all of our audience is on the same whether on line. one in the same joining us on inside i was never. before. is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag. and one of your pitches might. join the global conversation at this time. and live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha i'm dreading obligato welcome to the news grid of spanish police using unjustifiable brutality

to shut down an on off votes in the catalonia region social media has been flooded with images of chaos showing officers using batons and firing rubber bullets the national government though blames pro independence leaders for what they call senseless events our reporters have been on the front lines we'll be live in barcelona and madrid a warning to the world but a catastrophic disaster is unfolding for world in jail refugees were running out of time to. the head of the un's food agency has been visiting camps in bangladesh and says that country simply can't handle it alone we'll hear what the say and shia muslims commemorate the seventh century killing of the prophet muhammad's grandson there it is it's an important event for as we look at how it's being marked right around the world and protests turned deadly. as people in the english speaking

regions call forth the session a major chapelle finish your questions and comments using the hash tag it's a news group. here with a news grade were live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and al-jazeera dot com as well while spanish police have broken down doors and dragged voters kicking and screaming from polling places as they try to stop a secession referendum that was banned by the central government and the courts in the regional capital barcelona officers use battens and fired rubber bullets during pro rata random protests at least four hundred people have been hurt that's according to catalan authorities as i mean. it's obvious that the unjustified irrational irresponsible violence shown by the spanish state not only isn't dampening the wish of catalans to be able to vote peacefully but also that today it is even more clear in the eyes of those who still have doubts and in the eyes of

the world what's at stake on days like this and today they had been some shameful actions which will stay with us forever while the deputy prime minister though blames catalonia as pro independence leaders for everything that's happened adding that police acted appropriately absolute that your response has the catalan regional governments absolute irresponsibility has be made up for by the professionalism of the security forces they comply with the law they've acted with firmness and proportionality their actions of never aimed at people but at the electoral material they have always looked to protect rights and liberties. well we have full coverage carl penn haulers in barcelona tony berkeley also standing by for us in madrid and take a look at our london new center there is julie macdonald that's where she'll join us from julie in the team are looking at the broader implications for europe live to all in just a moment but first

a look at where catalonia is and why so many of the people living there want to split from spain so here it is as you can see marked in orange the region has a population of about seven and a half million it makes up twenty percent of spain's economic output and its main city barcelona is a big tourist destination well catalonia has its own language and culture that many say have been oppressed by madrid for a long time one of these periods of oppression was during the military rule of francisco franco which lasted from one nine hundred thirty nine until his death in one nine hundred seventy five thousands of catalan activists were executed or went into exile democracy then returned and by one thousand nine hundred eighty nine catalonia gained many more powers with its own police force and parliaments allowing it to set policies for things like education and health care but renewed separates a sentiment has been brewing since spain's economic crisis in two thousand and nine many catalans believe that their affluent region pays more to madrid's than it

actually gets back so now we'll bring in karl penhall who's joining us from barcelona karl the fast moving developments all day long tell us what the situation is like now. it really has been fast moving developments doraine right now we're in the plastic cup the loony and downtown. this is where on live screens results from this referendum will be broadcast i asked them when they get them but we've got a ways to get there yet still four hours of voting and also there could be many obstacles on the way because the spanish government and its police forces are under orders to stop this referendum happening now we've seen in the course of the day spanish riot police trying to pull away civilian voters from those polling stations to stop them voting that has not been especially successful also in the countryside areas we've seen the paramilitary civil guard police also trying to carry out those same functions and crackdown on this referendum there's also been an information war and

and the spanish government has been trying to close down why five connections has been trying to crush web pages to. stop the capsule and government counting the final vote tally but if we do get a final vote tally this is where it will be delivered and catalan with already have said if the vote is a yes in favor of secession the policy will go on late into the night profound by for a moment let's just show our viewers what it was like earlier for you and your camera man author when man when you were caught in the thick of it as police dragged people away from one of the polling places take a look. this is the castle and government education department the police are now throwing up a cordon. they're not letting press possed and there are a group of voters over there on the other side.

