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alone welcome i'm peter w. watching the al-jazeera news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes gunmen opened fire on crowds at a military parade in southern iran twenty nine a dead but who was behind the attack the blame game has begun. a person is pulled alive from the ferry disaster on a tanzanian lake as the president talks about overcrowding and negligence. full speed ahead into southern china the new hong kong train staring debate over politics and control. also ahead on the trail of rhino poachers how forensic work is helping rangers cut the killing in the parks of south africa and in sports tiger woods has taken the sheriff. ending tour championship is level with the wind just a halfway point and add to.

the iranian president has ordered his security forces to use all means necessary to identify who was behind an attack on a military parade at least twenty nine people were killed when a gunman opened fire on crowds remembering the start of the iran iraq war in the southern city of of ours i saw were quick to claim responsibility but an iranian military spokesman has blamed groups linked to two gulf countries quotes with ties to the united states and israel now the city of ours is about a hundred fifty kilometers from the border with iraq that area has seen arab separatists attack oil pipelines in the past but of ours one of several cities where there have been large antigovernment protests in recent months for the news or such a body has the story. chaos and panic. in the city of los in southern iran as an unprecedented scene unfolds during

a military parade. unidentified gunman opened fire year and prayed 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 a revolutionary 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 . all four suspects have been killed 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 can back me that 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 leave now and there are reasons to believe now that. this is in

a sack masterminded by the united states and the saudis especially because the attack hillary a solid terrorists of all that was you supported 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 . ok let's get more on that for you here in the news and joining us live is early for tall and political scientist and visiting fellow at the brookings doha center

can we straight away dismiss this claim of responsibility from ice. well i mean it's difficult to say we cannot of course categorically dismiss ice has claimed to be in the perpetrator of this attack ices usually claims a lot of attacks also to show its strength on the other hand we have the iranian security forces bringing. another group to be sponsored by the saudis to be behind the attacks and so it's difficult you one has to be cautious and it is difficult to say because also tehran of course blames the usual suspects israel saudi arabia the united states being behind this attack as was the case last year when there was this to an attack in tehran against the well psyllium of. khomeini and also the iranian parliament so there is a lot of questions because in both the whens those were highly securitized events and nevertheless those attacks could occur so there were a lot of security related questions the line coming out of iran in the last news

program was this was a soft target you were talking there about how the security operation seems to be hit and miss on the part of the iranian authorities however what would if it was this big if we haven't had obviously any confirmation of that but if it was the reason why do it why do it there and what are they trying to achieve well that's a good question and it is difficult to say for now because. what is specific about the hours and who is just on we have to understand this is the oil rich province of iran and this has been the side of major protests against the regime we have a large arab iranian ethnic community there is we have huge socioeconomic problems so we have had a lot of protests since the revolt at the turn of the year and continuing so there is a lot. frustration from large sections of the population against the regime and it is a very it's so it's the interest of the tehran to keep this place safe and

what the consequence of this attack will be it will be you know a prude to securitize this or ridge region and to make it more you know militarized even does that mean that what you're seeing might perhaps dovetail with what will not to run based on a list of seeing in the last which was this that they want to have is done this wants to try to spark a civil war if you don't. deal with economic don't turn in that immediate location would that get traction no i wouldn't argue in that way because i don't think that it's about civil war because the frustration that exists and i was is not only with the arab community there but a bit it's a larger problem that is that transcends the particular case of who is a stand where of course the socio economic and political situation is even worse and as in some other iranian provinces but one should not really try to ethnocide the problems of course just on. civil war would the civil war narrative is based

on this kind of at this is ation of the problem and saying that there is an arab population and has a standard of sympathetic or more loyal to for example saudi arabia than it is to iran but i think those are. generally iranian problems that have existed there the iranian leadership must be considering options that's a given what do they feel they can do as a reaction to this i think what will happen is as i said earlier they're going to try to further securitize the province of course a stun in order to also suppress any kinds of protests and you know it will have is behind this attack it will be easier to even militarized the province against further protests and unrests. many things. a man's been found alive in the tanzanian ferry that capsized two days ago just moments before it was shuttled to dock and he's one of only forty one people who

survived at least one hundred ninety six others drowned in the victoria on thursday tanzania's president is blaming overloading and negligence for the disaster he's ordered the police to arrest the boat owner malcolm webb has more now from the ugandan side of lake victoria. lake victoria lies across kenya tanzania and uganda all three countries have a lot of corruption poverty and poor regulation they safety doesn't waves come. regulations say that all boat passengers are meant to whales wear life jackets and we were given the right in this boat they are not in very good condition often is also not enough to go around that it's also a 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 and 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 too 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. thing without one on one long as a former maritime operations manager so west mediterranean he says better regulations need to be put in place. these challenges of transporting passengers

and where the ship is a very old story we had a story of many accidents in the wells but clearly in these kind of area where it's really hard to control how many people get on barak on board 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 sensor is too high and the ship can capsize so there is a need for we could to make sure that the captain knows exactly how many people he has been born into limit to the intimate of people and then there is another before to do in terms of risk you capacities is fifty four capsizing didn't work it's really really fast and you're risky capacities need to juju react very quickly with a lot of means because it's

a massive rescue operations where we have. both hundreds of people to rescue in a few hours on the maritime industry in the while these problems are pretty well known we have many accidents in the past and we know exactly how to prevent them and you see in europe north america there is very few accident all ferry boats very unlikely with a lot of many but factors but in this area we see clearly that there is very frequent accidents because the rate regulations are not implemented or maybe not. enough to to austin's owners and through the crew members to really check the amount of people they have on board so i guess it must be a jointed regulation from all the countries around the lake and to make sure that all the companies operating in that lake can really implement these for galatians of course you've got twenty one people for a ship designed for twenty eight seats should be fine but it and i know in this this area. or doing the crossing maybe ten times

a day so they they don't have they probably are overloaded all the time but sometimes if the captain has to turn very quickly to prevent a collision with another board boy if the weather becomes very bad very quickly the same then the conditions becomes very bad and you can push the instability of the boat through the wrong direction and then the people can move turned can can shift to the same side and and the boat capsizing in been less than two minutes so. we should have some it's not too strict because it's sort of very hard to implement them strictly but twice to the right the. capacity is clearly not not sustainable and very risky for the people. plenty more ahead here on the news hour for you including the documentary filmmaker michael moore turns his lens on donald trump and what led to his rise. and hoping to bring brazil's

treasures back from the ashes specialists are called in to help after a fire at the national museum. also ahead in the sports news and see joshua puts his heavyweight titles on the line in london paris here with a story in about thirty five minutes. now the woman who's accused donald trump supreme court pick of sexual assault has just a few more hours to decide if and how she will testify christine blasi forward says brett kavanaugh assaulted her at a party in one thousand nine hundred two and is being offered the chance to go before his confirmation hearing mr cavanaugh tonight as the allegations as a white house correspondent can really help it. after days of surprising restraint u.s. president donald trump turned on christine blazin forward 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 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 kimberly helped get al jazeera the white house live now to washington and my colleague ellen fishes so ellen if she testifies what's the makeup of the group of people to whom she'll be offering that testimony. well that's still all up for debate that professor ford has laid don't certain. conditions for testimony she doesn't want to give evidence when brett kavanaugh is in the room she would like the f.b.i. to speak to judge at the very least she would like to see the senate perhaps even subpoena him and get his testimony he is allegedly the other person that was in the room at the time of this alleged assault and she doesn't want to be interviewed

before a judge governor she wants to speak afterwards which causes problems for some republicans who say well we can't ask him about allegations you're making if we don't know what those allegations are so there's a lot still up in the air with this and how to actually go forward certainly boyer's for professor ford or seeing that the senate and the republicans in the senate are introducing artificial deadlines there is no reason for her to see on friday or saturday that yes she will testify she should be given time to consider exactly what she wants to do given the consequences of that testimony but if she does start talking in public to that panel of people i mean this is crucially important because at the moment it's fifty one versus forty nine so that's clearly pivotal. well interestingly enough mitch mcconnell who's the leader of the republicans in the senate he's the leader of the senate because the republicans

have the majority says he's got the votes so that puts a question mark over three republican senators who said they were still undecided particularly two women and senator jeff flake who has been an opponent of donald trump he spoke in a very strongly against donald trump now mitch mcconnell is saying that he's got the votes either he's lying or the three that say they're undecided are lying and so no one is entirely sure where this sits at the moment you've got to see this through the lens of the midterm elections there coming up in november ideally what the democrats would like to do is stop any supreme court nominee going forward before the elections in november because they believe that they might be able to block it they might be able to stop another conservative getting on to the bench yet the republicans are keen to push forward before the midterm elections because they're worried that the democrats might win and that might stop them getting another conservative on the bench and so this partisan divide is driving what's

happening what we're seeing in the senate and blitter today we should hear from chuck grassley who is the leader of the committee that holds the hearings and that might give us a bit more clarity on where this is going but given that we thought we'd have clarity alito on friday night don't bet on it ok donald trump i see on twitter is talking or demanding saying look you've got to give us evidence of date time location how are his critics reacting to him talking about very very serious allegations on social media. well the thing that donald trump has shown some restraint for the last few days by not talking about this but certainly by going on the offensive against the victim of sexual assault certainly gives his critics some ammunition particularly given donald trump's past when it came to admitting sexually assaulting people in the past but donald trump really doesn't

have a huge impact in this this is all going to be decided by the senate they have the consult rule here they will recommend that this person be either approved or rejected from sitting on the supreme court and then the president says seal of approval on that certainly is the old thomas pig but the power know all lies in the senate and for the moment the power all lies with professor forte thanks very much . 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 a city on the island of cebu at least twenty nine people are confirmed dead while up to forty two people are still feared buried under the mud early reports said some of those trapped had been sending text messages to their families jim and dawn is in negativity on cebu island it happened early thursday morning here in the city of naga in the province of cebu i'm just going to show you

a part of the devastation this is a spire 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 foot bridge is also partially destroyed it may seem like an old antiquated foot bridge but it is what the next communities from far flung areas over there to the mean 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 to cleared emergencies after a tropical depression caused widespread flooding at least three people died in the floodwaters and sent a lower than three others may have been swept away thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes the streets were transformed into rivers the military's been deployed to help rescue those who are still stranded mollies new reelected president will be sworn in later on saturday on the eve of the ceremony in bamako the police fired tear gas to disperse crowds demonstrating against the election results. won by a landslide in august opposition groups allege widespread vote rigging. now the opening of hong kong's first high speed rail link to the rest of china is provoking protests pro-democracy groups are angry that part of the new rail terminal in hong

kong is in forcing mainland chinese laws on its passengers sarah clarke is there. it's three years behind show 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 guangdong declaring the mega project a broad blight 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 try 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 passengers 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 signed which will include the joint immigration. points but critics argue importing nationals here in hong kong is yet another attempt by beijing to tighten its grip on the former british territory. but pro-democracy groups have led the protests they say the joint check points undermine hong kong's autonomy under the one country two systems deal adopted when the territory was handed back to china or certainly it's damaging to one country two systems and that is the wall ripping promise at the basic 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 passengers 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 knighted tear it to the public though with tickets sold out this weekend sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. pope francis is taking a step toward settling a seventy year old dispute with china he's agreed to recognise seven bishops in china who were appointed without his approval the roman catholic leader is in the lithuanian capital at the start of a four day tour of baltic countries he'll pay homage to the victims of the nazi and soviet occupations that. some are black if you are white and all five species are critically endangered today is world rhino day when the increasingly precarious lives of the heavyweights is being celebrated and attention focused on how many are being killed every day including in south africa as for me the miller reports d.n.a. technology and expert teams of rangers are succeeding in reducing some poaching

