zero. every. facing realities your president said that there would be a complete audit a hundred percent ordered that order 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 and. hear their story. on talk to al-jazeera at this time new yorkers are very receptive to al-jazeera because it is such an international city they're very interested and that global perspective that al jazeera provides. live pictures from monrovia as liberians head to the polls to choose who will take over from ellen johnson sirleaf africa's first elected female president.

it's nine g.m.t. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha i'm fully back to also ahead countdown to catalonia his big announcement the regional leader arrives at parliament to make an important speech on the future of the region plus reports that ten thousand range of muslims cross the border into bangladesh in a single day to escape violence in myanmar and with the wind driven event this fire change behavior very rapidly is moving throughout the areas ten dead one hundred people missing and twenty thousand evacuated as wildfires spread in the u.s. state of california. the polls have opened in liberia in an election to replace africa's first elected female leader the polls opened just about an hour ago. a nobel peace prize winner

ellen johnson sirleaf is to step down after two terms in office liberians will be choosing from a crowded field of twenty candidates live to r.g.s. an address who is in monrovia for his am at the polls have opened about an hour or so ago i see the lines are very long behind you house of all tingling so far. everything is going on very worlds so far follies to my right as those voters who've been accredited from hundreds of voters who are killed outside this polling station and machinery convent here in monrovia and they have been cleared to come into the compound and then from here you find that these are able bodied men and women trying to vote on my left physically challenged people also easier to cast their vote but the problem here is getting access to moving here so they are virtually being helped to cross the test here in order to access the polling

station. doctors now let me take you to one of the actual voting is taking place now these people the voters who have been fully accredited and they're killed out excuse me queued up to come inside this hall while this lady here is trying to certify that they've been really accredited by the polling agency we have polling officials here and on the side these are the presiding officers and all. commission staff who are looking cross checking the register to see that the those who come here really house the really card to actually cast their vote and over there at that table you have the ballot papers cost for the presidential election here and then of course for the representative candidates who are going for parliamentary elections and right over there actually observe. for the various

political parties who are here to represent the parties to see what is actually going on in this in this polling station. twenty candidates are competing to replace ellen johnson sirleaf the people who are voting today what issues are they most concerned about what would they like their future head a state to focus on. well basically they're looking at somebody who will come and take over from an injustice and if they are appreciative of the. somehow more this developments recorded in the last twelve years especially the maintenance of peace and order in a country that just emerged from the civil war just fifteen sixteen years ago now we are looking for people to build on those infrastructures that are critical in national development cost of course road construction electricity which is in short supply here they need our schools they need hospitals they need all these infrastructures that can help spur development in this country investment is not as

much as people want and with the movement of the united nations and other non-governmental organizations from liberia the challenge is how to attract more investors to come into this country the unemployment rate here we hear it's more than eighty percent and then the literacy level is just over thirty percent so these are critical issues for a long period voters who are coming to the elections today thank you very much for that armitage is live for us in liberia's capital monrovia staying in africa at least two people have been killed in a vehicle ambush near a university in kenya two staff members were shot dead by gunmen in quali county in the south as they were traveling to mombasa technical university two police officers and a driver were injured in the attack the attackers are believed to be al-shabaab fighters. a dramatic increase in the number of ranger refugees fleeing ongoing violence in myanmar calling to report seeing had been a law in recent days but reports say ten thousand people have crossed into

bangladesh on monday more than half a million people have left me and more since a military crackdown began six weeks ago in rakhine state mohammed john june has the latest from cox's bazar in bangladesh near the border with me and mark. a dramatic increase in the number of our hindu refugees crossing from me and more into bangladesh the u.n.h.c.r. is said they are investigating reports that at least ten thousand more refugees have crossed from me and more into bangladesh in the past few days it is hard to confirm these numbers exactly but in local media reports since yesterday many local government officials have said that in different areas that thousands of refugees have come in and that there has definitely been a surge since last week when the numbers of ranger refugees that were crossing per day from me an hour into bangladesh had waned now in the camps that we have been visiting conditions are extremely dire today in this makeshift camp it's the start

