al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts folk abene dot. the first u.n. envoy trying to bring peace to the middle east how is negotiations with him helped save thousands of jews from nazi concentration camps and how these mediation skills put him at the vanguard in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the count at this time on al-jazeera. a call for mass protests on polling day as kenya's election chief says the presidential rerun may not be free and fair. or until this is al jazeera live from london also coming up until rerun may not be

free and fair. and our intel this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. police fire in the air to stop angry somalis reaching the scene of saturday's devastating truck bomb attack. spain urges catalonia need to act sensibly as the deadline looms for him to abandon his independence bid or lose autonomy. and changing premisses china should take center stage in the world as he lays out his vision of the future of the communist party congress. or the head of kenya's electoral commission is warning that it can't guarantee that next week's presidential run will be free and fair where he admits there's been political interference this after another top election official resigned and fled

to new york saying it would be impossible to hold a credible rerun of august speech and vote by minimal or has more from nairobi. it looks as if things are falling apart at kenya's electoral commission headquarters roslyn a calm there one of seven commissioners has resigned alleging political interference she says threats have been made on the lives of staff members including our own commissioners are serving political interests and they've been last minute changes to technology and electronic transmission of results hours later the commission's chairman gave a stern warning with good political changes in music theory of stow. and. therefore call on the. men's room. this. function without. the chairman's appeal was also aimed at the kenyan public hoping

to regain their trust but the damage has been done the electoral commission is already starting with its credibility the chairman's admission that the commission is split and that conditions wouldn't allow for free and fair elections has only echoed an earlier supreme court ruling. last month the court an old august presidential elections it says the commission had not been transparent and there were illegalities in the telling of results that named incumbent president a work in the art of the winner a rerun is planned for october twenty six opposition leader raila odinga has withdrawn saying as long as the electoral commission does not reform the polls would be a sham but this week the ruling jubilee party said elections would take place within the sixty day limit set by the court and that the opposition is stalling we have absolutely no problem and we told you be very clearly

that whatever they agree with our competitors they don't have to be fired what. can the outer is campaigning around the country while the opposition looks for public support for electoral reform questions around the electoral commission's ability to do its job of only added fuel to increasing confusion around just how next week's election will take place for media miller al-jazeera nairobi. police in somalia have fired into the air to disperse thousands marching through the capital over saturday's massive bomb attack more than three hundred people were killed in two bombings and hundreds of others were injured as more from mogadishu. on the streets of most suffering and enough is enough it's time we stood up and fought our enemy as the crowds of protesters today as a blast site there was cut by somali police and african union peacekeepers but the crowds pressed. the police to shoot them back to disperse the goldfish all morning

. edition's say they come out of the difficult questions they say they are going to . they believe cut it out talk. government for what they call a failure to protect them. they say somalia security forces failed to identify and disrupt out. of the national emergency operations center the human toll of the blast to clear. days after the relatives of the injured and missing keep coming to just help themselves. father hussein a mother of two traveled from her village one hundred twenty kilometers away. been a tooth brush vendor of the five junction where the truck exploded. spoke to him two hours before the blast i don't know if he's dead or alive. the

huge casualty figure has one pause but also in the city they quickly ran out of blood or medicine forcing them to turn away some of the injured for a lot of zavos yet to receive medical attention their patience is wearing thin. my son is missing one part of his head and the wound is infected he says yet they keep asking me to wait i can't wait i need help for my son. international aid has been quick to arrive in somalia with tuckey kenya leading efforts to airlift the most seriously wounded government officials say more help is needed it is beyond our capacity so we urgently need we don't have blood and we don't have the facilities for us even to locate the missing people. the explosion has shattered hopes of recovery in an impoverished country left by decades of conflict somalia remains from

a country in shock. u.s. backed forces fighting are still in syria being clearing main roads in rucka a day after the commanders declared the city under their control kurdish led syrian democratic forces raise their flag and stadium after a four month battle to push ourselves from self proclaimed capital they say they'll redeploy fighters to the current front line against i saw in the eastern province of terrorism. has more. on turkey's border with syria. vs the of his. going through the mammoth task of trying to clear russia of landmines and ensure that no booby trap buildings this explains why they are not allowing civilians into the area we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people who were forced out of russia during the fighting over the last few months but further south there is fighting which is continuing again i said from different. from

