but human consumption and the culture and groups like greenpeace concerned about the impact of millions more people living here in the lakeside at her restaurant and guest house she says she is concerned about what the future holds but has faith in the government if you have more people you have more garbage and the environment could be damaged but i believe the government will look after us this is seen as she jane pings legacy project many people believe if he has the will and the resources to create a development here that's three times the size of new york and it should be within his power to do it in an environmentally friendly way. kenya's fundament passes a controversial amendment to the election laws

a day after the main opposition candidates withdrew from the iranian election scheduled later this month. we'll be live to nairobi in just a moment i'm fully back to watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead spain's government holds an emergency cabinet meeting after catalonia leaders signs a symbolic declaration of secession but calls for talks at least fifteen people are dead after three days of wildfires in the u.s. state of california will tell you the story of one family's narrow escape and a new exhibition in paris tries to capture the magic and mayhem of one of france's most famous artists. we begin with some breaking news out of kenya where the parliament has passed a controversial. amendment to the election laws the reforms say sorry for one

candidate withdraws from a repeat presidential election the other one would automatically when it has been heavily criticized by the opposition whose legislators boycott of the vote on tuesday the main opposition leader right now didn't go with join his candidacy from the rerun citing a lack of electoral reform let's go live to florida in nairobi for a so a number of rulings this morning talk us through what they mean for the election that's scheduled later this month. looking at these amendments to the electoral law that just as members just been passed by the national assembly it does ultimately create some clarity and also provides a reinforcement to the existing election laws especially around how the election should be conducted but of course there are two main controversial areas one as we heard was around the withdrawal of a candidate in this case we're looking at

a reelection a rerun and these laws now state that should one candidate with four in the scase a railroading out the remaining candidates think come in president uhuru kenyatta will be declared president the other area of contention is around the elections and the use of the manual tallying procedure a lot there's lot of we know has been rather a lot of emphasis on the new electronic system going forward the manual system in the case of a contentious election would take precedence as opposed to the scene reports so ultimately these amendments would look at reducing the power of the board in terms of intervening in the case of a disputed election now while these amendments which are yet to be signed into law i presume to work in you have now just been a pause there is also the issue of the high court also this morning the high court separately allowed the. participation of the several of the candidates in this

upcoming rerun are these all minor candidates but ultimately this ruling would allow for elections to continue with the remaining major candidates who are can ya taking votes as well as these minor candidates which also would allow for further the jetsam a-c. rather than just having one candidate participating and of course declared president so there's a lot of uncertainty at this point around exactly what will happen for the electoral commission is meeting with its legal team too to chart the way forward but this is all new territory for kenya the legal system as well as just how the constitution will determine exactly what happens next certainly an unprecedented constitutional and political crisis for kenya i see huge crowds behind you their family i know right now has called for nationwide protests to demand reforms his supporters seem to be heeding that call in nairobi where you are but what about throughout the rest of the country what is the mood like in kenya i made this

political and constitutional uncertainty. a lot of the focus at this point will be in nairobi where we are where this protest is taking place we are expecting a national super alliance leadership to address the crowd is there any certainty at this point if railroads and got himself will be present but this is in the this is of course in response to his official was told from these elections that are due to take place on the twenty six of our toba he has said that he doesn't feel that the electoral commission would be able to run a free and fair election so depending on who you speak to there is there are different sentiments around these political and constitutional developments in the country the supporters have come out you are expecting more people to come out throughout the day to protest against the electoral commission but we're also hearing from kenyans who are fed up around this prolonged process which at times isn't very. here and because there's so much uncertainty there's the sex of the

population that just wants to get on with their daily lives and they want the economy to return to normal they want businesses to open in the in the central business take sick to bed have been affected by protests and christine happened at least twice a week in the last ok thank you very much for that family miller bringing us the latest there from nairobi kenya staying with africa counting is underway in liberia as the election to determine who will take over from president ellen johnson sirleaf the vote is seen as a crucial test of stability in the country marking the first democratic transfer of power in more than seventy years voters had twenty candidates to choose from to replace a left africa's first elected female leader in togo the government has banned all midweek marches as protests gather steam against the fifty year rule of the symbol family present fornia simba took over from his father in two thousand and five who had been in power for almost forty years the government is proposing a limit of two presidential terms that protesters fear this won't be applied until

after the next elections in two thousand and twenty it means that fornia simbi could stay in power until twenty fit. to spain where an extraordinary cabinet meeting is being held in the capital madrid just hours after catalonia called for talks to resolve the country's worst political crisis in decades late tuesday contest which amount to put catalonian independence a bit on hold by suspending the declaration from buffalo and i join a whole reports he arrived to the parliament building bristling with expectation a heavy police presence in the weighty announcement to come but congress which to mold 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 report. should become. the words greeted with browsing 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 the dritte came swiftly as this course. 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 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 outright declaration of independence after threats from madrid and the flight of companies from catalonia since the referendum on october the first. basically you're going to get. the faithful who gathered to watch the speech on the big screens left deflated but accepted it always was not lost i'm happy that he's given time in order for people to things we really don't understand the situation what does it mean what. president just said so a signed declaration but independence deferred 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. we have correspondents covering both sides of this story standing by. in madrid an extraordinary cabinet meeting in madrid today what is the government's response going to be open to dialogue. no they are absolutely not open to dialogue and they said so quite plainly last night they described the events in barcelona last night as a joke and a farce. they they regard the catalan president as making up laws on the hoof to try to bridge this gap between the left and the right wings of the independence coalition there in a way that they can't make any sense of and so today they're calibrating a more detailed response and we think what may happen when the prime minister speaks this all to noon is that they might invoke article one five five of the constitution and take back catalonia as autonomous powers to move trades. i think

that probably they're in attack mode because they see a weakness in the cattle in the pens movement a gap between what the left in the right wants and they'll be very keen to exploit that there is a theory that says if they did take back the limits autonomous powers that might lead to some sort of civil unrest on the on the streets of barcelona and in a very cynical way that would actually be extremely useful for the spanish government because instead of the optics of that being the spanish police going in and tear gassing people having lunch which got widely condemned they could present states as the catalan people smashing up their own buildings and being incapable of running their own affairs if they do invoke article one five five and take back power. we would be in a prolonged crisis no doubt could we then expect some sort of external mediation from the european union for instance which has been very reluctant to get involved in this crisis. i mean i think certainly there will have to be some mediation

on the some level you know the european union or european commission can certainly presents a position to spain to say look however it happened that whoever spoke. in the last few days we actually got the catalans to step back from the edge of direct independence you know clearly the european union is on spain side in the sense that they don't want catlin independence they want things to be done according to the rule of law and i think independents is very much a red line for them but what they could say to spain is look we did this with a can't you need actually on some level to be seen to be talking even though clearly privately they would say the end goal is no can in the pendants and something in the middle the question is really whether the european union are in the best place to be the mediator since the catalans might say you're biased in favor of spain i mean after spain aside it's peace today and tomorrow which is national day i think everything will probably go quiet for some some weeks potentially while everybody tries to figure out who it is who's going to mediate

between this and maybe somebody from the european union or maybe somebody from outside who can be presented as a neutral partner thank you very much for that lawrence lee in madrid for i said. for the view from barcelona sonia there are those who will say that the catalan leader is now in a weaker position after his speech last night what's the feeling there this morning in barcelona and throughout the region and what the government next move rightly to mean in light of what madrid is saying that they're not interested in dialogue. well i think everyone who had gathered to hear mr preacherman speech on the night before would agree that a lot of them would have agreed that this is the best tactic for mr pritchett want to take considering the amount of pressure that the cattle and government is facing not just from spain for the matric government not. just from the european union as

well but also economically financially with the flight from of this bank is legal headquarters and multinationals as well but more of them threatening to leave barcelona for other cities in spain as well just taking a look at the papers this morning a left wing pro secession daily saying. putting mr putin one of the front cover saying that he's caused for a dialogue not compare that if you will with the anti secession. daily veiled by east the national daily here saying that it could be a new trap this is a tactic that they arguing that mr preacher one is throwing in effect the ball in the spanish government's court if it is a tactic like that as you say that everyone on both sides knows exactly what the tactic of the spanish government in madrid is going to be and that is simply no dialogue for the cattle pro independent preferential movement that's a bit of a public relations win because they are saying now in this is the situation we're

going to have to deal with we need international mediation we need mediation from brussels to be able to resolve this and try and plan a dialogue for the way forward as well madrid as lawrence mentioned is really quite steadfast on this issue but of course what both sides do not want to see is is that essence of civil disobedience erupting on the streets here a lot of people who gathered to hear him wants to dress do not want to see that are in fact a lot of them was scared of that possibility as well but in the meantime it just seems to remain that while the current government is in place in madrid really the situation is there is less of an opportunity to do dialogue to take this forward as the catalan government would like it to be seen go in boston and i thank you very much for that still ahead here on al-jazeera a major cholera in his asian campaign begins in bangladesh as ranger muslims continue to arrive from yemen to stay with this.

