rafiq mandate from the referendum two years ago in the press conference though she red faced a range of questions that were almost entirely devoted to what would happen if it didn't pass would she resigned with the government full with wood would they return to brussels and try to renegotiate and she wouldn't be drawn she simply said look i'm focused on winning the reserve the reality is that even her foreign secretary today has suggested the government could fall if the vote doesn't pass opposition in parliament is such that it right now looks extremely unlikely that it would pass there after the scenarios range from anything from a new election to a new referendum the possibility of course exists still that breaks it itself could yet be called all. china many thanks indeed. overcrowding and bad weather being blamed for the latest but disaster on lake victoria thirty bodies have been recovered so far in uganda and it's thought more than one hundred people were on the pleasure boat those are bari has the latest

they were having a party on the boat now their relatives are in mourning. close to one hundred people were on the boat when it capsized overloading in bad weather in the exact area is being blamed. people were shouting the music was so loud and we thought that they were just having fun when the ferry capsized that's when we realized they want to help some of the fishermen who went to save them or cite died because many people jumped into this small parts. oh this woman's nephew was one of those fisherman who drowned while trying to save others why why did you go to the lake i wish you never went there a nearby resort has been turned into a morgue as police continue to collect bodies there was a boat which was climbing aboard of the shows the speech from one of the islands it capsized it. just a bit of a tart over ninety people. started the bodies were retrieved the glastonbury.

eleven with female. poor men. both for the six by the lake victoria has seen many similar disasters just two months ago hundreds drowned when a ferry sank on the tanzanian side of the largest of africa's great lakes the number of fatalities is often high because many can't swim and vessels don't have enough life jackets as a search and rescue becomes just a search operation familiar questions are being asked about how to prevent a repeat of this latest lake disaster door such a pari al-jazeera. i'm a tory as najera producer and joins us now on the line from kampala in uganda and just so you've been to the lake to the scene of mir the accident was the latest on the search effort. you have the lead and what you know is

such you feel going on for the body that is what is being conducted by uganda police together with the ugandan military divers who have been going down where the boat is to try and get the country to have more bodies and so far what we can say is that the winds of the increase and that you are in this arch for the boat to be aware because he says little bit about who is on board because there are some pretty well known celebrities who are in there including a prince. it was a party boat. started sailing from cape beach i believe due to. beach. as well as you know that there were two musicians will board and also the other two princes who are on board and all will be leaving and they are very well with their relatives and so far we can see that. other members are going to the mall to try and identify their families and the police have also been able to identify some of the dead bodies using the identity card or phone with the board so

far i talked with this is quite a frequent occurrence in the lake victoria are often hearing of capsizing was all the safety measures on board these vessels. the mention of reach up when i did you know. just to make sure that all the. money to make sure that everybody get you onto the board. given the life jacket. visit the board was overloaded. with was going to have fun and only if you were given. the jacket and over the bodies of the look for many some of them. did not put on the jacket the numbers are going up ok for the moment many thanks for bringing us the very latest there from lake victoria in uganda. plenty more still ahead here on the news including more than three hundred thousand

children are malnourished with health collapsed after three years of war. and discuss the fate of thousands of asylum seekers. even further ahead at the top of the. details coming up. russian warplanes have launched air strikes on rebel held areas in northern syria has come just hours after syria and russia accused opposition fighters of carrying out a toxic gas attack on the government controlled city of aleppo there are no international observers organizations in aleppo to verify the attack but syrian state television is reporting one hundred seven people being treated for suffocation in a suspected chlorine strike rebel groups have denied the attacks saying they do not

have access access to any sort of chemical weapons this all comes ahead of a new round of syrian peace talks in santa on wednesday. united nations special envoy for yemen is due in saudi arabia on monday for talks with yemeni government leaders in exile griffith's trip to riyadh follows a meeting with hooty rebel leaders in yemen is trying to get all sides to attend talks in sweden early next month millions of yemenis are facing famine after three and a hall is of war where the u.n. says almost eighty percent of yemen's population are in dire need of humanitarian aid three hundred thousand children are malnourished health service is a crumbling and many children don't get to school social workers are fighting leos to ease the children suffering. reports from neighboring djibouti. it's a rare moment for these yemeni children at an amusement park in the capital sanaa they play and just have fun. but because of the war our hopes and ambitions were

destroyed but today we're laughing playing and we've enjoyed ourselves and did everything we wanted to do they have witnessed the brutality of the conflict in their country for stand many are traumatized social workers organize the play day to give them some reprieve from the war. this event is to provide some help in light of the bad situation our country is going through and our most sponsored this event as a way to give some psychological support to the children of yemen this isn't the first such event we organized about a month ago we also organized a similar event and we're planning more in the future they'll put in it is for this generation have been changed for. extreme hunger and preventable diseases are killing many children every day save the children estimates the daily averages one hundred children dying from starvation approximately thirty six thousand just this

year alone. that is a conservative estimate based on u.n. doubt on severe acute malnutrition affecting more than one point three million children on top of all brought millions of children have no access to school or proper medical aid workers say it's not the most of material possessions lot of folks the children most loved ones will suddenly gone yet many children's hopes for a normal life are dependent on a quick and lasting solution to the conflict mohammad on the wall just djibouti shine because president says he will never reinstate his sacked prime minister under any circumstances that has reignited the power struggle in the country now front as has war from colombo. now at his residence just down the road at that meeting he justified his actions he said that as far back as february this year he had had to step down saying he asked several people to take on the premiership but

that didn't happen. we did ask him. his way forward now he said that he doesn't see a we in the future with romney we can missing. you and the legal right to choose the prime minister by showing the majority i have told him very clearly not to bring run a week with missing it to me i will never appoint him the president insisted that he is a democratic leader who would listen to the majority of those in parliament and i asked the president about criticism that he was violating his election pledges to stamp out corruption to bring those offenders to book by the appointment of mine that rajapaksa who has allegations as well as members of his cabinet now the president said in politics there are a very few people who don't have such allegations and in a situation where no party has a majority in parliament invariably there are such people who get drawn into the mix so it remains to be seen what happens in the coming days intra lanka of course

on the twenty ninth next week is a crucial vote in parliament where motion to cut spending to the prime minister's office is taken and it will be interesting to see the results of that. china has welcomed the overall defeat of taiwan's worming pro independence democratic progressive party in south days local elections that led to the resignation of president when as chairwoman of the d.p.p. aging says a result so people want peaceful relations with china asian brown reports from taipei. a busy farmer's market in taipei the day after voters delivered their verdict on the ruling party and its leader the mood festive relaxed the results being welcomed by china's leaders who say it shows taiwanese people want peaceful relations with the mainland and some here certainly hope that's now possible. the results show that present high isn't doing

a good job she needs to make more effort to ease tensions with china. and the future political reasons we cannot export our product to china if the markets open up after the elections at a big good for us. the election was a remarkable turnaround for the opposition k m t the party china's leaders tend to favor it now has the political control of three quarters of taiwan cities president xining when accepted the blame for the ruling party's poll showing and resigned as party leader. zion when remains president but her power and influence within the ruling party has been weakened and the inevitable questions are being raised about whether she can be the party's candidate to run in the twenty twenty presidential elections analysts say president xi jinping believes china's strategy of isolating taiwan has worked and is unlikely to stop so they will believe that. for

the next election in years and plenty there is just a double down in the continue their effort and it had this in tatic it wasn't just relations with china concerning voters others were pension reform unemployment taiwanese identity and same sex marriage just seventeen months ago gay rights activists were celebrating after taiwan's highest court ruled in their favor but in a referendum alongside saturday's election voters overwhelmingly backed conservative pro-family groups victorious wa has been waiting five years to marry her partner she worries the government will now be under pressure to water down the promised legislation and this is not favorable climate for l.t.v. people living in our society so bad but technically speaking this

