democratic republic of congo at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. ever your. thousands of people lined up to vote in catalonia secession referendum is the police use force to shut down polling stations.

and forget this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up accusations and insults between president trump and a senior puerto rican official at the u.s. as the u.s. caribbean territory struggles to recover from hurricane maria. a rare admission by secretary of state rex tillerson the u.s. is in direct talks with north korea. and searching for justice one man's case against police in new york is highlighted in a new documentary. as voters continue to go to the polls the spanish government is called catalonia is controversial session referendum illegal and unconstitutional the remarks come several hours after polls opened and scenes of violence by spain's national police towards voters a polling stations government says that more than three hundred people have been injured spain's deputy prime minister says the police response was proportional

will be speaking to al-jazeera tony berkeley who was in madrid for the latest but first let's speak with. a whole his reporting for us from barcelona right now a couple of hours ago several hours ago col you witnessed that that heavy handedness by police first hand. absolutely adrian but before we get to that i want to show you a scene going on right now at the industrial school in barcelona this is one of the largest voting centers and we were here a little earlier today i want to show you what's happening in the rear entrance of the industrial school here citizens young men organized into the so-called defense committees a building a barricade at the rear entrance of the industrial school in case spanish riot police try to break through here i'm just going to tell you a bit about this barricade it's been thrown together with there are some loudspeakers here really heavy stuff down here. there are some wooden pallets

and also some concrete brought here and they've thrown this up at the height you can see just over the back that is the main highway that is where they expect the spanish riot police to arrive we did see the police here coming to the front entrance earlier in the day but citizens there simply slammed heavy. and the riot police had to leave that wasn't of course the case in some other of the polling stations around. there we saw citizens again organized in human cordons to try and protect schools in other areas used as voting stations when the spanish police were arriving they were grabbing the manhandling in them and dragging them away now there have been injuries. around three hundred people have been injured we saw one elderly lady with blood streaming down her face another man

being stretchered away after suffering perhaps some kind of seizure what it seems to me is that here in barcelona it's been the spanish national police that have been used to try and shut down these voting centers in rural areas or catalonia remember catalonia roughly the size of belgium that is where the civil guard. units have been used to remember that those are a military unit with police duties but there certainly have been injuries here and that has led to cattle an authority calling on the spanish government to stop the use of these police reinforcements sent into the zone they're saying that their use has been disproportionate and on acceptable adrian you've been seeing these these police going from polling station to polling station in convoys of trucks right. exactly what seems to me is that these national police the riot police were

organized into what i call flying squads seven seven truck units sometimes two units would come together there would be fourteen or fifteen trucks and they would go around barcelona trying to shut down voting centers but they wouldn't stop for very long they would stop perhaps for ten or fifteen minutes. and what has happened is that that really hasn't stopped voting it's delayed it to not stop because then there have been layers and layers of contingency plans and so then simply those voting stations they pulled out new ballot boxes more papers and voting has gone ahead here at the industrial college just saying one of barcelona's largest voting centers there are still lines of people those have dropped a little bit right now it's dinner time the lunch time for the spaniards and for cattle and but those show me that once that is over more people will be back remember there are still five hours of voting still to go adrian all right karl

many thanks indeed ours is called penholder live in barcelona let's take you know the spanish capital madrid al-jazeera study berkeley is the tourney illegal irresponsible unconstitutional the central government there and the drug has called cattle lutie as follows. yes totally in there justifying their actions in fact the deputy prime minister go to a press conference and she congratulated the police she says they acted proportionately completely opposite to what they're saying in the castle and government they believe the measures have been necessary they believe they've been applied correctly and they call the castle argument as you said unconstitutional undemocratic and acting against the rules of law and coming coexistence they've called for the karzai government to step down to scale down their actions and not let let them escalate further they further said that this referendum now is it virtually dead because they dismantle the operators for the referendum and then it's not meeting the democratic requirements so as far as they're concerned the

referendum has failed that comes with a lot of support i think from people especially here in madrid who are very much in favor of catalonia staying with spain but that's not the view of everybody i'm joined now by ramon walsh he's a spokesperson for a. called coordination twenty five that's a number a group for civil liberties organizations around spain but you are in favor of the referendum or why is that yet we are in favor of the right of the union now because this is the demographic. way we are going to and we have the right to be. bad now we can see that really only and people don't have the right to say and we think that. this is the demographic demographics right now to decide what kind of fish they you want to leave now don't you get only about hearing this pain.

