iraq's kurds voting right now at an independence referendum despite fierce opposition from neighbors iraq turkey and iran. hello i'm adrian finnigan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a fourth time for a week and angola merkel in germany as far right nationalists make it to parliament

for the first time since the nazi era. donald trump adds north korea chad and venezuela to the list of countries whose nationals face a u.s. travel ban plus. they don't exist five or six of these explain. the working dust will examine the sick state of venezuela's oldest pediatric hospital. iraqi kurds are voting right now at a controversial referendum on the region's independence the president of iraq's kurdish regional government masoud barzani cost his ballots in the last couple of hours around five million kurds are eligible to vote the referendum is normally binding but it could trigger a process of separation in a country already divided along sectarian and ethnic lines well that's taking place in. provinces of the hawk. and. areas that are officially under the

control of the kurdish regional government disputed areas outside it's of ministration claimed by both the kurdish government and baghdad also voting that includes the multi ethnic and oil rich province of kirkuk this is for the anger of the iraqi government which along with iran turkey and syria oppose the votes they fear an independent kurdish state in iraq could fuel further separatism among their own kurdish populations here in. the u.s. is also against the vote calling it provocative and destabilizing the u.n. has issued a similar warning and is refusing to monitor the vote let's take you live now to what. this vote is nonbinding how enthusiastically then people voting how controversial is this.

terms that come up over and over again in. one. of the. other. packed with families. young children. with their. parents even those children. remember how important was. the question. whether they want. out. side of the kurdish region to become an independent state this is

actually the ballots here actually here you have the question here you have yes or no and everything is written in four different languages kurdish arabic assyrian for the christian and turkish this is obviously because in many of the so-called disputed territories you have a lot of minorities living there in total more than five million potential voters a little more than three million of those are kurds the rest are people from various living in the disputed territories of the challenge there being that many of them are scattered around about three to four hundred thousand living in camps and they will be also allowed to cast their ballots now when you speak to people here and they know that this is a very difficult process this nonbinding referendum is just a first step and

a tiny one towards independence that they all say they dream of they do listen to the threats coming from baghdad and from neighboring countries they are very disappointed in the position of the united states many saying we don't understand we have been one of the best allies of washington we have helped in the war against we have paid with our blood we expected washington actually to support us publicly for today putting that aside and also putting aside the internal bickering between the different kurdish political factions people saying they want to enjoy today they know that tomorrow. kurdish region will be the same as of yesterday nothing would have changed but they will go back to that they say from tomorrow all right hala many thanks data. bill let's hear now from al-jazeera is andrew symonds who's across the border in turkey he has more on turkey's reaction

to the vote. straight after iraqi kurds started voting the turkish foreign ministry issued a statement saying that all measures under international law would be followed if the result generates threats to national security now that result will be regarded as null and void the statement said the question is what is the trigger point for any action being taken which could be military could be economic diplomatic certainly and also political and there was a separate issue from the foreign ministry and that was travel by turkish citizens asking all turkish citizens to leave the iraqi kurd region and they're saying that anybody who's obliged to stay must do so but the advice is to leave certainly there is coordination between turkey iraq and iran over what action might be taken the turkish president has been in touch with the iranian president by phone there's

been a lot of discussions and we will see possibly within the coming hours what form of action these neighbors intend to take. german chancellor angela merkel has won a fourth term in office so election victory for angle of merkel in the christian democratic union no surprise there but she will need to start talks to form a coalition government the social democrats the second most popular among voters and the f d the far right party made large gains to win seats in parliament that's the first time that a far right nationalist party has done that since the nazi era let's take you live now to berlin lawrence lee is there so as expected lawrence it was angle of merkel's night there was that that big game big gains for the the f.t. there who've won seats in parliament the our u.s. business of coalition building begins now what are people there saying. well

it's the reflection of those two stories. clearly. the story about the merkel has won for the fourth time she is the most powerful politician in europe and the most powerful female politician in the world and she has enormous job and a hands holding the liberal up against people like donald trump on and these on all sorts of global issues yes she has to form a coalition as well and clearly the other part of the story is the emergence of the you have been completely predicted every single opinion poll and so it's not exactly a shock but it is a fact now all the same and you can see it reflected very much in the paper this is built germany's best tabloids in the merkel she lost but she won a big shift to the right says the headline but it's. historically bad for the c.d.u. party. big big the first time the f.d.a.