hello the southwest monsoon over india has been pulsing in i doubt as it comes size so the wet season tends to show up in malaysia indonesia and as you can see now from the satellite that she anywhere over land could see these white blobs big showers they come straight into the west sumatra thailand western side of java and that's certainly where they are in the forecast with big holes in between the middle east singapore's involved and most of borneo maybe less maybe less so java but you wouldn't want not completely would take him out of the forecast and leave and dry a forecast of showers in jakarta is just as likely as it could ching the south of this of course we've seen quite a turbulent spring but as summer slowly comes in the still plenty of cloud giving i think what is termed useful rain even for sydney which of course had a month's worth of dry but the forecast for thirty is hardly summery proper rain

a line from brisbane just off the coast of new south wales and than towards the tasman sea behind it is rather cooler than the seventeen in melbourne and breezy signify adelaide twenty two in a rather quieter weather spell in perth and that's warming up and by the time it gets to friday chances showers in the heart of australia still there and the same is true of southern queens in fact sydney looks sunnier than brisbane. the reefs the rain forests of the sea we continue on our current way we won't have whole race within twenty thirty years from now so you're sensibly trying to recreate the ecosystem but under controlled conditions the main goal is still the ballot bowl still has a most resilient to climate change the great barrier reef is still sizable but we're going to start and we need to get everyone behind the solution ted no at this time on the edges iraq.

and. our top stories on al-jazeera kenya spawn intense past a controversial amendment to the election laws of reform states that if one candidates withdraws from a repeat presidential election the other one would automatically win this has been heavily criticized by the opposition after its leader right withdrew his candidacy from the rerun elections scheduled later this month counting is underway in liberia's election to determine who will take over from president ellen johnson sirleaf the vote is seen as a crucial test of the stability in the country mocking the first democratic

transfer of power in more than seventy is. and spain's government is holding an emergency cabinet meeting in the capital madrid after catalonia as leader called for talks to resolve the country's worst political crisis in decades on tuesday congress put them on stepped back from announcing full independence and signed a symbolic declaration and said i'm over rejected by the spanish government. to the u.s. now and the death toll from northern california's wildfires continues to rise thousands of people have evacuated their homes and many are returning now to find their houses are no longer there jake award met one family who had a narrow escape. and lydia gediman were the last people to get out of their neighborhood i thought that i could attempt to save save our houses which is happening down so i attempted for another fifteen twenty minutes just hosing down the whole the whole fence line everything and everything at the touch of the hose and until i couldn't see any more. the disaster in northern

california claimed at least fifteen lives and more than two thousand buildings and at this point fire officials offer no predictions as to when they might have the fires here contained it wasn't just the speed of the flames or the incredible heat that devastated this community it was also the fact that in the age of the smart phone people here say that they seem to have almost no warning at all. in libya say they got lucky their baby woke up at one of the morning and you could hear explosions in the background we don't know what it was but it was the trees that were exploding and you didn't receive any kind of you were now a law there is nothing so i really never tells message no there is nothing now the gammons are telling the cost ok i had a baseball card collection point about twenty thousand dollars worth. of collection by five thousand star wars collection of my five thousand and that's all gone all of this right here a scene repeated throughout the state today as residents return to sift through the

ashes jake aboard al-jazeera santa rosa california. iraq's prime minister has formally declared victory over i saw in one of its last remaining strongholds the on group has been pushed out of how we judge and its surrounding areas hyderabadi says the fight against isis has now shifted to the border with syria the only stretch of land that is still under the group's control. and then you. get me and i'm really happy i. feel that a cook i declare today the end of all military operations and with cook the liberation of all intent which i'm in the liberation of the mountains as well. in the mountains of humbling these mountains were never liberated at all even during the previous regime the tops of these mountains were never fully controlled today forces minutes to reach the mountain peaks and wiped out these mountains the governments of iraq turkey and iran have joined ranks in announcing new measures against iraq's kurdish regional government this follows last month's controversial

referendum on the future of kurdish secession from iraq the non-binding vote was supported by kurds in neighboring countries and stratford finds out from coy's in jack in northern iraq the effects of the referendum can be felt across the border in iran. these are all new recruits members of the armed wing of the iranian kurdish party that's been demanding greater rights for kurds in iran the world seventy years. the democratic party of iranian people. is banned in iran but the kurdish regional government of northern iraq has helped fund the party and allowed its members to train here since the one nine hundred ninety s. . it's fighters have served alongside the iraqi peshmerga helping the iraqi army and the international coalition in the battle against leisel its ultimate aim is the same as the iraqi kurds a future independent state. the p.k.i.

claims it has thousands of fighters based in the mountains that border iran. as well as military training the recruits it's all what the policy says and nonsectarian politics and state building and it fully supports the referendum that was held in the kurdish region of northern iraq on a future session. when i as a kurdish woman who lived as a member of iranian society feel the oppression of the iranian regime against us as kurds in iraq as a bomb and as a cut i have been oppressed twice by the iranian regime that's why i have joined this party i believe that through this party i will reach my goals there are at least five million kurds in iran and many of them came out on the streets in towns and cities across the border celebrating the referendum that was held here in northern iraq a referendum that the iraqi government and neighboring countries including iran say was illegal and risks further destabilizing this region. these pictures uploaded on you tube are said to show some of those celebrations p.t. k.o.i.

says according to social media reports iranian police arrested around three hundred people came out and supported the kurdish referendum in iraq. but kurds will not destabilize security in the region is the region's government's oppression against the kurds and that has created the instability when there is an independent kurdish region in iraq whether it will be a motive for other kurdish nations in other parts of the region like the kurds in iran turkey and syria or the ninety two percent of those who voted in the iraqi kurdish referendum said yes to future session from iraq. despite the threats from the government should baghdad and korea and iran these iranian kurds share the same dream stuff that al-jazeera play sing jack in iraq. the united nations is accusing me and maurice military of conducting a well organized coordinated and systematic attacks against the writing of muslims

a un human rights report says the security operation that sought it in august in rakhine state is aimed at preventing the ethnic minority groups from returning to their homes more than five hundred thousand hang a have fled to bangladesh since the myanmar military launched the offensive more than six weeks ago meanwhile one of the world's biggest cholera immunization campaigns is underway in bangladesh nine hundred thousand doses of the vaccine have been prepared to protect the local communities there and also the rohingya refugees arriving in bangladesh and reports from a refugee camp in cox has been found the dish. for these were him to 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. you know how you find it if it already the water 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 see. 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 my situation as well as less anguish and situation

is not in good shape and if we don't react if we don't take 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 or your like a refugee camp in cox's bazar on the dish. pole guys one of france's most famous artists best known for his paintings of life in french polynesia his distinctive style also influenced a younger generation of artists from because automatic east but his time in the south pacific is still somewhat of a taboo for many people in france natasha but like spain's paul gauguin has struggled for artistic recognition all his life the frenchwoman's bold use of color and abstract depictions of reality shocks nineteenth century art lovers but today he's considered a trailblazer a new exhibition in paris is prestigious group l.a. celebrates one of the world's most famous post-impressionist. his art

totally surprised it was like nothing else at the time it was without concessions it was wild in fact he often called himself wild it really shocked people some people supported him but it wasn't until the start of the twentieth century that people realized he was such a revolutionary go-go was fascinated with tribal arts and other cultures when success in europe eluded him he left for france is called unease in the south pacific it's a period that has come to define him but not without controversy the paintings created by go into haiti are some of his most popular he was obviously captivated by the people and the colors but some critics say that this period of his life has become so romanticized in france the perhaps it ignores some uncomfortable realities. tahiti was under french colonial rule and the artist enjoyed many of the system's privileges he married a thirteen year old girl and had numerous lovers of

a similar age but these aspects of go-go's life are rarely discussed in france. a new film about his time in thai he has been attacked by those who say to avoid some hard truths. professor starr's x. written extensively about gaga he says criticizing french culture and the colonial past is simply to hear the history of colonization is still a very touchy issue in france much more than in the us for many people in. nothing but a. drunkard who basically looted. nation and the haitian culture ought to make a living how chose to live it is unlikely to matter to the millions of people who enjoys art but others may find it enriching to have a clearer picture of the man behind the paintings natasha butler al jazeera paris.

though again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera kenya's parliament has passed a controversial amendment to the election laws that reform states that if one candidate withdraws from i repeat presidential election the other one would automatically when it's been heavily criticized by the opposition after its leader . withdrew his candidacy from the rerun elections scheduled later this month has more from nairobi. these laws now state that should one candidate with four in this case a rain the remaining candidates become in prison to work and not to will be declared president the other area of contention is around the elections and the use of the manual tallying procedure a lot there's little bit of this mean rather a lot of emphasis on the new electronic system going forward the manual system in

the case of a contentious election would take precedence as opposed to the scene reports so ultimately these amendments would look at reducing the power of the board in terms of intervening in the case of a disputed election counting is underway in liberia as election to determine who will take over from president ellen johnson sirleaf the vote is seen as a crucial test of stability in the country marking the first democratic transfer of power in more than seventy years voters have twenty candidates to choose from to replace ellis africa's first elected female leader. spain's government is holding an emergency cabinet meeting in madrid. as leader called for talks to resolve the country's worst political crisis in decades on tuesday cause for german stepped back from announcing full independence for cuts known yeah and signed a symbolic declaration instead of a move rejected by the central government in madrid and

a sixteen people are dead in the u.s. state of california as wildfires continue to spread for a third day the fires have scorched the state's famous wine country and forced more than twenty thousand people from their homes. as always plenty more news on our web site al-jazeera dot com and in the news we'll continue here after techno i.o.p. to say with a sense of watching. where ever you are. coral reefs of the rain forest of the sea cries for their beauty and resources the wildlife. one of the us most fun ecosystems threat to climate change

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