flying the syrian army is launching that offensive from the south and a senior army officer was killed today and it's on the head of the in brigadier general he was leading the fight against isis in jails or some sort of deal has been accused by the sea in opposition of committing atrocities against civilians that is a part of the country particularly in two thousand and twelve on the outskirts of the capital damascus and this comes at a time when the iranians the top military commanders are meeting in damascus with their syrian counterpart the iranian chief of staff says that israel has no right whatsoever to violate syria and i think it was a fairing to the past attacks targeting syrian targets. by the israelis israel on the other hand in says that it is concerned about way considers to be an iranian growing influence in so yeah and i stand by syria to build military bases all on

the border with israel something that israel with jack. and i stick around is a medical corps nature doctors without borders she says many is managed to leave iraq are in desperate need of help. in the last few days. you know mothers and children come you know covered and that's the mean stuff that you see when you know that there's been enormous structural collapse. and people are shell shocked not to use that word lightly many of them are children. the whole family lost and i cannot read everything their extended family in a day and of course going to come in with the quotes or not the clothes on their back if they've been injured and we often have to remove you know quoting when someone is have been injured and you know it's one of those things we realize it's probably all that that person has right now so over the next week it's again trying to meet those basic needs iraq's government has admitted the civilians were

attacked by armed groups during the military operation to retake kirkuk province kurdish peshmerga fighters from is a higher level body has ordered the security forces in kirkuk to protect civilians and property. and also today while mr about he the iraqi prime minister has received information that some armed men whose affiliations are unknown have attacked some civilians of course the prime minister does not accept such violations we also emphasize our commitment to the orders of the prime minister to protect the safety and security of all citizens in the governorates without exception the interior ministry will take all measures to stop those who commit such violations iraq has asked petroleum giant b.p. to make plans to develop the kirkuk oil fields after it took back control of the oil rich region the fields are generated billions of dollars of revenue for the kurds from erbil in northern iraq charles stratford reports. iraqi government

forces are in full control here and now. the oil fields around kirkuk one of iraq's two main oil producing areas were vital for the economy. before the peshmerga forces withdrew the kurdistan regional government was pumping around six hundred thousand barrels of oil a day from wells like these. this is one of the main processing units at the by has and feel it used to be exploited by the occupying forces of coke now thank god the fields have been handed over to the iraqi authorities when the peshmerga controlled this area the iraqi government accused the kurdish leaders of not sharing oil revenue with bank dat so it stops sending the seventeen percent of the federal budget as per the two thousand and five constitution to the region. now with the oil fields back under iraqi government control the oil ministry has vowed to increase production to one million barrels a day. and it's threatening legal action against the kurdistan regional government

if it stops the flow to the turkish mediterranean port of jihan through a pipeline across the kurdish region of northern iraq the oil ministry isn't taking any risks. it plans to repair and reopen a pipeline that was damaged in two thousand and fourteen during fighting against eisel one that doesn't cross kurdish territory. as militia and iraqi government forces fill the streets in the nearby town of debase the sheer song echoes from loudspeakers. don't underestimate mr kurt we are the ancestors of the grandson of the prophet muhammad would be an accurate translation. prime minister hyderabadi says in taking back control of the kirkuk oil fields he has acted according to iraq's constitution for the benefit of all iraqis the kurdish government says it's being punished by baghdad and the

international community for holding a referendum on eventual secession from iraq which was the kurdish people's right we are disappointed at the reaction of the international community they should not have let down the people of color to stop they have abandoned us at the time that we have done exactly what they have been preaching that mean people preaching democracy human rights rule of law transparency and openness going to the public going to the source of legitimacy is this a crime the kurdistan regional government is around seventeen billion dollars in debts and revenue from kirkuk oil fields was vital to compensate for the seventeen percent of the federal budget the baghdad stopped sending this region in two thousand and fifteen now baghdad has not yet said when know if it will restart sending the money but with the oil fields firmly under government control the economic situation of this region could get even worse.

