together. or is it alison whether online we were in hurricane winds full almost like thirty six hours these are the things that u.k. has to address or if you join us on saturday. but. it will a few this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag a.j. stream and one of your pitches might make them actually join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. opposition protesters are back on the streets in kenya calling for political reform as confusion mounts over the repeat presidential poll and who is running it.

alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program spain's prime minister issues catalan leaders with a bed line to confirm whether they've declared independence or not. fact and getting fatter a new report paints a grim picture of the health of children worldwide plus it's home to africa's largest oil reserves so why is there a massive fuel shortage in south so that we're in juba to find out. thank you for joining us let's begin in kenya where confusion is mounting over the repeat presidential election slated for october twenty sixth ok is election board says all eight candidates who. competed in the oldest poll which was nullified by

the supreme court you two irregularities will be on the ballot now that means the main opposition candidate right now is name will be there and that's the spite him announcing on monday that he was pulling out of the poll election officials say he hasn't submitted the official form to withdraw or supporters of rye loading i have been back on the streets to protest and i robey police fire tear gas to disperse them there demanding reforms to the electoral commission for me the miller was with some of the protesters in the capital. raila odinga supporters bailey needed any prompting to return to the streets. they are demonstrating against kenya's electoral commission which they believe won't conduct a free and fair rerun of this election. but holding a supporters are divided on him dropping out of the race. which he lost was great

the supreme court laid to rule they'd been irregularities in how the vote was counted and incumbent were kenyatta and should stand in new elections you cannot go to an election has credibility. i think of what i think are the best option but we are not but the group because of the pressure so we are out the most is that we are not happy the police earlier fired tear gas at protesters and. nairobi was. adamant. on any reforms. and. elections. kenya's constitution is not clear on what happens once a candidate with flows from everyone but parliament has now passed amendments to electoral laws that could allow can to be named the winner. twenty six and pretty. about speeds and. speeds then it's very easy to say that we love

a president. and respect from all things the electoral commission will decide what happens next but if any of its decisions can be contested in court kenya faces one of many possibilities including declaring incumbent president to work and as the only remaining candidates the winner of the rerun all holding elections and then declaring kenyatta the winner or holding fresh elections within ninety days with new nominations for president barchi not a says he should be declared president ordering guys pushing for fresh elections in a pronouncement from b.c. will not be believable and the conduct of. both the conduct of the commission as. has about to be. whether it's a faltering economy or an ongoing political feud all kenyans are guaranteed at this

point is uncertainty to meet umbrella al-jazeera nairobi. spain's prime minister has asked catalan leaders to say whether they have declared independence giving them five days to reply on tuesday the catalan president asked parliament to suspend the declaration of independence to allow for talks if got a lonia the us press on with secession the spanish government says it will take away the region's political autonomy or and sleep has more now from madrid. madrid does not like being told what to do by the council lands for once parliament was united as the journalist speculated the cabinets agreed the spanish lion bit back against the catalan demands that their independence will happen the prime minister said if you say it out loud we will take back your powers no dice no deal and you

have until monday. you've held a cabinet meeting and we've decided the cattle government must confirm 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 if you do five. so back it goes to barcelona madrid no society there is split some separatists want to session now others are nervous half the population hates the whole idea how long should they wait we know there are very important governments and people around the world who are ready to assist in mediation we've got the group of the elders with coffee with a bank a move on with desmond tutu who are ready to exercise their mediation the only small detail which we are missing is that we have nobody on the other side of the table because it just said he was not accepting mediation. all the while europe

looks on surely not another country fracturing itself there is no support at all in brussels for the catalan independence movements madrid knows that it is the side with the powerful friends. many people in madrid regard roy's statements his demand that catalonia clarify its position on independence as a shrewd one by putting the ball straight back in catalonia courts potentially exposes divisions inside the independence movements that might buy madrid some time take the pressure out of the immediate situation but also leave the crisis open ended. where the protesters in barcelona go from here is a good question but it would like nothing more than for them to turn on each other destroy their own movements that would rule out the need for mediation which madrid insists there is no place for asli al-jazeera which it. so

catalan leader catulus praised. monday to clarify whether he has formally declared that the regions in the pendants if he confirms in madrid will give him an additional three days to rectify the decision john has more now from barcelona. where the pressure clearly very much on congress quizzed him on to the catalonian regional government in the building behind me there took on such a this challenge from owner russia the spanish government in madrid just to whether he stands by tuesday's declaration of independence or not he's got to do that by monday if he does stand by it he'll then have until thursday to basically change his mind rescind it go back to the legal framework otherwise section one five five is applied and catalonia has its cortana mean revoked we don't know what he's going to say or when he's going to say we have a hint of what the government's position might be from an interview with al-jazeera by a senior member of his coalition in which he basically says look what they're offering here is dialogue without preconditions they're talking about

