cavanagh will go forward president trump said if this really happened thirty six years ago that she would have reported it mcconnell mitch mcconnell the top republican in the senate said that cavanaugh will be the next supreme court justice so people are lining up behind him on the republican side nevertheless this is been set up as a kind of he said she said hearing it a little like the anita hill hearings when clarence thomas was up for the u.s. supreme court and she had accused him of sexual harassment but in that case there was an f.b.i. investigation looking into the facts there were other witnesses none of that will happen here this witness will speak cavanaugh will speak and then if the committee has its way it will move on to a vote but there has been a little bit of embarrassment on the republican side and that is that a spokesman for the republicans on that committee has resigned that is after it was discovered that he had been fired from a previous job for sexual harassment himself he's denied those allegations but he is that he is stepping down in order not to be

a distraction in that case and then of course we've got the midterm elections coming up the democrats hope that if they can kill the kavanaugh nomination they can gain control of this whole process if they are voted into control of congress so there's a lot at stake here foley never date john hendren in washington d.c. thank you very much for that. in tanzania a man has been found alive in an air pocket of a capsized ferry two days after it went down in lake victoria he is among only forty one survivors at least two hundred nine people were killed making it one of the country's worst ferry disaster. reports from port bad on the ground inside toria. this is what it feels like when your loved one among the parties pulled from the water. and the most here the same story a few lucky ones a bite. of the theory all the time were very fast for undercover does it work and i

was lucky that i was able to swim under the water not knowing where i was see me. as i was swimming to safety i found a number of metal bars that cut my face and back of my head. and a ferry made for one hundred people more than twice that on board was coming into dog when it capsized on thursday in the following hours forty people were rescued alive since then rescue workers have been recovering that. nearly two days after the boat hit no one imaginable one more survivor found them jimmy. trapped underneath navy divers heard a knocking and pulled him out. people here wondering how it was allowed to happen and it's not the first time ferries capsized in twenty eleven and twenty twelve between the tanzania and mainland and the islands of zanzibar hundreds died boats

are often import condition and overloaded there is a need for regular patient to make sure that the captain knows exactly how many people he had been born into limits the number of people and then there is another issue for to do in terms of rescue capacities especially for gas sizing up seconds where it's really really fast. here on the ugandan side of the lake the regulations say that the boat passengers are meant to wear life jackets even given some to ride in this boat although not in brilliant condition these are more than here but often there aren't enough to go around difficult for the authorities to enforce the rules the lakes fast down three hundred kilometers long waterways are crucial for trade and everyone here is working on a tight budget boat to kept running for decades before they retired this one stopped running after it collided with another in two thousand and five back in tanzania relatives wait for the bodies of loved ones

a whole community deeply traumatized the president ordered the boats operators to be arrested that even if they face justice he won't bring loved ones back malcolm webb al-jazeera pork barrel uganda. plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including foreign medical aid for venezuelans estes struggled with shortages last on the eve of the mahdi's presidential election police raid the opposition campaign headquarters and in sports alex ferguson returns old trafford for the first time since having emergency brain surgery details coming out. the u.k.'s main opposition parties warning it will call for a general election if the government's breck's it deal falls shot labor's leader jeremy corbyn says he will challenge prime minister to resign me on any deal made

with the european union on friday made say may said talks with the e.u. had reached an impasse and call for the block to come up with a viable counter proposal britain is due to leave the european union in march of twenty nineteen we will challenge this government. all whatever to you it brings back all our six tests on jobs on living standards all environmental protection and protection of those jobs and the ability of an incoming labor government to infest and intervene in an economy that's a pretty decent wages jobs and full employment. and if this government can't deliver then i simply say centuries of. the best way to circle this is why having a general election. in germany i'm going to merkel's government is under pressure again coalition parties are trying to resolve a dispute over a spy chief who has been accused of holding far right views the accusations came

after hans george masson questioned the authenticity of a video showing far right supporters harassing refugees and migrants in the eastern city of chestnuts in the latest development germany's interior minister says he will not bow to demands to dismiss mohsen who was actually set up to take a more senior role. russians have been on the march again in various cities to show vladimir putin how unpopular his pension reform plans are the president's proposal to raise the retirement age five five years has dented his popularity in the polls older russians fear they won't live long enough to collect pensions younger generations worry they won't get jobs if senior citizens retire later. back to venezuela and a chinese hospital ship has docked in the crisis hit country it will treat people for the next week before continuing an eleven nation tour last month the u.s. sent a similar ship to neighboring colombia venezuela is experiencing

