tanzania's president orders the arrests of those involved in the ferry disaster which killed at least one hundred thirty one people. i'm sam you say this is al jazeera live from dell also coming up all eyes on the woman accusing don trump's supreme court nominee of sexual assault whether she'll appear before the senate next week. on palestinian dead and dozens wounded as israeli troops opened fire on protesters in gaza plus the archaeological treasure in iraq locals say is being treated more like a rubbish dump. tanzania's

president has ordered the arrest of a ferry operator involved in the disaster on lake victoria john go fully 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 webb reports from the ugandan side of the lake. lake victoria became a grave site on thursday afternoon after a very 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. 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 we'll get them out too for now we're concentrating on the rescue operation. as you can see specialists have arrived passenger ferry sank

just a few meters from the dock in the new career a district officials don't know the exact number of people missing 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 one man. cannot make the souls of those who have passed on rest in the hands of god and those who are injured may heal 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 accidents have occurred in tanzania passenger boats or sometimes old and dilapidated or overloaded nine hundred ninety six thousand eight 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 for 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 the market when the boat tipped over but now it's more than a day since the boat capsized hope of finding any survivors and now very slim a mile from where al-jazeera gabber port uganda. the chairman of the u.s. senate judiciary committee says he'll give brett kavanaugh accuser more time to negotiate the details of the testimony before the committee christine ford says coverdell sexually assaulted her in high school he denies those charges the committee had set a friday deadline to agree for details of ford's testimony the extension was

announced a few minutes ago our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. after days of surprising restraint u.s. president donald trump turned on christine blazin ford the woman whose testimony could to rail 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 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 congress 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 can really help get al-jazeera the white house and angelical christians are key in the push to confirm kavanagh to the supreme court many of them support president trump because he promised to appoint conservative judges now one of the most important gatherings of the group is taking place in washington right now should have

a town see reports. the values voters 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 monger 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 won't 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 allegation and here are the values voters summit support for kavanagh remained solid if you walked in anywhere and said i have i want to report a sexual assault yes ma'am. when did this happen thirty six years ago excuse me. thirty six years ago yes do you have any eyewitnesses where there are two witnesses but they both deny it happened. are you concerned about the allegations of sexual assault. not that much said he didn't get to turn i don't think people come out vote anymore because the republicans have to stand up for something and that's what the republican leadership fears are already nervous about low turnout if the trump base believes the president's claims that the republicans will sweep the upcoming midterm elections boyd by his brilliant performance the

polls suggest otherwise and now if 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 enrage an independent and women voters to turn out in force in the member against the. washington. u.s. steppers here tourney general rod rosenstein is denied a newspaper reporter alleging he discussed ousting president donald trump the new york times says he suggested secretly recording trump early last year to expose chaos in the white house he's also reported to have suggested recruiting cabinet members to remove him under the twenty fifth amendment rosenstein is dismissed the reporter is factually incorrect he's overseeing the federal investigation into russia's role in the two thousand and sixteen election. to gaza now where the

health ministry says one protester has been killed in at least forty wounded 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 most indians are demanding their right to return to homes in land their families were expelled from seventy years ago when israel was created her a force it 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 was a hamas leader in gaza the second most senior hamas official in the whole of the organization and that 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 by far the most sizable such process we've seen in several weeks of course in 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 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 an. the

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. palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has rejected the trumpet ministrations claims the palestinian authority is not interested in peace talks with israel a bass made the comments during a meeting with french president emmanuel mccraw a bass made the stop in paris on his way to the un general assembly which will be held in new york next week to trumpet ministration as ordered the closure of the palestine liberation organization as washington office it accuses the group of boycotting peace talks police fired tear gas anti-government protesters in marley's capital bamako the demonstration was called by a group supposed to the results of last month's election brought him back at cato was reelected as president of the opposition claims there was widespread vote rigging keto will be inaugurated later on saturday. and there's been more fighting

in southern neighborhoods of libya's capital at least eleven people have been killed most of them civilians attempts by the un to impose a cease fire have failed to end the violence at least ninety six people have died in fighting since the end of august. thousands of protesters marched across parts of northwestern syria demanding president bashar al assad be removed from office before a new constitution is drafted this is russia and turkey announced they've confirmed the borders for the demilitarized zone in rebel held province so on a whole the 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 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 sending 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 led 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 eyes is 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 air raids 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 no 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 them 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 us had but many fear the political transition away from the syrian leader is no longer a priority for the center for their answers either bankrupt. still ahead on al jazeera. and i have always said no deal is better than apache. bruised from a test the summit the u.k.'s prime minister a new south right to walk away from bragg's it talks plus thailand's military rulers loosen their rules on political meetings by campaigning is still a step too far. from the clear blue sky of the doha mooning. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of love. hello again it's good to have you back we're here across parts of the

lavar where a look at some clouds making their way across tehran maybe south a backhoe across the southern part of the caspian we don't expect to see much in terms of rain across that region but there is some more rain coming in here from the west maybe baku by the time we get to saturday evening into sunday morning those showers be pushing through your area but a nice day at twenty seven expected down towards quiet city a little bit cooler than what we've seen of the last couple days forty two degrees but humanity is still going to be an issue across that area well here across much of the arabian peninsula we are looking at nicer skies here across the coast of amman but we do think that as we go to the next couple of days more clouds are going to be in the forecast all the way down the coast there could be a couple of showers expression as you go a little bit further to the south but up towards doha we do expect to see maybe a high temperature a few of twenty nine degrees and then held here across parts of southern africa well nice conditions for cape town where we did see a lot of radiant cooler weather over the last few days that front is now easing up

it is going to be rainy here across parts of durban with a temperature there of twenty degrees but as we go towards sunday things are really staying about. nice for parts of johannesburg twenty four degrees but heavy rain expected still for durban at twenty eight degrees. the weather sponsored by cat time he's. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing humankind in the twenty first century and they are look leo war climate change and technological destruction facing realities whatever is there to fear is not in me it is in the people of uganda hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now tanzania's president has ordered the arrest of a ferry operator involved in the disaster on lake victoria four days of mourning of 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. the head of the u.s. senate judiciary committee says he'll give brett kavanaugh answer q.'s a more time to negotiate the details of her testimony before the committee christine ford says cavanagh sexually assaulted her in high school he denies those charges the committee had set a friday deadline to agree the details were ford's testimony but the extension was announced a few minutes ago. health ministry in gaza says one protester has been killed at

least forty wounded 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. hong kong's high speed rail link to china set to open after years of delay the territories first bullet train will drastically cut the travel time to forty four mainland destinations at least seventy trains will depart from the city a day the rail line has faced a number of controversies during the eight years of its construction so clark has more from hong kong. this is the new terminal for the hong kong china high speed today is the official opening ceremony tomorrow it will be open to the public the trains will go directly to shands in one job and link up to around forty four other mine and destinations a train ride that used to take two hours to go on joe will now take just forty eight minutes but the project has attracted some criticism so it hasn't all been smooth sailing it's behind cheryl and it's over budget plus

a decision to put the joint immigration checkpoints here in hong kong not at the border has angered some pro-democracy groups and they concern is that chinese mainland law will be enforced here in about a quarter of the terminal in designated zines supporters who ever say clearing passages here for immigration simply saves time but it will be the first time that my landlord will be applied here in hong kong. thailand's military government is lifting a ban on political party meetings more than four years after recoup the still aren't allowed to campaign organize street gatherings for an election which could be held in february when he reports from bangkok. four years after having their power taken away the leaders of the type 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

there what's happening now is 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 tie 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 poor tired 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. a party or any party would come close to the. party that would be likely to take to. the kids to the election commission or concision accord to the solve their political opponents a prime minister preview 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 pardoned than a stray me and 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 is not yet clear whether he'd left cambodia the european council president says he is convinced the e.u. and u.k. can still find a compromise on the brig's it feel to squeeze reacting to the british prime minister's allegation a year leaders failed to provide an alternative to her plan needs barker 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 or that positive element in the checkers proposal. just to frame truck anomic 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 the job of 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. and the republic of ireland and a you member the case promised there will be no return to a hard border but it's rejected the e.u. as 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 teresa mayes proposal has inflamed tension among hard line break to tears with them how own party they believe the e.u. are pushing for more concessions from the u.k. but their productive will be leaving me you will be increasingly 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 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 needs bark at al-jazeera westminster u.s. secretary of state mike pompei on has denounced reports of reeducation camps for we go in western china he was speaking in washington it's a conference on the state of religious freedom around the world hundreds of

thousands and possibly millions of leaders are held against their will and so called reeducation camps were forced to endure the very political indoctrination and other awful abuses their religious beliefs are decimating russia's foreign minister says his country will not interfere in next month's election in bosnia-herzegovina so a lavrov is visiting the ethnically divided balkan nation where moscow still has a strong influence analysts say the visit is widely viewed as russian support for bosnian serb leader dick dick is campaigning for the separation of ethnic serbs from the rest of bosnia indian police have arrested a catholic bishop who's been accused of repeatedly raping a nun franco is the bishop of the northern indian city of heart and nuns says he assaulted her repeatedly between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen activists have been campaigning for his prosecution since june bishop

denies the charges. in iraq this city of samarra has become has some of the country's most significant archeological discoveries you know asco says it should be protected as a world heritage site but iraqis living there say some landmarks being left to crumble math and reports from baghdad. 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 priest in the middle east. history an archaeological site but it doesn't get the proper attention. so marlise on both sides of the river tigris north of baghdad it marks the site of a powerful islamic capital the ruled over the a placid 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. in samara 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 some model say that iraq should be protecting its history too rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now 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 the chairman of the us senate judiciary committee says he'll give brett kavanaugh hours accuser more time to negotiate the details of testimony before the committee christine ford says cavanagh sexually assaulted her in high school he denies those charges the committee had set

a friday deadline to agree the details of ford's testimony the extension was announced a few minutes ago. the health ministry in gaza says one protester had been killed and at least forty wounded 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 u.s. secretary of state mike compare has denounced reports of reeducation camps for we go muslims in western china he was speaking in washington at a conference on the state of religious freedom around the world hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of leaders are held against their will and so called reeducation camps were the first to endure severe political indoctrination and other awful abuses their religious beliefs are decimated. there's been more fighting in southern neighborhoods of libya's capital of tripoli at least eleven

people have been killed most of them civilians the u.k. prime minister to resign mayors accuse the leaders of failing to treat the u.k. with respect after they on equivocally rejected her briggs plan on first day may said her counterparts and not explained why they believe her checkers plan would not work hong kong's high speed rail link to china is set to open after years of delay the territories first bullet train will drastically cut the travel time to forty four mainland destinations at least seventy trains will depart from the city each day the rail line has faced a number of controversies during the eight years of its construction its talk to al jazeera now stay with us. on count of the cost this week tariffs on thousands of products the biggest trading giants on the planet escalate their trade war the worst performing currency in asia india's rupee plus ice cream sales are melting away in carb. counting the cost on al-jazeera.

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