all their peoples how in this state. their right to these. has been. because. we didn't decide what kind of woman we have. between markey on republic you know we have her more on t.v. good for him. and now we've got them to the side of the ring is the fairest but if they don't take the old people would you accept that if you allow catalonia to have its independence and break away that maybe other regions for example the basque region maybe the bilirakis islands turnaround for example they all might want to go dane the same route and you'd end up with a fragmented spain. yeah but. you know united spain only helps them to do you know there are soldiers for their corruption to oppress people yes thanks to the kind of government and if they were in that people want to separate this thing yes it's the right. but. now

it's only helpful for them to have. to a part of the people and to repeat i'm all the people what do you think this stand by catalonia will do for the rest of spain and for other organizations like yours that believes the has to be change in spain yet now what you're doing is a happy thing for all the people because this. will reduce the riemann some seventy eight remain we call it like this. started to break down so we have a happy moment for all the people and especially for the telling young people need to know where to meet the. what about the way the police and the government have acted in terms of using the force they have been in barcelona is that surprised you . know we are not surprised this is the way they that they do the things usually in get there and they were talking about this all of them on.

bringing. to get the union from outside but here when we go by parliament they do this and they did the same. thing in the march they did the same always the only answer is their oppression is the only answer that they have thank you so much so there we have it you have many views in spain and there's a lot of cracks in the society here that's been opened up by what's happening in catalonia we'll have to see what happens in the coming days but perhaps spain will never be the same again after this but tony many thanks to tony bertie there live in madrid. the french military has shot and killed a man who stabbed other people at a train station in the southern coastal city of la say police have cordoned off the area around the south shot station france of course still on high alert following a wave of attacks that began at the start of twenty fifteen targeting several cities across the country the latest now from as a serious attacks about those on the line in paris natasha what more do we know.

but according to regional officials in math say it was about one forty five local time just after lunch when a man entered the shell train station in the center of the very busy train station and the he was armed with knife and he attacked several people now officials have confirmed the two women have been killed we don't know if there are any others who are injured at this stage but it seems that shortly after that soldiers who were on patrol part of this high alert security across broad shoulders of course patrolling all sensitive areas in the front two soldiers then opened fire in a short did the attack or people described the ins at the stations being extremely frightening we've seen many reports from eyewitnesses of people screaming as the gunshot ran out you can only imagine how distressing it must have been police of course shortly evacuated the area and they are asking people to stay away and what

we know is that the french interior minister is on his way to this thing and the chance is anti terror unit has actually been tasked with investigating this so hopefully we'll get more details as the hours passed by the testimony thanks to fashion but a live on the line from paris. a weather update next year on al-jazeera that has hundreds of thousands of refugees facing a humanitarian crisis the head of the world food program heads to the camps in bangladesh to see for himself. into southern parts of china over the next day or so not too much here we have got the west the weather continue across central areas up towards shanghai more break

down post coming in as we go on through the next. day it will be a touch drier there we go with just around southern parts pushing across into central and northern parts of vietnam they roll across into china more heavy downpours here as well you see little clutch of storms just around me and through thailand today me and my well in forty eight millimeters of rain in twenty four hours on the other side of the by a single more lively downpours coming in here into. just around addition further southwards all the way down to what time will not be southern parts of india seeing some very heavy rain over the next day or so we've seen some flooding rains to affecting the northeast of india and bangladesh all of them over the next for all the parts of india and also for pakistan here it does stay dry delhi at around thirty five celsius with plenty of hazy sunshine so dry weather plenty of sunshine across pakistan all the way through afghanistan across a good part of iran across the right and potentially it does look settled

pleasantly warm now he made by night time thirty eight. says all sorts in an age of simplistic narratives the listening post critiques the mainstream response exposing the influences that drive the headlines at this time on al-jazeera they thought they were american until they broke the law now they're deported to cambodia for life one of the families fighting for their loved ones at this time on al jazeera.

and i get the top stories this hour on al-jazeera police in france said that a knife attack at a train station that's left two people dead is being investigated as an act of terrorism it happened in the southern coastal city of must say france's interior ministry minister rather is heading to the city police have cordoned off the area. spain's government is called catalonia as controversial session referendum illegal and unconstitutional remarks come several hours after voters began cost of the ballots at polling stations across catalonia. has been scenes of violence as spain's national police force used force against voters at polling booths video footage as opposed to riot police kicking and throwing sitting protesters down the stairs dragging those out of polling booths by their. cattle and authorities say the border three hundred people have been injured in the battle. catalonia as government ombudsman has urged the spanish authorities to rein

in the national police force. i must make an appeal. appeal to the spanish government the spanish authority to a stop to a stop violent actions against citizens to stop the use of unproportionate means today and to stop. dick d.v.d.'s with almost no no respect of human rights and it's not just the man who's unimpressed with the actions of the spanish national police footage of two incidents have been posted online of which officers from the spanish national police a conference by catalonia and colleagues about that actions catalan police when they viewed red uniforms the national police here in green john hendren has more