even the bundestag the german parliament has historically bad so says but in its sights and as well but again the other part of this is i'm saying frank for the argument is a much more sober middle of the road newspaper the union the c.d.u. it says the clear winner despite some losses and so they're basically taking the opposition view which is well look like a she took a million refugees it was a massive gamble in probably any other european country would have cost her a job but she still won and then they're kind of swallowed the fact that the. has now become. a place in the bundestag here because of that and you know opinion on the streets this morning has been very much that well yes ok most people don't like it but actually it might end up being the high water mark and a lot of people think with merkel able to form a coalition they will find a way to negate the power of the inside the parliaments you take about you talk about the possibly being the the f.t.'s high watermark of the f.t. it's been giving a press conference within the last hour or so it's hardly listening to it hardly

the most united of parties. you know and what you think i think you're seeing already reminds me actually of the shambles of the u.k. independence party in the u.k. the guard of millions of votes but then this is the really disorganized last night they were saying well we're basically the opposition now because we're the only alternative to the mainstream this morning here in berlin they gave a different news conference conference in which for the petrie there was that charismatic female leader who led the master to this place basically said you have become. that's the word she used and i'm not taking any part in your parliamentary block and she walked out i listen to this. looking ahead to me want to be sure when able to govern quickly do you will be good in opposition but it's not a good time to govern which is why i want to be active here i want to produce real politics in a conservative sense and i've decided that i will not be part of the plan to start

this was my decision. so unless the f.d.a. actually get it together they are going to act in an effective sort of way as all even if they have eighty more seats in parliament i think what you can see is their vote being very much a protest against immigration against low paid jobs on the outskirts of big cities in the in the industrial rust belt and if and what angle americal and new coalition has to do is to address that if they're going to get rid of the power balance many thanks lawrence lee there live in berlin monday marks one month since the crisis began in may and mass rakhine state a military crackdown has forced nearly four hundred thirty thousand people to flee to neighboring bangladesh and a whole looks back at the emergence of a humanitarian disaster. it began on the twenty fifth of august. the reprisals in myanmar that followed attacks by richenda rebels

sent thousands fleeing for bangladesh. then tens of thousands then hundreds of thousands they arrived with little more than the clothes on their backs in a place that had not much more to offer some suffered terrible injuries as they ran the gauntlet of gunfire and landmines to cross the border others fled torture sexual violence and random killings by the army and their raco neighbors as their villages were set alight but they were safe at least in bangladesh the men mark government of nobel peace prize winner and song suchi continues to deny what the u.n. calls ethnic cleansing by its forces but there is no denying the destruction of the hinge of villages in northern rock and state that have been their homes for generations these are their homes now makeshift shelters on hillsides muddied by

the monsoon rains nature too has been unkind to the injured. a shortage of basic sanitation means the ever present risk of disease and aid efforts are only starting to meet their needs. the mixture of needs that are staggering together with the trauma that they carry from having witnessed incredible violence that mixture shock me profound that maybe this is the first that the un's refugee chief warns this crisis may be long yes we need to be ready for. it's a problem that could last for some time but we also need as the prime minister of bangladesh has said many times we need to invest in a solution to this problem we cannot simply ignore the fact that these people have

