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we're live tonight in just a moment i'm fully back to this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up after an emergency cabinet meeting in madrid sprains prime minister asks catalonia as leader to confirm whether or not he has declared the region's independence the united nations accuses me on our security forces of torture killings and rape of children in rakhine state. on the kitchen why look outside and it's really windy and i open the back door and the smoke just hits me and one family's narrow escape as at least eleven people are killed after three days of wildfires in the u.s. state of california. we begin in kenya where police have fired tear gas at opposition supporters protesting election law reform. by the country's parliament more than

a thousand people gathered in nairobi one for the demonstrations are said to be held in western in the western city of which is a stronghold of the main opposition leader. on tuesday a dingo withdrew his candidacy for the vote of iran later this month citing a lack of electoral reform. on and passed a bill that would change our future elections or manage it opens a field for other candidates to stand in the rerun let's go live to florida miller who is in nairobi for us from there bring us up to speed for us with the situation on the ground there's a lot of tension right right now on the streets of nairobi. we're outside the offices of the electoral commission and this is we're expecting protesters. here in the day in fact we've seen some protesters motorbikes come this way and behind us there's

a significant police presence in preparation of these protesters police that fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters are in the middle of the city now we've seen these protests happen at least twice a week. these protests could possibly go off to see the what fool. main opposition contend. from elections that were due to happen on the twenty sixth of october and this is what kenyans a way to. take place. incumbent president. president based on some constitutional provisions and. to be signed these amendments to the would have to be signed by. symmetry it would allow him to be declared president without an election taking place give us a bit more detail. on the rulings that were made today there was one from the

parliament a decision from the parliament that you just talked about there briefly but also one from the high court what do these ruling saying exactly and all we're going to see an election on at the end of october the the just to take you back it's like you want the supreme who. should be a rerun and. the election the. elections would say just with a twenty six. following that to the. amendments to the election that for some very controversial some of these amendments would clarify and reinforce certain guidelines around how elections would be held there are two areas of contention one is that for the remaining candidates for an election the other one with tools would be named presidents and the second one is on the conduct

of the election specifically the telling of the results if you remember back to the supreme court that there was some irregularities with regard to the taliban results and this is why we run should happen going forward because these amendments have now been the emanuels tallying all results take precedence ultimately reducing the power of the judiciary in the case of a contested election to the possum office amendment hasn't been received by everyone and consent continues to be a point of contention nothing more in the process. actually commission and this is a major issue. in an election because they don't trust the i.p.c.c. . and you're coming election the yes we're hearing are the crowds behind you there and people gathering outside the electoral commission in nairobi from him you know where you are we saw some reporters wearing masks were to protect themselves i imagine from the. that has already been fired by police against the opposition

supporters only a in nairobi ten scenes clearly on the city in the city what's the security like and what are people saying about this constitutional crisis and political crisis right now if you are able to tell us honestly. the. everything that you. know we. should be military. commission. election. i mean anything and it's getting quite tense where you are peace stay safe ten scenes on the streets of nairobi right now as opposition supporters gathered to protest outside the electoral commission in the kenyan capital will keep a close eye on the situation and bring you all the latest updates as and when we have them here on al-jazeera moving on to spain now where the prime minister's asks

council on leaders to clearly state if they have declared independence before taking any measures on tuesday catalonia zita palace which marks step back from announcing full independence he signed a symbolic decoration instead and called for negotiations with madrid live to our desire as lawrence lee who is in madrid for a spanish capital so lawrence a brief statement last hour from the prime minister after that extraordinary cabinet meeting what did we hear from him what was the tone of his message. well ali what we basically have now is the most extraordinary and complicated game of political and legal ping pong being conducted over the course of about the last eighteen hours between barcelona and madrid it's b.s. today president signed this symbolic declaration of secession and independence and that was taken last night by madrid as a full declaration and they said this is outrageous it can't stand the catalans of making up the law as they go along and we have no reason to negotiate with them on

any grounds so over to madrid what's really going to say and in the statements he basically said we now need he turned around really he didn't accept that they had declared their independence as they said last night he said you need to clarify whether you've declared independence and if you do clarify that then we will take back your autonomous powers we'll talk about what all means in the second but here's what he had to say. we've held a cabinet meeting and we've decided the catalan government in moscow whether or not they have declared independence regardless of whether it's going to take effect or not this is a requirement necessary before any other measures can be taken by the government including invoking article one fifty five. what's put him on going to say clearly in all this you can see an absolute threat from moderates is absolutely now laid out. tell us you're going to go independent and if