for us now from boston over. at this polling place in the center of barcelona thousands of people have lined up all day long waiting for the opportunity to vote and when the voting machines were packed they waited until another web site was set up so that four workers could verify each voter but held side of the downtown area in barcelona not everybody is in favor of secession we talked to some of them and this is what they had to say he said i knew i lived here for sixty years of course they love catalonia it's where my children are where my family lives but there's no reason why we have problems with this obsession just. if i am capital and yeah and i don't think like the secessionist do that i'm from the outside but then when i go to my family home then i'm also from the outside so where am i from and what identity do i have here so firstly i'm from the town of high and then

i'm on duluth ian finally i'm spanish but here in downtown barcelona the story is very different the people you see out in the street i'm newsy asked if they are showing up to vote several times there's been a rumor the police would show up here and everybody here has seen the video of police beating voters elsewhere nevertheless they remain here we've just had a warning like that and you can see all of these people are remaining to vote. police in the canadian city of edmonton are investigating as an act of terrorism an attack on an officer that led to a high speed chase a suspect is in custody after stabbing a policeman and ramming a truck into pedestrians for pedestrians at a police officer injured. the u.s. secretary of state is trying to ease tension on the korean peninsula by saying that the trumpet ministration has no plans to force regime change in pyongyang rex tillerson made the comments during a visit china where he also revealed that his country is in direct communication

with north korea one hour from mike hanna in washington. 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 this 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 has a deal of houston of not fully implementing the sanctions that had been passed

against north korea in the u.n. security council and indeed the sanctions that have 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 it's 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. the head of the world food programme has visited ranger refugee camps in bangladesh aid agencies are trying to help the more than half a million who fled

a military crackdown in me in mass rakhine state the u.n. has warned of a humanitarian nightmare in the camps there's limited access to clean water and toilets and health workers fear that an outbreak of disease could be imminent tanveer chowdhry reports. i mean. there really is. a more active in lot of the last couple of weeks this is far from a very different scenario two weeks ago when things were very chaotic. it took over for the central distribution of relief and the traffic management things better on the ground right now we have also seen presence of very high ups. as well as international donors. taking part in distributing relief on the ground talking. to the executive director of the program david bisley. his experience on the ground he went. on the ground something like women and children crossing into

bangladesh how they were shot at by me and my security force. at what is most needed right now in bangladesh he said. more food aid is needed. and he expect more people thousands more are going to cross over into bangladesh shortly and the international community to really process into this. iraq says that its coordinating with iran to take control of border crossings from the kurdish regional government was designed to pressure the kurdish leadership into the results of monday secession referendum stratford reports from on the iran iraq border which is one of two main border crossings between iran and the could region of northern iraq now the kurds used to sell their crude oil to the iranians who would refine it for them before selling its bank but it seems like tehran is acting on it and we've been speaking to customs. only at this border at least trading oil

and fuel the stock. the transport of food in general. that. these trucks are waiting to cross back into it having delivered. the situation will continue we have made out a living going back to. we don't know if i will be allowed back to the carriage. iraqi soldiers are expected to participate in military exercises with the iranian army on the iranian side of the border in the coming days. this is the closest town to the border many of the goods sold in the shops are iranian many of the people here are reliant on trade with iran. we are afraid of the referendum ignore the economic challenges we now face. many of the kurds here voted yes in the referendum but they are increasingly anxious about what further threats from iran

could mean turkey has opened a military training camp in somalia al qaeda linked al shabaab is attempting to throw somalia's overthrow sent somalia's central government turkey's fifty million dollar camp or train local forces to stem the group's progress reports. this is turkey's largest overseas military training camp it is in the somali capital mogadishu thousands of somalis soldiers and others will be trained here the campus part of turkey's africa to help the government tackle armed groups like. porton singh combating terrorism in the security of sea lions in africa it is a great potential to contribute peace and stability in the continent and the muslim world a strong some will surely take on the task of fighting terror groups nested within africa. two hundred turkish officers have been deployed to the base which houses

three military schools and other facilities. for the time being fifteen hundred military personnel will be trained here during the first phase when they finish the training turkey will provide the necessary military equipment turkey's a woman in somalia has increased over the last decade turkish companies n.g.o.s and charities have expanded their operations here the turkish government is investing in roads and facilities security health and education so mellow officials how welcomed turkey's involvement. in turkey also has its biggest embassy in africa here in somalia it was opened by president at a time when security in somalia was very fragile turkish brothers are working very hard and supporters in every way possible so that somalia can stand on its own last march a suicide bomber targeted the turkish military base said it was behind the attack