so president trump new controversy out of the family of a soldier killed in it he says of disrespect. and venezuela's opposition refuses to join other state governors you've been sworn in. as constituent assembly. how are you may know that flooding had returned to queens and bundaberg that sort of area particularly in the last few days the heaviest brightest clouds the heaviest downpours even further north in the last twelve hours or near a townsville so there is flooding because the high river levels nothing much is coming out of the sky anymore at least that far south but say townsville and north cannes probably still going to be fairly wet there given the wind directions being

very warm recently further south in adelaide in melbourne still in the twenty's but that's not back a bit because this line of green here this rain is edging through that's a cold front come out of the bite his left perth that twenty two three status you've been warming up in the next day i say but given the wind direction change here in melbourne that's a disappointing looking day similarly adelaide down into the teens bit disappointed i think kids in the time of year as a new zealand would normally you get what's come across from tasmania and sudden strength in this time is just strong for the sudden tasman sea there's not much pride in it so it's sort of like sunshine and shouts fits the bill quite nicely circulation here which means pressure is high it settles it might be rather necchi morning but if morning mist otherwise nineteen in christ church in the sunshine seventy in oakland possibly the next two days.

the russian orthodox church has deep pockets and were up with expansion may bear its crucial role in putting its grip on power with some elevating the former k.g.b. officer saying to president putin is our leader that given to our people in power investigates how after its attempted elimination by the soviet union religion has returned to the hall to the russian state the orthodox connection this time. they're going to remember the top stories here. can you know position needed to go has called for mass protests on election day this is top election officials cast

doubt on how credible a presidential rerun will be. u.s. by forces fighting i saw in syria have been clearing main roads in rocca a day off the commanders declared the city under their control. and police in somalia fired into the air does best thousands of angry protesters trying to reach the site of saturday's deadly bombing which killed more than three hundred people in market condition. four people have died in togo in clashes between security forces and protesters demanding the resignation of the president. for a second day police fired tear gas at people define a government ban on midweek protests to protest as in two policemen were also killed on tuesday opposition activists have been demonstrating since buddhist they want constitutional reforms including a two term limit for the president his family his rule the west african nation the hoffa century. spain has warned it will take the unprecedented step of seeking to

suspend catalonia autonomy if the region's leader doesn't abandon his secession bit . remains defiant as new back reports from barcelona he's running out of options. save catalonia as independence movements looking increasingly desperate they're reaching out for help it concerns to each and every european citizen but slick campaign videos won't end the tense standoff with the spanish government. for its two lanes. earlier this week protests at barcelona against the jailing of two independents leaders by a spanish judge the catalan president carlos put him on is called the political prisoners last week he unilaterally declared independence and civil tasty suspended it to allow for talks but prime minister mariano rajoy says his government won't mediate with secessionists is given puts him on until thursday morning to clarify

revoke any independence claim if he doesn't back down the spanish government could take an unprecedented step and impose direct rule which of on his entire government could be suspended or even jailed this is high stakes political brinkmanship of if the preacher man seems ready to risk everything he believes he's honoring the will of more than two million people that voted in favor of independence in a referendum that isn't recognized outside catalonia if the madrid government decide to impose direct rule the independence movement says the response will be seismic i think it would be tremendously unwise to interfere in catalan autonomy because i know my country people there will be an enormous response by most of the people in schools and television in the media we're talking about people taking to the streets again on mass of course we've been doing that for seven years we've had millions of people going. the streets i would have thought

again in protest of course but the spanish government knows the regions defy did some catalans want secession now others are hesitant in large numbers hate the idea of these risky his career he is risking his liver to his freedom he is risking a start really i mean. their main is divided into two parts and i thing if he goes farther it will be these are stuffed with time running out which of all has little option but to push for talks with the hoary where you got the desire for independence against the possible loss of everything he and others here spent years trying to achieve before. barcelona portugal's interior minister has resigned after a spate of wildfires which have killed more than one hundred people in four months the ministry has faced public criticism over its handling of the emergency hundreds of fires have burnt across northern and central portugal during the driest summer