a deepening economic crisis which has led to a shortage of food and medicine and protests against the deteriorating living conditions continue people brock's roads in the city of san kris about on friday they're angry at petrol shortages in oil rich venezuela that we're tired we've been waiting for days in line for the gas truck to arrive this is a country of gasoline and there's no gasoline wasn't how do we go to co-produce for our family we're here to stock and parked in a patrol station waiting to get fuel. peter dobson is a journalist based in venezuela he says people are waiting for reforms. what other moment there's a series of economic changes being bored into place in the country and people are generally feeling a little bit stressed because there's a lot of changes in their day to day life and that said people are very patient people are waiting to see and hoping that these economic reforms which the

government have boarded how the decided impact and are able to stabilize the economy crisis so the feeling on the ground is is a little bit frustrated a bit a lot of the lot of troponin changing the day to day way that things have done but generally there is patience and generally there is understanding that some of these are quite necessary measures to just sort out the bigger problem it's worth pointing out that the series of measures which the government aborted not just a single measure there's a whole range of measures tax measures and other issues of a boardin progressivity let's say so for example this month in september price of petrol prices are going to be increased the new wage comes into effect for public sector workers and so on when you pension prices come in so the these are measures which people are getting used to. but it's taken later time obviously to understand that and get used to them. and this is normal venezuelans a very patient people in this respect it's worth pointing out that the vast

majority of venezuelans are very very quickly against the u.s. led sanctions against a country venezuelans generally understand that these sanctions are not helping the economic crisis or tour they're not helping any solution towards the economic problems which the country is facing and therefore any escalation in these sanctions which is what we're expecting to see will we mean the situation is going to get even more difficult here thanks to the white house and their policies the campaign office of the maltese opposition candidate has been graded by police just a day before a presidential election president up don't i mean who's been in office since twenty thirteen he's seeking a second five year term but most of his rivals are either in jail or in exile alex the topless reports. it's famous as a holiday islands destination popular with newlyweds on their honeymoon but in the run up to the presidential election in the maldives on sunday there are allegations by the opposition of voter intimidation and security crackdowns we keep they are going to be having. but we take part in them believing that our support is so.

that we will be able to overcome that. despite the alleged intimidation opposition challenger ibrahim mohammed salary has been campaigning for votes. president delay i mean is aiming for a second term he declared a fifteen day state of emergency earlier this year provoking concerns the country is sliding towards authoritarianism i would like to call it an undemocratic dictatorship now the current regime president whatever he was doing of course it is like kind of authoritarian. but then what are you doing doing through you know. like he is changing the constitution amending the constitution. as well his convenience. given his boost to the economy using cheap chinese loans for large infrastructure projects such as the chinese maltese friendship bridge opened last

month after four years of construction. the apparent reliance on large chinese loans has raised concerns about china's increasing influence as the chinese vie with india for a say in the strategically situated indian ocean archipelago. topless. junaid muhammed is a journalist for the news out at the maltese independent he says there's a heavy police presence in the capital ahead of the election. at the moment the police presence is high outside and as well as right outside. the flow building i saw in the. building where the opposition candidate had his office but at the moment they have not tried to get ten and i just spoke to a lawyer from the opposition who told me that the police did not have. any kind of called for and to explain their presence and they have refused to let the.

opposition a lie about. speaking about the mood in the country right now just about three hours ago and we had the last campaign activated for the presidential polls and both. of the candidates had had in the capital and most of the supporters thousands joining but. what jubilant in both camps and that same confident the security presence around the capital has been heightened over the past two days for the election but there is no sign that in any other buildings especially associated with political activity whether it's from the ruling party or the opposition but i would like to read that around four o'clock zero or five hours ago the police actually sent out a tweet saying that they were conducting an operation to stop illegal activities in the building in the building they're talking about but they have so far refused to answer any of the questions about why what illegal activities it is why we also saw

a last minute appointment to the elections commission who can who went on to become to challenge the commission as well and this last minute appointment for example used to be a person who was highly involved in the. election campaign for the current president he was actually part of. a leader of the campaign before he became the current chief about elections commission. in the us siblings of a republican congressman running for reelection in the state of arizona have launched a t.v. ad for their preferred candidate the democrat running against their brother paul's absolutely not working for his district and he's not listening to you and he doesn't have your interests at heart my name is tim ghosts or david goes or grace goes or. goes or jennifer goes six of congressman paul goes home as nine

siblings star in the scathing ad which endorsers his democratic rival david brill casarez held the arizona seat since twenty eleven the ultra conservative politician has a history of controversial remarks and it's not the first time his brothers and sisters have spoken out against it. u.s. cable giant comcast has outbid rupert murdoch's fox in a blind auction for u.k. broadcaster sky sky's twenty three million subscribers premier league football rights an exclusive rights to the entire catalogue make it one of europe's most profitable t.v. companies comcast bid of twenty two dollars sixty cents a share value sky at around forty billion dollars. now it's a film which compares donald trump's rise to power to adolf hitler as the latest documentary from michael moore is provoking all sorts of opinions how night eleven nine is a sequel to a book by the same name of president george w.

bush came out and is on to has a story. he's one of america's most popular documentary makers and he's also one of the most polarizing and focusing his lens on everyone from george w. bush now watch this drive from my dad to the national rifle association to the u.s. health care system it was only a matter of time before michael moore set his sights on america's polarizing president donald trump. how. did this happen in his latest movie fahrenheit eleven nine the date of the two thousand and sixteen presidential election michael moore examines the reasons why trump won what seemed at first like an unlikely race to the presidency and most controversially at one point compares his rise to that of adolf hitler in germany in the one thousand thirty's richard penus a professor of film studies at columbia university he recently hosted a q. and a with more on the new movie he thinks the comparison is fair here and read

statements that are terrifying you know coming from the president or some of his underlings it's important to realize i think that fascism is one thing and like every other system it evolves so i think fascism of the one nine hundred thirty s. would not be fascism in the twenty first century will have its own characteristics the movie is wide ranging in scope using examples as diverse as the parklane school shooting to the polluted water crisis in his hometown flint michigan to get the point across a scattergun approach that he's been criticized for in his past films one of the things about michael's films that there's a certain or shocks quality you know just a guy who has a camera them. and out there whatever after a while they began to i think where at least on me in terms of a political tool there's less of that here so i think you really shows what he wanted to film very very closely and i think the sequences are are very well

constructed michael moore says he intends fahrenheit eleven nine to be a wake up call to america showing people not only how donald trump got into office but how they can take him out but with so many people having already made up their mind about this proudly liberal filmmaker some argue all he's doing is preaching to the already converted gabriel is on the al-jazeera new york. to the head on this al-jazeera news hour and going to the movies again in yemen how some young people are reviving the culture despite the war on the train of rhino poaching is how forensic work is helping ranges cut the killing in the parks of south africa and in sports it was another wild ride in qualifying action from the moto g.p. coming out.

hello again we're here across united states we did see a lot of active weather in terms of severe weather with this system right here pushing across the great lakes and into canada that's still going to cause some problems here alone the eastern seaboard then down towards texas this ribbon of moisture caused by actually a tropical depression from mexico really pumping up the moisture there causing some localized flooding in some areas now temperatures are going to be going down over the next few days so for new york sunday twenty one degrees you there then going to be seeing only about nineteen but we are picking up some drier and also sunnier weather but still quite wet down here across much of the southeast miami though a nice day for you at thirty one and over towards los angeles well sunny at about twenty six degrees as me. down here towards the caribbean we are watching a tropical depression just to the east of the islands right there picking up a little bit of the clouds on the satellite image and then as we go towards the next couple of days we do expect to see that storm start to intensify maybe toward tropical storm but probably not to

a hurricane as it makes its way towards the west clear for center domingo thirty one degrees for you there also clear for parts of kingston jamaica thirty one and have in a finally the rain is on your forecasts with a temperature of about thirty one and then very quickly we are seeing some very hot conditions across a sense in thirty seven degrees for you there in rio at twenty nine. when i think of my nature i think of potential when i think of potential i think or what but it's not i think of young people literally take control and i'm going to something that they come to. tell me is impossible i think the challenge. the reason the challenge the one hundred alex. and this is my jam. my nigeria on al-jazeera. when people need to be

hanged. that is being the refugio muscle in his life it's not an only child and the story needs to be told we do stories that have impact on the society i testify in the court of law to make sure that the bad guys are both behind that al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new documentaries and live news on and on the. you're watching the news hour here on al-jazeera with me fully back to bore a reminder of our top stories now iran has summoned envoys of the u.k. netherlands and denmark accusing these countries of harboring opposition groups

this comes hours after gunmen attacked a military parade in a killing twenty five people the rein in military says the attackers were trained by two gulf countries with ties to the u.s. and israel. the woman who is accusing u.s. president tom supreme court nominee of sexual assault has confirmed she will testify before a senate committee next week christine basie ford says brett kavanaugh assaulted her at a party in one nine hundred eighty two he denies the allegations and rescue was in tanzania have found a survivor inside a ferry which capsized two days ago the man was trapped in an app pocket making him one of only forty one people who survived at least two hundred nine others drowned when the ferry tipped over in lake victoria. in the philippines rescue as a searching for survivors after the second major landslide in a week in the solve it happened when a mountain collapsed on several homes killing at least twenty nine people i mean and into gun reports on the island of several. for decades miners of

querida first stone here last week the mountain finally gave. one soon rains triggered a landslide burying at least thirty homes the devastation is so widespread half the community have been displaced local government leaders admit they're overwhelmed but are doing their best. on the stand it's more on the collaboration and it's overwhelming that's why the support from the. in the region and of course the national team. many rescuers come from different parts of the country including carl lewis who admits the work required is overwhelming but it's. our brothers and sisters who were affected this that slade station is so big i think this one only last for a week will last for

a month. local officials here tell us about fourteen homes were buried here and over the past two days rescue and achieve operations have been intense but at this point they had to stop because incessant rains us made the grounds here difficult they are in fact inspecting it they have to think about the safety of rescuers as well. president rodrigo detective visited the town and ordered a nationwide halt to quarrying operations for fifteen days critics say cracks in the querrey were a warning sign but safety monitors may have underestimated the danger. rescuers retain hopes of finding survivors days after the disaster these small flags show rescuers where homes are buried a faint sign of hope for people here that what was once their village won't end up becoming

a permanent graveyard. duggan al-jazeera naga city several province sensual philippines. more than one hundred fifty thousand people in canada's capital are still without power after a powerful tornado ripped through ottawa on friday the city's mayor says it was left resembling hold a war scene and that it could be days before electricity is fully restored meteorologist reported winds of up to one hundred ninety kilometers per hour the tornado touched down twice in an hour before moving on to the neighboring province of quebec. to sri lanka now where the former president has accused the government of mismanaging the country's finances the rupee has plummeted against the dollar in recent months and inflation is at an all time high now fernandez has our report from colombo there with joe ward in open the big three in colombo six months ago bringing his savings and experience from working abroad he had big plans but his

wife says an unstable economy increasing costs and a sliding rupee have made things very difficult we can't increase our prices each time gas prices increased off live in grief because our customers nor the office certain items that so each time we come increasing so as a result we absorb the cost the price increases have been many. fuel sugar even bus commuters forced to fork out higher fares for the second time in four months. the way i got to doing at that moment it may be a small increase in the fear but when you take the total cost it's a big amount for the money. to make matters worse for the struggling economy the sri lankan rupee has lost almost nine percent of its value against the dollar so far this year and worse is expected. the devaluation has a former president demanding to take over all party don't start with and be

comfortable for god's word i'm not hearing anything that's radio i mean if you want people to discuss. that we want to accept. the first thing is. that we operate in korean. government ministers are dismissing rajapakse as complaints and say he's former administration because the problems this from this year. eighty three percent of the work from without a problem and of course we would have to we have to pay the lawns in order to said previously. but while doing the while doing all this while grappling with my own good of the. we have also managed to bring me who.

while the government and opposition create accusations about who is to blame for the economic problems many sri lankans us struggling to make ends meet among them the war the nurses who are determined to stay afloat and make a go of their business despite the odds when a philanderer is al-jazeera colomba. in somalia the u.s. has killed at least eighteen fighters in and strike about fifty kilometers outside of the southern city of his smile his followers an attack on american and local forces on the ground u.s. involvement in somalia has grown under the presidency of donald trump with at least twenty s. strikes carried out this year now 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 sas 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 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 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 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 recaptured 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 may emerge from this conflict a war that some people feel has no end unlike the movie. simmons al-jazeera djibouti a saturday marks world rhino day highlighting how all five species of the heavyweight of the wild are critically endangered and attention is focused now on how many are being killed every day including in south africa as reports d.n.a. technology expert teams of rangers are succeeding in reducing some poaching in south africa 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 caucus has deteriorated because of the hot weather and most of it's been taken out by scavengers but they're looking for any evidence linking the crime scene to a suspect bullets an 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 coaches

often heavily armed poachers move into the park at night. resist closer to the communities that's where they get off to off and of and 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 right no 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 big has 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 that option to my general 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 who's focusing on that to address this issue in the book rhino one 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 the media miller al-jazeera at the kruger national park in employment. pope francis is taking a step towards settling a seventy year old disappeared with china has agreed to recognise seven bishops in china who were appointed without his approval the announcement was made as the roman catholic leader arrived in lithuania.