would end the legal rights of gay people to get married victoria has to stay upbeat but given the setback for progressive politics here she feels uncertain adrian brown al-jazeera taipei. mexico says says talks are ongoing over a deal to manage asylum seekers gathered at the southern u.s. border thousands of central americans who tracked through mexico hoping to cross into the u.s. but present donald trump wants them to stay in tijuana whilst asylum claims are heard in u.s. courts as well as a tweet from trump that a deal had been reached mexico says no formal agreement has been signed to shelter the migrants elevation joins us live now from washington d.c. so i want us to be a bit of confusion as to whether or not there is a deal. well donald trump says the deal and then the incoming interior

minister told the washington post that there was a deal when that report was then reported in moscow the incoming interior minister said no no there is no deal there's a couple of reasons for that first of all the new administration the lopez obrador presidency doesn't begin until december the first and so anyone attached to that campaign as it was that administration as it will be can't be doing deals until december the first the second thing is there's been political pushback in mexico because many people don't believe that the mexican government should be helping the united states out here what the suggestion is that rather than be allowed into the united states the asylum applications then processed by the courts there but be freed while that works its way through the system that there was a seeking asylum would be held in mexico this is called the remain in mexico plan and the courts there would

a judge on their claims for asylum certainly that would be a big win for donald trump something that he would be very keen on and certainly would be presented as a big win to his base because he has been against the idea of asylum seekers showing up at the american border saying please can we stay being brought into the country and then he suggests that as they're hearing makes its way through the system they just disappear into the wind and they're never phoned again which is why there are so many illegal immigrants in his eyes in the united states so if he could get them to have their cases held in mexico this would be considered a big win but there's a couple of problems with that as well one makes can say it isn't a deal at the moment and two even if he did decide to do that there would be those who would challenge that in the courts and we've already seen from a district court judge in san francisco who says that donald trump can't make up immigration policy on the this is something that has got to go through congress

absolutely because they're just explain to us the the extent of trump stance being a departure from the u.s. there's no standing rules on asylum. well course he said that only legal asylum seekers will be allowed into the country well if you show up at the border and say i would like asylum you're immediately a legal asylum seaman and his suggestion is look if they're so desperate to get away from trouble in central america when they arrive in mexico why don't they stay there why don't they say we want asylum here so it is a bit of a departure front as well but he's also talked about closing the border completely that would be a real surprise if he closed everything stretching from the east across to the west and saying no one is getting across the border that's considered an extreme option but it's something that donald trump said in a series of tweets over the weekend that he would be considering if he can't get this remain in mexico deal in place ok allan many thanks for keeping us up to date

with the latest developments. now the only hospital and account for thousands of molly ends who sought refuge in mauritania is set to close in a few weeks time doctors without borders is pulling out as planned after six years but without a confirmed replacement refugees fear they'll lose vital services that are keeping people safe ryan a hundred ports. a simple building providing the most basic of health care it's part of the operation run by doctors without borders all remain safe and the embedded camp home to fifty seven thousand refugees that includes the only hospital but that will close down in a few weeks in may see if it's pulling out saying it's time to hand the job to another. criticism we have been in them barrack him for six years and now that we've met the urgent needs of the people the situation is stabilizing we've always

said we'd leave in september twentieth we extended that to the end of this year to give the people time to find an alternative. but finding an alternative has not been easy difficulty securing funds were reportedly affected and the amiss if decision to leave and other international humanitarian groups are facing the same funding challenges the million refugees are worried the camp will be left with nothing. refugees have a real problem and absence of medical treatment will be a disaster the camp is on sand dunes and we need ambulances to transport patients we hope to myself wouldn't leave us the good molly and sought refuge in neighboring mauritania and conflict engulfed northern mali in two thousand and twelve to our rig rebels declared independence in the north that year a month after the president was pushed out in a coup but within three months they had lost that ground to answer to ding

a group with links to al qaida. france dipped into back mali and forces a year later and peace deals with the two are regular followed but despite a continued french military and un peacekeeping presence i saw in the greater sahara and al qaeda linked fighters still operate that's a problem for mali and refugees who want to go home pretty much everyone here feels it's still not safe more pressure than on the un refugee agency responsible for the kir we are hoping that much in.