of a cholera immunization campaign the reason for that groups like the w.h.o. and unicef in coordination with the bangladeshi health ministry they're trying to take these measures preventive didley to vaccinate the many refugees against cholera now in this first phase which begins today we're told that it is expected that at least six hundred and fifty thousand refugees will be vaccinated after that phase ins next week then another phase will begin a bit later more will be vaccinated you know conditions in these camps are absolutely atrocious they are extremely unhygenic and that's one of the reasons aid workers and health workers have been concerned that there could be a full on health crisis and there could be epidemic spreading and the disease is spreading if they don't get this under control. the turkish military is continuing to serve a parser vaguely province in syria ahead of the establishment of a so-called deescalation zone there turkish forces have been deployed at the border

since it was announced they would support syrian rebels in their battle against a former al qaeda affiliate in italy of the govt area controls most of the province and has rejected the proposed the escalation zone agreed on by turkey russia and iran further inland in iraq a us five syrian fighters say they're preparing for a final push to retake neighborhoods still held by ice or officials from the kurdish led syrian democratic forces believe the last phase will take between seven and ten days the operation to retake rocka with the backing of u.s.'s support has been going on since june and both syrian government forces and as the air fighters are continuing to battle i saw in the arizona province this is the last major i saw stronghold in eastern syria russian backed syrian troops have been pushing along the western bank of the euphrates river with s.t.'s fighters on the eastern bank. at least ten people are dead and more than one hundred others are missing in fast

moving wildfires across the u.s. state of california this was a scene just a few hours ago in the southern region where more than five thousand homes were evacuated as high i.q. is struggle to control the blaze many are still fleeing their homes after the governor of california declared a state of emergency in seven counties rob reynolds has more from the scientists much of kilo fornier is burning or at risk of going up in flames from north to south in the most populous us state more than twenty major fires are burning with nearly thirty thousand hectors already scorched thousands of homes and other buildings have been destroyed at least twenty thousand people have been evacuated including patients at two hospitals. the fires sprang up quickly fanned by winds gusting up to eighty kilometers per hour and aided by extremely low you miltie i know these kind of conditions the rest is just a stream of new stars and that's what i mean what happened last night and this

morning the plan that's going online to have these explosive visions in the famous napa and sonoma county wine country home to some of california's finest vineyards residents were alerted near midnight and told they had only minutes to get out in southern california smoke and flames were visible in a major fire in anaheim the location of disneyland with the wind driven event this fire changed behavior very rapidly and is moving throughout the area so that's why we've expanded evacuation orders and we did ask people to heed those warnings firefighters are spread thin but meteorologists say the winds should die down soon giving hope they can get the fires under control rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. to spray now where the future of catalonia hangs in the balance says regional leader conor spurred him on to prepares to make what could be an historic

statement he has just arrived at the parliament in boston always due to make a speech on the future of the region it's believed he could make a declaration of independence from spain but spain's deputy prime minister has warned that madrid will act on any attempt to divide the country sonia gago has the latest on. all eyes on catalyst for you jim on the castle and president as he gets ready to make his address to parliament will he come out right and make that declaration of independence as many from within his party and from the session this movement have been pressuring him to do especially in the last few days but at taking a look from outside of that situation spain has made no doubts about the fact that it would use the full force of the law to try and prevent such a situation from happening looking outside of spain and its south voices from

within the european union such as germany and france have said that what is really necessary right now is for there to be unity and that set the country and indeed the european union cannot afford this instability it has clearly staked its side on the side of the spanish government to try and preserve that unity as well and also reminding the catalan government that not only would it be outside of the european union but it would also not be part of the euro zone as well that group would prove to be a very difficult issue for the president himself now voices within his party say that perhaps these declaration of independence would be not would be a way of trying to get the spanish government to have some kind of dialogue on the future of catalonia there have been complaints that. they years the spanish government has not listened to them and perhaps with a declaration of independence all the parties can sit on the around the table and

start to discuss exactly the way to go forward but this is something that the spanish government is not entertaining in the slightest and even there have been calls from within the ruling. coalition saying that perhaps this is not the right time to pursue such a measure and that's what is needed now is a third way perhaps a mediation from the european union to go forward and begin a proper dialogue to head on al-jazeera seeking a unified government to be conservation talks take place in cairo between rival palestinian factions fatah and hamas cross a diplomatic dispute exposes the deteriorating relations between turkey and the united states. with. hello and welcome back we'll start by looking at weather conditions across

southeastern parts of asia we've seen some pretty heavy rain affecting brunei of the last twenty four hours that's coming in from the airport also works out to see some rainfall accumulations in parts of java just getting into the rainy season couple of months away from the really heavy rain but showers now becoming more widespread so looking at the forecast again from the lazy in borneo brunei look so that we pretty well they will see some heavy downpours some showers likely effect at least partly probably dry and then up through the night we've got showers to singapore and kuala lumpur further north some heavy rain across southern parts of thailand the bangkok is likely to see some showers to vittie let's head down into a stray da here we've got low pressure developing and some trough of low pressure as well so looking a bit more unsettled here at the moment certainly still enjoying some fine weather conditions so twenty four degrees and sunny on wednesday but this frontal system is like you pushing further towards the east as we head through thursday so i'm able see some rain pushing through the city during the course of the day out across

western australia generally looking fine with highs of twenty three in perth across into new zealand we've got still some heavy rain across many parts on wednesday but this should be a temporary rest by as we head through thursday. in the heart of the amazon the libyan families put their lives in peril to harvest presume. that it's getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. to. risk a new tool to believe you know. at this time on al jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera reminder our top stories this hour polls have opened in liberia to elect a new leader after twelve years president johnson sirleaf africa's first elected female president is stepping down after two terms in office twenty candidates competing to replace it. that's a no news regionally to qantas put him on ties arrived on a mint in boston oh no way is due to make a speech on the future of the region it's believed he could make a declaration of independence about spain's deputy prime minister has warned that madrid will act on any attempt to divide the country and the number of refugees fleeing ongoing violence in myanmar may have increased again following a law in recent days reports say ten thousand have crossed into bangladesh since monday more than half

a million people have left me and mark since the crackdown began six weeks ago in rakhine states. and you go shaders from rival palestinian factions for time and hamas i in cairo for talks on ending their decade long split the recantation deal brokered by egypt follows a cabinet meeting in gaza last week marking the return to work of the unity government but as harry fossett reports from the occupied west bank divisions remain even over the parameters for the upcoming talks on their way out of gaza hamas officials not for the first time in recent weeks griggs you didn't optimism the architecture of a deal had been brokered by egypt now it was for hamas and fatah to start work on the details in cairo face to face. we are going to cairo to discuss the mechanism of implementing the two thousand and eleven color agreements we already signed with plaster which includes the p.l.o. preparing for elections and forming

a unity government. but before the hamas negotiators even left it was clear the other side had different expectations senior thought of. telling our jazeera nothing had come of the twenty eleven agreement instead that i would present a vision for a unified national strategy for hamas to sign up to the most of this do they want to have. it for ever and their work to bring us to. deliver services or they want to par. delivery of services would certainly be welcomed by garzon suffering daily deprivation the divide which began with gun battles ten years ago has combined with the israeli blockade scene gars a slide into economic and humanitarian calamity a situation worsened by three conflicts with israel in which thousands of

palestinians died this year palestinian president mahmoud abbas imposed restrictions on salaries and electricity supplies increasing the pressure on hamas to seek a deal now he's insisting that any agreement prevents hamas is military wing from remaining an external alternative center of power. the buses position is that he refuses the equation whereby the palestinian authority governs overground and hamas governs underground so it seems the issue of arms is on the table even though it wasn't in previous agreements. for all the smiles on the show in gaza last week when the palestinian authority prime minister assembled his cabinet for a formal handover of power this reconciliation remains at a fragile early stage previous attempts to understood have ended in failure there is early momentum this time not least as a result of egypt's intervention but now comes the harder test of thrashing out longstanding divisions in direct negotiations are

a force that ramallah and joining us now on al-jazeera is. a lecturer at the university his life from ramallah in the occupied west bank thank you very much for being with us. so these recounts nation talks in cairo we've been here before any new reason to help for some sort of reconnaissance mission is there anything different this time around. you know i think it's a little bit different not completely different therefore we are a little bit more optimistic but not very much optimistic that the two differences is that hamas has given up its government in gaza dissolved it and invited the palestinian government to come and take over under palestinian government made a successful. visit it was a protocol visit but it was good enough to give an impression about the seriousness of a mass on this level the second difference is that egypt seems to be investing

a lot of political capital and efforts in order to make things work because it's under security pressure in sanaa and they want the cooperation would have us in this fight therefore there is a possibility for the limited progress towards the kind of conciliation reconciliation that will ensure cooperation with egypt between egypt and hammers and probably enabling the palestinian government to extend its services or services into gaza strip ok however there is very little hope that they can yes i was going to come to the to the negatives if you well you talked about egypt's role and i don't want to get back to that in just a few minutes but i want to ask you first about that the stumbling blocks here because there are already stumbling blocks about for instance who is going to control guys are stumbling blocks over whether hamas will give up its weapons what do you see as the biggest challenges going into these negotiations what is the

biggest stumbling block as far as you're concerned. actually these the challenges are three the first one is security whether hemas will give a its own security or not and i think that they will not. and if the p.a. will insist on that this is going to be a break the whole attempts will break the second is politics the two sides have big serious differences in politics so if they try to unify the two sides in the p.l.o. structure then they will fail and the third one is election if they will try to go for election i have doubts that they will be able to agree these are the major three challenges and i think this time they might avoid going into these difficult issues and make progress on the rest which is a step in the right direction and probably go slowly to check on the possibilities

of other issues in the future now let's let's talk about egypt's role and now president sisi has been directly talking to the palestinians he also said that this current we constellation talk the negotiations right now between the palestinians between hamas and the p.l.o. are preparation he said for israeli palestinian talks and israeli palestinian peace deal is he being too optimistic. i think he's too optimistic and i think that this is making the. president have a little bit warty because he doesn't know exactly what might lay behind in terms of the kind of plans that the president. might be trying to develop with other regional partners president abbas is a little bit nervous also because of the financial burden he wants first to make

sure that the international community is willing to finance the additional financial burdens so egypt's role. of the one hand is very much what comes because they have a leverage over her mouse but on the other hand it's making the palestinian authority a little bit hesitant and cautious and they want guarantees on the nature of the possible future political plans that the united states and egypt might be developing together thank you so much for speaking to us very good to get your thoughts on this block sure at present university life there from ramallah thank you for your time. techie's president has described a u.s. decision to suspend most. citizens as upsetting the current standoff began with the arrest of a u.s. consulate employee in istanbul accused of links to fail to kill but i spot a call hang reports it all takes place against a backdrop of detail you're waiting relations between the two nato allies. after

the arrest of a worker at the u.s. embassy in ankara and a warrant issued for another the us took the unusual step of saying they would stop issuing visas for some turkish nationals traveling to america the first explanation was posted by the u.s. ambassador to turkey on twitter we don't know if these arrests are singular events or if we should expect other turkish staff members to be arrested turkey quickly followed suit with similar measures but president richard type. who did it reluctantly. this is a very sad decision and the ambassador has taken a decision and started implementing it so it's a source of sadness this is just the latest in a growing list of diplomatic back and forth the relationship between these two nato allies started souring during the syrian civil war turkey upset the u.s. didn't do enough against the assad government even angrier when the u.s. backed kurdish fighters and later armed them. then last year's coup attempt and it

got worse erdogan blamed to cleric for to the golan who lives in the u.s. they wanted him extradited for his alleged role the obama administration refused and the trump administration hasn't moved on it either that was a big issue when he first met president donald trump but that was overshadowed by what happened when he left the oval office. turkish security officers violently attacked what appeared to be peaceful protesters outside the turkish ambassador's residence fifteen of them were indicted in u.s. courts and as a result the u.s. stopped a planned sale of small arms to turkey turkey further angered the us. yes when it agreed to buy a russian missile defense system equipment that wouldn't work within nato has indicated he would be willing to trade americans imprisoned in turkey for good lawn but given that would be hard to do within the legal system something he really wants the case thrown out against her citizen reza zurab who was awaiting trial in the u.s. for allegedly helping turkey evade sanctions against iran it's less

a matter of wanting it back than wanting the case to go away it wanting him not to testify not wanting any of the details about their role in helping iran evade sanctions coming out in the course of a trial it will be yet another chance for the already frosty relationship to cool even more political hay in al-jazeera washington. let's get the latest from our turkey based correspondent. the turkish prime minister has been speaking in the last hour and he's very keen to see this dispute resolved quickly yes exactly both prime minister and president are willing to solve this crisis. without the escalating but he had some important points fully he said that this a visa suspension measure was totally. disproportional against who has been allies with united states for a long time and he said that when what it would be how to retaliate against what is

them to us that's why we have the same steps towards the united states also he said that we don't need permission to take people to police station to ask for their testimonies as the state of emergency is still ongoing in turkey and one thing that is important as a statement by the prime minister is that he mentioned just right before this recent crisis with the you as officials an uncle had held meetings with the u.s. officials in turkey and they asked for they propose for increasing the security measures for the u.s. mission space and turkey and the american said no we don't need any extra security so prime minister especially emphasize and underline the statement today thank you so much for bringing us the latest reaction there from turkey. serious football team has begun its second leg of the world cup qualifier against australia

i made a back drop of the civil war the prospect of competing in the world cup for the first time is one of excitement for many syrians but even in sport divisions among syrian still bad andrew thomas has more from sydney. whoever loses this match is out of the running for the world cup and would see syria go out as well because of strikes going away going against them last week for a free fall for syria progress in australia really is a must win match about things being training in sydney over the last few days and supporters about things so i can't wait asking the syrian supporters here in tijuana is their preferred school. a protest by some syrians strike against the syrian state like see it as a tool for the regime it's not want support it's only a sudden need to get benefit of this event. that we have lived

achievement we have a sports team we have everything you know that's the point just the propaganda so he was appalled saying australia happen outnumbered by syrian supporting their home countries team is one of those supporters tell me when you mix politics with sport the sport going to play you will suffer. and sport there's actually more tension between the secrets of syrians than between syrian support his ankle sprains the story the knot is probably still more about sports and politics and the latest score. on. all the very latest on all of the top stories on. the top stories on. president ellen johnson

sirleaf. president is stepping down after two terms in office twenty. to replace her. on a mint in boston lona to make an historic speech shares speculation that he could announce catalonia as independence but the spanish government insists the country will not be divided the number of ranger refugees fleeing ongoing violence in myanmar may have increased again following a law in recent days reports say ten thousand crossed into bangladesh on monday more than half a million people have left me on last since a military crackdown began six weeks ago in rakhine state turkey's president has described a u.s. decision to suspend most visas services for take his citizens as of setting the current standoff began with the arrest of a u.s. consular employee in istanbul accused of links to last year's failed school and arrest warrant is also out for another u.s.

consulate worker in turkey in the united states at least ten people of died and more than one hundred a missing in fast moving wildfires across the state of california more than five thousand homes were evacuated in the southern region as fire crews struggled to control the blaze the u.s. vice president has assured the federal government would do all it could to help. i want to assure the people california on behalf of person the trump in our charge ministration and that we'll be working very closely with governor brown and with california to see you through these challenging times and i want to say to the people of california all of those and then our you know in the past of these advancing wildfires that we are with you we are standing with you and the american people will have the communities that are affected your thoughts and in our prayers and the turkish military is continuing to survey parts of adlib province in syria ahead of the a savage front of a so-called deescalation zone the take us forces have been deployed at the border

since it was announced they would support syrian rebels in their battle against a former al qaeda affiliate in northwest innately a province you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next here it's the documentary risking it all to stay with us on al-jazeera. the head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germany satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily their studies biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera.