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the u.s. state blames the country's blockading for failing to end the standoff. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from our headquarters in doha with me elizabeth problem also ahead. remember congress. often gives an emotional defense of the president's reporter remarks to a grieving widow. why hundreds of thousands of iraqi kurds are streaming out of could coax days off to baghdad regain control of the city. the end of the line why the no longer classic caught in a strike. u.s.

secretary of state rex tillerson has criticized the full countries imposing an economic blockade on gaza for refusing to engage in talks to diffuse the crisis and you're in saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain closed space and severed trade and diplomatic links with kata last month u.s. president donald trump offered to mediate between the parties and hoped the issue would be resolved quickly but now to listen says there's little hope of a resolution anytime soon well to listen is due to visit the gulf in the coming days here's the state department spokeswoman. we want to see these come countries keep their focus on the areas of mutual cooperation that we have and that includes the fight against terror terrorism and other things of that nature so i think the secretary is you know certainly discouraged that nothing has been resolved just yet he's talked pretty consistently although folks haven't haven't paid much attention

to it reece recently about the disappointment that the nations haven't been able to do so the g.c.c. crisis we hope that they will we hope that they'll sit down and have talks but it seems like they're not ready to do that yet how does your call store has more from washington d.c. . sorts of comments in an interview with bloomberg news marked a significant change in tone gone was the optimism we heard three months ago when tillerson last visited the region instead he expressed his frustration saying there appear to be a real will unwillingness on the part of the quartet of blockading countries in. progressing with these talks in contrast saying qatar has been very clear that they're ready to engage now the fact that tillerson is returning to the region this following weekend to push further these talks is a long ways from where the u.s. policy on this gulf crisis started back in june if you remember that's when u.s.

president donald trump was quick to come to the aid of saudi arabia praising its leadership in initiating this blockade and trying to claim credit that was a direct result of president trump visit to the region since then the white house has been more silent on this topic while the state department has taken a lead here with tillerson returning again in this coming week. moving on to other news now the white house chief of staff has defended the u.s. president's reporting from odds this week to the widow of a slain soldier trampas accused of being insensitive during a phone call to my should johnson her husband sergeant david johnson was killed in an ambush an asia at this moment a member of congress says she heard the president's comments john kelly told a white house news conference that he was broken hearted by the criticism of trump's effort to offer his condolences i want house correspondent kimberly how could it has more from washington d.c.

the white house is continuing to try and contain the controversy surrounding the president's condolence call to the widow of sergeant lead david johnson he is one of four u.s. soldiers killed in earlier this month the president's chief of staff made a rare appearance to the white house briefing room speaking with emotion he says that he told the president not to make that call but if he did he says he advised donald trump to tell the family that the soldier knew what he was getting into something that donald trump denied just one day earlier he knew he was going to self into it because he enlisted there's no reason why list the list that he was where he wanted to be exactly where he wanted to be with exactly the people he wanted to be with when his wife was taken that was the message that was a message that was transmitted it stuns me that a member of congress were to listen in on a conversation absolutely stuns me. and i thought lynn says in fact that

it is her belief and she maintains that she believes donald trump did disrespect sergeant johnson in that call she knows the family well she has known him since he was a child mentoring him before he enlisted as a soldier still the white house is taking aim at the congresswoman saying that not only is her argument inappropriate in fact the chief of staff calling her actions selfish behavior there's support for spain from european leaders as the secession crisis escalates but the e.u. says it won't and in a dispute spain's prime minister money a little hole has the backing of french president emmanuel mccrone and german chancellor angela merkel they met ahead of a two day summit in brussels for european counseling to donald has ruled out any european union role in the dispute between madrid and barcelona. of course for

many reasons in the permanent conductor is the prime minister mariano rajoy. hiding to the situation in spain is about to. position i mean. member states. clear the. room space for in the kind of mediation. international. initiative action. spain's government is preparing to suspend catalonia is autonomy after a final deadline offers day to drop succession plan was ignored the process will begin on saturday when the judge decides which powers to take back from barcelona reports from the cattle on capital. spain's political crisis is deepening after failing to comply with the spanish government catalonia will now be stripped of its autonomy. mark you for in the absence of

a clear response we note that he has not answered our request and therefore we will continue procedure of triggering article one five five of the constitution to restore legality in catalonia the capital and president. had been given until thursday morning to clarify and revoke any independence claim last week he unilaterally declared independence and similar suspended it to allow for talks but instead of clarifying his position sent a letter to madrid calling for an end to repression and for dialogue. prime minister mariano rajoy has repeatedly refused to mediate with the secessionists we're now in uncharted territory article one five five has never been invoked in mainland spain before they could see devolved powers over the raising of taxes education health care in the police soon in madrid's hands of the very worst you could see the suspension of the government and the arrest of its leaders it's hard

to imagine any of these scenarios unfolding without more massive protests or perhaps even a change of tactics i think there's no possibility of following like taking arms phrasing arms and or even like. i'm seeing the birth of a terrorist group i don't think that is a possibility at all but some kind of more aggressive i don't want to say by a land but more stronger organized an insurgency in terms of political insurgency and organization i think it's it's a problem. but madrid to show restraint amnesty international's urged the spanish government to avoid a repeat of these scenes on the day of the capital referendum they've also asked for two independence leaders jailed by spanish judge to be released the spanish government expected to finalize plans for direct rule at a cabinet meeting on saturday. in response to catalan leadership say they'll now