you do then we will bring back your autonomous powers and you will no longer own your own states we are going to do it for you so in that there's an absolutely explicit threat and the question arises what if anything is the catalan president going to say and for what it's worth we think here and i'll team in barcelona think as well there's absolutely no reason why the catalan president should answer this demand from at all either today or in the coming days remember no timeline on this he didn't say you have to tell us today or in forty eight hours or seven days or six months he just said say it's clearly there's no reason to put him on to do it because if he does that then he knows that it's he loses all catalonia and so in the end what it does is to kick it down the line to some degree take the heat out of it but you get this sense of sort of suspended animation or madrid with no clear path as to what's going to happen next. we just. have a statement from the european commission which is saying it holds for an end to

this dispute spain the e.u. has been very reluctant to get involved in this crisis saying that it's an internal matter but if we are heading towards a prolonged crisis is it looks like right now all we likely to see external mediation from the e.u. or from from another country perhaps. well look i mean i think everyone is trying to figure it out of the moment is the short answer but here is what we know the spanish side says there is nobody in the outside world to should have to negotiate this at all it's a direct legal issue between catalonia and madrid they see no reason for the europeans to get themselves involved all from the european side it has been made explicitly clear again by the european commissioner today and by younger the head of the european commission a variety of european figures that they will not allow or recognize cattle and independence and they want the spanish constitution to be

a bait and that does i think creates a problem particularly for the katsa lands in the weeks or months to come because if the europeans said at any point we will mediate then the catalans might say well you're not fair actors because you don't want us to be independent it's all equally the spanish wouldn't want to do it because they don't see any need for mediation now there may be some pressure and in the fullness of time from the outside to say to spain you're going to have to sit down with these people on some basis to talk to them because you can't carry on in suspended animation like this forever but it's by no means clear how they would do that because the fault line remains the council lines catalan say it needs to be a political negotiation the spanish side say no it doesn't it's a legal issue and it's that hurdle that at the moment appears to be insurmountable complicate a crisis certainly thank you very much for that nor and any life i see in the spanish capital in the trades to the u.s. now and the death toll from northern california's wildfires continues to rise so

far people have been killed thousands more have fled from their homes but many are returning to find their houses no longer. one family as they try to sift through the rubble of their homes. adam and lydia gannon were the last people to get out of their neighborhood i thought that i could attempt to save save our houses with just having a down so i attempted for another fifteen twenty minutes just hosing down the whole the whole fence line everything everything i can touch 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 adam and lydia 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 never exploding and you didn't receive any kind of war now along there is nothing so i really never tells message no there is nothing now the gammons are telling the cost to have a baseball card collection point about twenty thousand dollars worth and c.i. joe collection of my five thousand star wars collection my five thousand and that's all gone that's right here a scene repeated throughout the state today as residents return to sift through the ashes jake aboard al-jazeera santa rosa california. meanwhile an entire neighborhood in northern california has been destroyed by the wildfires the extent of the damage in santa rosa can be seen in this before and after images on google earth hundreds of firefighters fought the blazes in what was one of the most destructive fire emergencies in the history of the homes and businesses in the area

have turned into ash and rubble. still ahead on al-jazeera at least thirteen people are dead after one of the biggest prison riots in mexico. they are sending the absolute wrong message to the world and to the american people environmentalists slam the trumpet ministration for scrapping an obama iraq change law. how there is still a strong line of cloud and rain that stretches from china through the korean peninsula every hour again sinking down into japan that is it and it's got a brother if you like or rather weaker affair in much milder wintry weather now in the northeast of china plus two number still thirteen insupportable look how close

the snow is just got a jump across the water to get to is this a porous looking rather went on both days cloudy and certain increasingly cloudy in hong shoot the ball tom you get to friday the sun is back out in seoul and pyongyang and indeed in beijing at nineteen degrees that rain strings out across the middle of china there's no also shanghai develops as it goes to the south that you can do but in sichuan then south of that is still dry and it's still true in hong kong sunny looking weather and relatively low humidity as well and on the coast of vietnam there just a few light shows not as big downpours we've been used to just recently but now that circulation not far from manila there's a tropical depression in the making now that's likely in the flow to slowly move west has been the time being it looks like it's going to be in those in philippines particularly luzon where the rain is at its heaviest but it won't influence the weather in eastern china was hong kong with either cloudy and humid day.

the sum and age old part of spanish culture the one i can't stop thinking of all the bullies in my life others are explored and a symbol of central government i think we shouldn't carry on something goes against the morals of go along. with the cattle a nationalist perspective of the present banished culture. catalonia is loath to fight at this time on al-jazeera world. the top stories on al-jazeera police in kenya have fired tear gas at opposition

supporters protesting election all reformist by the parliament on tuesday opposition leader right now a dingo withdrew his candidacy for the vote rerun later this month citing a lack of electoral reform the kenyan parliament has passed a bill that would change on future elections are manage in spain the prime minister as leader so clearly states if they have declared independence before taking any measures on tuesday. stepped back from announcing full independence and signed a symbolic decoration instead saying that he wanted negotiations with the central government in madrid and at least eleven people are dead in the u.s. state of california as wildfires continue to spread for a third day the fires have scorched states famous wine country and forced more than twenty thousand people from their homes. the united nations is accusing me and mar security forces of torture killings and

rape of children as part of what it says were a well organized coordinated and systematic attacks against the rohingya muslims it describes attacks carried out by myanmar security forces often in conjunction with armed buddhist individuals aid at preventing the ethnic minority group from returning to their homes but then more than half a million ranger have fled to bangladesh since arcus live to. him who is in young gone in myanmar for sierra pretty damning report for myanmar's government what has been their response if any. well we haven't been able to reach our all thora he is but as with past comments by this un office this is the un human rights chief who said that i mean miles all military was conducting a campaign of textbook ethnic

a textbook example of ethnic cleansing and when the un came out without me maher said that well it just wasn't the case they deny that they were committing ethnic cleansing but instead they were defending their country against what it's calling row hinge or terrorists now as i said strong words from the un's humans rights chief human rights chief again un investigators have been prevented from accessing north rackham state where the conflict is taking place said it had to get this testimony for this current report from rohingya who fled to bangladesh as a result of the military's so-called. clearance operations as we've been reporting about half a million rohingya have fled to bangladesh over the last six weeks as a result of the military campaign in the un cited. testimony that included

indiscriminate killings mass rape and the burning of homes and it's the latter that the un says points to a campaign by the military to not only drive or a huge are out of the country out of their homes and out of the country but to prevent them from ever coming back the un has also expressed grave concerns for the rohingya who do remain in the conflict zone and fully as you're about to see in my report here from yang gone are not only fleeing for bangladesh because of the violence but because they're going hungry. this was meant to be an interfaith prayer rally but it quickly became clear it was a show of support for a government facing international condemnation over its handling of the ranger crisis about thirty thousand people attended this gathering in yangon organized by

and sons who cheese national league for democracy. but in iraq and state in the country's north a military campaign continues it's already forced more than half a million rohingya to flee to bangladesh in the last six weeks un has described it as ethnic cleansing and war say they're leaving not just due to violence but hunger al-jazeera attained this video from a hinge a community leaders in young gone they say this was filmed on sunday in monk in rockland state here a man says they are moving and they have no food left to eat he asked the children not to cry who say they're sad about leaving their villages it is from we meet or hinge a community leader who says he was sent other videos from rocket science but he dung township which the u.k. based aid organization burma human rights network says is facing severe food shortages here a woman says they aren't allowed to go to the market and have

a shortage of food and medicine she pleads for help. over the last ten days what we're hearing from people is that the reason they are flowing is that they have run out of food there are only two raisins in security and food a lack of food is exacerbating the situation for the mostly poor communities in northern iraq i'm reliant on aid they say is just not reaching them service say that up to eleven thousand rohingya fled neymar to bangladesh on monday alone and that many more refugees are on the way the united nations has been urging all for eighty's to allow humanitarian aid access to the conflict zone people are running out of food this is a lean season at the moment and people don't have access to their fields or have a sufficient don't have access to markets and they're simply running out of food and we're getting reports now people are fleeing not from violence but from extremely difficult circumstances in extreme isolation in their villages and

they're taking a very desperate decision to leave. the international organization for migration estimated that up to one hundred thousand rohini just maybe ass or heading to the border to cross into bangladesh and it's clear that hope doesn't arrive for him to communities who remain in meanwhile they'll have no choice but to leave to now the government has confirmed that. leaving because of hunger but they deny that they're preventing food from getting to them the united nations for its pratt has said that it's her. that it wants an end to what it's calling a cruel military security operation ali. thank you for that. accounting is under way in liberia this presidential election that will determine who will take over from ellen johnson sirleaf 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 africa's first elected female leader but reports from monrovia. want to know you africa's first female president ellen johnson sirleaf cast a vote on tuesday. the nobel prize winner is 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 vote where i was redirected to another they don't want me to vote i will go home. johnston gave

a man living with disability quote but was not impressed with the arrangements i want to jean i want to see change in public buildings school buildings for disabled people to enter easily we should have access and be part of decision making. 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 but the success is just overwhelming and i think we are heading for success hundreds of observers 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 and. about things liberia has been passionate about