of. the. the road you know you know you'll come right. the you. are with the banks and. so was we're seeing pretty dramatic footage that you and your cameraman were able to capture a what's it been like covering the story. well you know from there you can see it was pretty rough house there at the doors of one of those polling stations and that is what we witnessed in other polling stations too. this is a multi-generational group that has tried to come out and vote one polling station we saw a very elderly lady bleeding all down her face after

a scuffle with riot police another man stretching away in all capital an authority say that more than three hundred people have been injured in scuffles with the spanish police and to crack down on this referendum but i want to bring in luke stout he is a political scientist and a writer on callate cattle cattle and politics. you've been following developments today why is this so. i think this is so because the spanish refuses to allow catalans to decide whether they want to be part of the spanish state this is a long running problem in the in the two thousands the current government tried to reform its state statue of a count on a me to get to gain more power as to be treated as a nation because that is the sense of the majority of the people in this territory and the door was was was shut. to that attempt at reform and in the last few years

you've seen an attempt to try and get negotiation with the spanish government in order to allow illegal referendum and again this is being blocked and threats have increased in the last few weeks we've seen an incredible escalation of repression against this democratic event and now people i think. a large part of the kalam population are willing to to break the spanish law they no longer see them trying to slow as being their law they say it's the catalan government is actually deciding what is legal and what is not and of course any referendum on independence is something which. everyone can be part of an a lot of people that don't want independence but do feel that they should have the right to have an opinion about this are now going out massively in voting today but luke you know spain has got seventeen autonomous regions all with devolved powers many of them like the basque country for example would like their own process so why given

that there is nothing in the spanish constitution that allows this referendum what is in catalonia just play like the rules like the other regions well if they play by those then there would not be there be no change that would satisfy satisfy catalans and you know i mean this but the government in spain is a government which was originally founded by members of franco's regime it's a government and you can say the same about the legal system as well that didn't go through massive forms in the one nine hundred seventy s. and we're seeing they're all thoughts having an attitude towards any national minority that wishes to be treated as such and wishes to actually be able to run its own affairs the problem is in madrid the problem is in madrid the ruling government in spain the part of the the popular they they understand this was voted in their two thousand and eight congress that there is only one nation in spain and that is the spanish nation so any attempt to trying to change that is automatically

going to be treated as far as a criminal subversive kind of movement which is exactly what you're seeing today and in the process the violence is being you know you know there's violent attacks by the police not just against people that see themselves as pro catalan but against anybody who is trying to go and vote over the future of catalonia the great thing is that people are ignoring these prohibitions that actually i went to a polling booth this morning i was a massive group of people making sure that the the vote took place when the police came and tried to stop it please the people managed to actually push back the riot police peacefully but they managed to push to push it back because of the sheer numbers of people on the street. that was a political scientist a specialist writer on catalonian politics now we're in the past this is where the final vote tally could be announced but there are obstacles on the way the spanish riot police and civil god are still under orders to stop this referendum happening

and the citizens here who have voted in this referendum now on god because they fear that the spanish police could could attempt to seize the ballot boxes could seize the voting papers and effectively put the whole referendum in jeopardy all right thank you well opinion polls suggest that while a minority of catalans around forty percent actually supports a session most people back having the referendum itself let's cross over to madrid and bring in tony berkeley and as expected tony we've heard some pretty strong words coming out of the government and in madrid. completely opposite views of what's being said in barcelona and you would be surprised by that they're saying here that the referendum is illegal unconstitutional undemocratic and also against the rules of law and coexistence but they also say that the referendum cannot work because all the approaches involve the electronic operators involved in needing to count those votes is now being

dismantled so therefore with no observers no independent observers this cannot be classed as a referendum so as far as the spanish government is concerned this referendum is dead but a lot of people are asking questions about the way they have handled this whole clamp down on the hard tactics they have used now are going to be now she's a journalist and a filmmaker and you don't represent any part of your here as a concerned citizen what are you concerned about exactly what i'm really sad worried because of course i think that he wasn't legal route for unknown but from the moment that the government the center going to ascend to police to i mean. to act in such a way. people will only scientists press their opinions i mean this is so terrible i mean every man's house took to franco and to that he picture shit when we didn't have the right to express ourselves i mean yes of course they're

referring to was an illegal well let's say it was illegal but it way to respond the feeling of her whole family is is shameful what do you think the government should have done then yes i mean dial it i mean politicians are supposed to be able to dialogue and to talk about that. a very difficult thing of course but does that that's the business i mean they're supposed to know how to do all that i mean which mariano rajoy has been banned is not listening. to all the capernaum people wanted them for the spanish ok let's talk about them and people think about what could who would happen if they had a ball to just today without any problem now in tomorrow monday would have a day in which we have more that maybe one million people vote and i don't think