and a circle expands its military presence in somalia there are still manage challenges to overcome. al-jazeera. former american football star o.j. simpson has been released from a u.s. prison he served nine years for armed robbery the seventeen year old was released from the nevada jail early on sunday morning and will now be supervised by parole officers for five years he was convicted over a failed robbery of a sports memorabilia store in las vegas in one thousand nine hundred five simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend in a trial that grips the u.s. . a man who filmed the death of eric garner us he was being arrested by new york police says that he's now the victim of retaliation ramsey also is suing the city for millions of dollars for what he describes as his wrongful arrest kristen salumi reports it was read if your cell phone video of eric garners death at the hands of

police shocked the nation. and helped spark the black lives matter movement protesting police brutality. but for the young man who recorded the footage it was the beginning of a series of run ins with police that he says led him straight to jail. what he spoke to al-jazeera by phone after the break you know which. i don't like but i don't need it we're watching him so i think really. no. point attention to something that did not want us to pay attention to or to who is suing the n.y.p.d. for wrongful arrest is featured in a new documentary called cop watch the film focuses on a group whose mission is to record police officers to protect the rights of citizens my constitutional right to do my job its members are responsible for recording other police controversies like the arrest of freddie gray in baltimore

in the aftermath of michael brown shooting and ferguson this isn't like david and goliath this is like david versus enough eighteen so essentially the police used every every possible thing in the power to make sure that ramsey you know what went down the n.y.p.d. has yet to comment on the details of the lawsuit which is currently under review by the city but former police officers and their supporters all over the country are complaining that the prevalence of videotape is having a negative impact on policing well everybody has a video camera in their pocket now with a phone so this former detective believes officers have become. much more reluctant to intervene put it in context about what's exactly happening here that officer is trying to focus in on a specific problem where this person may or may not be armed or dealing with it and now you have other people coming in from different sides of the stimuli this could be present a big problem for those officers. right critics of cop watch say glosses over or to

his criminal record but or to says regardless of his past the film and his lawsuit are an attempt to shine a light on police misconduct where i don't. personally know it's got the kids i mean you know until you prefer it to a mike or to none of the officers involved in eric garners death have gone to prison. win or lose he says he plans to continue working with cop watch when he gets out kristen salumi al jazeera new york police in france investigating what caused a football stadium barrier to collapse injuring dozens of spectators it happened at the league one match between leo and i mean little supporters were celebrating the opening goal of the match when the fans collapsed under their weight seven people in hospital five of them have suffered serious injuries. thousands of people living on the van want to island of amber being forced to leave

over fears that the volcano there may erupt well then six thousand people were moved to emergency shelters while others boarded planes to neighboring islands and want to a sprawling cluster of more than eighty islands lies on the geologically active pacific ring of fire. and you records been set for a chinese ass at an auction in hong kong a painting by the chinese american artist was sold for more than thirteen million dollars at southern base on saturday it was the paintings first appearance on the market having remained in the collection of the artist's family since it was painted eighty five years ago the work was originally commissioned for the opening of the museum of modern art in new york in one thousand nine hundred thirty two. it is good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories this hour spain's government has called catalonia as controversial success and the

secession referendum illegal unconstitutional the remarks came several hours after voters began casting their ballots at polling stations across the region. but in scenes of violence a space national police used force against some birds as a polling booths video footage of the most of riot police kicking and throwing city of protest as downstairs and dragging voters out of polling booths by the head cattle on authorities say that more than three hundred people have been injured in the violence others are as calm and whole but course up in the clashes outside a polling station and bustling. right there on. the what if you can see now i was talking to move on. to the crowd. that she was in the crowds from the closest election that voters will keep things simple. named. by at least from other areas of

the bank to catch a low that specifically would crack down on this thread. police in france say the knife attack at a mass a train station that's left two people dead is being investigated as an act of terror france's interior minister is heading to the city police have cordoned off the area the head of the world food program has been to re-injure refugee camps in bangladesh to see the suffering for himself aid agencies are trying to help the more than half million who fled the military crackdown in may and most rakhine state has limited access to clean water and toilets health workers fear that an outbreak of disease could be imminent the u.s. secretary of state says the trumpet ministration has no plans to force regime change in north korea rex tillerson made the comments on a visit to china where he also revealed that his country is in direct communication with pyongyang former american football star o.j. simpson has been released from a u.s. prison he served nine years for armed robbery the seventy year old was released

from the nevada jail early on sunday he will now be supervised by parole officers for five years. the rain has the new script for you in just over twenty five minutes of listening post next. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter to you. like to touch on the referendum wanting to buy. stuff that is. that what the city.