the story that. will probably be the economy. and. some of that story about the story and. the team that i want this to viewer in malaysia like al-jazeera english because. if any of. the two main palestinian factions reach an agreement on how to govern gaza.

and welcome to al-jazeera life my headquarters in doha with me and of the parana also ahead. protests in kenya with a deepening political uncertainty after opposition leader violent agenda withdraws from the repeat presidential election. political leaders an ultimatum to declare their intentions on and dependence by next week. why more than one hundred former professional ice hockey players are preparing to sue their league for negligence. the two major palestinian groups have reached a deal on governing gaza hamas and fatah have been meeting in cairo to discuss the implementation of the deal signed six years ago. key topics in the negotiations

included employment of both groups personnel and the future of hamas as powerful military wing let's bring in our correspondent how to force it now he's joining us on the followed from west jerusalem we are waiting for more information i know harry but what will palestinians be hoping for from the steel. exactly. has very few words from one side of politics from the homicide. in cairo coming off to a little over two days of talks. some of the. great insights. be. encreased surprise.

there is a. place. what could be. differences. on the table. discussions. except the situation. just provides. a very population. while. center of power. questions if they've been in two days i think a lot of people will be very might come out of this we have some. things which can be agreed upon. and some of the more difficult issues to be resolved at

a later date we don't know yet. as far as i must. agree. thank you very much for that for now. joining us from west jerusalem. live on top of the story of the day now and again protests in kenya amid deepening confusion. repayed presidential election that set down for the twenty sixth of this month the latest crisis comes after the withdrawal of main opposition candidate rolla dunga who is demanding electoral reform he lost a hoody kenyatta an august election which was nullified by the supreme court of regularities farm in the middle has the latest from the capital nairobi. raila odinga supporters barely 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 the supporters are divided

on him dropping out of the race. which he lost was. the supreme court laid to rule they'd been irregularities in how the vote was counted and incumbent and should stand in new elections you cannot go to an election. i think that is the best option but we are not but. because of the pressure so you are out. between. protesters and they. haven't. done any reforms. kenya's constitution is not clear on what happens once a candidate with flows from iran but parliament has now passed amendments to

electoral laws that could allow kenyatta to be named the winner. twenty six and the president. i mean let's face it it's very easy to say that we'll have a president with. respect to. be 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 are working as the only remaining candidates the winner of the rerun all holding elections and then declaring kenyatta the winner all holding fresh elections within ninety days with new nominations for president while kanada says he should be declared president ordering guys pushing for fresh elections in a pronouncement. to be believable and the conduct of. the conduct of the commission. has been to be.

whether it's a faltering economy or an ongoing political feud all kenyans are guaranteed at this point is uncertainty for me al-jazeera nairobi. spain has given a hard landing in a callous procurement until monday to say whether or not his declared independence of catalonia goes ahead with the session the spanish government says it will take away the region's political autonomy largely reports 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 fifty five. so back it goes to barcelona madrid no society there is split some separatist wants a 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 got the group of the elders with coffee and with a banking 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 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 counts alone your clarify its position on independence as a shrewd one by putting the ball straight back in catalonia of course it 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 protestors in barcelona go from here is a good question madrid 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 laurence li al jazeera which it. can come. from here john hall takes it up. we don't know what he's got to say or when he's going to say it we haven't

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 we do it 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 madrid 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 police are now 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. two u.s. senators have criticized president donald trump for a delay in implementing sanctions against russia and a joint statement republican john mccain and democrat ben cardin said the white house has to get to identify what challenges of the russian state should be sanctions despite an october first deadline they say the delay calls into question the trumpet ministrations commitment to the sanctions bill. now u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has called on turkey to provide evidence for accusations that local u.s. embassy employees were linked to the two thousand and sixteen failed coup and express his profound concern over the everest the u.s. embassy in ankara suspended most phases services after a stuff member was detained encore a battalion by canceling american existing visas and stopping issuing new ones.

well late wednesday secretary of state rex tillerson said he wants to see evidence behind why two consulate employees from the u.s. were arrested within the last year one of those employees was arrested just a little less than a week ago the turkish government said that he was a spy and claim that he was linked to a u.s. based turkish businessman who turkey says was behind the failed coup a year ago now in addition to that the deputy foreign minister was visiting washington today he was meeting with the u.s. chamber of commerce trying to reaffirm the relationship with the u.s. the u.s. is a very strong trading partner with turkey the two countries do about twenty billion dollars you know bilaterally every year and trade seventeen hundred u.s. companies do business with turkey he says it's that both sides are very dependent on each other economically and he is hopeful that the two countries can get past

this latest crisis you know want to be very clear we don't want this dispute to last more than a second. we responded you know likewise because to a proud nation we are a sovereign nation. and you know we think that you know this decision needs to be reversed now additionally defense secretary james madison's he's continuing to work with his counterpart diplomatically on military operations in turkey he said that they are continuing to talk again he reaffirmed today that turkey is a very strong nato ally to the u.s. turkey is also home to a very important and strategic air force base so everyone involved here is optimistic at least hopeful that this tit for tat so to speak over these

pieces will be resolved quickly joshua will cause a fellow at the german marshall fund as a nonprofit aimed at strengthening corporation between the u.s. and europe and he says this issue has been a long time coming it's been simmering this is exploding that it caught everyone by surprise because it was a very technical issue that was announced on twitter in terms of these is being suspended the church responded in kind literally verbatim with the same these a suspension this is a first time is to nato allies have not been able to visit each other people the people exchanges they're trying to dress it up to say well it's a visas it's not that big a deal but this is a big deal and i think they want to resolve it both sides i mean these are two nato allies things from syria to cyprus to russian relations to turkey's internal politics with the message on going on rests with the fed so organization has been accused of the failed coup i mean everything is at stake in some ways for turkey

the same for the u.s. and our regional alliances this is a really big deal and it doesn't seem that in some ways is a disproportionate explanation that escalation in some ways something as technical as visa something as technical as going after a turkish citizen who works at the consulate this is an interesting escalation. still ahead on the bulletin the united nations accused of torture and killing of the head of. state and why scientists say we need to rethink our approach to fighting fires. hello again let's look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia you see this cloud moving through the caucuses give him one or two showers and a this little bit of weakness left behind the potential is still there for the odd shower coming in on the eastern side of the black sea otherwise very fine

conditions cooling off generally across this region backed up there thirty three further south kuwait city thirty five degrees so the side of the caspian sea some showers are likely to run probably stay dry there might some twenty five and as we head on into friday generally similar conditions expected and the shower activity across the caucasus is likely to have cleared out stage here in the arabian peninsula is starting it move a breeze picking up coming down through the gulf region that is perhaps lifting some dust in places but it's also clearing the humidity it really sticky air it is being blown away so it's feeling slightly more pleasant on the other side of the peninsula still looking pretty warm for mecca medina temperatures there around about the forty mark give or take let's head into southern parts of africa is fine here for the most part that for normal area of low pressure is now moving away into the indian ocean so much quieter weather left behind i'm pleased to say so durban looking bright highs of twenty two cape town should be fine for the north into the movie and

a bit apache cloudy but otherwise plenty of sunshine highs of thirty in when talk. 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 fikile of pain for what that menai meets the women affected by s.g.m. and those reshaping perception do you think people will abandon the search even through it a bit of a mistake al-jazeera correspondent the kind this time. the the earth. a loon.

good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories the palestinian group hamas says it's reached a deal on governing gaza with a survival they've been meeting in cairo since tuesday to discuss the implementation of an agreement signed six years ago. police in the kenyan capital have used tear gas to disperse opposition protesters calling for changes to the electoral commission confusion is mounting over this month's repeat presidential vote officials say opposition candidate rylan didn't go on the ballot despite his withdrawal on tuesday and spain's prime minister has given. them on time to monday to say whether or not he's declared independence the spanish government says it will take away the region's political autonomy if it presses ahead with the secession. a un report has accused me of killings rape and torture of. interviewing survivors who fled to bother their the military is also