that i think that less on that and i mean that's i mean this is this is it doesn't make any sense we've seen in the last few days in particular you know increased hostility animosity a war of words going on between barcelona and madrid what do you think the last thing legacy of this campaign will be on the whole the spain the spanish society. see we're tired of both of them we're tired of fighting our and we're tired of the qatari and point of view i mean we really want to talk about our difference i mean i don't feel so the friend from any people from. catalonia i mean my grandmother was from catalonia and i kind of understand their language what i don't want is to help the poor we over there when they yes want to vote did you emerge of form over the space you would actually reach this point you know we've never i don't know for

me this is shameful for me this is really sad day i mean it's like when we have the hope of a state when take care of but we invest because we only had to one day and he was one part of the say the military part now is the i mean it's really sad thank you very much well it is it and indeed for many spaniards this is a very sad day we're probably going to see a hardening of massachusetts by what's been happening the war of words and the police action this is a situation that's just going to go on and on we have to watch and wait all right and that we will do tony brooklier we thank you for giving us that update from madrid and we have a lot of our facebook viewers weighing in on the catalonia referendum and situation saying this is not acceptable i'm very sad and angry with the spanish government or the world or the world community should denounce this and also a lot of you are is on facebook watching us from countries like india and nigeria and cameroon in fact commenting on facebook and saying that they are in solidarity

with the catalans and saying that they want their own referendums to in places like indian administered kashmir be off for a nigeria and southern cameroon well for now we'll cross over to julie macdonald in london who will look at the broader implications for europe julie. thank you well let's have a closer look at catalonia as a referendum and the effect on the rest of europe i'm joined by michelle chang who's a professor of european political and administrative studies at the college of europe and joins us on skype from new york and michelle they will come to the program thanks for being with us so what are the way there are indications then for the rest of europe looking in what's happening in spain. well the wider implications include the other separatist movements that you have in other european countries as well as the potential impact that this could have on the spanish economy which would have a conscience for the eurozone what we've heard from

a lot of our guests michel is that they feel that there's faults on both sides here but the potentially the spanish government could have done itself a favor by handling things differently and what i think a lot of them are wondering about is from to moral what happens to the already fractious relationship between those in the region who want to separate and those who want to stay in madrid well built clearly have to go and engage in some sort of dialogue and it is evident that the status quo is inadequate and so it would that whether this could go in propel further negotiations that would allow for greater independence for catalonia that remains to be seen because it's banished government would also be wary of encouraging this but aren't they encouraging it michel by cracking down in this way they did but that was inadvertent because they wanted to go and crackdown to go and demonstrate the illegality of this ban the catalonian referendum there was a non-binding referendum just

a few years ago and the spanish government then had tolerated it and was criticized saying that they had in fact encouraged it by allowing it to happen therefore giving that legitimacy so they're trying to take the opposite tack to this time around how do we think that the e.u. will react given the fact that it is a pretty turbulent time for the block michel. the e.u. up until this point has viewed this as a spanish issue that has to go and be resolved within spain and there are likely to go in deviate from that line michel it's interesting i was reading some research that's been done about how people feel when they're allowed to continue to express their thoughts and feelings of by being part of a separate nation or feeling like they're different from other people in their country they actually showed that if the politicians could get hold of the fact that when people are allowed to express themselves often and loudly that very often these things don't escalate and i wonder in the spanish government will there be

mediocre voices if you like of perhaps on both sides that start to take that line. that is possible but is also the injured opposition to have one of the problems with the referendum is if the yes no vote and then what happens afterwards with that there can be a lot of deviation on what people think the way forward should be. there joining me from the states michel thank you and. well that's it for me in london i'm let's get more from andrew chappelle in doha thanks julie. this is a huge story online and the hash tag catalan referendum has been trending on twitter all day and you'll be able to see here there you go just how much interest has grown over the past twenty four hours as the voting day got more and more violence there have been more than one point three million tweets using the hash tag in the past twenty four hours hundreds of people have been sharing this image

