oh man i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for it is you know it's very challenging even if particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues. with the people who believe that tell the real story i'll just mended in-depth journalism we don't feel in favor. of the bill. that. was. celebrating victory in catalonia votes to secede from his fame but could joy a short lived. alone

on this year without his ear in life and also coming up. at least three people were killed dozens are injured in a shooting attack in las vegas that police say is still under way. the u.s. secretary of state's diplomatic efforts in china to ease a north korea crisis is a waste of time tweets his boss. the emotional family reunion has put a rican struggle to put their lives back together almost two weeks after hurricane maria. the first catalonians government is claiming victory in sunday's referendum they say ninety percent of those who voted bought secession from spain but only forty two percent of catalonia is five point three million registered voters a belief. turns out that's just on the two million people in total now many of

position groups in the region boycotted the vote because they believed the poll to be illegal in line with the spanish government and its estimated spanish police shut down about half of the polling stations preventing many people from being able to vote either way. and the entire world to see in that on one side we have violence and shame and on the other democracy and dignity this is an easy election to have moreover this is an election that we asked for from the european institutions and from governments of other countries who want desire a call out for us to be able to build a more open democratic world. coexistence is a good that we must begin to recover as soon as possible i say very clearly i'm not going to close any door and if it did it's not my way of doing politics i've always offered an honest dialogue but always within the little and always within the democracy frame. let's go live now to our correspondent in barcelona john hendren

jones so we have victory being claimed on the one side and it being completely denied on the other where does that leave us today. i think it leaves us about where we expected to be at this time martine nobody expected to spanish government to accept this referendum and it was always questionable whether the rest of the world would i think everybody was kind of expecting to come out today in an uncertain situation with a major rift in spain even larger. the turnout numbers were probably about what was expected given the exceptional way this was carried out the spanish government ahead of this election arrested election officials here threatening them with jail terms of up to fifteen years for sedition crackdown by that fact. thousands on those polling booths as you mentioned shutting

a number of them down now that the catalonian leaders did what what they could to mitigate that instead of just allowing people to vote at their own polling place they allowed them to vote at any polling place of the fact that the spanish were able to shut down a number of polling places doesn't mean that those people simply did not vote but the bottom line is we don't really know what the turnout was in the sense that the spanish police confiscated a number of ballots the catalonian officials estimate that to be seven hundred seventy thousand would have substantially raised the turnout level but we really don't know the definitive answer that because this was such an extraordinary event and that is going to leave it in the eye of the ball holder and it is very clear that carlos preached a month the president of the region of catalonia he's going to ask for the parliament as he promised he would do for a declaration of independence and that is where the trouble could really start here

and whatever happens with that this rift with this rift with spain does not appear to be something that can be solved in the short term and even if the the council on all sorts is can't be confident that the results from the referendum all right true representation of the will of the people of catalonia are they still going to go ahead and you know lots are they declare independence as the president suggested he would do at this full debate took place. almost certainly polls show that support for it for independence or secession whatever you want to call it increased in recent weeks and the fact that eight hundred people were injured during the during the voting yesterday when police cracked down on them with but tons and rubber bullets certainly didn't do anything to bridge that gap i believe that the government. there is going to use that vote

to back up the independence that has long gone and what you have here is a group of people ninety percent of them if you if you believe in voting members voting in favor of secession but as you say a large number of people who simply boycotted the election and did not come so again the public view can only only be guessed at you because you got the referendum numbers and you got the people who didn't participate in what they considered an illegitimate election but the government here is certainly going to go forward i talked to. a couple days ago he said there is no minimum threshold to make this a legitimate election the spanish government he says make that impossible and therefore he will go forward all right john thank you for that john hendren that live in barcelona. now senior figures are on their way to the gaza strip as part of reconciliation efforts to mend ties with rival palestinian faction hamas and the

