on al-jazeera. film was. an attack on a military parade in iran as the country commemorates the start of its war with iraq several people have been injured. on. live from doha also coming up tanzania's president orders the arrest of those responsible for a ferry that sank in lake victoria killing more than one hundred thirty people. deadline extended the woman accusing donald trump's supremes court pick of sexual assault gets more time to negotiate the terms of her testimony.

ah. ha ha anger in hong kong as the city inaugurated a new high speed train tell you what china has to do with it. we begin with the breaking news story out of iran several people have been injured after a government gunman attacked a military parade in the south of the country state t.v. says a number of attackers opened fire on the event in the city of us the parade was being held to commemorate the start of the war with iraq in one thousand nine hundred eighty it's not yet clear who's behind the attack more on that story as it when we get. our hopes of finding any more survivors of the ferry disaster in tanzania are fading the president has all of the arrest of a boat operator after at least one hundred thirty one people died when the overcrowded ferry capsized in lake victoria people are still missing the government

has declared four days of mourning malcolm webb reports from the ugandan side of the lake. late victoria became a gravesite on thursday afternoon after a ferry capsized and sank. when the ferry was coming to a stop people moved from one side to the other on 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 will rescue them as for those who have died will get them out too for now we're concentrating on the rescue operation as you can see specialists have arrived. just a few meters from the dog in the u.k. 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 on board tanzania's president john

mcafee declared four days of mourning. for him because it made the souls of those who've passed on rest and peace 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 have 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 and 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. joins us now from the ugandan side of lake victoria is that. rescue and recovery operations

over on the thames and inside resumed sunrise this morning thirteen more bodies have been found but tanzania and officials say that recovery operation may be called off later today the chances of finding anyone alive in the water now of course are almost zero and of course only so long that the really recovery workers can continue searching for an on the number of missing dead as are a few left it gets harder and harder to find them but the families of those who are died houser as of today being allowed to take the body for burial so the families who are mourning their loved ones are now being allowed to take bodies from the center where they were collected and now come to tanzania and president says there will be a rest and as you reported. earlier this isn't the first time something like this has happened there so can we expect any real accountability.

we covered the ferry that sank in near zanzibar in twenty eleven on that occasion a boat operator is using two old boats that have been bought from the us and were specifically designed to work only on legs and days they were being used out in the open ocean between mainland tanzania and zanzibar and when the seas got rough one heavily laden boat capsized about two hundred people died on that occasion there was a lot of anger immediately the owner of that boat disappeared wasn't seen for several weeks but when that anger died down and and a lot of the discussions around surrounding that accident then actually nothing much happened regulations didn't change no one was really held to account for the families who lost their loved ones were left to grieve with with little outcome all or nothing much to can to console them and that's common for people living in these legs like communities because these accidents are fairly common you can see behind

me here some of the kind of aging boats these ones are out of use some slightly larger ones they're the ones that run with cargo between here in tanzania and then smaller wooden boats like this and used to make smaller journeys around the islands here people depend on them for fishing for trade and because of a lack of regulation and also a lot of poverty people are trying to get around for as little money as possible boat owners also trying to make a livelihood said boat very often are overloaded that's what can make them dangerous if you speak to families living around the lakes like communities like this almost everyone knows people who drowned out on the water. mark and wildlife first aired lake victoria in uganda. that woman who is accused donald trump's supremes called pic of such an assault has been given more time to negotiate the terms of her testimony christine blassie ford says brett kavanaugh assaulted her at a party in one thousand nine hundred two when they were in high school but cavanagh

denies those allegations are 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 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 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 at al-jazeera the white house. well jake feller skinny is the director of the federal courts program at the center for american progress he says republican leaders trying to rush through kavanagh's nomination dr bossy 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 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 led blockade of gaza have been going on for more than five months palestinians are demanding their right of return to their homes and land their families way expelled from seventy years ago that's when the state of israel was created. palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has rejected u.s. claims the palestinian authority is not interested in peace talks with israel best met with french president emanuel crawl in paris on his way to the u.n. general assembly in new york next week the u.s. has all of the closure of the palestine liberation organizations washington office it accuses the group of boycotting peace efforts of fighting between rival groups in the southern neighborhoods of libya's capital has killed at least eleven people

most of the victims were civilians u.n. efforts at a cease fire have failed to end the violence at least ninety six people have died in fighting since the end of august would have had has more from tripoli. the sound of heavy gunfire has been heard in several parts of the libyan capital tripoli as 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 the 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 the 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 this 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 three states in northern mexico have declared emergencies after a tropical depression cause widespread flooding at least three people died in the

floodwaters in sin a low and three others may have been swept away thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes as streets were transformed into rivers the military has been deployed to help rescue those who are stranded. and in the philippines rescuers are still searching for survivors after a landslide in sable province very dozens of homes on thursday at least twenty five people have been killed while more than fifty are feared buried under the rubble early reports that some of those traps had been sending text messages to their families but hopes of finding any survivors are fading we'll take a quick break now but when we come back on al-jazeera britain's prime minister to resign may accuses the e.u. leaders of failing to treat the u.k. with respect. a tweet from trampled fails to stop oil prices from rising.

hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across europe we are expecting to see some fairly big changes over the next few days first of all you can see here on the satellite image we have a front as well as an area of low pressure that is moving through the north sea as well as another one coming in off the atlantic so we have back to back storms we're going to be dealing with right here so that means very windy conditions coming across the u.k. and ireland as well so saturday not looking as bad but what we're going to be seeing is a big drop in temperature here across central europe that is that cold front moving through and temperatures are going to drop anywhere between ten and twelve degrees celsius as your high because we had about thirty degrees here on friday in berlin so a big change there and then as we go towards sunday notice that winds and rains pushing too much of the british isles that is going to be a big problem there because we have already seen winds well over one hundred forty kilometers per hour with our last storm that push through that region so if they're

already power lines down we could expect even more across the area here across the northern part of africa we are looking at some rain here across tunisia now that has been a problem we haven't had to see much rain in order to cause flash flooding and we are seeing a little bit more here on saturday as we go towards sunday things get a little bit better there but we are picking up some clouds here across parts of algeria for algiers though along the coast now going to bed with temperatures thirty. margaret.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories several people have been injured after gunmen attacked a military parade in southern iran state t.v. says a number of attackers opened fire on the event in the city of the parade was being held to commemorate the start of the iran iraq war which lasted from the one nine hundred eighty to one thousand nine hundred eight it's not yet clear who is behind the attack. tanzania's president has all of the arrest of a ferry operator involved in the disaster and lake victoria four days of mourning have been declared at least one hundred thirty one people died and many are still

missing after the crowded boat capsized near a dock on thursday. the woman accusing donald trump's supremes court pick of sexual assault has been given another day to negotiate the terms of her testimony christine lahti ford says brett kavanaugh salted her at a party in one thousand nine hundred two cavanagh denies those allegations. the european council president is still optimistic that the e.u. and u.k. can reach a deal on britain's exit from the bloc donald tusk was reacting to british prime minister theresa may who accused the e.u. leaders of failing to provide better options than her plan which they rejected at a summit in austria he bought the reports reeling from her bruising eve summit theresa may delivered a defiant ultimatum to europe the e.u. should be clear i will not overturn the results 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 my counterparts at thursday's eve summit in salzburg she was instead met with an unequivocal rejection of her latest breaks it plan ever about the share the view that why positive elements in the checkers propose of. just a train with a truck on the 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 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 bricks it strategy was drawn up at her country retreat checkers in july if 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 in the 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 before her response to teresa mayes proposal has inflamed tension among hard line break that tears with them how own party who believe the e.u. are pushing for more concessions from the u.k. but if adopted will mean leaving me you will be increasingly more and more pointless they want a clean break from brussels with or without a reason may be but this latest message to europe may help restore some confidence from 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 needs bark at al-jazeera westminster police in mali crackdown on anti-government protesters in the capital bamako on the eve of independence day celebrations officers fired tear gas to disperse the crowds demonstrating against the results of last month's election. or was reelected as president but the opposition claims widespread vote rigging will be inaugurated later on saturday.

and thousands of protesters marched across parts of northwestern syria demanding president bashar al assad be removed from office before a new constitution is drafted you know hala reports from beirut. they chant against bashar al 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 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 contras are now moving closer to the regime. 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 mises assad's government but the united nations says there is still potential for a lot of fighting in civilian populated areas turkey and russia didn't say how they plan to implement a demilitarized zone free of so-called radical rebels but yan egeland's humanitarian task force was given some details it seems turkey backed rebels could play a role on the ground what i understand is that the so-called war on terror is not

called off in a country that will be in the future air raids against the listed organizations there will also be fighting between on groups armed activists and the so-called terrorists the so-called radicals. there is and will be many civilians in the serious. three million syrians living 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 us heard many fear a political transition away from the syrian leader is no longer a priority for the center for their answers either big. or donald trump has again hit out

a rising fuel prices the us president's comments come as the world's top oil producers consider boosting production by a half a million barrels a day the increase would make up for falling oil supply from iran because of u.s. sanctions ahead of sunday's opec meeting in algeria translated 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 were member the opec monopoly must get prices down now the price of a brand crude is close to a four year high at the moment 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 or prices have risen around forty percent in the past year though many share attack in is an international oil and energy consultant and former research showed opec he says opec 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 an 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 comments ordering this this meeting really is not to decide their level this miti is the joint ministerial monitoring committee and they're going to look at the status of the order market supply demand and the outlook for the next few months and it is the opec meeting the full meeting at the conference in early december that will decide the options are to to expand order to that option 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 they distribute have a different coat these are the details which i think they were trying to avoid and not going into the opening of hong kong's first high speed old high speed rail link to the rest of china is provoking protests pro-democracy and opposition groups are angry that mainland chinese law is being enforced during immigration checks for passengers. efforts to step up control in the semi autonomous territory have increased concerns in the former british colony about erosion of freedoms. police setting up this police station inside. of west western colonization and you can see that there is between all the use. of this police. to respect should be doing each other sarah clarke has more from

hong kong to 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 shane's 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 or yemen may be war but that's not stopping some young people from trying to revive the culture of going to the cinema tickets have been selling fast for the premiere of

a local production andrew simmons reports from nearby djibouti. perhaps it's a distraction from a daily struggle that attracted so many people to the first public screening of a movie in yemen since civil war broke out tickets costing two dollars or something well despite the broken economy. ten days before the wedding stands out because it's a yemeni production a love story that takes in the wall with many of its effects russia whose wedding plans nearly fell apart because of the conflict falling incomes and rising prices have a big effect i feel same mamoun struggles with different issues raising a dowry for example. and. we wanted a movie to show what's going on inside the houses of the city and the whole country how families are affected by the state of the economy how the hopes of young people also collapse everyone is worried that if something simple collapses then

everything will collapse with it the whole house we tried to portray the mental state of the yemeni people. those viewing are impressed thing to me i heard that this is a beautiful movie so i came with the family to watch it having a movie made in aden is more than just entertainment there is a sense of pride here about the production. facility in when you compare yemen to the rest of the arab world we are maybe more than one hundred years behind on producing movies but this is a milestone and i hope the government in the private sector will continue to support such projects that helped to create a cinematic awareness of the makeshift cinema in aden isn't set in the main conflict suffered elsewhere in yemen pro-government fighters recapture the city from who three forces three years ago but there have been frequent attacks by a wide range of disparate fighting groups since them.

this movie may be a form of escapism out of it though comes one small hope that a vibrant young filmmaking industry make your mood from this conflict a war that some people feel has no end unlike the movie. simmons' al-jazeera djibouti. this is al jazeera let's get a round up now of the top stories at least nine people are dead after gunmen attacked a military parade in southern iran that's according to the revolutionary guard. it happened in the city of our the parade was being held to commemorate the iran iraq war which began in one thousand nine hundred it's not yet clear who is behind the attack. tanzania's president has all of the arrest of

a ferry operator involved in the disaster and lake victoria four days of mourning have been declared for the passengers who drowned at least one hundred thirty one people died and many are still missing after the crowded boat capsized on thursday the chairman of the u.s. senate judiciary committee says he'll give brett kavanaugh hours accuser more time to negotiate the details of her testimony before the committee christine ford says calvin are sexually assaulted her in high school he denies those charges the committee has set a deadline to agree the details for ford's testimony the health ministry in garza says one protest 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 has been more fighting in the southern neighborhoods of libya's capital tripoli at least eleven people have been killed most of them civilians attempts by the un to impose

a cease fire have failed to stop fighting. the u.k. prime minister teresa mayes accused in leaders of failing to treat the u.k. with respect after they rejected her blank breaks a plan on thursday may said her counterparts had not explained why they believe her checkers plan would not work the opening of hong kong's first high speed rail link to the rest of china is provoking demonstrations pro-democracy groups there are angry the mainland chinese law is being enforced on immigration checks for passengers beijing's efforts to increase control in the charity have increased concerns in the former british colony those are the headlines in side stories next . to president trump finding asylum in the us has become harder than ever i am pretty in place a zero tolerance policy you view our mark going a child then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you

thousands of families escaping violence at home now face separation detention and deportation as the u.s. closes its doors no shelter on our. tramp protects cover though the us president's choice for supreme court judge is accused of sexual assault as well as allegations of the riots and smear campaigns and midterm elections due well the latest scandal affects voter this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the high stakes standoff is underway in washington over the u.s. president's choice for supreme.