and adding this particular comment which says if you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor many others are sharing this next video which shows spanish fire fighters standing between protesters and the police as we mentioned at least four hundred sixty people have been injured in this violence and that's according to the mayor of barcelona now gol here says that he wasn't sure whether catalans should be independent but after seeing the spanish government reaction he is one person who thinks they definitely should while supporters of the national governments say that the police action is justified because the vote is illegal spain's constitution as we heard does not allow for independence referendums and the constitution clearly states that spain is in divisible but many people on twitter many critics say that the this argument is illogical and circular that it creates a cycle of frustration as shown in this image we've seen on twitter quite

a bit today and that illegality still doesn't justify violence now as we heard people from around the world are watching this referendum as they were with the kurdish referendum last week to see if it might impact or perhaps energize other separatist movements sunny seeing is one author who says that we all need to keep in mind that these are old wounds old battles being fought in spain just like in other countries that have gone through civil war and she says that any state that turns its might against its own people plant seeds for its own demise whether it's in india the united states or somewhere in the middle east or europe one other comment from mohammed who is kashmiri he. watching the referendum and he says from kashmir to catalonia the aspirations for a free states are often met with brutalization and distortion democracy fights its own self so we've heard from them now we want to hear from you so share your views with us using the hash tag news grid or you can tweet me directly i'm at. while our

program the listening post has dedicated part of this week's episode to the catalonia referendum richard looks at what independence means for both sides and the way media in spain has covered the story so if you missed this week's episode you can catch up with it on our website just had to al-jazeera dot com click on the programs page and then you can click on be listening post there it is all the french military has shot and killed a man who stabbed two people to death at a train station in the southern coastal city of must say police have cordoned off the area around the st charles station one of the victims had their throat slit the other was stabbed in the stomach people are being told to avoid the area a counter terror investigation has now been opened and france is still on a high alert following a wave of attacks that began at the start of twenty eight fifteen well there are big divisions in cameroon and there are surfacing on what's supposed to be unification day people in english speaking regions have long complained of

discrimination from the french speaking majority mohamedan but it gives us some of the background. to have a national anthem their own flag and a leader in waiting all the trappings of a potential new country but without any land because what these people want to call amazonia is at the moment the english speaking part of cameroon it's you the demonstrators have gathered momentum in the last year by saying that people suffer discrimination at the hands of the french speaking government. most people just want reform but calls for outright independence are getting louder. and it's not. really our freedom at the end of the first world war cameron was divided between the french and the british at its independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty one the english speaking opted to join the french cameroon instead of neighboring

nigeria. these protests have been mainly peaceful but cameroon security forces have cracked down six protesters were shot dead last year and hundreds arrested an apparent gesture of reconciliation president paul b.-o. ordered that the charges be dropped against several detainees but that doesn't seem to have calm the tensions the man who leads the separatists has been touring the us calling for a peaceful uprising we call for a nonviolent revolution we call for them violent protests we call for the environment much this is what young people drinking to the well and we have resisted. i mean you know i love it but this is a moment that we must continue to stand for this may leave the u.n. secretary general has asked cameron's government to address the grievances of the english speakers but the u.n. is unlikely to answer mr tavist prayers for a new country called amazonia mohammed omar d.c. al jazeera. and there are

a lot of people that have gotten in touch with us specifically on the story and it is something that we've been covering for months to remain here on the news grid for quite some time and we actually receive hundreds of what's out messages about cameroon pretty much every single day how many people have sent videos like this one of of people celebrating what they call amazonian culture and pride but we've also seen lots of pictures like these of protests and violence some of these videos are so graphic that we couldn't even show them today people bloody and injured after fighting with police they have also been widespread protests like this one in southern cameroon for almost a year now despite them being banned then activists say the internet is regularly shut down there including at this very moment so cameron's government denies this and we've received several messages from people who worry the conflict could escalate a kerryman the chairman of the international anti corruption conference council has written a letter to the un secretary general saying that he is seeing all the elements of

genocide that were present in sierra leone and rwanda and that the lack of government response has permitted these to session this movement to achieve popular support when has asked the united nations to immediately intervene to avoid what he calls massive unnecessary bloodshed now that intervention never came it's unclear violence escalated on sunday as many predicted but we have received several video messages from people who say session is the only solution left many of them did not want to reveal their identities out of fear for their personal safety. all this time that's for the youth and we are people. we happen to be just a lot of little mice international. we have a language we have a culture we have our own laws we have everything that i fight i just don't have to be people on a mission on the street you get this right we as