palestinian authority as prime minister rami hamdullah is leading the delegation it'll be his first visit to the strip since twenty fifteen gaza has struggled with months of electricity shortages and for the past decade hamas has controlled the strip while the fatah controlled palestinian authority holds power in the occupied west bank the rift between the two factions began when hamas won parliamentary polls in the gaza strip that was in two thousand and six but talks to form a government that broke down over ideological differences supported a two state solution but at the time hamas rejected israel's right to exist the differences lead to conflict and the eventual hamas takeover of girls are in two thousand and seven have been several failed attempts at reconciliation then last month thomas announced it would dissolve its rival administration and work towards forming a unity government let's go live now to our correspondent who is at the erez crossing

. on the stand and now just a reminder that any kind of movement between the occupied west bank and gaza has to be given the ok by the israeli authorities. that's right we're in the the sort of neutral buffer zone between the israeli side of this border and the gaza side which is just beyond the gates you can see behind me and yes this very large delegation two hundred fifty people being led by the prime minister on the one dollar is due to be here within about an hour's time a big reception committee is here to greet them he will be giving a news conference here before going on through the gates out into gaza proper and just outside those gates has to be said there are already hundreds of people waiting to greet him largely young men teenage boys the very sorts of people who lost out so much with youth unemployment running at nearly sixty percent here and that the kind of economic catastrophe they have had over the last ten years of

separation and israeli blockade is then going on into gaza city where you'll be holding talks with hamas is political bureau head. and then he'll be taking after lunch with honey and his colleagues will be taking a tour of some of the deprived areas of gaza and as well as that his various ministers will be heading out to the offices taking part in a handover where the people who were running those those offices that those ministries from hamas will be handing over to them this could be seen in in two ways to be seen as a bit of a capitulation by hamas to the kind of pressure that they've been under especially in recent months with those the electricity squeeze in the salary cuts imposed by fatah other people are saying it is quite a clever tactic that now it's fatah has problem the p.a.'s problem to try and make good on some of the promises that they've given towards improving the situation here for so many hundreds of thousands of residents of this strip indeed i'm just

wondering whether or how much the people of gaza the almost two million people of gaza who suffered so much they placing in the prospect of reconciliation between these two factions in terms of improving their prospects within their own lives. well that all counts on whether this can stick and that is something that is obviously still up in the air both sides are making very positive noises there are posters going up in gaza city of mahmoud abbas the palace in president as well as the prime minister handler even egyptian president sisi his president going his picture going up for the first time under hamas because egypt has very much been the broker behind this attempted reconciliation it seems that the easy things are going to be done or the relatively easy things are going to be concentrated on first in terms of ministerial handovers having the first cabinet meeting on tuesday but in the background there do lye all sorts of contentious issues how the egyptian

border will be policed will that be under the p.a. or ferrety or will it be under hamas exactly how hamas will respond to mahmoud abbas's apparent call for this not to be a lebanese like situation with hezbollah having a sort of a military center of power he apparently according to his officials doesn't want to see something similar with hamas his military wing the arc or some brigades but how much has made it very clear that that any kind of. accommodation between its military wing and fatah was not on the table of these talks so those sorts of very difficult contentious issues which probably will be postponed for now but will have to be addressed at some stage ok for now thank you very much harry for there live at the erez crossing. now at least two people have been killed in an attack in the u.s. city of las vegas. now

this is an incident that is still under way we understand this is happening at the mandalay bay hotel and casino local hospitals reporting that more than twenty four people have been injured and the police have said that one shooter is quote down where the cars that go as leyla. on the ground trying to avoid the bomb shell. alright missile to rob reynolds a correspondent in los angeles it's looks and sounds absolutely terrifying how many attacks because they're involved at this only a lot they get the call the police department says they done believes there are more the there are any additional uterus dies the one. gun person who was lethal was there taken down earlier so it's

a good point it looks as if they have. more or less taken the situation in and they are back to. hold a press conference within just a few minutes in las vegas police saying that two people are still twenty four at leat have been wounded and of those twelve people are in serious or critical condition karen lee one shooter who opened fire from a hotel room a ball the outdoor they were country music festival was just wrapping up in the late hours of the evening. causing them and police responded immediately and apparently. taken down that shooter and do not believe that there are any additional shooters at the moment i mean it sounded very much like it was automatic gunfire. it does sound does sound that way and.

very rapid. fire series of bullets. even on the scene said that they heard initially a burst of gunfire than a pause while people were in shock and then another burst of gunfire people begin to run a police urged everyone to get out of the area to support on the las vegas. themis area full of luxury hotels and casinos and his board people from all around the world come to las vegas to enjoy them and this particular evening it started turned into a scene of horror and that when police say that they've taken down the gunman presumably that means he's been killed do we have any idea as to his identity. police have not identified the gunman i think you're correct when they they taken

down that that is. another word for for having either seriously wounded or independence day or two still get done the most like you have done and was. has has died by now but we do not have any word on. who that. ah ok we're philanderer of royals but i think we got the gist of what he had to say lots more to come here on al-jazeera including getting education is a challenge for most girls in south sudan find out how one school is helping many go to class plus the un answer international aid to help thousands or hundreds of thousands even of ranger refugees. with. tranquil raby and. i don't mean. and if it

means going to. hello there we're seeing quite a different feel to the weather across parts of europe now for the northwestern parts it suddenly turned quite windy and this weather system here is bringing us some pretty heavy rain that sweeps its way eastwards behind it it is much fresher than it has been over the past week or so so here's that area of heavy rain then during the day today working its way through sweden into parts of germany and then gradually it'll edge its way eastwards as we had to choose day through the baltic states there and down across the alps as well for the south of the southeast and generally fine not too hot now we're looking at around twenty in bucharest but the showers in the far south of course he has quite a few problems these ones here giving us lots and lots of thunder and lightning and there also extending across the other side of the mediterranean as well so you can see those shop showers that we've been seeing over parts about geria into tunisia and also into the western parts of libya as well and the showers still with us as we head through tuesday very very heavy downpours at the loss of electrical

activity as well meanwhile towards the west it's going to be the warm of it has been recently robots will get to around thirty one degrees for the central belt of africa we've seen some pretty heavy showers recently but they're looking a little bit more subdued now so in the southern part of our map we can expect to see a few showers but further north and west is largely dry there with sponsored by cats . he's. in the hash tag era when news coverage consists of a punchy had like a five second sound bite not an easy solution. to delve deep a film says challenge the status quo expose double standards and debate the contradictions join me. for a new season of the show the frank love each other up front. but this time well just the right.

time for sake of the top stories here it out is there catalonia is regional government says ninety percent of those is. in favor of secession from spain in sunday's referendum despite a low turnout at least eight hundred forty four people were injured across the region the spanish police shut down some of the polling stations. senior figures on their way to gaza as part of reconciliation efforts to mend ties with rival palestinian factions hamas the palestinian authority prime minister. is leading the delegation hamas controls gaza but is open the door to ties with fatah

which controls the p.a. . and at least two people are dead dozens are injured some of them seriously after shots were fired at a concert in las vegas police say that they're responding to the incident took place at the mandalay bay casino on the city's strip. the other three women accused of assassinating the strange house brother of the north korean leader kim jong un have pleaded not guilty at their trial in the malays in court a large international media contingent was at the courthouse to see the arrival of the indonesian and vietnamese women in their charge with killing kim jong nam by smearing his face with a band nerve agent at the kuala lumpur airport and that was in february they face the death penalty if found guilty florence louis has more from charlotte high court near. the two suspects from indonesia and home from vietnam have pleaded

not guilty to charges of murdering kim jong nam on a february now the lead prosecutor in his opening remarks said the prosecution will put forward evidence including calling expert witnesses to testify that kim jong un died after being swamped with a lethal dose of v.x. nerve agent and he said they will be able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that these two women knew what they were doing and knew that what they were doing was enough to kill kim jong un now of course these two women are not the only thought specs in this murder case though for the north korean men but they are still at large police malaysian police have not been able to question them much less put them on trial now they are thought to have left malaysia a couple of hours after the killing was committed and they're believed to be in north korea there is an interpol red notice out for these men now of course at this stage we don't still know what the motive of this could become clearer in the coming weeks but the two women have said told diplomats from the home countries

that they are not guilty but they thought they were just taking part in a harmless prank for a reality television show. the u.s. president has contradicted his secretary of state's handling of the north korean crisis dismissing efforts to negotiate over its nuclear program as a waste of time. comments came in a tweet a day after rex tillerson revealed the u.s. was using direct channels of communication with pyongyang. has sent a representative to hold talks with bangladeshi foreign minister as the ranger refugee crisis deepens aid agencies are trying to help more than half a million people who fled the military crackdown a million miles state the u.n. world food program says bangladesh needs international support to deal with a lack of humanitarian aid. seventy million.

we need support from around the world because you're talking about. the. proper nutrition. explode into a catastrophic humanitarian disaster time that child has more now from cuts. to discuss their. personally by. the desire to meet the prime minister she isn't here and the discussion we want to have had with. prices is going to we have to see five point. put

whether any of those will be implemented on the ground it remains. close to. coming to bangladesh within a span of one month when they're going to be taken what are the process how are they going to be identified is a very complicated although there is a lot of diplomatic maneuvering going on by the u.s. by the u.n. the real pressure should come from china and india to kind of leverage. unless that happens not much is going to happen. thousands of refugees been here for decades and nothing's been solved yet so the complication lies how is buying with us going to sustain this close to a million refugees from all around the new influx how are they going to be helped by the international agencies and foreign governments what is on the ground things have improved since the first few weeks what we have seen there is a better relieved there is better coordination a lot of the u.n.

agency heads are on the ground personally monitoring things however the threat of infectious diseases still there because the sanitation and sort of system within the camps are still in condition unless those are. there is a clear danger of infectious disease spreading into the camps as well as within the local community many things still need to be resolved and the crisis is far from over refugees are still coming in not in great numbers but within fifty and hundreds almost every other day or if not every day now more than half of girls in south sudan drop out of school before the age of eighteen many of them come under pressure from their family to do so but teachers in one school in a rural town of rome back working with the community to change that and to help girls finish their education he will move them with. she's not just preparing for classes as she packs her books for. every day she stays in school is

a win in the battle between the relatives who want her out of school. i don't. need to get. that i get. lonely and yeah. marriage is not the only thing that can force young girls like josephine out of school south sudan has been at war for the past four years since its independence from sudan and twenty eleven thousands have been killed and nearly a quarter of its twelve million population displaced and that has prevented many children from attending school some parents say they don't want their kids in class because of the tribal tensions the world has created cyrus el barrow says she had some fears before she joined school and till she met girls from other tribes i had friends there before and i want to interact with. the

child of so much. communities that blunt how this day and all that. but also learn how to ski. but going to school especially for girls in south sudan is not easy according to unicef more than half of the children in south sudan are out of school and of those who are in school only thirty seven percent are girls and less than three percent of them actually finish high school and graduate. in many parts of the country a girl's value is based soley on how many cows which is regarded as a source of wealth the family can get when she's married sister or a. girl second preschool in room back the only boarding school in the country she says her school has managed to work out a way with the local community to keep the girls in school so one of the things we have to do in the school is we've had to get them to sign an agreement with the school and we asked for an elder within the family to come with the girl to sign an agreement with the school that if she comes to the school she will not be forced

out over the four years works but sadly we've still got two percent we still managed to lose every year commute to illustrate it's often difficult to convince the families to let the girls stay in school and i'm very lucky you some of the parents still don't understand why it's important to keep the girls in school years we tried to talk to them but sometimes we get insulted and harassed we talk to the girls we talk to the parents but it's very hard for the parents to be convinced justin doesn't know if she'll lose the fight against her family but she hopes they give up before she's forced to leave her books behind people morgan al-jazeera room back. the u.s. president has called critics of his response to this also. politically motivated in great power is still good to running and some families remain separated almost two weeks after hurricane maria teresa bird has followed two sisters on a journey to find their missing father. gerry and to hell failed have

not heard from their father for more than ten days he lives in the central mountains in an area that was among the hardest hit by the hurricane gas is difficult to find these days that's why when neighbors gave them some they decided to go and find him. before they go. their ways to get their work. and now we are trying to go there and find them he lives in one of the most remote areas of puerto rico if i spent a year in there to there when i was a child but this is the strongest one that hit the island so far and we headed towards oracle we saw in the center of the island there is no electricity no communications here nobody knows how bad the situation really is. normally you go in there. and everything is green and. all these big

trees are beautiful and now looks very. very sad but once there we were told we needed to take another road to much of this is what's happening all around port authority roads that are covered with everything bridges that collapsed now heavy machines are trying to clear the roads so people can start moving freely around the island. were able to cover part of the trip by road then we have to walk through the mountains. some houses are destroyed. this is how many are trying to locate their relatives this days and neighbor told us that they'd been seen a little light going on at night so we're thinking they are turning on their small electrical panel and this is really good news but even though they lived here most of their lives things have changed since the hurricane there used to be

a small road here but it's now completely covered with trees so they're trying to find alternative ways to make it there in spite of the difficulties they say nothing will stop them from making to their old home half an hour later they start calling out and there are signs that things could be ok shortly after they found what they searched for. were alive were alive my girls don't have health ed says he has been living here for forty seven years. what a tory call has been devastated by hurricane by for these two sisters the wind and the rain we're not able to take away the people they cherish the most hideous i will i'll just cedar or local research what already go. to a travesty take a look at the top stories here and our desire catalan is regional government says

ninety percent of voters went in favor of secession from spain in sunday's referendum despite an unexpectedly low turnout at least eight hundred forty four people were injured across the region the spanish police shut down some polling stations catalonia is president says the region one the right to become an independent state. and stuck and the entire world has seen that on one side we have violence and shame and on the other democracy and dignity and this is an easy election to have moreover this is an election that we are asked both from the european institutions and from governments of other countries who want desire and call out for us to be able to build a more an open democratic world senior figures our own route to the gaza strip as part of efforts to mend ties with rival palestinian faction hamas the palestinian authority prime minister rami dollar is leading the delegation hamas controls gaza

but has opened the door to restore ties with which controls the palestinian authority at least two people are dead dozens are injured after shots were father the cult says in las vegas police say the incident took place at the mandalay bay casino on the city's strip the two women accused of assassinating the a strange half brother of north korean leader kim jong un have pleaded not guilty at their trial in the malays in court they're charged with killing kim jong nam by smearing his face with the band nerve agent at the kuala lumpur airport in february the u.s. president has contradicted his secretary of state's handling of the north korean crisis dismissing efforts to negotiate over its nuclear program as a waste of time me and. is has sent a representative to hold talks with bangladesh's foreign minister as a ranger refugee crisis continues aid agencies are trying to help more than half

a million people who fled a military crackdown a million miles rakhine state those are the headlines up front is next. on counting the cost of the world's fastest growing startup created a new virtual labor market can that business model clear the regulation roadblocks ahead plus the fact as a player as oil prices enter a. counting the cost at this time. this week donald trump announced a revolutionary tax cut for the united states but is he its biggest beneficiary renowned economist and former advisor to ronald reagan and to trump. and we'll also debate whether one is turning into a dictatorship. the book. the by. the book. thanks for joining me.