alleged to have torched homes and crops and rock on state to stop her from returning there. has more 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 ignore the conflict is ever present. in our village reckon people came to our house to kill people and they burned houses so we can't stay there they were torturing a lot 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 the 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 gatherings and entire villages not in the penn state media only to drive the population out in droves but also to prevent the fleeing 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 i 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 u.n. claims that the military campaign against the right thing to amount to ethnic cleansing slightly that ignore and dismiss this report. mohammed al jazeera. and the international rescue committee has spent the past two weeks and to view the families at shelters and bangladesh and has heard many harrowing stories of torture

and death. we heard terrible stories of violence that women and children had faced as they were awoken in the middle of the night and forced to run from their homes we heard that now that they are in bangladesh more than one third of the population have no access to a toilet which brings on huge public health risks and three quarters of the refugee population are hungry and having to cut down on the number of meals they eat a day so as to make sure that there's an offshoot for their kids to eat it's a huge task to look after this number of people and while the government of bangladesh has been very welcoming the capacity on the ground of international national n.g.o.s and u.n. agencies isn't currently up to the task of keeping these people alive and safe so they are flooding in vietnam has killed at least thirty seven paid for the left fourteen missing brain his last several provinces in central and northern vietnam

this way triggering flash flooding and landslides the disaster management authority says more than eight hundred thousand homes have been submerged or damaged. the mollifies banning in the u.s. state of california have killed twenty three people with hundreds still missing a thousand firefighters have been deployed more than thirty five hundred homes and businesses have been destroyed fast on to say some of the damage could have been prevented rob reynolds reports from the sound to me. high winds low humidity and dry brush the ingredients of california's fire disaster are simple all they need is a spark if you get that ignition and you don't get that if you don't get that ignition put out right away then those are the conditions that allow a wildfire to spread really uncontrollably hot winds from the desert eastward every

october just as the forest and brush is at its trius many wildfires are almost impossible to contain with winds of up to one hundred sixty kilometers per hour propelling the flames along fire experts say while brush fires are inevitable the destruction they cause is not it's going to be far easier cheaper and effective to reengineer our homes and communities than the try to reengineer the forest if you just do one thing. replace rooftops with non-flammable materials like a metal roof that alone can increase the probability of a home surviving a wildfire by ninety to ninety five percent for more than a century the conventional wisdom was to fight forest fires at almost all costs the consequence it has allowed the underbrush and dry fuel to build up making fires

burn with even greater intensity what we need to be doing is working with wildfires not fighting against them. the whole war on wildfire paradigm is complete distortion and we're just throwing lots of blood and treasure into absolute folly making war on nature is essentially what it's about firefighters are doing their best there are several thousand firefighters on the line right now we have firefighters from throughout california san diego julian borger but scientists say those who have built their homes and businesses in harm's way can't count on firefighters to save them there's always a lag time in these fires between the time that the fire starts and the time that they can get people out of the way getting resources to start to protect against

it and it's in that lag time that people in that lag time that a lot of the bad things happen a new approach in how people should deal with nature along with changes in planning and building design could help keep things from going from bad to worse rob zero los angeles. times i still have infiltrated could cook a city under the control of the kurdistan regional government promise to heather antibodies has he wants to send investigators to find the ice and find his the chaos jamie says the iraqi government is planning a major attack on the city off the coast budget for independence from iraq. well you know what that i'm going to sell myself fighters have been allowed to enter car cook if they were fighters who are considered very dangerous and who pledged allegiance to our or who have confessed to have fought with a group of women and we asked the kurdistan region and we ask our caucus which is on there to federal authority as well as we have asked the minister of interior to

send officials took our coke to get these terrorists and investigate them these are terrorists who have committed crimes against civilians in who we and other areas they have to be punished according to iraqi law. and iraq should arrest warrants for three kurdish election commission officials all over the referendum on secession ninety two percent of people in kurdish territory as voted for independence from iraq the arrest warrants are the latest in a series of efforts by baghdad to force the k r g to know the referendums result. two police officers have died after suicide bombers attacked the police headquarters in the syrian capital damascus six civilians were injured at least three attackers tried to storm the building two were killed by security forces another detonated a suicide vest as more from talking near the turkish syrian border. the attackers were planning to storm the headquarters of the police in the capital damascus they were intercepted then there was an exchange of gunfire two attackers