roads health care education and building upon the existing plans 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. 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 i mean greece al-jazeera monrovia. thirteen inmates have died in a prison riot in northeastern mexico security teams were sent in to regain control of the facility after fighting between rival gangs some prisoners started fires and around two hundred fifty of them are said to fought with security forces another twenty six people were injured in one of the biggest since it in self violence in a mexican jail in recent months. environmentalist's in the united states have slammed the trump administration for sending the wrong message on climate change it's taken its first step to reveal to repeal while

a clean power plant barack obama's landmark law aimed at reducing the use of fossil fuels john hendren has our report. president donald trump struck another blow in what environmentalists call the war on climate control or as his environmental protection agency chief prefers to put it. in his previous job as oklahoma attorney general scott pruitt led more than two dozen states in challenging in court a signature climate control rule and acted by then president barack obama the environmental protection agency said we are committed to writing the wrongs of the obama administration by cleaning the regulatory slate the news angered environmentalists it is a historic mistake especially when this country is weakly suffering billions of dollars of economic impact from wildfires hurricanes sea level rise slowly happening over time this is just hugely irresponsible and they are sending be

absolutely wrong message to the world and to the american people that they're willing to side with polluters over people's public health scientists suggest this year's recent spate of deadly u.s. hurricanes was fueled by greenhouse gases the fisc power plant is one of two plants in chicago that burned their last batch use of coal in two thousand and twelve when the plant shut down chicago last its two biggest sources of industrial carbon dioxide which contributes to global warming the owner midwest generation said the company didn't want to pay for upgrades to comply with expensive federal regulations but there was another reason for years coal has been losing out in competition to cheap been clean natural gas. coworkers make up a tiny fraction of the american workforce a report from the department of energy showed that in two thousand and sixteen there were more than four hundred seventy five thousand jobs in wind and solar energy while there were little more than one hundred sixty thousand jobs in the

coal industry but as president trump often notes the eastern appalachian mountain region where the industry is based was key to his election victory i've ended the obama administration's war on call and we're putting our wonderful coal miners back to work producing beautiful truly home that's a promise the white house seems intent on keeping john hendren al-jazeera chicago. now is a dramatic well cup qualifying night for argentina with a three one win over ecuador it didn't stop well but ended with the n.l. messi is happy guaranteeing a spot for argentina in the twenty eighteen well cup in russia daniel schorr i met with fans in buenos aires. well it really shouldn't have been that difficult but the whole of argentina now happy with things the way they feel they always should have been argentina qualifying for the world cup next year in russia we're going to end the war so i'm very happy it's beautiful we're going to the world cup. you know

you are the best in the world were going to the world cup my heart is in my mouth it was a relatively easy victory in the end three won away to ecuador although they did fall behind in the first minute with an ecuadoran goal but then the man the only hopes and expectations rested a little messy scored the first equaliser and then two more goals the other results also went argentina's way with chile losing with colombia and growing so everything ready when their way to now the process begins of argentina planning perform better than they have done in the qualifying campaign in russia next year so the last world cups runners up now in the world cup in russia with growing confidence despite what has been a very difficult qualifying campaign. hello again i'm fully back to bowl with the headlines on al-jazeera police in kenya have

fired tear gas at opposition supporters protesting election law reforms by the parliament on tuesday opposition leader raila odinga withdrew his candidacy for the vote we run later this month citing a lack of electoral reform kenya's panamint has passed a bill that would change our future elections are managed. in spain the prime minister has asked catalan leaders to clearly state if they have declared independence before taking any measures on tuesday callous but to mount back from announcing full independence and sign a symbolic that aeration instead to allow for negotiations with madrid. we've held a capital meeting and we've decided the cutline government in must confess whether or not they have declared independence regardless of whether it's going to take effect or not this is a requirement necessary before any other measures can be taken by the government including invoking article one fifty five to the united nations in. accusing me and

mar security forces of torture killings and rape of children as part of what it says were well organized coordinated and systematic attacks against rohingya muslims he describes attacks carried out by myanmar security forces aimed at preventing the ethnic minority group from returning to their homes more than half a million rohingya have fled to bangladesh in song coast at least eleven 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 force more than twenty thousand people from their homes in mexico thirteen inmates have died in a prison riot in the northeast security teams were sent in to regain control of the facility after fighting between rival gangs some prisoners started fires in iran two hundred fifty of them are said to fought with security forces another twenty six people were injured in one of the biggest sin since of violence in a mexican jail in recent months and 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 stability in the country marking the first democratic transfer of power in more than seventy years you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next here it's inside story. 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 candidates competing to replace nobel laureate ellen johnson sirleaf but the road ahead is free it on certain days in a country that suffered years of civil war and a deadly.