a right to return. but me and doesn't recognise their right to be there nor does bangladesh want the real hindu to stay a people made stateless semed helpless by the arbitrary borderlines of colonial history jona home al-jazeera bangladesh. dozens of missing hindu villages a feared dead in myanmar after twenty eight bodies were discovered in two mass graves the man military says that it's evidence of a massacre by range of faces in rakhine state hindus say they've also been victims of ethnic violence since the military crackdown against rangers began a month ago scott hyla has more for us in yangon myanmar government confirming that its forces in rakhine state found twenty eight bodies of hindu villagers on sunday they found them into mass graves in rakhine state now hindus are a small minority in were kind statement kind of caught in the middle of this violence it's been going on the last several weeks now we know that dozens of

hindus have been reported missing from refugees who have crossed over into bangladesh but there is a difference sides of opinions of exactly who carried out these attacks these supposed it attacks some of the refugees have said it was carried out by myanmar government forces some have said they were carried out by the hanging of fighters we do know that the government forces here unearthed these graves near a hindu village they say that they're going to continue looking that there possibly more graves out there but right now they're not definitive as to who carried out these attacks obviously there's going to be investigation going on and the government officials say they're going to continue that and look for more graves in the area of these hindu villages were kind stay. we'll get a weather update thanks to an al-jazeera then a dog found alive in mexico city gives hope of finding more survivors six days after the seven point one magnitude earthquake that plus i've never said anything about right this is nothing to do with race anything else to do with respect for

our country and respect for our market a political rally is pitted donald trump against america's most popular sport. from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. how i was still got some very lively storms just around the southeast a few big area cloud he can see just pushing across the balkans. easing over towards spoke area remain some live a little quieter up towards the northeast big area of high pressure his eye things on the settle side but not quite to settle across western parts of the band of tad moving in across the british stretching down across parts of france and heavy rain here funded through madrid at twenty eight celsius but you can see further north just seventeen or eighteen there for london and paris central pass similar values

all the temperatures still go some right there she can see just around the pushing down towards greece to the east of that well we're getting up to around twenty six or twenty seven celsius over the next couple of days maybe twenty five there for ankara as we go on through tuesday the west the weather does return to the northwest of turkey further north kwacha off in moscow thirteen degrees the top temperature may well we'll see things warming up brightening up early morning mist and folks to the problem for the northwest brightening up to temp just getting up to around seventeen or eighteen celsius be modest fine and dry across northern parts of africa little bit a fair weather cloud in cairo thirty three. the weather sponsored by cateye place. in the house china era when news coverage consists of a punchy headline a five second sound bite and an easy solution. dellums deep a thumb says challenge the status quo expose double standards and debate the

contradictions join me maddi our son for a new season of the show the frank blunt and up front. at this time i'll just hear it. i'll get the top stories here on al-jazeera iraqi kurds are voting right about a controversial referendum on the region's independence the president of iraq's kurdish regional government super sunday is among those who have already cost the ballots. angola merkel has won a fourth term in office in germany but now faces tough coalition talks

a populist surge weakened the chanceless posse the c.d.u. as well as the opposition social democrats the nationalist a.f.d. was third the first time the hard right party has made it into the german parliament since the nazi era. dozens of missing hindu villages and feared dead and then up to twenty eight bodies were discovered in a mass grave in the us military says that it's evidence of a massacre by injured groups in rakhine state hindus say they've been the victims of ethnic violence since the military crackdown against the hinge of began a month ago. venezuela offered humanitarian aid to cuba in the aftermath of hurricane but the country is facing is a crisis of its own more than sixty percent of its citizens have. that's because venezuela is short of food and medicine and has crippling inflation a latin america editor lucien human reports. because the money is venezuela's oldest pediatric hospital the only facility which children can receive kidney

dialysis in this ward. it's where judas and only son some well died not from his kidney disease but from the dialysis machine it was contaminated with a deadly bacteria that so far has killed five children things. we feel tremendous pain seeing a child fight since birth to live just to die because the hospital didn't have the end a buyout ics and because no one would take measures to fix the contamination problem that was public knowledge. former hospital director dr o'neill this nina discreetly invites us to see what's become of a facility that was venezuela's pride and joy. today only two of the eight lifts work there the same two that go up with patients and come down with dead bodies the go up with food and go down with rubbish not a single norm of hygiene is met in this hospital. car doors are full of beds piled

on top of each other crucial medical equipment lies idle the officers have five or six of these extremist. none of them are working it was just. the mother of a boy diagnosed with lupus spends the night in this chair she says the hospital is unable to run the tests her son needs but you know my. child and infant mortality have increased thirty percent in one year they're dying from illnesses that are preventable with vaccines and antibiotics and we have neither. and in the absence of both diseases like diptheria tuberculosis malaria and yellow fever are soaring this in an oil rich country where not only lifesaving medicine but also soap to keep the hospital clean are victims of an economic crisis that's taking more lives by the day. you see in human got access your children are among the most

vulnerable people in venezuela in the next part of the economic crisis gripping the country lucy of human meats aid agencies trying to feed the hungry you can see that later on monday here on out of syria that's a week to go until residents of catalonia seek to hold a band vote on whether to separate from spain catalans a defiantly posting yes signs across barcelona and other cities in the region as john hendren reports from barcelona. catalans are building a growing movement and perhaps a nation the government of spain has branded these pro independence signs the crown making these children women. as a bit of a pain in the bucket on the advent of anybody differen. we want. our freedom yes. spanish police have banned the october first referendum on independence and confiscated the regional governments ten million ballots so

catalans printed these in spanish and in their own language we don't have spain we actually love their culture and all but i know we are free people and we. live in the midlands catalans handed them out and posted pro independence signs as the region's most those police who refused to take their direction from spain look on here all the wold not want to be free their cars are strewn with flowers by thankful locals some draped in what they hope to become their national standard because spain has outlawed the referendum there's been no real campaign here this spanish government office is as close as you get to a no campaign headquarters and cattle on officials who have urged people to vote yes have found themselves in jail and face charges as serious as sedition which carries a fifteen year prison term all for urging voters to cast a homemade ballot we have to vote but it was not bus about the you thought of the

people about the shows so i don't know why though god i got in a boat yes or no. at the ports it's the spanish flag it's unfurled by proud nationalists do we have we can't allow them to say that catalonia is not spain as a castle and all my life i feel very spanish and i will always on my homeland which is spain here more than three thousand spanish national police and civil defense forces are housed in cruise ships and ordered to stop the referendum whether catalans vote to build a new nation or whether the movement they've built falls apart will be decided on october first john hendren al jazeera barcelona. three new countries including north korea have been added to an updated travel ban signed by u.s. president donald trump it extends restrictions on people from eight countries replacing the original ban on citizens from six most the majority nations the new

order applies to north korea chad that is whaler iran libya somalia syria and yemen sudan though has been dropped from the original list it's expected to take effect from october eighteenth a lawyer for president trump's son in law jared has revealed that the white house aide used his personal e-mail account dozens of times to communicate with colleagues in the administration between january and august krishna either received or responded to around one hundred e-mails from white house officials using his private account you'll remember that during the presidential campaign trump repeatedly attacked hillary clinton for her use of a personal e-mail server while she was secretary of state. the n.f.l. became a symbol of both political division and unity in the u.s. on sunday two days after donald trump called for the firing of players who neil during the national anthem but i was participating in the protest group as leasehold reports. the n.f.l.

