yes in the referendum because there are repercussions not only for spain but for them to countries like belgium france and italy so this holds very important issues for countries in europe not just spain but the spanish government is doing everything possible to stop that vote from going ahead it may be scare tactics it may be designed to make the people who are basically in the middle not go out and vote but we can only wait and see and these are live pictures that you see now of a school that is one of those polling places where you can see people are already showing up and there are volunteers there getting this all set to go again against the the will of the government and spain bay say that people that are part of this volunteer effort will actually be fine potentially up to three hundred fifty thousand dollars so quite a day ahead and barcelona. the mayor frederica's capital san juan is accused the u.s. government of killing people through inefficiency. says help for the u.s.

territory hit by hurricane maria is not coming quickly enough white house has appointed a general to oversee relief operations and aid is starting to arrive but the mayor says puerto rico isn't getting the same support as other communities and the us. via twitter accusing his political rivals of telling the mayor of san juan to criticize have another tweet he said such poor leadership ability by the mayor of san juan and others in puerto rico who are not able to get their workers to help trace about reports from san juan. the generator went down in this hospital and some one who more than one hundred patients had to be urgently transferred to other locations a lot of his mother is still inside he's worried about where they're going to take her she. just several complications in the she is old and i'm not sure where we will go but she is not alone on site there are others who are recovering from

surgery among other things who are not allowed inside but we were told that most of the patients were transferred on time. and only generally because it was what was going to destroy during the hurricane just an example of how the situation could easily be teemu it if the media the action is not taken this forward is playing a crucial role these days as it is where much needed aid has arrived. says there are more than ten thousand containers here with goods even though the products were long to private companies they could easily help to restore the supply chain here right now in in all of our terminals there are merging supplies they are emergency medicine water food. structure materials commercial materials so the terminal is full of goods it's a matter of how we restore. part of the supply chain.

distribution has been one of the biggest issues so far in getting aid out ten days after the hurricane people are still lining up for hours for fuel many are still in need of water and other goods some are desperate to get help and most come you see we want my mother to live the house was destroyed she hasn't many years left and we want to live decently is that too much to ask. is the mayor of san juan she has been pleading for more help from the united states government on saturday president donald trump accuse her and other puerto ricans of not doing enough to get out of the current crisis i think we haven't been treated with the same sense of emergency that other disasters have been treated and again you know. five hundred twenty pounds mayor of a city in the caribbean

a three star general. said yesterday we don't have enough we need to get more in order to be able to take care of the situation. to say that a general isn't saying the right thing right for most people here this fight is not a political one but one of survival and they hope those in charge will leave their differences aside and sort things out. some one. thousands of americans have joined what's been called a march for racial justice in washington d.c. relatives of people shot dead by police have been among the protesters demanding justice. for. a march to the federal department of justice several thousand people saying that's exactly what they're looking for justice you do it because you die on the watch and

we refuse to die. and we refuse to be enslaved again. valerie castiel came halfway across the country to participate her son fell lando was shot and killed by a police officer last year in the state of minnesota that latino officer geronimo yeah nez was recently acquitted of all charges. it happened these gas paid off no accountability no responsibility. this demonstration is actually to merge protests the march for racial justice and the march for black women drawing attention more specifically to issues facing minority women in a nation that has a majority white population we're marching for our lives we're marching for our health we're marching for our for our sanity and we're marching for liberation marches like they and similar mark has planted ten other cities around the country

come if the u.s. is struggling over aggressions of race and racism. social issues being publicly debated here in this very much social media all of it is playing by tweets from the white house and controversial symbolic displays in the nation's sports arena. it is a time of national division american football players staging controversial pre-game demonstrations tweeted condemnation from the president anger from some fans. white supremacist displaying nazi symbols this summer and opposing protester killed and a tepid response from the white house scrawled slurs found this week targeting african-american students at a military prep school and if you can't. treat someone from another race or a different color skin with dignity and respect then you need to get out there is anger on the streets but diversity as well and hope says one march organizer on the

street where we live we live with one another we love each other and this is an opportunity to express that. an opportunity does sound taken by thousands of americans and i'll let you off for al-jazeera washington d.c. at least fifty people have been arrested at a far right rally in the sweetest city of gotham are members of the nordic resistance movement have been fighting with countered demonstrators the group promotes anti-semitic ideas it's said to have timed the march to coincide with the jewish holiday of yom kippur war a police officer was among several people injured the state department says north korea has shown no signs of interest or readiness for talks about its nuclear program secretary of state rex tillerson has revealed washington has been interactive communication with pyongyang he's in beijing for high level talks on the crisis yes has been looking for china's help to tighten an economic squeeze on

north korea mike hanna is in washington d.c. . this is the first public of knowledge meant by the trumpet ministration that it has been in direct contact with north korea the secretary of state saying that there are two if not three avenues that it is using for communication he also made clear that it is not through china in other words the u.s. is using avenues of communication unilaterally separate from china this is very significant because it indicates that the secretary of state is still believes that there is a diplomatic resolution possible to this ongoing crisis the despite the hostile words that have been exchanged by the president of the u.s. and of the leader of north korea in recent months it's also an indication of the growing warmth in the relationship between china and the u.s. in the past china had a deal of houston not fully implementing the sanctions that had been passed against north korea in the u.n. security council and indeed the sanctions that had been unilaterally imposed by the

united states but in recent months there has been a significant policy shift china has been implementing these sanctions as shown by the fact that its instructed its banks to no longer do business with north korea it is restricting the import of oil into north korea so this is something very significant in terms of the u.s. stated policy of getting china to bring greater pressure to bear on north korea in an attempt to resolve this crisis but also what is happening is that it does not only pertain to north korea the relationship between the u.s. and china is growing stronger through this ongoing crisis in wider areas such as trade lots more still ahead on al-jazeera i'll tell you why the kurdish independence vote has raised tensions in iraq's oil rich city have. and how a language divide is feeling calls for independence and cameron's push the region.

however since a very heavy rain coming into florida recently as the last thing we want to say after hurricane maria of course but look at that cloud it's very white tops on that cloud that's been producing some big thundery downpours further north is pretty quiet high pressure there just around the lake so central and eastern piles of canada lossie ciara a little on the cool so i said by comparison to recent days every cloud of rain there coming into central parts of canada across the prairie is cold enough just around the u.s. to inside of north america with some snow over the high ground just seven celsius and falling for calgary struggling to get above freezing by the time we come to monday that area weather that we have a little further ace that stays in place not quite getting over towards ontario

generally dry pressure blocking things off and down into the southeast you can see for florida it does stay very very unsettled spells of heavy rain coming through and heavy rain to making its way across the caribbean through the lesser antilles more big and say this is just to the east to puerto rico instant thomas seventy nine millimeters of rain in twenty four hours again the last thing we need after the passage of more heavy rainfall coming through on sunday is still there from monday. on counting the cost of the world's fastest growing startup created a new labor market but can that business model clear the regulation roadblocks ahead plus the fact as a player as well prices enter a bull market counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera.

now. watching out to syria let's take a look at the top stories right now polls will open in a few hours in spain's catalonia reach of course the session vote police have sealed off more than half of the schools in the region designated as voting stations spain's constitutional court has declared this vote illegal. mare puerto rico's capital is accusing the u.s. government of killing people and efficiency president donald trump a setback twitter he says his political rivals are behind the accusations and

thousands of americans have joined a mark for racial justice in washington d.c. relatives of people shot dead by policemen among protesters. find out what's behind one yes and dependence movement we went to speak to the man who leads it john hendren sat down with cat along as president carlos puts them on and asked him why he thinks catalonia should be independent. the poor they see the talent in the rest of us but the effort to beat cotton and within spain has failed and now is the time to choose the only possible way to continue being cut and ends with dignity and equality of conditions an independent state will be honest i think that when then. the last part but only dealt with there are lots of patterns who want to vote and to create what i would call a democratic tsunami and people will see the world will see in them and that it is their secret plan for how to carry this out and then you tell us about it i'll call you to them and the rest of us but you know we don't know what the plans of this state are to stop their friend whom they've kept them on the ropes so we have no

obligation to publicise how are we going to organize there were a friend in the gallery i will take that to mean yes there is a secret plan and no you can't tell me about it. on the front lines of this quiet revolution our children young people out in the streets and there are thousands of police in the street there is the potential for violence if it gets ugly what will you tell them what we tell their parents. and. there is no balance so if someone has these temptation they will be doing themselves no favor they will be doing democracy no favor no one will accept or. want how do you evaluate the response of spain who have this but you know the spanish government has almost acted like a pyromaniac it has been putting boots on the fire it's been acting totally

responsibly the needs of spanish i jane when we've done everything it's kind of to go it's mostly for everyone to feel happy within the state of the but the peace must be you know and if you don't succeed. you face some pretty serious consequences with the spanish government they have accused the organizers of this referendum of crimes including sedition which comes with a penalty of up to fifteen years in prison are you willing to face that. we accept full responsibility but it would be very very responsible from the response to a political aspirations to be a prison sentence very severe mistake and they would have to leave with the consequences john i'm not screaming no i'm not responsible for sufficient based on carlos' pushed him on president of catalonia thank you for talking to here you're welcome notice cresses and as it's clear that vote will be starting soon what

you're saying here is barcelona live pictures of the civil guard police leaving the port as aren't we understand there are already people getting in line queuing up to vote today something that could possibly land some people and jail but we'll continue to follow that as you can see. authorities on both sides are preparing for what could be a very interesting day. and rest on the part of cameroon were english is the main language has forced the government to close its border with nigeria or testers say the region should be fully independent from the french speaking part smith reports and the more we leave. they have a national anthem their own flag a leader in waiting all the trappings of a potential you country but without any land because what these people want. is the english speaking part of cameroon. it's here the demonstrations have gathered

momentum in the last year by people saying they suffered discrimination at the hands of the french speaking government most people just want reforms but coals for outright independence are getting louder. and it's. led. by. freedom at the end of the first world war cameroon was divided between the french and the british at its independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty one the english speakers opted to join french cameroon instead of neighboring nigeria. the protest have been mainly peaceful but cameroon security forces a crackdown six protesters were shot dead last year and hundreds arrested in an apparent a gesture of reconciliation president paul ordered the charges be dropped against several detainees but that doesn't seem to have calm tensions the man who leads the separatists has been torturing the us calling for a peaceful uprising we call for

a nonviolent revolution we call for nonviolent protests we call for nonviolent much this is what we and it was drilled into the world and we have resisted. i mean you know i love this is a moment that we must continue to stand for. the u.n. secretary general has asked cameron's government to address the grievances of the english speakers but the un is unlikely to want.