a framework for mediation that really doesn't have a lot of distance to travel because madrid has consistently said there's no place for mediation mr a hole in parliament reiterated that on wednesday afternoon there is however another avenue. of talks which may have opened up that comes courtesy of the head of the socialist party the main opposition in a grid saying that he's reached an agreement with roy in the popular party to set up a commission in parliament to spend six months looking at constitutional reforms in the way that the regions are government but basically to give them more autonomy now this begins to look like a real enticement to the catalans to mr zimmerman in terms of saying there is a way for you to end up with a constitutional settlement with greater autonomy but the price for that would be to give up independence altogether and that is a price that may be too high for mr which amount to pay. us president donald trump is holding talks with his canadian counterpart justin trudeau at the white house

the pair are discussing the nafta trade deal which trump has threatened to pull out of but during the photo opportunity trump strayed off the topic it is at the white house monitoring developments for us so tell us a little bit about what exactly he did say and how he strayed off topic. well in the essence he is fighting back against reports he doesn't like in the media the topic to shore is a report by n.b.c. news that over the summer time donald trump said in a meeting and this is cited by three unnamed officials u.s. officials that in fact don't talk said he wanted to increase america's nuclear arsenal to nine hundred sixty two levels in essence ten times what it currently is right now this is something that the president is denying in fact when speaking to reporters as well as on social media he has called this reporting by n.b.c. news fake news and in fact he said it is totally unnecessary.

no i never discuss i think somebody said i want ten times the nuclear weapons that we have right now right now we have so many nuclear weapons i want them in perfect condition perfect shape that's the only thing i've ever discussed general matters put out a statement or is putting out a statement saying that that was fake news that it was just mentioned that way and it's frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. and kimberly the president is on the verge of announcing at the susan on whether to decertify the iran deal way impact do we think that that's going to have . well in essence all of this is kind of interconnected because there's been a lot that has been percolating in washington around not just the tensions with north korea and the rhetoric of the upping of the rhetoric by the president and how that differs from his top diplomat rather diplomat rex tillerson the secretary of

state given the fact that he has undermined rex tillerson position there's been reports that tillerson has referred to the president as a moron all of this has been sort of this open fighting but now two you have this sort of not just that tension but also the tension of the iran nuclear deal and the uncertainty around its future the fact that by the end of the week the president must recertify under the terms before the u.s. congress iran's compliance and the signaling that seems to be going on that in fact the president may do just the opposite withdraw from that deal is causing a tremendous amount of uncertainty not just amongst the president's cabinet even signaling to world leaders like the canadian prime minister who was present at some of this was being discussed but also too with a top republican member of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker so certainly a lot of uncertainty about the future of that agreement what it might mean when talking about all of this in the oval office in the last hour or so the certainly the president once again addressing this when responding to

a question saying that in fact his attitudes with the secretary of state are different but in the end he said my attitude is the only one that matters and really have it at the white house can really thank you. the world health organizations warning that the number of obese children in developing countries is soaring it says rates are worse than the middle east and north africa and parts of asia while levels among kids in rich countries appear to have peaked researchers use the data from the past forty years predicting that by twenty twenty two there will be more obese children adolescents that underweight ones in one thousand seventy five to one hundred million obese adults around the world the study which was published to coincide with world of basically they found that by two thousand and sixteen that number had jumped from one hundred million to six hundred and seventy one million by the end of last year there were fifty million obese girls and seventy four million obese boys in the world well the chairman of the national

beastie forum you kate have explained why these alarming numbers are worse in developing countries there's a lot of people look at the west and they say that's what the west do we want we like the west and they they do not realize that in fact the western food is less than the healthy result is they get fat it's more processed meat show and the good thing about processed meat is that you can mass produce either flood the world with it and this is why some of the big corporations are hugely rich as a result of just promoting in all the healthy food to areas of the very cheap price and therefore if you will it's extremely interesting for the families to buy the second problem is that it's laced with sugar and fat and sugar and fat excites the appetite and so you go a couple of real minuses to combat it. lots more to come on the program including

i saw claims responsibility for a triple suicide bombing targeting the police headquarters in the syrian capital and that major go gunning. them a source of controversy in france. hello and welcome to international weather forecast it looks very mobile across central northern parts of europe when weather system after another in the some pretty deep areas of low pressure mix in here too across more southern parts you're looking fine with high pressure and in fact warm air is going to push up from the southwest in the coming days but for the time being we have got some pretty unsettled weather conditions pushing across northwestern parts of europe another low pressure system through the baltic region extending through into parts of western russia but those central southern areas or looking dry and fine into friday

again northern areas cool showery windy southern areas drawing fire and sunshine in rome and highs of twenty five into north africa it looks fine here the breeze continue to come in off the mediterranean socorro there temperatures of twenty nine just jones wanted to showers pushing into the gulf area so between tripoli and benghazi there could be a few showers as we head on through into friday in particular for central parts of africa still plenty of showers between central africa public and d.r. congo extending towards cameroon the gulf of guinea region further towards the west we've got a few showers here are current gano may pick up one or two showers two in the day for southern parts of africa it's looking to me draw and find should be a bright day cape town with a high here of eighteen. china's property. fields become cities. rivers water parks

forests. mostly empty. brings international before the illusion of a thriving metropolis and the many. chinese dream of a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. but the back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera police in the kenyan capital nairobi have used gas to disperse opposition protesters calling for changes to the electoral commission. confusion is mounting over this month's repeat presidential

election officials said that it. would be on the ballot this fight him actually with a voice spain's prime minister has asked catalan leaders to clarify whether they've the cleared independents before the government triggers an article allowing madrid to take away the region's political opening and the world health organization is warning that the number of obese children in developing countries is soaring especially in the middle east and north africa and parts of asia. the united nations is accusing me and mar security forces of torture killings and the rape of children as part of what it says were what well organized coordinated in systematic attacks against or hinge on muslims it says the clearance operations began before an attack by rohingya fighters on august the twenty fifth which was the reason given for the military crackdown more than half

a million range or have fled the bunker there since august and many more are on the way yet a limb has more now from young gone. an away service in a sea of misery. this school is teaching english to or hinder refugees who fled mean mass military campaign before eleven year old say you know the conflict is ever present. in our village reckoned people came to our house to kill people and they burned houses so we can't stay there they were torturing you know what united nations investigators are prevented from going to main mosque conflict zone so they came here to bangladesh in what is now the world's largest refugee camp more than half a million or hinge or have fled across the border from main mar to bangladesh since late august it was from them that the un heard testimonies of a military campaign of indiscriminate killing mass rape and the burning down of

homes in yemen our security forces purposely to strides the property of the range of population scorched earth bearings and entire villages in the penn state media only to drive the population out in droves but also to prevent the free range of victims from returning to their homes not only will hinge and not be allowed back to their homes but it won't belong to them anymore mean mars' government announced last month that all birds land will become the property of the state al-jazeera has yet to hear back from authorities about their response to the un report they've previously denied un claims that the military campaign against the right thing to amount to ethnic cleansing it's likely that ignore and dismiss this report to the arab mohamed al jazeera. i source says it's behind an attack on a police headquarter in the syrian capital the last kiss which the government says

killed two people and injured six others at least three suicide bombers are said to have tried to storm the building two of the attackers were killed on the spot while the other detonated a suicide vest i saw said in a statement that its fighters carried out the attack. as more now from attack in the air the turkey syria border. we'll bring you that report a little later in the program iraq's prime minister has formally declared victory over i saw in the city of how we just hyderabadi says the fight against the armed groups has now shifted to the border with syria the last stretch of land in the country that it's still controls about he said he expects eisold to be completely defeated in iraq by the end of the year. well the governments of iraq turkey and iran have joined ranks in announcing measures against iraq's kurdish regional government it follows last month's referendum on the future kurdish secession from baghdad the long binding vote was supported by kurds in neighboring countries and

this child stratford found found out from sin jack in northern iraq the pressure for a kurdish state is felt on both sides of the border with 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 for more than 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 allowed its members to train here since the one nine hundred ninety s. . it's quite a long cycle iraqi peshmerga helping the iraqi army and the international coalition in the battle against isis 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 iraq. as well as military training the recruits of what the policy say is unknown sectarian politics and state building and it fully supports the referendum that was held in the kurdish region of northern iraq on a future session. 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 postman 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 the 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. could buy kurds will not destabilize security in the region if the region's government suppression against the kurds that has created the instability when there is an independent kurdish region in iraq it will be a motive for other kurdish nations in other parts of the region like the kurds in iran turkey and syria the other ninety two percent of those who voted in the iraqi kurdish referendum said yes to future suspension from iraq. despite the threats from the governments in baghdad ankara and iran these iranian kurds share the same dream child strafford al jazeera jack in iraq. india's supreme court has ruled that a man is committing rape if he has sex with his underage wife it's

a landmark decision for a country with one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world the court ruled that the age of consent is eighteen for all purposes through consider though considered illegal child marriage is the plea rooted in the. south sudan is hosting its first ever international oil conference but its president has been a no show the country is going through a fuel crisis despite having billions of oil battles in reserves hippa morgan reports now from the capital juba. this may not seem the best way to prepare for exams but now i think peter says it's the only way her brothers them study she says fuel is too expensive for her family. because there's no power in the house so we use candles we can't pay for the fuel that is used to run the generator in our neighborhood that fuel is expensive and comes from the black market it's cheaper to get candles peers but for a day south sudan has the largest oil reserve in africa according to experts but it

has no means of processing its own oil instead it relies on its neighbor sudan to do so but two years of war and low oil prices last here has damaged the economy this has resulted in hard currency crisis making it hard for traders to bring in fuel most suppliers now prefer just of private sectors leaving many stations in the country empty despite the shortage of few electrical stations you can find info on the sea from recycled water bottles but at a price eight dollars a gallon about forty third that's nearly ten times more than the official price of seventeen cents at petco face. there are government subsidies on imported fuel but because the black market is more profitable subsidies along with other issues are contributing to the country shortage future to just it's because. we're subsidizing his expression you know the fuel is being supplies. that is one issue that we are facing. every three months i give them said to me. smuggling fuel part

of the country and there are people who are actually taking the fuel to the black market so that they make more money and this is the work of the police and the national security to address it so that they stopped not it's those who are actually doing illegal activities like trading with your lawmakers have recently proposed lifting the fuel subsidies but some analysts say if the government does this the short term impact will be damaging could have an impact on you know income . skyrocket. and. price is now think knows she can't afford the cost a few but she hopes it doesn't soon extend to do one thing that lights her home at

night and force her and her family to live in darkness he will morgan al-jazeera juba. paul gauguin is one of france's most famous artists best known for his paintings of polynesian women his work is now the subject of a major exhibit opening in paris but the explains aspects of his time in the south pacific are still considered taboo by many. struggled for artistic recognition all his life the frenchman's bold use of color and abstract depictions of reality shocks nineteenth century out 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 them 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's colonies in the south pacific it's a period that has come to define him but not without controversy the paintings created by go guy entire hooty 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 rare manta sized in france the perhaps it ignores some uncomfortable realities. tahiti was under french colonial rule and the artist enjoyed many of the systems 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 goga he says criticizing french culture and the colonial past is simply to hear the history of colonization deal very touchy issue in france much more than in the u.k. or the us for many people in the head you go guys nothing but a. drunkard who basically looted. a pretty nation and the haitian culture ought to make a living how gauguin 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. that on al-jazeera. and now a reminder of our top stories police in the kenyan capital nairobi have used tear

gas to the spurs protesters calling for electoral reform confusion is mounting in kenya over this month's repeat presidential election kenya's election board says all eight candidates who competed in the first poll will be on the ballot that means opposition candidate right loading his name will be there despite him announcing on tuesday that was pulling out of the poll. spain's prime minister has given catalan leaders on monday deadline to clarify whether they've declared independence or not the government the said that if catalonia does split from spain it will take away the region's autonomous status on tuesday catalonia as leader catalyst pushed the month stepped back from announcing full independence and signed symbolic that liberation. it was president donald trump has been holding talks with his canadian counterpart justin trudeau at the white house the pair are discussing the nafta trade deal which trump has threatened to pull out of trump also denied

claims that he would massively increase america's nuclear arsenal. you know i never discuss i think somebody said i want ten times the nuclear weapons that we have right now right now we have so many nuclear weapons i want them in perfect condition perfect shape that's the only thing i've ever discussed general matters put out a statement was putting out a statement saying that that was fake news that it was just mentioned that way and it's frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. the world health organization is warning that the number of obese children in developing countries is soaring it says rates are warst in the middle east north africa and parts of asia while levels among kids in rich countries appear to have peaked a run off is likely to take place following presidential elections in liberia there were twenty candidates running and the winner must secure at least fifty percent of the vote to avoid a second round president ellen johnson sirleaf africa's first female leader is

stepping aside after nearly twelve years in office. right well those are the top stories i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour stay with us coming up next it's the stream thank you for watching very sort of i. do with you . that we as judging people were shocked you are surprised why would you put chad on the travel ban list and that's why we started high stack child travel ban to ask why chad has been banned doesn't make sense there is no logic behind it and there are no data supporting it and i said has been supported by so many people globally and has called that mission.