quality of fish for the penguins swim further and further away to feed their young overfishing and ocean contamination especially plastics are also killing penguins. china's property. fields become cities rivers water parks forests lungs mostly empty. brings international before the illusion of a thriving metropolis and the many. chinese dream a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. catalonia later steps back from an immediate declaration of independence but madrid says that's not enough.

i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. kenya's opposition leader withdraws from the presidential election. says the election commission all give him a fair chance. no let up in the escalating diplomatic row between the united states and turkey. announcing multimillion dollar awards for two has full of fish kills the u.s. steps that pressure on the lebanese group and its backer iraq. at all and is later has stepped back from declaring independence instead calling for talks to resolve spain's or split a crisis in decades but charles bridge the mott signed a symbolic declaration although it's unclear if it has any legal status to haul reports from barcelona. he arrived at the parliament building bristling with

expectation a heavy police presence hinted at the weighty announcement to come but carlos demobbed president of catalonia is regional government stopped short of a full declaration of independence. as president it's my responsibility to declare that catalonia should become an independent state in the shape of a public. should become the words greeted with round zing applause in the chamber before the independent state party was put on hold. we asked the parliament to suspend any effects of the declaration of independence so that we can have dialogue and so that we can find the necessary solution we need to lower tensions and show our will and commitment to meet the demands of the catalan people the reaction in madrid came swiftly and this course not kaito your present day and age that the speech that the catalan president has made today is a speech by a person who doesn't know where he is where he's going or with whom he wants to go

the government cannot accept that the catalan referendum be validated because it's been suspended by the constitutional court. having consistently refused to talk one centrist politician suggested the time may have come for the government to compromise i think the better way they can solve the problem is with that negotiation some kind as i said of mediation a disappointment perhaps to some staunch secessionists tonight would be their night but sweet relief to many who fear the consequences of an upright declaration of independence after threats from madrid and the flight of top companies from catalonia since the referendum on october the first. place that you don't regret and resources for us alone or the faithful who gathered to watch the speech on the big screens left deflated but accepted at all. not lost i'm happy that he's given

some time in or the for people things we really don't understand what's the situation we can say what does it mean what the president just said so assigned declaration but independence deferred which demands speech stipulated no timeline for talks with madrid the drama of catalonia is independence that has played out in this parliament building for nearly one hundred years isn't over yet jonah hill al-jazeera barcelona lawrence lee has more from madrid on the spanish government's response. if a couple of government thought that by extending the hand of friendship to spain as they would have put it they might have got the spanish government to reply in kind by agreeing to open negotiations it looks like that was a completely vain hope the response from the spanish government's already tonights here has been acids and immediates they have said what on earth of the catalans doing announcing in the pendants and yet immediately suspending it they say has no legal basis a popular party the ruling party spokesman described it to me as

a joke and a farce he said there was absolutely no grounds on which they could negotiate at all then the deputy prime minister spoke and she said that there would be an emergency cabinet meeting on wednesday morning during which the spanish government response would be clarified and the prime minister's been meeting people from all the opposition parties to discuss a sort of power spanish parliamentary response to what the catalans have said no clearly the catalans hope that by acting in this way they will have suspects and appease the european union and the that they hope perhaps the european union will now put some pressure on spain and say well look the catalans have done this now you must come to the table and they go see it in the same way but as of the moment there is no sign whatsoever that the spanish government to do anything of the sort this better another twist in kenya's presidential election with opposition leader withdrawing from the vote rewriting but the president says the poll will still go ahead in just over two weeks dentists accuse the electoral commission of failing to

make the changes necessary for a more credible outcome catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. well indeed. then the. unprecedented times in kenya the only other kind of data expected to be on the ballot paper for the election rerun late in the month has pulled out. his not opposition coalition say they will not participate in a poll they feel is predetermined one where the same individuals and companies that oversaw the last election are still in place. for. almost a full year with. going to have to. really . have a big rebuttal to the decision. in the rest of the.