were killed another blew himself up now there was a similar attack last week in the capital damascus targeting also a police station for suicide bombers were killed and eleven people were killed including police the capital damascus has been relatively calm over the last year was one of the latest attacks are indications that rebel factions or groups are created with ice so that they. can still so that those fighters into the heart of the capital damascus and launch attacks against u.s. forces samsung's was chairman has arrived at court to begin has appeal case against a five year sentence for corruption charges j. wiley was found guilty last month of bribing south korea's former president pay a scandal has seen a number of samsung and south korean government figures face corruption charges. more than one hundred former professional ice hockey players are preparing to sue

the national hockey league in the u.s. and canada they are accusing the n.h.l. of concealing scientific evidence of long term damage caused by head injuries to players dialect reports. fast furious and intricate ice hockey mixes speed intense physical contact it's also a sport that's hard on those who play it fans love them but frequent body checks even fist fights cause dangerous injuries especially to the head and you put a harness around your back former player scott thornton is retired but after at least sixteen concussions he's worried about long term brain trauma he says he's feeling some effects i can be looking at a photo of teammates i played with ten years ago and can't remember some of their names in the photo and i played five years of these guys you know a lot of guys are way worse than me so i can kind of live with the say that i mean dozens of former players are taking part in

a study looking for links between the concussions they suffered and degenerative brain function some n.h.l. players who died in recent years were found to have physical brain deterioration similar to all simers disease many of their former teammates are worried they could be next as an issue it's a real issue but it needs to be put in perspective in terms of the the general incidence which is unknown the general incidence of dementia in our genitives sees it we're only beginning to learn. the current lawsuit claims the n.h.l. knew about the potential for brain damage from concussions but concealed it players were encouraged to return to the game too soon after head injuries the league denies this and says it has rigorous concussion protocols but the settlement in two thousand and thirteen of a similar suit by national football league players in the u.s. has set a precedent legal experts are warning that the n.h.l. is taking a risk by refusing to settle if we look to the n.f.l.

and their settlement that was a billion dollars for the n.f.l. can afford a billion dollars and they have the n.h.l. cannot win a grand scheme of things that could be a serious hit to the league it could even you know in some cases destroy what the league is facing now is a class action lawsuit thousands of ex players could be eligible for compensation should their legal arguments prevail the judge in the case once it settled or decided later this year if possible. at arenas across north america a new n.h.l. season has begun but amid the excitement and anticipation of fans the possibility that a court ruling could have a devastating impact on the game then your lack of al-jazeera toronto. carryin on is a broader mendenhall of the headlines on al-jazeera the palestinian group hamas says it's reached a date on the governing gaza with its rival fatha that they may take in cairo since tuesday to discuss the implementation of an agreement signed six years ago harry

false it has more from west jerusalem. the details so far are extremely scarce we have refused a statement given to alexis. by commerces political head is not anywhere he just said that the two sides had reached a deal with these books in cairo with current egyptian help and that there would be so the details at a news conference or turn gnc. police in the kenyan capital have used tear gas to disperse opposition protesters calling for changes to the electoral commission confusion is mounting over this month's repeat presidential vote official say opposition candidate while a don't go will be on the ballot despite his withdrawal on tuesday spain's prime minister has given catalan leader karla's push demand until monday to say whether or not he's declared independence the spanish government says it will take away the region's political autonomy if it goes ahead with secession. u.s.

secretary of state rex tillerson has called on turkey to provide evidence for accusations that local u.s. embassy employees were linked to the two thousand and sixteen failed coup one employees detention has been at the center of a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. a un report has found myanmar's army torched tones and crops and rock and state to stop the hanger from returning there the report based on interviews with her hunger who escaped a bang the day she tells killings torture and the rape of children. iraq claims eisel has infiltrated kid says he under the control of the kurdistan regional government promised a header in a body says he wants to send investigators to find the isis fighters the chaos he says the iraqi government is planning a major attack on the city after kurds voted for independence from iraq. libyan cause god has rescued seventy five refugees and migrants who are stranded on

a rubber boats of mine team woman and four children are among the survivors and at least twenty one people have been killed and hundreds missing in wildfires in the u.s. state of california thousands of firefighters are battling twenty two places in the northern part of the state. witness of coming up next. news has never been more available but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera.