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hello from santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera a frantic search for survivors in mexico rescue workers digging through the night after an earthquake killed at least two hundred people. it is time for the entire world to join us in demanding that iran's government and its pursuit of death. and destruction of a u.s. presidents united nations address is dismissed by iran the country's foreign minister calls it a hate speech in puerto rico faces the full brunt of hurricane maria the second powerful storm in the region in just a month. or . so starting in spain we got along as president is accusing the government of suspending the region's autonomy strong words are in response to the arrest of

a junior minister and twelve others after raids in catalan government offices. these are the supporters of an independence referendum there been rallying in barcelona catalan so they will go ahead with the vote on october first despite the central government's declaring it illegal. over there in the i stopped object of the government of catalonia has been the target of a coordinated aggression by the spanish governments police force in order to stop catalans from exercising democracy freely and peacefully in october the first and to suspend the activity of the government which has a broad majority of the citizens and parliament behind it which also has the democratic legitimacy to defend the interests of the people and its self government this aggression has no legal basis. it was perpetrated by violating the rule of law and all of the constitutional guarantees and violating the charter of fundamental rights so that's what they're saying regionally here is spain's prime minister now

and defending the arrests. the government is fulfilling its obligation and i have to say that we will continue to do so until the end i think we are acting with proportionality after the things we have seen during the last few days in catalonia . here is. explain a little bit of this. because initially i mean it was all about the seven hundred mayors who had been called in and now we have ministers being arrested. and this is a story that is developing quite fossa just want to set the scene for you right now thousands of for independence supporters. took two of the main streets in downtown false a lot of them blocking traffic right now and they're standing outside the offices of the regional government budget and finance office that is because the least the

civil guard units raided these offices earlier this morning police are still inside airing out searches to try and stop the. referendum going ahead and so grassroots prime dependent supporters. to outside this building to insist that they will go ahead on. what may happen as the civil guard police try to make their way out of their. supporters could draw them coming out but as every day goes by the central government takes new measures aimed at trying to stop the first referendum going ahead. with that level of tension and that number of people is it's in your opinion all under control i just wonder with what this level of feeling how it might sort of build up as we get closer to the vote. i think to make you think first of all about how the. passing of the independent

schools you can see some of them behind that chanting we will vote. as well they are very passionate but a number of them are carrying flowers and they are saying we will remain peaceful the. because we will fight the spanish central government with smiles and democracy the cab lines believe that the spanish government is violating their constitutional right to vote in a referendum of course the spanish government sees it very differently they have already come out and said this is illegal undemocratic but of course as we see the specter of paramilitary civill how least on the streets writing offices with weapons in hand that could inflame passions because passions are high we're going to have to keep a very close on this fascinating situation isn't it campaign holds live in buffalo

for us. now to other news rescuers in mexico are searching through collapsed buildings to find any survivors of a magnitude seven point one earthquake at least two hundred seventeen people killed twenty of them children the quake's epicenter was in state one hundred twenty kilometers from mexico city duncan crawford has our report. in mexico city a desperate search to save lives this used to be a school reduced to rubble by the minute she seven point one quake bodies have been recovered but children and teachers are missing trapped inside and. it was chaos i arrived just after the quake my kids go to school in the next street and when i saw the school i panicked and iran and iran for my children rescuers worked through the night to find survivors this woman in red leaving after being asked to identify a body as well as. it's a school in the south of the city a private school where

a significant part of the building collapsed unfortunately small children from year one year two of primary school some from the secondary school have died. the tremor struck at lunchtime on choose them. causing thousands to run to safety. but terror and devastation captured in the moments afterwards. with wreckage all around the cross the capital dozens of buildings have collapsed and the full scale of the disaster is becoming clear with homes destroyed businesses badly damaged and two million mexicans left without electricity. it's the second major quake in mexico this month and experts warn of possible aftershocks for days or even weeks to come . outside the capital many other towns and cities report widespread damage. the epicenter of the quake was about one hundred twenty kilometers away employed stags. this is the moment the ground shook the.

other communities are badly hit and at least a dozen people were killed. well the fifty five total deaths reported but we want to cross check our data to see if there are more dead people sixteen of them from just last specifically. earlier in the day in mexico city some people are taking part in earthquake drills marking the anniversary of another devastating tremor which killed thousands in one thousand nine hundred five the nineteenth of september will now be a remembrance for not just one but two disasters and rescuers fear the number of families mourning the dead will rise don't control for it. let's get an update from mexico city now rodriguez is reporting for us from there talk us through what's going on behind you. how much you can.

but at this rate you were. trying to pull people from the rubble. they were. right behind the. two hundred people. right we can have to leave one part of this story if you can still hear me on potter we can't hear you unfortunately try to come back to you a little bit later on let's move on. which is made landfall on the u.s. territory of point to take over in the caribbean toppling trees ripping roofs off homes flipping cars over look at those winds a category four storm made is slammed into the island southeast coast packing winds of up to two hundred and fifty kilometers per hour maria has already lashed other

parts of the caribbean killed seven people on the island of dominica. let's go to san juan puerto rico andy gallacher there on the balcony what is it like there for you andy. well kemal we did have a slight love as the eye of this storm pastor's behind but it's now once again picking up it made landfall just before first light this morning but our entire team was woken up about four thirty is the hotel began to literally shake but let's just show you some of the pictures here in san juan if we look at this apartment building just over here we watched this morning just before first light as those windows was sucked out by the sheer power of hurricane very you could even see some of the furniture there looks like it's about to fall out as well if we pan off to the right you can see the way that roofs here of peeled back and we've had a huge sheets of corrugated metal flying across the city is this storm really begins to pound it's now taking a fairly sharp right hand turn as it goes across the entire island but

meteorologists say this could be the most powerful hurricane to hit puerto rico in history the last category four came here in one thousand nine hundred thirty two so nothing really in living memory now obviously most people here have taken to shelters but if you look down on the street you can just see the debris that's been thrown around here we heard this morning that terrifying sound of shattering glass as those windows blew out and metal was being strewn across the streets you have to really fear for the people of puerto rico at the moment there's about five hundred shelters across the island but if you get outside of the city where the buildings aren't as strong in specially into the rural areas there are now real dangers of buildings completely collapsing mudslides this is definitely an ongoing situation these winds and these storms will continue for between twelve to twenty four hours would you say levels of preparedness were good though randi given a pass through what was a week ten days ago. when we were here i was almost done in on the same.

now can he when hurricane gray's son was in the winds that weren't so strong but remember a million people lost power at that point because it's important to remember the puerto rico is in about seventy five billion dollars worth of debt the electric the electricity grid here is is very old most of the power plants are about forty four years old twice the normal industry average so you have to think that millions more will lose power now and they could lose power for months if not even longer the infrastructure here is very weak i have to say that people were taking the warnings from officials very seriously when we arrived here a couple days ago people were lining up to get petrol to get gas in their cars and to leave to get away from it but if you look at the satellite image of the moment the entire island island is engulfed by hurricane maria it is absolutely enormous so the danger is far from over and i dread to think the picture that we're going to see once this storm eventually passes just no let up is there any gallagher in san

juan puerto rico thank you let's go back to mexico city now an update on the post earthquake situation there we've reconnected with. so why don't you pick up where you were and tell us about what's going on behind you. the man we are not. here today right after the quake that used to be a. building where i found time to do harm to people who were. out of we know that people have been rescued are ready to evacuate right out but. i'm going to wrap up. the night. with. we have a parking lot from beneath you they have the night. wrapped up in blankets just

waiting to. get re-elected how quickly your how well would you sound or thora to use react to the earthquake and civil defense teams and the like. ah so it is whenever a creep to react to my life think it's safe to say that mexico is is ready to deal with. the higher really big one nine hundred eighty five and many lessons on that we've got a season economics that unfortunately didn't work too much with the eighty french i was too close to us and even didn't give us much warning please run down to say it and and get ready and look for cover but the army got on the street really fast the police local volunteer yesterday as well for the tissue i was lots of people events of people going home and then we saw the opportunity we saw lots of problems here many young people so that the journey believed to be as big

a one hundred eighty five but many people timing still has to queue for shares it brings you blank absolutely was anything that anyone might need because many people most of send a night. out in the open at the end he says his through so we had a great response from some top stories he's done from britain's like to. thank you i'm proud of rodriguez going up but for mexico city on the earthquakes there. coming up on al-jazeera the latest on the un general assembly and. i don't wish the suit would be to get a cheap shot. the film picked best picture of the year in israel but denounced by the country's culture minister we'll look at that and bring you the headline. i just want to make sure all of our audience is on the same page where they're

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have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. with al-jazeera these are the top stories this hour the president of the catalonia region of spain is accusing the government in madrid. totalitarian attitude regional government ministers among several people arrested before next month's independence referendum which has been declared illegal. in mexico i was searching for collapsed buildings to find survivors of a magnitude seven point one earthquake at least two hundred seventeen people killed

twenty of them children that was in the state about one hundred twenty kilometers from mexico city. and hurricane maria has made landfall on the u.s. territory put vaiko in the caribbean toppling trees ripping roofs off houses and flipping. packing winds of up to two hundred and fifty kilometers an hour having already lashed other parts of the caribbean factory killed seven people on the island of dominica. to the u.n. general assembly now and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. insists donald trump does not want a war with north korea remember that provocative speech to the u.n. on tuesday with the u.s. president threatened to destroy north korea if america was attacked he also called iran a rogue station accused of supporting terrorists james with more now from the united nations. donald trump is the thirteenth u.s. president to come here to address the u.n. and with the north korea crisis to tear orating he knew the world would be hanging

on his every word the message is with these two messages coming together but once he headed to the general assembly chamber he's excellent donald trump he had a very different message delivering a speech that astonished many diplomats by including an unprecedented threat to annihilate another u.n. member state the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to turn only destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime the words were just the sort of language that earlier the u.n. secretary general had warned against fiery talk can lead to fatal misunderstandings the solution must be political and this is

a time for statesmanship we must not sleepwalk our way into war president trumps foreign policy challenges a growing his critics say it's only of his own making he doesn't now just face possible confrontation with one nuclear power north korea but with the second one iran too as he continues to suggest he's likely to pull out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the iran deal was one of the worst and most one sided transactions the united states has ever entered into frankly that deal is an embarrassment to the united states and i don't think you've heard the last of it believe me that receive strong support from israel's prime minister but only tepid applause from those in the general assembly. and we're going to be talking more about the iranian speech later on iran's leader addressing the general assembly in the coming hours but i do want to look at another issue which is

dominating this general assembly will do that with james bays who's now live outside the u.n. in new york james the issue of the ranger an acute issue during the course of this general assembly. yes one of the ongoing crises over there taking place and while there's general assembly is taking place the situation in myanmar we have the speech for months on sujit that took place obviously she's not here. took place early on choose let's discuss the situation with regard to. across the border in bangladesh my guest is peter marra he's the president of the international committee of the red cross and red crescent were the most important humanitarian organizations in the world give us an update what's the latest from the myanmar and in bangor that well we are of course concerned by the humanitarian impact on so many people that the violence has had i know that here in new york at

the general assembly the debate is about to reason off the violence but we are first and foremost concerned about hundreds of thousands who have been exposed to violence threatened by violence and they have either left the country or have been displaced we need to scale our humanitarian work so does the flow of people continue where there is flow continuing it's. difficult to say whether rating is increasing or decreasing we have not sufficient time span but we are very much on the alert and first and foremost our priority is to bring assistance to the people because that's not the only ongoing crisis as we speak there is a hurricane hitting there's also been another earthquake in mexico where you have parts of the red cross red crescent family working in mexico what news do you have well what we see is that the mexican red cross of course is a very capable. national society of the red cross and directors and we are ready from the i.c.r.c.

side from the federation and the other national society says to support them in responding to the earthquake was specific demands it's too early to or have a full assessment yet a host of challenges facing world leaders we talked about some but there's also north korea there's iran are you worried that some of the situations the war situations in the middle east are beginning to get overlooked. they are not overlooked by the actors themselves because we see on the ground that warfare is going on in yemen in syria in iraq in many other places and we are worried about the deep impact on society is the difficulties also to channel humanitarian assistance towards the needy but of course in the public perception perception on the political agenda it is indeed worrisome to see that some of the deep humanitarian crisis is do not get the attention that we would like them to get here tomorrow thank you very much i know you got to go back inside for another meeting with another world leader as the meetings continue the general assembly continues

the security council also meeting speeches there by global leaders talking about peacekeeping we're also watching the various meetings that president trump is having today most of those focusing on the middle east or you've got a busy day coming up james haven't you james bays live at u.n. headquarters in new york let's return to the iran issue iran actually criticized president trump's comments in his address to the u.n. the country's foreign minister mohammad that are if tweeted this trumps ignorant hate speech belongs in medieval times not the twenty first century un unworthy of a reply fake empathy for iranians for is no one. here is south and buttercup with us again director the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at doha institute now we heard the comments yesterday we were on air when we heard donald trump talking about that we get a little bit of a preview i think from mohamed zarif of what the response will be like what are you expecting to hear from us on rouhani when he speaks. well i think he would

obviously have to refer to the speech and try and defend the iranian position it was interesting yesterday that there was probably more mention of iran than there was of korea and we were discussing yesterday i think i did say that although the threat and the language of violence was addressed to korea the real threat is being addressed to iran and the way he lived how do you differentiate. situation has been going on for about. forty fifty years ever since the korea war they have not had a confrontation ever since now with iran there's been many bad episodes and now the time is building up this threat is building there israelis and you heard what continue no had to say yesterday some of the arab states are taking a position where they're looking for allies against iran the situation in the middle east there are a lot of lot of reasons that would allow for a foreign intervention potential confrontation between iran and you know here's the thing with iran the iran nuclear deal was struck by what was known as the p five

plus one plus germany and correct me if i'm wrong but it's the united states seems to be the only one that is opposed to the iran deal and wants it to go. around in some sort of position of strength that it still has the remaining five members on its side effectively. in a way yes but the united states remains the most important member amongst the p five plus one but within the u.s. there is no like agreement across the board on the need to do away with the agreement or even to try and fix it too much so i suspect even within the state department some people are very sympathetic and then they stand the importance of that understanding preventing a conflict in the middle east and they feel that a lot of time and investment went into this and it's not to really. be very easy to do it all together so do you think do you think that the iran deal is in any danger such i think the rhetorical. you keep talking about

a deal that you're already struck and signed and sealed and delivered and. there is a chance that something will go wrong in the process keeping in mind that also iran is not consistent either in their position there or there is opposition within iran against the deal some people felt that their radios were done badly with this deal as well so there is there are no opposition the president took a risk with this deal and so on for it to move forward i think people should just accept what they've signed up to and allow it to continue their reign in so far have done reasonably well in terms of sticking to the various conditions and delivering on time on the various aspects of it so we'll wait to hear from the iranian president a little later at the general assembly thank you as always are very much. now the best movie at the annual awards in israel it's been won by a film denounced by the israeli culture minister as a horrendous line following its latest success the film foxtrot is being tipped to

win an oscar as well are a force that has a report from ashutosh. it's the biggest night of the year for the israeli film industry the off year awards but this year's show biz is being edged out by politics. film foxtrot has attracted glowing reviews abroad and at home it won the jury prize at the venice festival and is nominated for thirteen israeli officers but israel's culture minister has launched a bitter campaign against it accusing mao's of anti israel slander. create the folks. form love love to the close love to the people that live. and love the city. foxtrot examines israel's relationship to its army charting a couple's grief when told a soldier's son is dead but he is sometimes surrealist spin on life in an isolated checkpoint and crucially depicting a killing and a cover up the victims a group of palestinian civilians. in response rego is

threatening to change the rules on government film funding not invited to the awards instead she addressed foxtrot's director live on facebook at the beginning of the saying you know israel you know the israeli army and you know how morally it is look when a paradise of established in a dark middle east and you dare to present israeli soldiers killing arabs at a checkpoint and then burying them and you call this horrendous lie and metaphor for all the ire that reregulate is directing at foxtrot it's far from the only artistic endeavor that she has a problem with israel's culture minister is taking aim at targets across the cultural landscape anything that she deems to be anti israeli. among them a place staged two years ago by one of israel's highest profile palestinian theatres parallel time told the true story of a palestinian prisoner killing in israeli guard the army down theater found its funding frozen in withdrawn a decision it's challenging in the courts its chairman calls it an attack on

palestinian cultural life they just want us to be in silent. ever and any time that anyone is doing anything that this government and those people it's not for them is they close the budget they don't give you the budget that the officers palestinian talent was celebrated. as was foxtrot winning eight awards including best film automatically making it the israeli standard bearer for next year's academy awards are a force at al-jazeera israel so much more for you online you know where it is al jazeera dot com the top stories what's trending on the right hand side as well have a look at what people are reading there at any given time the top stories and video on demand al-jazeera. right now we're running through the headlines on al-jazeera the president of

catalonia is accusing spanish government leaders in madrid of a totalitarian attitude a regional government minister is among several people arrested ahead of next month's independence referendum which has been declared illegal. acts not object of the government of catalonia has been the target of a coordinated aggression by the spanish government's police force in order to stop catalans from exercising democracy freely and peacefully in october the first and to suspend the activity of the government which has a broad majority of the citizens and parliament behind it which also has the democratic legitimacy to defend the interests of the people and it's self-government this aggression has no legal basis it was perpetrated by violating the rule of law and all of the constitutional guarantees and violating the e.u. charter of fundamental rights and on the other side of things spain's prime minister defended the arrests. because what we're the most open. the government is fulfilling its obligation and i have to say that we will continue to do so until

the end i think we are acting with proportionality after the things we have seen during the last few days in catalonia where the headlines hurrican maria has made landfall on the u.s. territory of puerto rico in the caribbean toppling trees ripping roofs off houses and flipping cars over that category four slamming into the island's southeast coast packing winds of up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour in rio has already lashed other parts of the caribbean killing seven people on the island of dominica. rescuers in mexico searching through collapsed buildings to find survivors of a magnitude seven point one earthquake two hundred seventeen people killed at least twenty of them children and the quake's epicenter was in pueblo state one hundred twenty kilometers from mexico city and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley insists doesn't want war with north korea in his speech to the u.n. on tuesday the u.s. president threatened to destroy north korea if america or its allies were attacked

he also called iran a rogue state and accused of supporting terrorists iran's president hassan rouhani is expected to respond to president trump at the general assembly giving his speech in the next few hours those are your headlines here on al-jazeera the stream starts right now. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. for the first time since world war two polls in germany predict that a far right party will enter parliament. who are the alternative for doing slander a.f.d. and what impact will they have on german politics i'm damning and you're in the stream live on al-jazeera and you.