employees of the people ok. in the world of hurt. believe that all we. know but judging from the bench in front of the letters did you hope to talk. to. opposition supporters have been staging demonstrations against the electoral commission. and calling for electoral reforms commission officials say some of the opposition demands are and reasonable and there is simply no time to implement them the political situation in the country is worrying many i'm afraid of what fellas i think have moved on i am a strong feeling that kenyans. never accepted that species. and that. in order to go on a conflict that. people would accept that and.

already. everywhere that this tension everywhere. kenya is in uncharted territory politically and constitutionally the law isn't clear on what happens in a situation like this the constitution does not envision an eventuality where no reelection is held within a sixty day legal timeline which expires at the end of the month save no election is held by the deadline there will be a constitutional crisis president who has been busy campaigning he says he's ready for an election we always. should he be declared the winner and induced anyway then the. presidency will inevitably be questioned many kenyans are feel full about what the political grandstanding between the two sides is doing to the country tensions are high the economy is struggling the country is very much in

limbo. nairobi kenya polls have closed on liberia's presidential election and there are hopes for the first democratic transfer of power in more than seventy years candidates are seeking to replace ellen johnson sirleaf who became president in two thousand from the capital monrovia reports want to know you africa's first female president ellen johnson sirleaf. the nobel prize winner standing down after serving two terms. at this polling station the process was largely orderly. but in other centers tempers flare as the process began. the situation in this polling scenting painesville delayed the casting of ballots for hours. and he queued up for two hours but says she was turned back at the ballot box. they said i cannot

vote so i was here for hours i went to one where i was redirected to another they don't want me to vote i will go home. johnston gave a man living with disability cast his vote but was not impressed with the arrangements and one of the genes i want to see change in public buildings school buildings the disabled people to enter easily we should have access and be part of decision making. the election commission said it has worked hard to address most of the complaints the result today i think i should have my preparation though we have i want to two. problems the successes of a women and i think we are heading for success hundreds of those of us also deployed for the vote. liberians are passionate about this election to choose a new president and seventy three legislators people queued up for hours before

polling stations open. these elections are not only about who will succeed ellen johnson sirleaf after years in power now also about things liberia has been passionate about roads health care education and building upon the existing problems but whoever wins this election will have to work very hard to unite liberia still divided by the war and by the politics of the last one year. presidential candidates will need more than fifty percent of the vote to win outright some of the of a say a runoff may be required. greece. monrovia. turkey's president writes a typewriter one says his government no longer recognizes the u.s. ambassador to the country it's the latest twist in the escalating diplomatic dispute between the two nato allies reports. us some tuckey shellfish will sell trying to explain a misc diplomatic spot but highlights while some additions between the countries

thought rest of the turkish employee of the u.s. consulate in istanbul marked a fresh. last week for the second time this year a turkish staff member of our diplomatic mission was arrested by turkish authorities despite our best efforts to learn the reasons for this arrest we have been unable to determine why it occurred or what if any evidence exists against the employee turkish president reject go on defended the decision to make the arrest true. or prosecution is convinced the arrested official has links with fit to knock you down the police have the evidence the employee has no diplomatic immunity an arrest warrant has also been issued for another employee all of these show that there is something wrong going on at the u.s. consulate in istanbul the u.s. then announced it will stop issuing visas for some turkish nationals struggling to america the u.s.

ambassador stressing that it's multiple bomb i'm talking to citizens if you have a valid visa you can still travel to the united states if you want to apply for a visa at another u.s. embassy or consulate outside of turkey you are free to do so this was not a decision we took lightly and it's a decision we took with great sadness. tucky disappointed with similar measures this it out is just the latest in a growing list of diplomatic floats relations between the two nato allies so it at the start of the city and civil war talk he was upset that the u.s. did not do enough against the assad government and was furious when washington blocked city in kurdish forces and lead to them than last year's failed coup in turkey and things got even worse turkish president of egypt. blamed clinic for. who lives in the u.s.

but denies involvement at all and wanted him extradited but the obama administration refused the trump administration has been moved on the right. the u.s. ambassador to turkey and says the duration of the suspension and visa services in turkey will depend on talks between the two governments they small sign of those taking place and the time soon mohammed atta well just. had a client has us reaction to the turkish president accusation that the ambassador acted out of line did a better job best go roll well not so much according to the state department this was coordinated with the state department it was coordinated with the white house and coordinate coordinated with the n.s.c. all of sawfish ambassador john bass is not going to be a concern for turkey much longer he is moving he's been nominated to the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan and at the state department senior officials say they did notify the turkish officials that this was coming down the pipeline still not doing

anything to ease the tension between these two traditional allies that had a frosty relationship as of late so at on al jazeera a major cholera a musician campaign begins in bangladesh has her hands on muslims continue to flame me and mark in a scorched earth california assesses the damage as wildfires spread through the u.s. state for a third day. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. and know that the remains of a tropical depression are still bringing us heavy rain in parts of it i'm you can see the very very wet weather here as the remains gradually drift their way towards the west but does mean though as we head through into thursday there will be slightly more drawing weather to be found here still some showers but not quite as many of them further north there is a little bit of

a dry patch until you see this area of rain here that is giving us some very very heavy downpours and is gradually sweeping its way eastwards so shanghai is in the firing line of that the further towards the south and there's a lot of sunshine here but also lots of showers and that's really how things are going to stay as we head through the next few days currently we're seeing some particularly lively showers here just to the west of borneo in those stretch west would still and i think this is the region where we're going to see a lot of very heavy showers possibly banding together as we head through the next few days across towards india around it's in the southern half really where we've got the wettest of the weather but also fairly low i.v. showers around cold cuts or is well this region again is going to be where we see the heaviest of the rain that just a bit very very wet here but towards the north it's a low for a lot drier it's dry air but it's still very hot so for new delhi we're expecting a top temperature of around thirty six and karate we're up at thirty eight. the weather sponsored by qatar

a race. a rite of passage preserved through the generation my cousin was laying down there until a screaming she was helpless the women are after indoors as ghosts or facal of pain for what that menai needs the women affected by s.g.m. and those reshaping perception do you think people will abandon the search for what a bit of a mistake al-jazeera correspondent the current at this time. the earth thing is. you're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories this hour. later has stepped

back from the media and dependents instead calling for talks with the dread to resolve the political crisis the spanish government will hold an emergency cabinet meeting on wednesday. presidential election will go ahead in just over two weeks' time despite the opposition leader withdrawing the dataset his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms to help deliver more credible election turkish president. for the growing diplomatic crisis between the two countries but the state department says ambassador john bass actions were coordinated with the white house asked schedule to leave turkey has been nominated to be the next u.s. ambassador to afghanistan. one of the world's biggest cholera immunization campaigns is underway in bangladesh and fears of an epidemic nine hundred thousand doses of the vaccine have been pared to protect local communities and. the flood violence and our mohammed champion reports from

a refugee camp in cox's bazaar. for these or hinder refugees who've been exposed to so much violence and who still don't feel safe this is an attempt to at least keep them healthy. a massive cholera vaccination campaign led by bangladesh is ministry of health and supported by groups like the world health organization and unicef the goal is to vaccinate six hundred fifty thousand people during the first phase many in this makeshift camp are happy it's happening but say far more needs to be done. order is too far away that's a problem and people are suffering there are just too many people here and that's why it's so dirty everyone is getting sick. more than half a million refugees have fled from me and more to bangladesh in just six weeks at the sheffield cut to camp the signs of overcrowding are everywhere aid workers

worry that extremely unhygenic conditions in camps like this one could make an already awful situation even worse which in turn could lead to a full blown health crisis among the many causes of concern are thousands of diarrhea cases reported and treated just in the past week and when you see like thousands of people are suffering from the idea that actually gives you an indication that the locked us up life situation as well as less antigens situation is not in good shape and if we don't react if we don't think the preventive measures things may go really wrong. shortages of food water and shelter all indicate how dire things have become recently and we have just talked with a number of people and among nine out of them ninety percent have said that they're leaving on a one minute pardon so the situation is really bad but everybody here down here is working really hard to make that humans. with very little clean water at their disposal life which is already hard only gets harder especially in

such severe heat good obama made sure she and her children were vaccinated but that has done little to lessen her worries. now that after home there are very few toilets here in a period of three to five days it becomes full and unusable it stinks and not there are too many people here we can live without eating once or twice a day but we can't live without being able to use the toilets. struggling to survive is nothing new for these refugees and it's likely their struggle won't end anytime soon. at the shop for you like qatar a refugee camp in cox's bazar on the dish of the united states says offering millions of dollars for information about hussein or has fallen officials the state department says to law. or have played key roles and has full on tax targeting u.s. citizens or is accused of being involved in the one nine hundred eighty three

attack on the u.s. marine corps barracks and beirut two hundred forty one u.s. service personnel were killed it's important to recall that hezbollah hasn't developed its military and terrorist capabilities on its own it has become the global threat it is today for one reason tehran's deep and abiding assistance the iranian regime has built and bankrolled has the lot to foment instability throughout the region and across the world this is all come at the expense of the iranian people whose resources are being diverted to support hezbollah's bloody cause and at the expense of lebanon which is suffered grievously from iran and hezbollah's deadly partnership saying hussein with savion is a former iranian diplomat who has negotiated but has a lot he is now a middle east specialist at princeton university he says the u.s. has stepped up its pressure and has a lot in an attempt to counter tehran's growing regional influence. it is part so you with us strategy containing reagan and you know roll and influence there is no

doubt however that. add uranium we walk ration we are going to russia and see the end the are war sex best fighting isis releasing isis on their mining arses in the region the us you and i believe they would put more pressure and sanctions on iran or that because they believe these developments these facts that would be a need of role as we progress in the region that's why you see the us is live that u.s. strategy games development and this strategy is to put more precious actions on the on because of the rain there isn't a role that you see the new restatements against in. a way that what the us

is going to do grab the bee these are rank the new. rules because the fact of the route. that iran and is. almost always. sexist forces by isis. the special envoy for yemen is accusing the country's foreign leaders of pushing for power and wealth and set of peace ismail shake ahmed is proposing new talks to alleviate the deepening humanitarian crisis mike hanna reports from the united nations. this is now the greatest humanitarian disaster in the world that's according to figures presented to the un security council which indicates some twenty two million people in yemen require immediate assistance now nearly one million cases of cholera and more than two thousand people have already died of the disease famine on an unprecedented scale is a real possibility it is the result of this crisis that has left some fifteen

million people lacking adequate access to clean drinking water sanitation and hygiene health services seven million people are faced with the threat of famine and all of this is exacerbated by the largest single year cholera outbreak ever recorded the u.n. special representative ismail comment insists that what he calls influential people are not interested in finding solutions as they'll lose power in any settlement in and worked out how to let you. know i request the security council to use all its political and economic power to exert pressure on all parties to commit to a path of peace all the parties must come out of their past and transpositions and put an end to hostile rhetoric instead of fighting over yemen let's cooperate for the best interest of the country. in the coming weeks the special representative will convene a meeting in london of the u.k.

the us saudi arabia and the united arab emirates which together with amman make up what is referred to as the quint charged with the renewing the long dormant political process in yemen the problem though is that two of these states are part of the saudi led coalition and as such themselves parties to the conflict. al-jazeera united nations campaigning has begun for japan's next general election they prime minister shinzo was hoping to take advantage of an opposition caught off guard by calling their whole early but unfortunately reports from tokyo a new political parties could make this election unpredictable. campaigning is underway for japan's snap elections prime minister shinzo on whose liberal democratic party holds a two thirds majority but the coalition partner has kickstarted his bid to stay in office and. i would like to create a society where everybody has a chance when abi announced an early election weeks ago he said it was to give his

government a strong mandate to handle any national crisis the country might face. his words now seem prescient given the latest corporate scandal to hit japan just as he's trying to revive the country's flood the economy kobe steel the country's third biggest steelmaker admitted on sunday to fabricating data to show its products met customer specifications the company's it mission follows similar scandals by big japanese brand names including toshiba which have reported inflated profits abbay is also expected to face a strong challenge from the newly formed party of hope founded by tokyo governor. she's not running for parliament but is leading the campaign to draw voters away from the ruling party which has been plagued by domestic scandals. let's put an end to politics dominated by opting. out although the party of hope is seen as the biggest challenger to the ruling party an early election could work against it and

in our base favor with. one coup week i was running for tokyo governor i had great expectations and voted for her but now i don't feel the same when it comes to who to vote for i might still want to vote for kerry kate but i like a safe option too i'm still struggling to decide. the upcoming elections also take place just as the country faces an escalating security threat from north korea the ruling party in the hope party both to seek to revise japan's pacifist constitution to allow the country's military to take a more active role a small minority however including the new left leaning constitutional democratic party of japan oppose a constitutional reversion but could still take for. the merchants of two new political parties has made this election a lot less predictable and if the ruling party fails to win even a simple majority analysts say that will put pressure on all day to resign only

sixteen percent of the island's electricity services have been restored nearly three weeks after hurricane maria at the u.s. territory hospitals are struggling to operate with many patients being evacuated to mobile medical centers and naval hospital ships at least fifteen people are dead in the u.s. state of california as wildfires continue to spread for a third day as are pictures from sonoma county live pictures this is part of where the state's famous wine country is there have forced twenty thousand people from their homes california's forestry authorities say about two thousand buildings have been destroyed the state's governor has declared a state of emergency jacob ward has more from santa rosa. the fires that began on sunday night were so devastating but also so fast the residents of this community center rosa california lost not only convention centers and hotels like this not only their structures but in some cases they were so surprised they had to abandon

their vehicles and so in block after block you see vehicles like this destroyed the wildfire reach temperatures approaching fifteen hundred degrees celsius which is enough to burn steel and so just a fundamental destruction not just of of property and all the things you see in normal fires but also infrastructure sewage lines cell phone towers all of that gone this is truly a devastated community here in california. and these are the top stories catalan is later has stepped back from the clearing immediate and dependence and step calling for talks with the trade to resolve the political crisis the spanish government will hold an emergency cabinet meeting on wednesday everyone of kenya's presidential election will go ahead in just over two weeks' time despite the opposition leader. withdrawing its withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms to help deliver

a more credible election. turkish president reza typewriting wanted to blaming u.s. ambassador in ankara probably going diplomatic crisis between the two countries but the u.s. state department says ambassador john bass his actions were coordinated with the white house as has now been nominated to serve as the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan one of the world's biggest cholera and mutation campaigns is underway in bangladesh for a head directly g.'s to prevent a major outbreak nine hundred thousand doses of the vaccine admin prepare to protect local communities. the u.s. says it will pay a multimillion dollar war transformation into the capture of two has a lot of fish kills washington says they have targeted american citizens and multiple attacks iran backed lebanese group is fighting alongside president assad's forces in syria or to recall that hezbollah hasn't developed its military and terrorist capabilities on its own it has become the global threat it is today for

one reason tehran's deep and abiding assistance the iranian regime has built and bankrolled has the lot to foment instability throughout the region and across the world this is all come at the expense of the iranian people whose resources are being diverted to support hezbollah's bloody cause and at the expense of lebanon which is suffered grievously from iran and hezbollah as deadly partnership at least fifteen people are dad in the u.s. state of california as wildfires continue to spread for a third day take a look at these live pictures this is sonoma county where the famous wine country is flames there have forced twenty thousand people from their homes california's four strength already say about two thousand buildings have been destroyed and the governor's declared a state of emergency as are the headlines news continues analogous here after inside story keeping are with.

the people of liberia have voted to elect a new president in the country's first democratically transfer of power in seven decades twenty kind of it's a competing to replace nobel laureate ellen johnson sirleaf but the road ahead is full with uncertainties in a country that suffered years of civil war and the deadliest.