a people we have the right to self-determination and we are determined to go our separate ways the people of the south and cummins have suffered. and make sation. to come and we have suffered for fifty six years and they finally decided that enough and not i think. it's. because if we use. these kind of issues so the french government a little has to dialogue. to come to us. and so now meanwhile many others like the tens of thousands of people who like this particular facebook page say reforms would be enough to keep the country unified and its people happy so what do you think of the continuing tension in southern

cameron you can connect with us using the hash tag it is good andrew thank you well if you're watching us on facebook we'll see in just a moment i will be taking a look at the latest in interior design fungus for an attorney that's coming up also ahead on the news grid right after the break a city divided hundreds of rally in hong kong against chinese national day celebrations details in a moment. however we got more showers in the forecast across northern parts of the middle east you can see the cloud spilling out of the black sea running of which was the caspian sea and that's been producing some really lively showers over the past few days are going to stay in the forecast over the next few days as well let me go well showers around armenia georgia azerbaijan northern parts of iran also seeing some rather

wet weather to run at around twenty eight degrees celsius elsewhere across the region it does stay largely dry but those showers as you can see just edge their way a little further southwards as we go on into tuesday so something of a chinese to come for many of us here for the south it does stay try and find pleasantly warm temperatures here in doha around thirty eight celsius over the next couple of days maybe not going up a notch as we go on through chuse day but hopefully not feeling too humid at least by day but there's dry weather too across southern parts of africa alone we have seen some rather live the showers just pushing towards the eastern cape recently fair amount of clout there diving out of namibia botswana down into central and eastern parts of south africa so the chance of wanted to share was here was we go on through monday tend to fizzle out by choose day with a top temperature twenty six.

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team is working around the clock to update you on all the latest information coming out of barcelona and related to the catalonia. you can. get. by using the hash tag a.j. news grid on any of the stories that you've seen on this evening's show you can tweet us at. or on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news grid and you can send us a what's up on plus nine seven four five zero one one four nine and always use the hash tag a.j. news grid well the u.s. president donald trump has told his top diplomat not to bother trying to negotiate with north korean leader kim jong un whom he's dubbed rocket man in a tweet not long ago this is what he said i told rex tillerson our wonderful secretary of state that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with little rocket man save your energy rex we'll do what has to be done cross over to mike

hanna joining us from washington d.c. what are we to read into trump's latest tweet mike. well this is astounding even by the standards of the trump presidency to be making the foreign policy in the form of a tweet to repudiate your state department head who made these comments about back channels to north korea on a visit to china rex tillerson said in the last twenty four hours that the u.s. had two if not three back channels of communication with north korea he appeared to be holding on for some kind of ongoing diplomatic resolution to this north korean crisis but now this totally repudiated by his president in the form as i said of public policy tweets saying that basically diplomatic track is not worthwhile at all many questions resulting out of this not least is we've seen for a long period of time now no unity within the trumpet ministration on north korean

policy for the president to now be contradicting or repudiating his secretary of state is confirmation of this of something that everybody knew was long happening i might be jumping ahead of myself here mike but what does this mean if anything at all for the negotiations. well it's of the essentially moving out the concept of diplomatic negotiation at all the secretary of state even the secretary of defense had been saying that diplomatic negotiation is far preferable to any form of military action now that is the opinion of the majority it would appear in trump's cabinet the president appears to think otherwise by making these tweets this morning he's sending the strongest signal that there is no potential whatsoever for dialogue that leaves only one thing on the table that is military action it is the president unilaterally going against members of his cabinet and basically saying that there will be no more talk or attempts to talk with north

korea importantly to he's a dash in the hopes of china who had been arguing very strongly that they should be some form of diplomatic track that's why the secretary of state made that announcement while he was on a visit to china certainly china is going to look at trump's tweets with a great deal of disfavor and probably great anger ok mike we thank you for that update from d.c. and we can move away from trying to tweet about what he's done is spoken on the phone with puerto rico's governor that's hours after unleashing a twitter rant there it is at the mayor of the u.s. territories capital city kerman in ulan cruz had been complaining that in her words people were dying in san juan and elsewhere because the federal government's slow response to the devastation of hurricane maria terrorism bo reports. the generator went down in this hospital in some one who more than one hundred

