as the u.s. closes its doors. no shelter on al-jazeera. tanzania's president orders the arrests of those involved in the ferry disaster that killed at least one hundred thirty one people. sammy's a dand this is al jazeera live from dar also coming up all eyes on the supreme court nominee and whether the woman accusing him of sexual assault will appear before the senate next week one palestinian dead and dozens wounded as israeli troops opened fire on protesters in gaza. and i have always said no deal is better than a batched. off the back of a disappointing meeting with e.u.

leaders the u.k. prime minister and use a threat to walk away from brakes it talks. tanzania's president has ordered the arrest of a ferry operator involved in the disaster on lake victoria john michael fully declared four days of mourning for the passengers who died 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 ferry capsized and sank when the ferry was coming to a stop when 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 will get them out to for now we're concentrating on the rescue operation as you can see specialists have arrived. just a few mean. this from the doc in the new career way 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 had four days of mourning look at one man. cannot make the souls of those who've 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 accident have occurred in tanzania passenger boats

are sometimes old and dilapidated or overloaded nine hundred ninety six more than 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're 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

a testimony before the committee christine ford says kavanagh sexually assaulted her in high school he denies those charges the committee had set a friday deadline to agree for ford's testimony a white house correspondent kimberly how could 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. the final say will come from congress he was born for the u.s. supreme court he was born forward. 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 derail the nomination kimberly held at al-jazeera the white house for melanie sloan woods hole some a strategies

a public affairs firm specializing in crisis management she says don't trump's approach to the issue could i mean a lot of his votes was in the wake of this to me 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 jerry can be treats for board the republicans on the committee it is entirely the 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 ford was being treated when when the president said that she should have said something years ago

so there is our biggest issue and now there's also the question of how senator lisa murkowski got alaska another republican vote and if lisa murkowski is using collins' vote against against not a cabinet he's done. evangelical christians are key in the push to confirm cavanagh to the supreme court many of them support president trump because he promised to appoint conservative judges one of the most important gatherings of the group is taking place in washington d.c. chambre towns he 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 part 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 aren'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 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. i don't think it will come out about anymore because the republicans have to stand up for something and that's what the republican leadership fears they're 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 cavanagh 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 ember against them. see al-jazeera

washington us step here turn in general rod rosenstein is denied a newspaper reports alleging he discussed ousting president trump the new york times says he also suggested secretly recording trump early last year to expose chaos in the white house john hendren has more from washington d.c. . 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 attorney general the united states who recused himself and that put rosenstein in charge of the robert mueller investigation into the trump administration 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 to gaza now where the health ministry says one protester has been killed and 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 palestinians are demanding their right to return to homes in land their families were expelled from seventy years ago when israel was created

a force that 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 one of the 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 fatah 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 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. it's been more fighting in southern neighborhoods of libya's capital at least eleven people have been killed in tripoli most of them civilians attempts by the un to impose a cease fire has failed when the violence at least ninety six people have died in

fighting since the end of war gost mahmud up to lie ahead has the latest from tripoli. the sound of heavy gunfire has been heard in several parts of the libyan capital tripoli as it clashes have renewed between rival groups battling for control of the libyan capital tripoli now civilians have been paying the heaviest price in these clashes and actually the fighting has taken a heavy toll on civilians there the ministry of hers has wanted that if the clashes continue the civilians will continue to suffer aid agencies have been trying to reach out to the families in and around the clashes area and also the fighting has damaged. power generating plants and so many areas have been under a blackout of power cut for several hours now this is the third time

a brokered cease fire agreement has been greeted by rival groups and each side is accusing the other of breaching the ceasefire agreement in fact. the seventh infantry brigade from the city of the huna and its allies from the city of misrata are trying to as they say they want to rid the capital tripoli of unofficial militias that are blackmailing the state institutions and imposing a kind of. especially on banks but on the other hand the tripoli brigades which are backed by the government the internationally recognized government say that they are defending the city against aggression. still ahead an al-jazeera rising from the ashes specialists are called in to help brazil restore damaged artifacts after a fire at the national museum.

hello again it's good to have you back well here across parts of the lavar we are look at some clouds making their way across tehran maybe south of back who 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 quite 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 where 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 they 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 head here across parts of southern africa

well nice the 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. is a popular filming location in france when it comes to stories about trucks cried and radicalization tired of negative stereotypes youth worker it's nanny do you mean is we cleaning its image by putting its young brazilian behind the camera. the stories be don't often hear told by the people who live down. in the news well that this is you have an al-jazeera.

on the back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines 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 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 as accuser 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 committee

etc friday deadline to agree the details of ford's testimony. the health ministry in gaza says one protester has 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. the european council president says he's convinced the e.u. and the u.k. can still find a compromise on the braggs deal donald tusk was reacting to the british prime minister's allegation the leaders failed to provide an alternative to her plan the fucker 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 a plan ever about to share the view of the positive elements in the checkers propose of. just a tremor 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 or 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 bricks it strategy was drawn up at her country retreat checkers in july if it poses a u.k.e. you 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. has 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 terrorism

a proposal has been playing tension among hard line breaks that appear within how own party to believe the e.u. are pushing for more concessions from the u.k. but their productive 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 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 need barkan al-jazeera westminster jonathan porto's is a senior fellow at the u.k. in a changing europe initiative he says to resume a need to tackle the issue of the irish border to make more progress in talks with the e.u. . she has tried my best that the u.k. will produce a further proposal on the northern ireland border the so-called backstop. before

the next summit it all over and her family are to deliver any support it is all that the e.u. will take seriously on the other on it is one of the big reasons that even leaders gave her such short shrift and not at the south for the conference yesterday that what was said yesterday in a substantive terms was not any different from what the you said the day after their generous proposal were produced that is they are to extract a step forward. from these point of view but task said yesterday that the. proposal i know it's at this is well the proposals on cooperation on security and foreign policy are very constructive but the economic framework is not one of the e.u. is acceptable he said they said that when the proposals were produced they said that again and yesterday in very stark terms and what tasks said today is again it's just that so i think trying to read something between the alliance there is

not there be productive they are a step forward but the basic economic and trade zones that. have never been there or if your proposition to the board if you are the latest cambodia has piled in the destroy straightly 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 he is in prison last month it's not yet clear whether he left cambodia u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or has denounced reports of reeducation camps for a week of muslims in western china he was speaking at a conservative political conference in washington. hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of leaders are held against their will and so called reeducation camps were forced to endure severe political indoctrination and other awful abuses

their religious beliefs are decimated russia's foreign minister says his country will not interfere in next month's election in bosnia herzegovina so obvious 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 milorad dodik dodik 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 raping a nun franco is the bishop of the northern indian city of jalandhar a nun says he assaulted her repeatedly between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen activists have been campaigning for his prosecution since june . denies the charges 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 on the database to lonely be accessible to law enforcement agencies. to mexico now where authorities have declared emergencies for three northern states after a tropical depression caused widespread flooding at least three people died in the floodwaters and cinna lower state and three more presumed to have been swept away thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes the streets became rivers the military were deployed to help rescue stranded residents. you ask our experts have joined the operation to salvage the remaining artifacts of brazil's destroyed national museum it was gutted by a huge fire earlier this month specialists say it could take at least a decade to restore what's left not on the sanchez reports from rio de janiero. only the shell was left standing the 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 they can joined by brazilian and german specialists experienced in the storing pieces damaged in fires and war zones because she is 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 arrived from africa in the nineteenth century it is also i guess the heritage site of new c.l.o.

just say it is in danger of being destroyed i other historic buildings are also at risk but the us federal prosecutor says six museums in this city alone are insecure and should be closed you should use this be the door that it was so it was the last of the but i believe 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 laws. of the national museum and all its trash and thus 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 there is one which shows the. 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 just. because you. sound to zero time to look at the headlines 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 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 cavanagh's accuser more time to negotiate the details of their testimony before the committee christine ford says cavanagh sexually assaulted her in high school he denies those charges the committee said friday deadline to agree the details of ford's testimony

but the extension was announced a few minutes ago 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 it's been more fighting in southern neighborhoods of libya's capital at least eleven people have died most of them civilians. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei al has denounced reports of reeducation camps for weaker muslims in western china he was speaking at a conservative political conference in washington d.c. . hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of leaders are held against their will and so called reeducation camps were the first during durst a very political indoctrination and other awful abuses their religious beliefs are decimating the u.k. prime minister to resign may is accusing e.u.

leaders of failing to treat the country with respect that's after they on equivocally rejected her brags it plan on thursday may said her counterparts have not explained why they believe her checkers plan would not work authorities in mexico declared emergencies for three northern states after a tropical depression caused widespread flooding at least three people died in the floodwaters more than three are presumed to have been swept away thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes the streets became rivers. this is europe stay with us. he decides the rules of engagement. when it's killing permutate. known competence says you need to see it says a. danish officer who times to do more in

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