in nearly ninety years for mr antonio costers government faces a no confidence vote next week over its response to the fires this president donald trump is facing more controversy over his handling of the deaths of four u.s. soldiers in an. earlier this month has been forced to deny making insensitive remarks in a phone call to the widow of one of the men sergeant david johnston a member of congress says trump told sergeant johnson's wife he knew what he signed up for trump has called the story fabricated a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has the latest. white house press secretary sarah sounders is countering accusations that the president was insensitive when he telephoned the widow of sergeant led david johnson one of four members of the u.s. military killed in this share earlier in october well on patrol the widow along with a congresswoman who was present at the time the president made his condolence call

arguing that the president was insensitive and disrespected the service of sergeant johnson when they claimed the president said he knew what he signed up for now the white house is defending the president's call and his contacts saying that there were many officials of the administration president when the president made that telephone call they say in fact that he was sympathetic when offering his condolences they also say that he followed protocol and they are accusing the congresswoman making these claims for drinking wilson a longtime critic of the president of trying to politicize this unfortunate event now i can tell you that when it comes to gold star families as they're called that is the families of those who have loved ones who were killed in action that certainly these families are often put on a pedestal considered untouchable when it comes to criticism that's why so many are concerned about the president's willingness to engage on this issue considering it

to be showing a lack of empathy and compassion iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many has said iran will shred to the nuclear do if the u.s. pulls out u.s. president all trump has adopted a harsh new approach to iran saying you might ultimately terminate the twenty fifteen do you of the parties to the accord say washington cannot cancel a multinational do you in trying to buy a u.n. resolution. china's president has told the communist party's nineteenth congress in beijing that it's time trying to takes center stage in the world in a three and a half hour speech she's being laid out his political and economic vision for his country over the next five years or china correspondent agent brown has more from beijing. president xi jinping can control a lot of things but he can't influence the weather to the superstitious and many people here are the damp grey start to this congress was perhaps a warning sign. in spite of the weather this was

a day of choreographed unity after what has been a tumultuous few years for the party. but there was a stirring welcome for the president. this is as close as the foreign media get to the opaque workings of china's communist party. she reported on his past five years in office saying the party had achieved miracles he also warned serious challenges. our country is at a strategic point in. the future is extremely bright but the challenges are also extremely serious all party congress must assert their size and the high and the think of a danger in times of safety his address lasted three and a half hours if nothing else it showed that she now sixty four is healthy healthy enough to rule for another ten to fifteen years insists his supporters at one stage

former president jiang zemin appeared to nod off think he was china's top leader twenty five years ago when i reported on the fourteenth party congress as china began to experiment with capitalism the new catch phrase is socialism with chinese characteristics in a new openness and economic anything seems to go anything that is political reform twenty five years on the faces behind me have changed but the backdrop remains pretty much the same and the prospect of political reform as remote now as it was then. the congress will now meet in secret for the next seven. days after which china's new leaders will be unveiled president xi is assured of a second term and this congress seems set to cement his position is china's top leader for a lot longer adrian brown al-jazeera beijing

a whole in our nation says it's considering whether violence against muslims constitutes genocide more than five hundred eighty thousand revenger have fled me in march from bangladesh since august in what the un has previously described as textbook ethnic cleansing amnesty international accuses me and our security forces of breaking and killing villages and setting fire to homes is calling for an arms embargo on me in march and criminal prosecution of its forces. the un secretary general has called on the security council to increase the number of peacekeeping troops in central african republic and tonio tears announced he will be visiting the country next week today the situation remains very troubling my visit also draw attention to a fragile situation that is often far from the media spotlight across the country communal tensions are growing violence is spreading and humanitarian

situation is deteriorating since the beginning of this year the number of internally displaced persons is almost doubled reaching six hundred thousand and the number of refugees in neighboring countries are surpassed five hundred thousand and as well as opposition is refusing to swear in its newly elected governors before president maduro as powerful constituent assembly which it deems unconstitutional under a socialist government won eighteen out of venezuela's twenty three states in sunday's regional elections this despite polls putting the opposition far ahead opposition leaders who refuse to accept the surprise win alleging dirty tricks such as election centers being moved to dangerous areas at the last minute. campaigning has halted in argentina's mid-term congressional elections after reports that a young activist missing for more than two months has been found dead santiago monaro was last seen at a tribal rights protest in the southern patagonia region in august just before it

was raided by police twenty eight year old's disappearance sparked major protests. israel has approved another large set of plans for settler homes in the occupied west bank bringing the total this week to two thousand six hundred forty six housing units it's part of an israeli government push to expand it legal settlement building and as harry for that report it's increasing the pessimism about progress toward a two state solution. it's been a week that's demonstrated israel's plans despite palestinian protest international opposition and us calls for restraint to accelerate settlement construction plans for two thousand six hundred forty six new housing units are being promoted in thirty illegal settlements that figure from just one of four planning meeting scheduled this year is higher than the total for the whole of twenty sixteen one senior palestinian political figure says the motivation is clear to guarantee in advance the failure of attempts to reach

a two state solution but they feel they have ordered the. can make a qualitative tune and because the world is not the nuclear desponding with punitive acts against israel they think they can do it the approvals come at various stages along a lengthy and complex planning process here at bay hill for instance it's right at the end final tenders being approved for the construction of nearly three hundred new housing units that would grow the settlement by about a fifth of its current size. the israeli prime minister has been trying to satisfy a powerful processor boyce's in his coalition government last month leading celebrations of fifty years of settlement construction the increase in building hasn't satisfied settler groups though he wanted more from benjamin netanyahu is warm relationship with a new u.s. president but the trump white house is still if in milder terms than its predecessor urging restraint on settlements while it considers its options for

reviving the israeli palestinian peace process this is not what stops the peace process from moving forward what stops the peace process from moving forward is is when you see the palestinian authority make a deal with hamas what kind of confidence does that give the people of israel to make concessions that deal signed in cairo last week was aimed at healing ten years of division between the rival palestinian political factions that are and hamas on tuesday israel declared it would not hold any peace talks with a future palestinian you. government that included hamas which it considers a terror group all of which leaves the peace process is stalled as it's been for years as israel's west bank footprint continues to grow very forsett al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. headline story on al-jazeera kenya's election chief says he can't guarantee next week's presidential election rerun will be free and fair people have been

demonstrating in the opposition stronghold kibera after president hu kenyatta announced the vote will still go ahead earlier senior electoral official roselyn a combo resigned and fled the country saying next week's vote won't be credible for me to miller has more from nairobi but the concern is really that if this rerun will be three three and credible so far we've had the president reiterate that the election would go ahead that the only thing that they're interested in these comments coming from the electoral commission are certainly wiring many kenyan the commission or rather the chairman caving into her crack against the political leadership they may be in the here and in the operation of the commission but he's in somalia have fired into the air to disperse thousands marching through the capitol over saturday's massive bomb attacks. police blocks demonstrators who were trying to reach one of the blast sites witnesses say

several people were injured only three hundred people were killed in two blasts on saturday. yes fact forces fighting i saw a syrian have been clearing main roads in rocca a day after their commanders declared the city under their control the kurdish led syrian democratic forces raised their flag and record stadium after a four month battle to push ourselves from it self proclaimed capital. iraq's oil minister has asked me for trying. to make plans to develop the kirkuk oil fields baghdad took control of the oil rich region from kurdish peshmerga fighters on monday china's president appears to be consolidating his grip on power becoming his party's nineteenth congress in beijing in a sweeping three and a half hour speech she's been laid out his political and economic vision for his country over the next five years you know as a nation says it's considering whether violence against the hinge of muslims

constitutes genocide when five hundred eighty thousand range of fed me and mine from bangladesh since august is the headlines do stay with us people in power is up next by phone after the head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germany is satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily a study his biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. and the.