patients had to be urgently transferred to other locations is a lot of a rush his mother is still inside he's worried about where they're going to take her he is. just several complications in the oxygen she is old and i'm not sure where we will go but she is not alone inside there are others who are recovering from surgery among other things who were not allowed inside but we were told that most of the patients were transferred on time. because tenet and on a general way fifteen hours which was completely destroyed during the hurricane this is just an example of how the situation for peacefully deteriorate if immediate action is not taken this forward is playing a crucial role this 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 belong to private companies they could easily help to restore the supply chain here right

now in in all of our terminals there are merge and see supplies they are emergency medicine water food construction materials commercial materials so the terminal is full of goods it's a matter of how we restore this. part of the supply chain on the island 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 can and must come you see only 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 what i mean joining groups 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. i'm a 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 this age so. to say that a general is 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 we'll leave their differences aside and sort things out. some one. well the man in charge of the u.n. food agency is warning the world that it needs to step up and do more to help muslim refugees in bangladesh david beasley has visited

a camp near cock's bazaar and says there is the risk off a massive catastrophic disaster more than half a million revenger have fled into bangladesh in the more than a month to escape a million marm military crackdown that's been condemned ethnic cleansing by some. here we are and this particular camp where hundreds of thousands of people being fed but we need more than just food and we barely are getting the food we need but we're ramping up the world food program to get the job done but we need shelter we need water sanitation nutritional products health care every possible thing you can imagine the community needs when you look behind me you see this is not the best situation but it's the best that we have and we're going to make the best with what we have but we need financial support from the international community we don't need it later we need it now for example in the world food program alone we need seventy five million dollars just in the next six months to feed the half

a million people that we have at present if we receive another two hundred thousand or more we got any more money this is just for the next six months we're going in the seventy five million dollars and that's just for food shelter and all other issues there's needs to be a tremendous outcry from this community and these to be a tremendous response from the international community because behind me is me and maher and thousands of people across in that border daily fleeing for their lives into this situation here where they have safety they have food they have shelter but we need more help we need more support from the international community we need it now we need immediately. all ten fairchild really is following developments from the camp. i mean. they're really if this division since to be more active in lot of the camps we have visited the last couple of weeks this is far from a very different scenario two weeks ago when things were very chaotic. the army

took over for the central distribution of relief and the traffic management thinks looks better on the ground right now we have also seen presence of very high ups u.n. agency people as well as international donor agency people taking part in distributing relief coordinating on the ground talking to put a fraud monitoring things i spoke to the executive director of the world food program david bisley i oxon to share his experience on the ground he went through when to narrate to say what the refugees told him on the ground something like women and children crossing into buying that's how they were shot at by me and my security forces. what is most needed right now in bangor that he said to be more food aid is needed and that's not done he expect more people thousands more going just to cross over into bangladesh shortly and the international community to really speed up the aid process into this camp. released the world's first three hundred sixty degree documentary about the road crisis i am follows the

story of a young woman and she speaks of the persecution she faced in mean more and shows us her daily life now in a refugee camp in bangladesh so when you watch that video you can click on it and you can drag the mouse to take a look around watch it on al-jazeera dot com by searching for room in the search box in hong kong protest organizers say forty thousand people marched through heavy rain to rally against china's national day demonstrators defied the celebrations to call for more democracy and an end to political persecution from hong kong here's the pollen. marching against what they see as government oppression but with a very specific demand adding to the chance for democracy calls for hong kong's justice secretary to step down they say rimsky us recent decision to retry and jailed protesters and activists created the city's first political prisoners. we

witnessed in recent months how the secretary for justice abused his political position to make sure that those who fight for justice in hong kong would be ended up in prison activists call twenty seventeen a punishing year for hong kong's democracy movement in august three former student leaders were given jail sentences for storming the government grounds during the twenty four thousand protests that triggered a seventy nine day occupy movement government prosecutors are now bringing public nuisance charges against the co-founders of the occupy movement and since last year the government has removed six elected pro-democracy politicians from hong kong's parliament in recent years especially the share i'm how come people are facing a lot of loss of political suppression which you're saying i must tell us totally

