if you can and hear their story on talk to al jazeera. an attack on a military parade in iran as the country commemorates the start of its war with iraq at least twenty four people were killed. a lot as i'm sick of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. tanzania's president blames overloading and negligence for the lake victoria ferry disaster which killed at least one hundred sixty people. to blow by. blow hot anger in hong kong over a new bullet train we'll tell you why china is being blamed. and going to the

movies again in yemen how some young people are reviving the culture despite the war. alone iran is blaming gunmen backed by saudi arabia for attacking a military parade at least twenty four people were killed and more than sixty injured during the annual event commemorating the start of the iran iraq war it happened in the southern city of avarice which is about one hundred fifty kilometers from the iraqi border the area has seen arab separatists attack oil pipelines in the past i have as is also one of several cities where they have been large anti-government protests in recent months dosage of body reports from. chaos and panic in the city of atlanta in southern iran as an unprecedented scene unfolds during a military parade. unidentified gunmen opened fire your parade at the start

of sacred defense week it commemorates iranians who died during the eight year war with iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. . while the wounded were being treated people were warned to get down. evolutionary guard spokesman says four men dressed in khaki uniforms and riding motorbikes are connected to the al aziziya group which is supported by saudi arabia . some are killed others captured when they come to launch an attack like this the i.r.g.c. in southwest and iran in and out of a populated region in back me so there has been a bill and put out a plan in order to send a very strong message actually so there are delays sions to both leave now and there are reasons to believe now that. this is been a sack masterminded by the united states and the saudis especially because the

attack hillary a solid terrorists of all that was the us ordered by this all these you know have been recognized to been in charge of this attack the rare attack took place includes islam province which borders iraq and has the largest ethnic arab community in iran the province was a major battleground during the iran iraq war the obvious attack happened as president hassan rouhani was delivering a speech at the main anniversary parade in tehran he was briefed on the attack and continues his speech which it orating iran's position on its defense capabilities ronnie said they will continue to increase day by day and in africa as the investigation continues into the major breach of security dosage of ari al jazeera . of the foreign minister has tweeted his anger jeffords very few saying terrorists recruited trained and armed and paid by a foreign regime have attacked children and journos among casualties iran holds

regional tera sponsors and the us masters accountable for such attacks iran will respond swiftly and decisively in defense of iranian lives. forward is that he is a professor of world studies at the university of tehran he says iran is bound to retaliate for this attack i think. this terrorist attack this morning would have regional consequences and then government has been interest rowhani government has been interested in improving relations with the saudis reducing tensions reducing difficulties that exists historically but then the other side engages in this type of terrorist activities i think all types of negotiations and talks are going to be. something that they're not going to pursue the first responders the iranian government would have is to get back basically and once that's done then other options may be looked at.

historically we don't have a lot of terrorist attacks in iran last time there was a terrorist attack was about two years ago in tehran and this is this is something that happened. after many months of terrorist attack and the reason we don't have that many terrorist attacks in iran is because iranian intelligence services and security forces are capable and this attack was a soft target women and children. watching prates and. engaging in this activity basically hiding in a nearby building and just shooting ordinary people they were watching prayed and there are some people who were in part of the trade but also here. the soft target easy to hit here but at the end of the day this doesn't make you dance of the response any anything less than what it is usually the case which is

quite quite severe when it comes to terrorism. but two days after a ferry capsized in tanzania rescuers have found a survivor he is one of only forty one people who survived at least one hundred sixty others drowned in lake victoria on thursday tanzania's president is blaming overloading and negligence for the disaster he's ordered police to arrest the boat's owner. has more from the ugandan side of lake victoria lake victoria lines across kenya tanzania and uganda three countries have a lot of corruption poverty and poor regulation so safety doesn't come. regulations say that all boat passengers are meant to whales wear life jackets and we were given some divide in this boat over there not in very good condition often is also not enough to go around that it's also very difficult for sources to

enforce these regulations across such a vast expanse of water but the lake is key for trade large boats like this one carry cargo this one runs regularly between kenya and tanzania. in an area where the road networks aren't good carrying things on trucks can be expensive and slow so the waterways are important both tend to get used right up to the end of their lives you can see this blue one sitting lopsided in the water must have been built many decades ago and used for a long time before resting here in the large ferry behind it this boat went out of service several years ago after another boat accident it collided with another boat here in the lake the other boat sank several people drowned in that accident to the boat that capsized in tanzania eyewitnesses say it had two or three hundred people on board it was only meant to have one hundred in these kinds of conditions overloading is very common that's what causes so many of these fatal accidents. and

one law is a former maritime operations manager s.o.s. mediterranea he says better regulation need to be put in place. these challenge of transporting passengers over the ship is a very old story we had the story of many accidents in the world but clearly in these kind of area where it's really hard to control how many people get on barak onboard the ship for the crew members for the captain they never really know where all the limits of the safety be because of course when you have too many people probably here twice the amount of people on board the ship there is a high risk of overloading and and stability so the weight is too high the gravity center is too high in the ship and the capsule so there is a need for we could to make sure that the captain knows exactly how many people he has been born into limits the number of people and then there is another if for to

do in terms of risk you capacities especially for capsizing our student were it's really really fast and your risk you capacities needs to ju-ju react very quickly with a lot of means because it's i would call the massive rescue operations where we have . both hundreds of people to rescue in a few hours rescuers are still searching for survivors from the second big landslide in the philippines in less than a week dozens of homes were buried on thursday in the city on the island of sable at least twenty nine people are confirmed dead while up to forty two feared buried under the mud early reports said some of those trapped had been sending text messages to their families to me in the end is in naga city on several island it happened early thursday morning here in the fifty of naga in the province all the say boo i'm just going to show he a part of the devastation. this is as far as we can go

but this is not really the main area and that is because. security officials local government officials are still very much concerned about safety and this is why they're forcefully evacuating communities here rescuers representatives from the philippine army the philippine national police and from different communities have been working together to try to expedite the process of rescue energy bill operations and this bridge is also partially destroyed it means seem like an old antiquated foot bridge but it is what the next communities from far flung areas over there to the main town this is what's being used as access to evacuate communities that remain to be in danger zones civilians i've spoken to president thirty yesterday they expressed concerns about the safety of people here and specially with the quarrying that's happening here the government has given assurances that it will provide the best assistance possible but it remains to be

seen just how far basically the government can go now the main issue at this point really is security and rescue retrieval operations that have been hampered by rains three states in northern mexico have declared emergencies after a tropical depression caused 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's been deployed to help rescue those who are stranded. the opening of hong kong first high speed rail link to the rest of china is provoking protests pro-democracy groups are angry the part of the new rail terminal in hong kong is in forcing mainland chinese law on passengers sarah clarke reports. it's three years behind sched jewel and three billion dollars over budget the hong kong china high speed rail link is now

officially open. the city's chief executive kerry lamb was joined by the governor guandong declaring the mega project a bright light on china's calling card so yes i'd fight so if further perfect this transport system and promotes cultural economic and social exchanges between hong kong and china express china and links hong kong to forty four mainland cities it's hard travel times delivering passengers to go on joe in less than an hour he moves all through the integrate hong kong and macau into the overall development plan of china but the project has been shrouded in controversy hong kong's legislative council passed a bill to allow joint immigration checkpoints in the terminal passages from china will be inspected here not at the border for the first time mainland officials will enforce national laws on hong kong soil around a quarter of the terminal will come on the mainland jurisdiction to be designated zines which will include the joint immigration checkpoints but critics argue

importing nationals here in hong kong is yet another attempt by beijing to tighten its grip on the former british territory. the pro-democracy groups have led the protests they say the joint checkpoints undermine hong kong's autonomy under the one country two systems deal adopted in the territory was handed back to china for certain it's damaging to one country two systems and that is what we've been promised. at the pace of law and also from you know government you know back to twenty years ago. and now when you look at it that may be just the beginning that's what we're really about the government says the joint immigration checkpoints will save passages clearing immigration twice but it raises alarm bells for pro-democracy groups who believe the city's political future is at stake it appears to be no deterrent to the public though with tickets sold out this weekend sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. are still ahead on al-jazeera the woman accusing

donald trump's u.s. supremes court pick of sexual assault gets more time to negotiate the terms of her testimony thailand's military rulers loosen their rules on political meetings but for opposition parties hoping the campaign moves still leaves a lot to be desired. hello again well this hour we're going to start north asia where we are watching some fairly nice conditions as we end the weekend here across japan you can notice that the from the boundary is pushing off here towards the pacific that's going to allow some clear skies to come in over the next few days but that is going to be changing going to see sendai partly cloudy twenty seven same with tokyo at twenty eight but then as we go towards monday more clouds start rolling across the area but we don't expect to see much in terms of rain across that region temperatures are going to be

coming up a degree or two there well here across parts of china the clouds are back in as well as the rain we did have a nice spell of dry area in conditions down here along the coast but forty four hong kong you are going to be seeing rain at about thirty one jumping up to about thirty two here as we go towards monday but heavy rain up towards chain doing that has been the trend over the last three to four days then very quickly i want to take you down here across south asia particularly over here towards the philippines you notice luzon is looking quite clear at the moment is that some good news there with milla at about thirty one but we do have a tropical cyclone out in the pacific that is going to be making its way towards the northwest not a direct hit for the philippines we think at this moment but we do think that the clouds are going to be on the increase and as we go towards the beginning of the week more rain across parts of luzon.

what makes this moment you. so unique. we haven't seen the president this unpredictable freedom of speech is. hardly clumsy that is a formula for authoritarianism and here in the early years the lights along. there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight out here is the two state solution no upfront return on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera minder of our top stories this hour iran is blaming gunmen backed by saudi arabia for attacking a military parade at least twenty four people killed in the southern city of. the

parade was marking the start of the iran iraq war in one thousand nine hundred. rescuers in tanzania have found someone alive in the ferry which capsized two days ago the man is one of only forty one people who survived at least one hundred sixty others drowned in lake victoria on thursday tanzania's president is blaming overloading and what may be negligence for the disaster. and the opening of hong kong's first high speed rail link to the rest of china is provoking protests pro-democracy groups are angry the part of the new terminus in hong kong isn't forcing mainland chinese law on passengers but the government calls the project a new milestone that will help bring the city closer to china. now the woman accusing donald trump's u.s. supremes court pic of sexual assault has been given more time to negotiate the terms of her testimony christine lezzie ford says brett kavanaugh assaulted her at

a party in one thousand nine hundred two when they were in high school but kavanagh denies those allegations are white house correspondent kimberly how could report. after days of surprising restraint u.s. president donald trump turned on christine blazin forward 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 get al-jazeera the white house. a president donald trump has vowed to get rid of what he calls the lingering stench in washington his comments came just hours after a new york times report claiming u.s. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein discussed ousting trump an allegation

rosenstein has denied and we other journalists walked in washington. just look at what is now being exposed in our department of justice and the f.b.i. look at what's going on because i watched. and i want to tell you we have great people in the department of justice we have great people these are people i really believe you take a poll i got to be at ninety five percent but yes a real bad once you seen what's happened at the f.b.i. they're all gone they're all gone they're all gonna a bit of but there is a lingering stand sure and we're going to get rid of that. britain's foreign secretary is warning european leaders not to mistake british

politeness for weakness in brakes in negotiations jeremy hunt says the british are content to live without a divorce still the president of the european council says he's convinced a compromise brings a deal can be achieved after britain's prime minister accused in new leaders of a lack of respect need barca reports from london reeling from her bruising each use summit theresa may deliver the 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 ever about

the share the view or the positive elements in the checkers proposal. jested framework for comic corporation will not work. not least because in truth 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 brags 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 to resume a's 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. 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 to resume a proposal has inflamed tension among hard line break that tears within her 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 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 the bark at al-jazeera westminster. pope francis is in lithuania as part of a four day visit to the baltic region during the trip which will include three countries who pay homage to the victims of the region's nazi and soviet occupations the head of the catholic church will also go to latvia and estonia all of which are marking one hundred years of independence mollies newly reelected president will get sworn in later on saturday on the eve of a ceremony in bomber co police fired tear gas to disperse crowds demonstrating against the election result. by a landslide in august opposition groups allege widespread vote rigging thailand's

military government is lifting a ban on political party meetings more than four years after a coup but they still are not 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 do 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 time 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 close to the. party that would be likely to take to. the kids to the election commission or constitutional court to the soul for their political opponents a prime minister preview is proving done 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 or yemen may be at war but that's not stopping some young people from trying to revive the culture of going to the cinema tickets have been selling fost for the premiere of a local production and or 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 a feels a 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 in 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 help to create a cinematic awareness. the makeshift cinema in aden isn't set in the main conflict suffered elsewhere in yemen pro-government fighters recaptured the city from the forces three years ago but there have been frequent attacks by wide range of disparate fighting groups since then.

this movie maybe a form of escapism out of it though comes one small hope that a vibrant young filmmaking industry may emerge from this conflict a war that some people feel has no end unlike the movie hundreds simmons' al-jazeera djibouti. this is al jazeera let's get a round up other top stories iran is blaming gunmen backed by saudi arabia for attacking a military parade in the southern city of i have us. at least twenty four people were killed and more than sixty injured during the annual event commemorating the start of the iran iraq war two days after a ferry capsized in tanzania rescuers have found

a survivor is one of only forty one people who made it out alive at least one hundred ninety six others drowned in lake victoria on thursday tanzania's president is blaming overloading and negligence for the disaster. rescuers are still searching for survivors from the second big landslide in the philippines in less than a week dozens of homes were buried on thursday in nagpur on the island of sable at least twenty nine people are confirmed dead while up to forty two are still feared buried under the mud early reports said some of those trapped sent text messages to their families. three states in northern mexico have declared emergencies after a tropical depression caused widespread flooding at least three people died in the flood waters in sin and low and three others may have been swept away thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes as streets were transformed into rivers of the opening of hong kong's first high speed rail link to the rest of china is

causing an outcry by pro-democracy groups they're angry that part of the new terminus is in forcing mainland chinese law on passengers during immigration checks protests to say it is the latest erosion of freedoms which beijing guaranteed when china regained control of the british colony in one thousand nine hundred seventy britain's foreign secretary jeremy hunt has warned european leaders not to mistake british politeness for weakness in brakes in negotiations prime minister to resign may had accused them of failing to treat the u.k. with respect after they rejected her plan on thursday those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's inside story.

can trump protect the u.s. president's choice for supreme court judge is accused of sexual assault as well as allegations of death rats and smear campaigns and midterm elections due well the latest scandal affect voters 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 court judge bret's governors accused of sexual assault by a woman who says she's prepared to testify to congress patrick aligned with force from washington.