didn't what to do there was nothing out there she needs care around the clock i cook i believe. i'm a doctor i'm her nurse my friend i sleep in the room with her because i'm afraid . get up and fall five point seven million people in the u.s. have alzheimer's treatments are emerging but there is no cure it's only going to get worse because people are living longer communities like this will bear a heavy burden of alzheimer's disease in the coming decades research shows that latinos and latinas are one and a half times more likely to develop alzheimer's disease the non let's you know whites alzheimer's among latinos in the u.s.

is projected to increase eight hundred and thirty two percent by twenty sixty oh i think for the most part are not ready for the wave of alzheimer's that will impact what you know communities families part of that is because of low levels of awareness. to cease to increase awareness advocates have produced a tele novella styled video series about a family coping with the disease but society as a whole is not ready for the surge in alzheimer's completely unprepared we knew it was coming we've known it was coming for thirty years that we're unprepared on all levels we don't have the investment in research we have a totally unprepared health care workforce martha diaz has advice for caregivers don't do it alone attend a support group we talk with that are stressed out we cry we listen to each other

we help each other caring for florencia defines martha's life and that's fine with her i have no regrets no regrets that there you don't have or i don't know what's going to happen to me a disease without a cure but with the treatment called low robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. in mexico a state of emergency has been declared in c.l.o. a state after a storm caused widespread flooding at least three people died in the floodwaters and three more how are presumed to have been swept away thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes and streets became rivers three hundred fifty millimeters of rain fell within twenty four hours. or you know asco experts have joined the operation to salvage the remaining artifacts at brazil's national museum it was destroyed by a huge fire earlier this month by our sanchez reports from rio de janeiro. leader

shell was left standing in a fire that destroyed brazil's national museum earlier this month left most of the country's national treasures in ashes. you know school officials are now working to rescue what survived the been joined by brazilian and german specialists experienced in the story in pieces damaged in fires and wars and we thought she was going to get the expectation of the work of rescuing and digging i think we're talking about months or even years of that process in addition to that what's related to cleaning conservation documentation stabilization it could take years. maybe a decade experts say to recover just one part among the losses egyptian mummies frescoes from pompei and brazilian remains nearly twenty million cultural and scientific pieces. the fire has focused attention on one of the major problems facing brazil's heritage lack of funds this is of a longer war

a harbor where nearly one million slaves advised from africa in the nineteenth century it is also argue mr heritage site that new zealand just say it is in danger of being destroyed. other historic buildings are also at risk federal prosecutor says six museums in this city alone are insecure and should be closed to do this brutal dog of those. what happened is going on in all the museum institutions in brazil the tragedy can happen again because there's no state budget for public museums the state is not complying with its responsibilities. the loss of the national museum and all its treasures has prompted students to try to save at least memories of the past the appeal to museum visitors to help build up an archive and received more than seven thousand e-mails with photos and videos of the museum collections. what we didn't expect this we are going to prepare an

archive with the different collections to show what the museum represented to us with personal memories but all this effort to recover and rebuild will remain in digital form most of the original treasures are gone forward for many innocent clearly honeydew but as you know in iraq unesco says a serious america should be protected a world heritage site it has some of the country's most significant archaeological discoveries but iraqis living there say some landmarks are being left to crumble rob math and reports. for twelve centuries the spiral minaret of the great mosque 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 attempt to restore there are 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 more visitors and business but more than a decade later little has been done and it. certainly different permits and any other place in the. history an archaeological site but it doesn't get proper attention. some are lies on both sides of the river tigris north of baghdad it marks the site of a powerful islamic capital the ruled over the a basset 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 minaret 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. still ahead on al-jazeera all the sport paid i'll be here with details of the round that single thing spanish football. discovered distilleries you didn't know amounts. to be a witness to life changing scenes. notice the changes that affect all of us. experience our world and be a part of

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thank you very much we start with a record breaking round of golf englishman oliver fisher has become the first man ever to shoot a fifty nine on the european tour and happened on day two of the portugal masters as david stokes reports. the play. thousands of golfers have tried but only one has finished with a round of fifty nine on the european tour. oliver fisher had been way off the pace heading into day two of the portugal masters but that quickly changed. and some red hot putting so in pick up nine birdies and an eagle through fifteen holes when this one dropped he was eleven on the par for the day. under was the magic number but away he would tee shot at the pass three sixteenth threatened to ruin his day he

recovered and hold this crucial putt for par and the record was still on. a tenth birdie followed at seventeen to get to twelve under. and all you have to do now was part of the last hole job number one find the fairway and he did just that firing it straight down the middle job number two put the ball on the green again no problem for fisher two hundred eighty seven in the world he avoided the water and gave himself two putts for the record and he very nearly did it in one. centimeters away from the famous fifty eight will settle for a famous fifty nine though i think the first player ever to go that low in the forty six year history of the european tour thank you it's a great feeling and. it feels great so if you make history here in portugal it's a great tournament and you know it's a great night for the europeans or one of the myself to fifty nine so you know i

was. going to. level par and then. you know just a great day or a fantastic school card and fantastic scenes around the eighteenth hole he could give a thinking fisher had won the tournament you have to go easy on the champagne the record round was only good enough to give him a share of the lead and the still two days left david stokes al-jazeera over on the u.s. p.g.a. tour tiger woods continues to impress at the season ending to a championship he has a share of the lead at the halfway stage woods carded two under par second round of sixty eight to go seven and overall and that was including a double bogey he's tied at the top with world number one justin rose was will be playing in the ryder cup next week and the tennis equivalent the laver cup began in chicago on friday. i. named after australian great rod laver it's bjorn borg the europeans up against

john mcenroe's rest of the wool teen novak djokovic jen rogers federal among the big names in action it was grigor dimitrov and francis to your foe who got the tournament started and it was the man in blue dimitroff who took it comfortably in straight sets six one six four to get europe or to a winning start. i to spain where leaders plans to play a game in the united states of hit a roadblock the spanish football federation has sent the legal later denying their request to play the game between barcelona and you're owner in miami in january there's been widespread criticism since the plans were revealed last month and players have threatened to go on strike but despite the spanish federation saying no league as president is adamant they will not give up in their quest to play matches stateside. he's not going to i continue being optimistic because i stand ninety percent by what we have decided and we will maintain our plans this is

a strategic issue for us is playing in the united states is very important for us to position ourselves there so a final no for an answer from the federation will not be final no for us we will eagerly fight for this to happen because in sports law we have always been right in the decisions we have made and that game must take place in miami january twenty sixth to the weekend's world heavyweight title fight and champion anthony joshua has weighed in twelve kilograms heavier than challenger alexander povetkin of russia the pair took to the scales at wimbley way on saturday night they'll meet in the ring in front of a sellout crowd of around eighty thousand fans all four joshua's belts on the line against poverty in who has failed to drug tests in the past joshua says it's his job to show the clean fighter is the better boxer and is confident he'll get the job done. yeah for sure you know i always look at it this way they're strong so

they take them out to the body they're strong to the body and to the head sooner or later they fall. on the physical strong by a knowledge of what subject will compare what. joshua's promoter has hinted that he's next fight could be against fellow brit and old nemesis million white he be charged as an amateur but lost a second fight as professionals in twenty fifteen with joshua knocked him out in the seventh round white who's won eight fights since then told al jazeera that he's confident he'll win a rematch but he's not getting too carried away just yet you know what this is what's in i don't get you know until it's set in stone or written because you could fracture your ear while in a row so let's see what happens you know just give you mean loosely we know so you're going to be effective you've made are not. pushing back and i'm roughed him up and i'll probably. you know i'm a lot bigger stronger mentally and physically then i know my luck experience and

i'm used to also you know i would be a look it would be a very very different. the cleveland browns decision to take baker mayfield as the number one pick in the draft has paid off big time the quarterback made easy n.f.l. debut as a substitute and led the browns to their first win since december twenty sixth scene that was a streak of nineteen games and six hundred thirty five days until mayfield intervention against the new york jets on thursday that's two point conversion one of the highlights they had been fourteen nothing down when he came on after tyra taylor was concussed cleveland winning twenty one seventeen so this was the first celebration cleveland fans of ed in nearly two years there was a bonus in it for them as well the browns had promised to unlock fringes of be a around the city when they finally got they win and that's all the support from us for now we'll have another update for you again later on. peter thank you that's it for this hour on al-jazeera from the fully back to the whole team thanks for watching simon. mixed.

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tanzania's president orders the arrests of those involved in the ferry disaster that killed at least one hundred thirty one people. i'm sam and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up all eyes on the woman accusing the supreme court nominee of sexual assault whether she'll appear before the senate next week.