ridiculous and totally against basic human right and democracy these protests also marked three years since the start of the umbrella movement which has proved to be one of the biggest challenges to the central government in beijing but since then many here say the rights of people who live in hong kong have been eroded. there have been many protests this year but there's a heightened sense of urgency at this march people here say the best march is particularly significant given the government's recent actions they feel they could be arrested just for being at this protest despite this families and people of all ages braved the three kilometer walk through the heat and heavy rain. you know i think the next generations will suffer even more because of the government i find it strange the chinese leaders from the communist regime a trying to govern hong kong like the rest of china but the two and not the same. organizers say it's the reason they held this protest on october first a day which it highlights unity in china hong kong is the only place where people

can still protest freely under china's one country two systems policy and they want to make sure it remains that way pollen are jazeera hong kong well divya has also filed a piece online in which explores the protests culture in hong kong that's as the territory has witnessed bouts of protests as she's saying in a report in past decades amid beijing's growing influence over the city so you can read her analysis on our website al-jazeera dot com it's a special day for a shia muslims across the world they're marking the death of one of the grandsons of the prophet muhammad from iran to iraq india to lebanon on its considered the holiest day in the branch of islam and every country has their own unique way of observing it. around thirteen percent of muslims are shia and for them this is a particularly important period of mourning sunday marks the anniversary of a seventh century battle in karbala in iraq where the prophet mohammed's grandson

emaar husseini was killed in one hussein rather many people compare it to the passion of the christ plays which christians perform during easter and in fact some iraqi christians even take part in the short for sessions as a mark of respect for the community now many people are commemorating the shore online by sharing quotes from hussein his death is considered by the shia community as a symbol of humanity's struggle against injustice tyranny and oppression nuri sardar is a filmmaker who's been tweeting quite a bit about the sure of the past few days and what it means to him. either my name is in there is one of the i'm rich muslim and i'm coming to you now in kabul in iraq commemorating the tragedy of all sure that is the day when mom was saying the grandson of the prophet mohammed and his family and his companions were killed refusing to bow down to a tyrant refusing to pay allegiance to an oppressed for refusing to live in communication you stood up for the oppressed and this teaches me throughout my life

to always stand up for people who are oppressed to always stand up for people of peace and justice in today's world which is sort of in today's world because we see so many minority groups today the oppressed live in injustice and in most sane took me on this day to stand up for their rights and to fight for their rights and all the primary rituals consist of expressions of mourning as you can see in this procession that took place in beirut other commemorations have a distinctly political tone the leader of the lebanese armed group hezbollah used his address on saturday night to criticize saudi arabia israel and moves by the kurds in northern iraq to seek independence. now. there is a new phase of the region is facing and it is a very dangerous one it is the phase of partition. and. this is issue not about the right to decide a fate or about rights or about a group that wants to separate it has a completely different aim which is to partition the region based on ethnic and religious grounds now in some parts of the world the commemorations are banned this

includes indian administered kashmir where thousands of shia muslims were expected to march despite the ban then in bahrain members of the shia community there are sharing images like these of people praying in the streets opposition activists. we did that the government is systematically targeting the largest sect in bahrain while promoting itself as a champion of religious freedom so we want to hear your thoughts especially if you are commemorating ashore somewhere in the world you can tweet us your views using the hash tag. well still ahead coming up in just a moment joe will be here she'll have all the sports news that's an american rapper divides australians with a controversial song during a football grand final before that though we'll take a look at the weather. the be.

as china's rapid economic development spills over into other asian nations. people in power investigates the consequences for neighboring laos. poverty stricken and hungry for foreign investment can this communist republic reconcile the needs of its people with the demands of the gracious benefactor. louts on the borders of empire at this time on al jazeera. al jazeera is different from other channels because we're not just there when something happens we are there before it happens where there while it happens and we say we do have

a permanent presence and a lot of places are starting. to back around being eleven on is very important it's about syria it's about lebanon it's about the power struggle between iran and saudi arabia it's all there and that's the challenge. thank. you and our people are talking about in sports today here is joe thank you very much for the cattle referendum is also had an impact on sports bosler in a spanish league game against west palm os is being played behind closed doors because of the clashes between police and voters now there was confusion as fans

queue to enter boston as camp new stadium earlier because the decision had only been made shortly before kickoff bosler i know which is voiced its support for catlin independence had originally asked for the game to be perspire and were refused by the league they released a statement saying the club condemns events which prevent its citizens exercising their democratic right to free expression well sunday is a milestone day for international basketball was a long standing rule banning head coverings is officially officially lifted the change was approved earlier this year after a sustained online campaign and now one of the key campaign is trying to promote the participation of muslim women in boscobel and his home and reports. we prefer from home here we can choose. a new interest it's a new look for basketball and for muslim women who play across the world by haarp the start of new opportunities after a long standing campaign that he job is finally allowed in the sport it's

a important because it will get more people see that women muslim accomplish and do play and are willing to play as well and even if we are covered up it didn't stop us from playing. in leicester basketball players from across the u.k. came together as they try to form the country's first muslim women's team emboldened by the rule change on head coverings that was approved by the sport's governing body feeble earlier this year i think we're going to make a big difference and is of even for the young kids they can see those as well as to be able to give us one job some of what i speak at school i used to actually stop for two years because of a job and it play and now when i heard about the bond i actually decided to go back . as my dolly is the woman behind the new team is the falcons she was also one of the drivers behind an online campaign promoting the rule change using petitions and the hash tag feeder allow he job. right now but gradually in the

elite sports we're going to see a mom for girls in basketball playing with a job in college basketball for example in america and basically was. making the most of us seeing women that look like them playing the moment and having the right of going to cost us a cranny made her name nor and by designing the modest swimwear known as the book amy she first made the he g.b. in twenty eleven give it to that comma you know fiddling around with your he job which is a scar you know it just stays in place and allows you to perform the best allowed any whether it's the the before or feeble or any school you know and companies. to understand that there's more to come by anyone and it's not going to cause any how that so crannies donated the he to the falcons the squad a full of ambition they want to raise money for kids to play basketball in iraq and syria and promote the participation of muslim women in the sport so it doesn't make this whole

connotation of all this time i would wish the press was when they see us playing and we're going to double laughing and joking for the whole time it's about the boy oh ok she smiled ok she got the ball ok wait the five of the book you know makes it kind of conscious that to stereotype these people mind this decision doesn't just benefit muslim women turbans will now also be permitted on caught but for the falcons it's not just about them but about the younger women who will now have every opportunity to reach the top homan al-jazeera and here's a story that's trending worldwide rugby's and our old grand final i'm a stranger but it's not the sporting action is getting people talking so much as the pre-game show american rapper macklemore became the focus when he chose a song called same love a song that deals with equal rights and its timing has many people divided because the formants comes in the midst of a campaign about same sex marriage equality in australia politicians have been

debating for a week whether macklemore should be allowed to sing the song prime minister malcolm turnbull said he was looking forward to what he called the gay and phone but former prime minister tony abbott tweeted forty fans shouldn't be subjected to a politicized grand final whatever your view macklemore and co-writer mary lambert sang the song and this is how it went down. it's going to change us we just whatever we. see what. we. want to be for. all that song is now number one on the

australian i chains account and will says he'll be donating proceeds to the yes campaign he also tweeted off his performance saying before me at the end of al grand final was one of the greatest owners of my career thank you for the opportunity and supporting equality i really want to hear your thoughts tweet me at . all hash tag a.j. news grid i'll be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now back to daryn joe thank you also happening at eight hundred hours g.m.t. is the end of voting in the referendum in catalonia so take a look at these live pictures coming to us right now people continuing to vote just two more hours left to cast their ballots in the single question voters there are facing is do you want catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic so that is what they're answering all day we have seen scenes of people voting and scuffles as well with the spanish police we will that is the end of the

news grid in fact but julien macdonald the team in london will have all the very latest on that story and the rest of the day's news that's coming up in just a moment if i get out of the way here and just show you all the ways you can keep in touch with us on the social media send us your comments and your questions use the hashtag a.j. newsgroup we're on twitter we're on facebook and you can also send us a whatsapp the number. it's right there i'll see you back here in studio fourteen at fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. that will be on monday see you then thanks for watching. facing the realities your president said that there would be a complete audit

a hundred percent audit that audit hasn't happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying then that the future of the g.c.c. will be in doubt. he had a story. on talk to housing at this time. on al jazeera. after a year of mourning time on bids a final farewell to its longest reigning monarch. for the stories beyond the headlines faultlines examines the us his role in the world liberians are preparing for the third election since a bitter civil war and service a calling it a crucial test for democracy an investigation into the electronics industry revealing out even the smallest devices of deadly environmental and health costs. china's communist party is holding its annual congress what will it mean for the country and its people. on al-jazeera.

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