play is taking a stand some by taking a name by sitting while the national anthem played or by raising a fist. it was a scene repeated at fourteen games right across the united states and london was to know what. they were responding to comments made by president trump on friday night attacking players who had knelt over the past you to protest racial inequality a gesture started by colin kaepernick would you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a the field right now out of the sky. the seattle seahawks and tennessee titans chose to stay in the locker room while the national anthem played as did the pittsburgh steelers with the exception of one playa a one hundred villanova either and. elsewhere

other players chose to lock arms together in solidarity is beyond politics it's about being a human being and having dignity and compassion for other human beings regardless of their race and their gender but if the protest becomes that we're going to sit down to a meal we're not sure respect to the flag of the united states of america and everything that symbolizes everything that stands for everything our country's been through to get to this point. i do not agree with that reactions by supporters across the u.s. but also divided i think our flag represents the services that our military fights for our freedoms and there are if i just think it's completely disrespectful that there's kneeling for that i think they should be so. suspended a certain time and they are exercising their right of free speech i mean that's the first amendment and we've always had the right i don't think the president should actually be get involved in saying that he has a one sided stance he's not looking at the issues that arose before the nailing started which is that what we're known for trump himself tweeted about the issue

five times on sunday reiterating his position and spike briefly in new jersey we have a great guy and we have great people representing our going back so. they get beat back a sunday in the n.f.l. where passions before the game matched if not exceeded those that came after. you lace home and al-jazeera thousands of people have been left homeless with nowhere to go six days after the earthquake in mexico city hi joe castro reports. with government estimates of more than a thousand buildings seriously damaged by tuesday's quake in mexico city it's the lucky ones who still have a home. and his wife and daughter escaped only with their lives you know when we would about to eat then the floor. the game because the door was

a stunt we couldn't get out again to for all roast and it'll open the family is now among the thousands of people staying in shelters many here suffered injuries from the quake but it's the invisible wounds that cause more worry they don't know where they'll go next. morning it was i'm very nervous very nervous i'm almost in shock. the shelters director says more people will become homeless in the coming days. thousand of buildings are still being inspected many more will be demolished. and then there are the hundreds of lost pets that are also in need of shelter volunteers have gathered them in the city park and organized an adoption effort to find these animals temporary homes until they can be reunited with their owners got them if. he doesn't have

a collar because he was in the house and escaped he's been lost since that day. while some hope for a happy reunion others are saying good bye this boy is giving up his cat because his family is without a home for a city that suffered so much the last seemingly small feels unbearable. castro al-jazeera mexico city one bright spot among all the suffering in mexico city this dog was plucked alive from the rubble in mexico city rescuers found the collapsed apartment building on sunday that's given people hope that so the human survivors could be found under the rubble. good to have you with us adrian for going to hear the top stories in al-jazeera iraqi kurds have begun voting on

a controversial referendum on the region's independence the president of iraq's kurdish regional government masoud barzani is among those who have already cast their ballots the referendum is non-binding it could trigger a process of separation in a country that's already divided along sectarian and ethnic lines agel america has won a fourth term in office as chancellor of germany but she faces tough coalition talks a populist surge weakened the chancellor's party the c.d.u. as well as the social democrats form a coalition partners the hard right d. has won seats in part of that's the first time in more than fifty years that a far right party has entered the stack praising the election outcome for petrie of the f.t. explained to reporters why she though won't be taking up an m.p.'s seat in parliament . looking ahead to be one to be sure we're able to govern quickly the f.t.

will be good in opposition but it's not a good time to govern which is why i want to be active here i want to produce real politik so in a conservative sense and i've decided that i will not be part of. this was my decision dozens of missing hindu villages are feared dead in me and after twenty eight bodies were discovered in a mass grave we had mass military says that it's evidence of a massacre by a range of groups in rakhine state hindu say that they've been the victims of ethnic violence since a military crackdown against. began a month ago. president trump's son in law jarrett kirshner used his personal e-mail account dozens of times to communicate with the white house according to his attorney between january and august the received all responded to around one hundred e-mails using his private account you'll remember that during the presidential campaign trump repeatedly attacked hillary clinton for her use of a personal e-mail server while she was secretary of state i'll be back with more

news from here on out of syria right after upfront next. and the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera with tensions rising protests on the streets one presidential election old and another just weeks away i'll speak to kenya's opposition presidential candidate and the country's former prime minister right. i'm a house and also on the show more than six years into the war in syria and with bashar a lot.