training facilities and room for brand new helicopters the first blackhawk flights are expected to start next year it will take years to get the new helicopters fully in service in the meantime the afghans are making the most of what they have. jennifer glass al-jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. let's go back to the french capital now where cutters a man has just arrived on the latest leg of his first foreign tour since the gulf crisis began in june spondon to join a whole is joining us live from paris as i've mentioned first foreign trip what will the enemy to be trying to do china. elizabeth he's on his way to the u.n. general assembly in new york tonight but taking the opportunity on this first foreign trip since the crisis broke out on june the fifth to stop off into europe's key capitals of course berlin this morning where he met chancellor angela merkel in paris now for his first face to face meeting with president. the opportunity to put

forward qatar's position in this crisis to clarify its position to lobby for support to not before more pressure to be put on the parties on the other side of the dispute to come to some sort of resolution because it's become very clear now that qatar really doesn't want a political solution and the emir using language in berlin in the morning really right about this forthright as he has yet to be about his willingness to see qatar join negotiations or not makes a move with its gulf arab neighbors to try and find a resolution this is what he said in berlin. and. we talked about the readiness of qatar to sit down at the table and to discuss and solve the issue we think germany for its effort and also i think the chancellor of germany to solve the problems around the negotiating table with thank you for your support of the kuwait initiative which got to hustle. opposed to since the

beginning and will continue supporting until we get the solution the such sides of the parties. but i'm going to merkel said after that meeting while she didn't see any immediate sign or sight of a solution she spoke of the need for quiet diplomacy to run its course to allow these two sides to find compromises enabling them to quote unquote save face and she said to that end she would be supporting the mediation efforts of kuwait and the united states will hear president micron is unlikely to disagree with any of that except that he may seek to go one step further and actually join those mediation efforts there is some suggestion here in paris that he may be about to appoint an envoy towards that in france of course as hugely lucrative trade and investment ties with saudi arabia with the u.a.e. and with qatar for that reason it's not likely to take sides but for that reason it's very keen to do whatever it can to help reach some kind of resolution china thank you very much for that china how joining us live from paris thank you. to

nigeria now with more than one hundred schoolgirls who were freed from boko haram captivity have been reunited with their families the government has what it called a send forth for the girls on wednesday they're now being sent to a boarding school in your life and the country's faced address has more from the capital of the jet. the decision to move the ghost to a boarding school in the north of the country instead of going directly to chibok was influenced by certain decisions once of course is sensibilities of two parents who are yet to see or hear anything about their daughter's health bible koran and then the security situation in the north of the country over the past few months we've seen a spike in quantum attacks and will choose kidnappings and suicide bombings particularly in the state although there is substantial military presence in chibok and surrounding communities to keep those communities safe stakeholders decided to move them directly to a boarding school where they will continue and this is coming at

a time when i didn't have a to do with so many crises across the country for example in the south east of the country incidents between the security forces and a suspicion is group of members of assistance units group independence peoples of the africa have erupted over the past few days we've seen videos emerging online of engagement between the military and i bought members as well as members of the indigenous peoples of the africa attacking ethnic groups from other parts of the country in the south east this has resulted in counter action or reaction in the north of the country in north central nigeria on thursday there were clashes between locals and that you both were mostly from the south east of the country and the government had to intervene by imposing an indefinite curfew that dusk to dawn curfew and to the situation improves now finally because bulletin that's mission accomplished for nasa cassini spacecraft after spending twenty years exploring

fattened and its moons and space odyssey have come to an end in a dramatic finale the prime plunged into saturn atmosphere to applause and tears and the african charm then it smith has more. at mission control in pasadena california they watched the last seconds of radio signals from cassini project manager on episode quark. maybe it's because clint you left. your church the signal from the spacecraft is gone within the next forty five seconds so will be. oh i hope you're all as deeply proud of this amazing accomplishment congratulations to you all this is been an incredible mission an incredible spacecraft and you're all an incredible team i mean to call the spirit of mission project manager arpanet.

thank. this team has watched cassini travel seven point nine billion kilometers since its launch in one thousand nine hundred seventy three to one. it took a cd seven years to reach saturn and as it settled into war with around the ringed planet cassini launched the horgan's lander onto the surface of titan suddens biggest moon. over thirteen years the mission has sent back spectacular images from the other side of the solar system covered in snow and ice this is in solid us another of saturn's moons it has powerful ice blasting gazes on the here scientists believe there's water and so a chance to look for traces of life and on titan cassini revealed a climate similar to primordial earth it's why cassini can't land on satin it may still carry microbes from earth that could affect an alien ecosystem because the

importance of in solid us that cassini has shown us and of titan another potential world that could be habitable for life perhaps not like we know it but perhaps completely different than ours. we had to make decisions on how to dispose of the spacecraft. and that lotus inevitably to the plan of taking cassini and plunging it into saturn. cassini's final mission was twenty two dives between saturn's rings and surface then it flew into the planet's burning up misfit. bernard smith al-jazeera. and i again i'm going to have a problem and our harbor the headlines on al-jazeera and but as police are tweeting

of laughter the london underground train as a terrorist incident the explosion happened on the district line of the city southwest during the busy morning rush hour twenty two people were injured but none of in a serious condition the u.k.'s domestic intelligence agency m i fire along with transport and metropolitan police are investigating the incident for the british prime minister tourism a has conveyed an emergency cabinet meeting she says the u.k.'s terror threat level remains at severe meaning further attacks are highly likely. clearly this was that was intended to cause significant harm twenty two people have been injured and are being treated in hospital last thoughts are with all those who've been affected by this attack the emergency services were on the scene immediately and once again i would like to thank. all the bravery and the police and security services. obviously doing all the work to discover the full

circumstances of this. and one responsible. north korea has fired a ballistic missile over japan as more than a province that into the pacific ocean japan has condemned the launch south korea's president warned that north korea's actions will only result in more international pressure. russia iran and turkey have agreed on the borders of a so-called deescalation zone and syria's northern province the details were worked out of the sixth round of serious talks in the qatar capital of style are under the control of opposition groups. but there's the mayor says he wants a solution to the gulf crisis that satisfies all sides. of the aisle fanny has arrived in paris for talks with the french president it's the end needs latest stop on his first foreign trip since the gulf crisis began he wasn't berlin early on friday and visit to turkey on thursday. amnesty international has used satellite imagery to highlight what it calls an orchestrated campaign to burn a henge of religious and myanmar the rights group has detected eighty large fires

and states and the twenty fifth of august when a military crackdown began almost four hundred thousand one hundred have fled to the bearish. army and says it's targeting armed groups in the area. the stream that's coming up next thank you for watching. on counting the cost. in economics make it the most profitable company in the world. how the j. trade is influencing the prices in myanmar. one hundred days of the gulf crisis we'll look at how the qana means very. counting the cost at this time on i just. catalonia be independent from spain ok so what to say they're going ahead with a referendum on that very question about the spanish government has said it is

illegal imo it could be here in the stream. in the latest twist in a high stakes confrontation between spain central government it's possible catalonia region the government has summoned more than seven hundred cattle on man as it says a supporting an attempt to hold an independence referendum catalinas insists they have a right to hold a vote on whether they should break away from spain. if a citizen has a problem with justice and justice pursues if this person has a problem but when more than seven hundred twelve mayors are persecuted by justice that it is not the mayors who have a problem with the spanish justice system itself it is the spanish justice system that has a problem with. authorities are seizing ballot boxes of conducting searches of print shops and individuals across catalonia thought to be producing political material the spanish government has journey with lee objected to the vote. this

referendum which is intended to be imposed in a hasty shoddy and legal way will not be. there will not be an auto determination referendum because that involves depriving citizens in the whole country from their right to decide their future. as you might understand neither the government nor the courts can tolerate that any circumstances but. today we're joined by a panel of catalogs to discuss the independence movement in barcelona alfred is a city councilor with the republican left party and a former member of parliament a middle cut and weak martinez is an anti independence activists and sonia dolts is a lecturer in international politics and security at the university of bossa nova scotia have a great guest spoke out fred i want to start with you because we're getting

pictures from members of our community of an event happening right now or thursday evening this is from a.n.c. international full house for the start of the yes campaign terror going on and that's a city in the region of catalonia it's a kick off event to launch this referendum campaign you see another picture here really excited people and it comes just a few days after september eleventh the day that the region marks its national day and where an estimated hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of barcelona this is what mark says about that day when you can get one plus million people he says in the street your voice at least deserves to be heard what are those voices calling for. well there's also. you see we're calling for a democracy. one of one of the most outstanding aspects of this is a process in catalonia is that the drive for independence has now become

a drive for a democracy because when you have a spanish government which is not allowing does once it wants to ban the vote which is banning websites the spanish government which is banning rallies and political information and which tries to prosecute seven hundred twelve mayors which is seventy five percent of the mayors in our country that government seems to have turned crazy and there's a moral question behind that the moral question is do we have the right to vote about our future yes or not we think we do and that's the main issue right now it's no longer whether you're in favor of in the bend or not obviously the referendum is for those who are for and those who are against for those one of yes and those who want to vote no so the issue now is how has the government of spain turn so crazy and weak. well democracy what isn't obvious is that look this is

a community of people living to have walked into their operating. looking for you in your own force or early for peace or friendship that's the loss of a source of respect in the rules the rules of engagement those of us patient. that's the obvious and that's a lot of the what is happening all citizens believe it was the first last incensed and second class citizens. for nearly four years are better than officers democracy is therefore rules rules of equality regional so that the union doesn't want an able level i like that i'm here in my letter in receipt of this our rector of the us has a certain lady and hear. us ability on with that of guards for

all and say me i got honest artist or lady said said let me show our audience sunny i hate you let me just show our audience what i mean does it pretty much every wednesday which is have a look here on my laptop here that data says spanish government implement and reinforce the constitution article one simon five now say basically emirate is protesting and rallying for spain to stay unified so there what did you want to say go ahead to the first you should reinforce i hate that sunny go ahead. i wanted to say that i'm guessing that and read as a fellow colleague of university is aware that democracy is not just what he mentioned democracy it's also a way of ruling ourselves as societies and therefore it's not something you just it's not movable and any social construction has to adopt to new times to new

scientist things a long time and therefore even lower and legislation or legal framework and is not here and we particular society it should be moved and it should be able to be this cast and. changed and so i want what has not happened just so you give us an example of that in because i don't want this become a general conversation about democracy so you are making very pointed remarks give us the what i'm trying to say this the worst about ending for this come obviously. should i continue on friday as we secondly secondly as a wrestler be with you in a moment. there was a beginning for this conflict where the conflict was clearly political and the spanish government right then they had a momentum where they could had sought it by political means now by standing in

a movable and just saying no to everything the other side kept moving along camp moving forward and kept developing new strategies new mechanisms now you know keeps being various magic because one side is state and the other one is non-state actor but it has reached a point right now where both sides have no other solution one side which is the point of bandits movement is to keep going until it's possible because there's no more solution from the other side and from the spanish point of side ed we have a legislation and we're just going to stick to the heart and therefore we keep being in that position where the debate we move it to where we wanted to be which is about legacy and about will of low and the state of lowered his weapon when he's calling right and that's why it's like speaking on different levels and no one is being able to communicate. we want. and i'm

sorry but yes this is. to relate to sort of how closely obviously because i'm very much with thomas jefferson when. the world belongs to the living and it belongs to living citizens and they have their rights so they have to the right citizens have the right to decide about their own environment political environment obviously and when he talks about the law let me remind and first the one thing that we're struggling also for him for his right to vote no to independence we're also fighting for that for the u.s. and for the know so he's free to choose any of the two options and that's what we have to. it is it really is about freedom and it really is about democracy there's so much of the modesty in the air too much of them obviously in this country thanks to the people to watch them obviously to be

stopped guest let me say this to you yes hard time not just take a pause for a moment i wanted you to present court granted joe and he's from the european free alliance so after the regional elections in catalonia back in twenty fifteen this is what he say it's quite provocative or is it have a listen to. catalan flying past like from nevada. where else scotland. and we want catalonia to be free it's up to the catalans to decide that but we think they at least have the right to do so in spain so far has only said no no no . sonia there are some practical practicalities about catalonia breaking away from the west to say let me just show you on my laptop here here respect in right here this is the catalonia region i'm sure all of you in

a amazing city called barcelona sonja in a nutshell very briefly how did this conversation about catalonia breaking away from spain how did it gets started. well in a nutshell i would say there are many historical reasons cultural reasons for the current conflict started mainly because of an economic discussion about how central spain distributes the taxes that was the very very beginning that has widened along this ten years i would say it has now become a much more and lose if discourse and it's it's about a form of state it's a discussion about political organization and so it has reached and although not as much as many would like and i understand what in brick is saying the pity is because the debate about the cross and kong has never taken place because one side

i kept saying it will never happen it will never be able to decide and therefore the arguments that rick were just saying which are very legitimate and have not been listened in the same portion the on the pendants ones because from the non in the pendants sector. the messages they sent their potential election electors or voters are just say no and we're not giving the reasons why you should stay so the whole debate has never actually happened and people who might be in favor of the no don't really have full information and people who are in favor of it yes i have in my opinion there's still a lot more information that they would need to half before voting and this has just not been able to happen so as they go and rick i hear you trying to get in there i want to play a video comment from someone who is talking about the fact that yes october first

is coming up but what we're seeing now is something we haven't seen before from the government and how the government is reacting to this potential referendum this is a video comment from albert out of catalonia have a listen. the spanish government. trying to do. two different services before one time to block to impede that a friend by using the stone so they are for end up around them. even the ballot boxes for the new put. necessary to hold for and them but if they not. stopping it then they have. to start the city which is by using all the starters use of fear about sing about. things the frame of

prosecuting people. the they for they hope the participation. rates fifty percent of the population so in reeky cause that strategy of potentially criminalizing mayors telling people that they cannot hold this in vote as is a policy of fear have a look here at my laptop this is a tweet from a.n.c. ireland someone who is supporting this call for independent spanish police and the car to learn people and they show a cartoon their political cartoon and these are all of the people presumably who want independence and they're all being rounded up into this police car indeed what do you make of these tactics and do you think that they represent fear on the part of the government the spanish government. that's the. very very look i want to go study about freedom of speech it must be this is basic it's

a basis for the freedom of speech it's the possibility that everyone has the same borders that is the models because the law we have for the last forty years got stuck on the lack of the will of speech or how political a sure it is then the hood that we already saw and so all who are here see the civility those threats we have heartfelt abortion but it's been silent for so long because they don't get any space for the balance here so that's out of this example of you know us the civility. and the leaders and with its own self how we feel and it's our i'm different i've been playing it let me break sleaze let me go back so i guess so please let me let me go back to the truth and let me go back to reality to leave here because i'm out of this this isn't acceptable this is not so i don't know that we have to say you know you know barcelona probably many of you

it's an open city it's a pretty the it's a calendar for the us and other like somebody just a hostile environment so we're really out of that are really response to reality is it's you of any of us and we look we have a we have a day without thinking is all i'm tired very much in country so lemme see a lot of the buses of members that are out there says are and i just want to say now sonia how tight our debt how is right i guess i can recreate tension after just give me a moment i mean i need your attention for america and we have a gap between and it did lay between you and alfred can you just give me a moment i want to hear what he has to say and by all means come back to him africa . yes let's let's go back also to truth let's go back to reality who's menacing. mayors seven hundred twelve seventy five percent of the mayors in this country who's actually closing down web

sites who is chasing the press it's the spanish government and let's be let's be very realistic about this and you can hear the news all the time from al jazeera other global networks explaining what's been happening right now so that's what's happening and let me say something else because i'm biggest talking about the law now of course we are people of law we are orderly people if you visited barcelona or catalonia you will know that we are hard working prosperous people and we are free and democratic and all in all regards and we respect the laws populace at large have to change the rules and the laws by the segregation and the laws about discrimination of women they all changed so we also have to change the last year because because we think they're not fair and look when the spanish police go to close down a website the people gather around the spanish police and you know what they do

they don't and something else they don't shout they don't enter into any kind of hostile behavior they just give them flowers they chant songs and they've given flowers that's the kind of people we have so few things that maccracken emery any such a happy people that it's unclear it's unfair to paint it in any other way alfred and i'm weak and i want to play a little clip of the spanish gentleman cause rafael nadal everybody knows he's a tennis player here oh my thing is no introduction this is him on september thirteenth talking about the catalonia situation having isn't a stack. i feel like all spaniards should feel worried because there is a conflict that needs to be resold and at the moment there's allusions seems complicated or at least not friendly but things can be fixed like i have said many times i feel very close to catalonia i obviously feel spanish and as i understand

that the loan is part of spain i don't see spain without get a loan or at least i wouldn't like to see one without it we are better and stronger together than separate and i hope we can remain like that forever. so new outside of catalonia if you could take the temperature of what spanish people thinking about this to get a referendum what would you say. hi my best not to come and on things that have gone by like a few minutes ago yes you know i'll try try going forward my back i lived in madrid as you know because last time we had here at the stream i was in madrid i lived in madrid problems for years. i think. there is no. there's no hard. and sorry violating the freedom of speech and he signed

i've been. able to speak. obviously in barcelona were able to speak no sides are silent it's different media different and. portioned off court. being like on t.v. . my question outside of cats no no no i'm not i think in spain there's a pure run t. of. i think there's more people than we think that are in favor of self-determination because they say that's legit tonight but the way it's now being handled by catalonia and political and the parliament hans really really worried many people in spain and it's now being taken as a huge offense to the rule of law ok let's get some of our community and militia to have we just got this tweet just a couple minutes ago from walid and i'll give it to you alfred well he says what does catalan independence have in common with bracks that eddie so let's fast

forward let's say the referendum happens it passes there is independence on the table alfred the european union has already said that catalonia would have to reapply for each new membership is that something that you're keeping in mind for the future. worse yet today president yorker from the european union said that they would consider any result and they were obviously in respect of the result of the referendum now that's great news because we actually want to do exactly the opposite to what it meant for the united kingdom we want to remain in the european union in fact we are european we're not just going to drift away from the european continent we will stay there and we think it's in the interest of everybody especially not common market not to lose seven point five million producers consumers and net contributors to the european market so we're positive

that whatever happens and if there is an independent catalan republic this will be settled and this will be solved in a satisfactory way for everybody even for spanish people like spanish companies who want to keep trading with catalonia obviously we're in the twenty first century we're an open democratic society it's a free market whenever we want to wait and we are very positive about that i guess i have something for you let me just show you something that the guardian newspaper reports on a little while ago catalan ex-president are to mass spot from holding public office not just him but the vice president the education minister for catalonia that barred from holding public office there's so much pressure on the catalans not even being able to have a referendum what about the debate about referendum issues is that debate even able to happen and week. once you see what's going on in all of europe you see and that's it. also the same exit out of there

subsist we can see that all the way he says i'm discrimination is also not we are just example of that was just the all around the world view not the ball of peace or rather that's what we want we want to welcome voting for the one state and the more us up and get along with what everybody hears with no heart with or want nothing just want more in their nation more people there and and little when i can when i keep hearing from you and i read wonderful arguments in favor of no i'm in favor of staying with absolutely the cheating made this particular not reasons against why liberal capitalist should not get high and started making up something there anything else will step in the rules of the game

play the game. with with with a clean heart that's the other way this is not a muslim or that it's not a mistake if this be making something we need to add something about the rules of the game looking at something there are usually two you have a lot of fluid you can say if there aren't any can tell you i think you're under some lights i'm going to put in one large hoist this is via video comment this is rafael have a listen to what he told the thing. being is being half our very good political community we are our modern country our immigrant the country i can't you know these are part of the european union countries that are being international organizations. that in some ways it was not cool but now we are we really wanted a more european country in a very important pastor of the european union all these things we pulled in

with this is in its. sonia of course he is a secession opponent but again it's wonderful but i think many of us would agree that we wish we could happen listen yeah he's angry voice alfredo it's been a pleasure having you on the shelf debate will go on and on hash tag string to be continued to capital.

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