that. the remains of a female white rhino and her calf scattered across a remote part of the kruger national park a team of forensic scientists say they were shot and killed by poachers and their horns were hacked off close to eleven hundred rhino were killed last year and south africa alone to meet the high demand in asia for rhino horn the crime scene is six days old which has made it difficult for the forensics team to find evidence the carcass has deteriorated because of the hot weather and most of it's been taken apart by scavengers but they're looking for any evidence linking the crime scene to a suspect. bullets and empty casings were found but it may be too late to trace any footprints scientists investigate a killing a day on average while that statistic will shock many the totals down from close to three a day two years ago the department of environmental affairs says d.n.a.

forensic scientists are making a big difference in fighting wildlife crime and they're able to link individual poachers from one seemed to another even years later between twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen rhino experts estimate the number of rhinos poached dropped by about twenty four percent ranges monitor the park day and night using frequent patrols to check for incursions looking for tracks or any other signs of poachers often heavily armed poachers move into the park at night. resist closer to their communities that's where they get off to off the notion of an enough when you come across tracks you don't know where that is porches are on them they're carrying guns or is just one person is going to go rhino one can change hands multiple times before reaching their final destination such as shops in china despite a twenty five year ban on sales their security forces here take a few chances even

a fruit truck using the park as a shortcut to neighboring wasn't baek is searched for weapons last year four hundred and forty six poachers were arrested in or around the park and more than two hundred weapons seized a major concern is the involvement of park workers and police officers accused of poaching but option. if you take in consideration what the buy meant to get up to free shuls is enormous and for that reason we've got specific department in my unit was focusing on that to address this issue in the book. rhino horn fetches more than eight thousand dollars a kilo on the black market but investigators are hopeful that this week's arrest of a major poaching syndicate in southern africa will mean more rhino will survive for me al-jazeera at the kruger national park in implement. it's that time when we say the weather forecast is kevin that's right we've had two days of severe weather

across parts united states as well as here in south eastern canada let's go back forty eight hours this is what the storm looked like pulling a lot of moisture up from the south i'm going to put this into motion and you can see the storm pushing across the great lakes and into ontario quebec and now into the canadian maritimes but i want to take you specifically two days ago here in minneapolis is what the severe weather did we had seven tornadoes that were reported in central minnesota and this is what they did we suck a lot of devastation in terms of the rural areas the actual cities no problem but we did have a lot of a barnes and houses that were destroyed up towards auto and while this was some amateur video that came out across that area of the tornado pushing through that region four people were injured here in ottawa and it passed through fairly quickly and you can see the storm once we get to it you can't really see a definition but you can see that turning right there in the power outages going of the same time well that storm now is out here towards the canadian maritimes but

what we're left with is the bottom end of that storm is still producing quite a bit of rain down here across the united states and in the syria we're going to be seeing flooding this is been going on for several days now and if you notice down through texas louisiana alabama that is where the heavy rain is going to be through the next couple of days so flash flood watches and warnings are in that region kevin thanks very much still to come here on the news for you going to the movies again in yemen have some young people reviving the culture despite three year long war there and in the sports news two of tennessee's greatest players team up to take on the world is here with us story in about twenty minutes. what makes this moment given when even if. we haven't seen the president this unpredictable freedom of speech is. watley claims that is

a perfect formula for authoritarianism in tyranny or near the lights. and there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight out here is the two state solution now dead up front for italians on al-jazeera and monday put it well on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war.

welcome back let's just remind you about top stories so far here on the news iran is blaming gunmen backed by saudi arabia for attacking a military parade at least twenty four people were killed in the southern city of its emergency meetings a planned in the iranian parliament after the shooting at a ceremony.