formalize independence with a vote of the regional parliament this tense standoff is entering a critical new phase. al-jazeera barcelona. to iraq now where about one hundred thousand kurds have fled the kid coke area since it was retaken by iraqi forces on monday the united nations says it's worried by reports of billions are being forced out of their homes and businesses are being looted and destroyed from the kurdish regional capital and a big deal stephanie decker reports. in a dusty abandoned housing project on the outskirts of erbil these are unexpected occupants. kurdish families who fled their homes in kirkuk and surrounding areas just a couple of days ago now scrambling for basic supplies. to man abdul kareem says she left because she was scared of shia militia fighters called hostile shabby who arrived alongside the iraqi army. they weren't good with kurds they didn't treat us

well. and imprisoned even hit women my husband is dead all i could do is take my four children and we came to a build it is ours to get here the bride with. iraqi prime minister. has ordered all armed groups out of kirkuk but only the iraqi army and federal police remain he insists safe for the protection of civilians the men here tell us they won't return . just like. in his family he was a policeman in kirkuk until he fled two days ago. people are saying is safe now but it is propaganda and i they came out and beat the u.s. they have burned houses that's why we got scared because of our families that's why we left a political party sold us out not all kurds are refugees this is all political. hinting at the internal divisions among the main two kurdish political parties the

ruling accuse the p u k of colluding with iraqi government leaders iran and turkey in orchestrating the takeover of the cook a complex web of age old kurdish rivalries and geopolitical interests. through her sixty seven years. a lot happened to us we don't own our own house now we don't even know if we have a house or out things every year there is a war. leads to this fight that leads to this war i. wish should we go now. what is life in iraq. since i was a child i've never seen happiness it's off to war she tells us. many warned that regaining territory captured by eisel would mean little in solving iraq's complicated territorial ethnic and sectarian tensions it seems they may have been right stephanie decker. kurds. syria celebrating after their forces backed

by the u.s. recaptured the city of iraq or that had been on the controls once two thousand and fourteen years of air strikes and fighting have left much of the city in ruins but the victory is a major blow to rocco was a softer clad capital of the last urban area and its control still ahead on the bulletin. just a shop shout down a white nationalist leader at a us university and russians promise to train as a main notes to her e.u. colleagues for help. by the springtime flower of a mountain lake louise to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello the showers are gong the tide is gone the winds die down a little bit it's just a matter of watching temperatures slowly forward as the season changes but we're

still up at twenty eight baku twenty two in tehran and the middle thirty's down the rocky plain and not much less right on the east coast of the mediterranean and there's a lot of change that in the next couple days but then he wouldn't expect a very much change either we watch the winds and whether they have very strong winds down the end is a decent breeze going down to the gulf which come to trust you eight qatar and then ends up in the u.a.e. turns around and goes back up through saturday so that tends to drop the routine has been coming down the thames is still up in the middle thirty's quite high for this time of year the doha for example hard thirty's and forty's down in mecca. now if we leave the dry arabian peninsula we're watching the season changes been row has been quite vicious in the last week it's on the eastern side of south africa and showers will start to show up again here durban was hit quite badly and it's between durban jo'burg lines of that of being one small towns just a few passing brought down something but to take you into south days forecast is

certainly something happening in the eastern cape president to tell me even sudden mozambique and the line take shelter but swallowed but up toward zambia which could see showers as well. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. but it's a bit of a listen when they're on line me what in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that has to address or if you join us on saturday i'm a member of the complex one but we struck up a relationship base is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag eight a stream and one of your pitches might make the next show join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

stories the u.s. secretary of state has. negotiated despite being ready to engage. the defense of u.s. president. trump is accused of making in. the small. and european leaders a backing. and. support from french president emanuel back. in the dispute between madrid and barcelona. taliban fighters have killed forty three afghan

soldiers in an assault in the middle of the night at a military camp the group set off two suicide car bombs at a base in the my one district of kandahar followed by a gunfight more than one hundred twenty people have been killed in the series of taliban attacks this week. from the capital kabul. the taliban attacked the afghan army base in southern afghanistan in my want near the helm on the border in the early hours of thursday morning killing forty three afghan soldiers there elsewhere in afghanistan at about the same time five soldiers killed five police killed the numers and six killed in northern block province that of course coming after earlier this week two separate attacks in eastern afghanistan borders impact and in gaza killed another eighty people as well most of them afghan security forces some of them civilians the gardez attack involving two suicide car bombs

also wounded three hundred people security forces as well as civilians but the fact that these attacks have taken place in the north in the east in the south and the southwest show really that the breadth of. the taliban has across the country the fact that they are able to make launch these significant major attacks across the country and hold certain areas and also that they're willing to attack military posts and inflict large amounts of casualties shows that they really can still fight now afghanistan i think that's the message they're trying to send to the afghan government and to the international community particularly perhaps the united states government which is starting to send several thousand additional troops here to afghanistan to support the afghan security forces and the and the american secretary of state saying that the united states remain in afghanistan as long as the taliban don't come to the peace table that is the ultimate goal of the afghan government to make peace with the taliban or fight them so that they're no longer relevant so far that the taliban have shown really no indicate indication

that they plan to come to the peace table and the fighting becomes more intense. a pakistani court has formally charged else to promise to naivasha day for his daughter and son in law with corruption opening a trial that could see the formulated jailed the two thousand and sixty. pad of paper is revealed the family had used offshore companies to buy expensive properties in london and they wealth did not match the income of the sheriff's and says the proceedings are part of an opposition field conspiracy reports. supporters cheered on marian sharif and her husband mohamed saft are as they appeared in court in islamabad when they left they were formally facing corruption charges still sending a defiant message and denying the accusations. even if they should stop wasting their time and the country and the nation if they hand down a punishment then let them do it but they should stop making a mockery of the constitution will deprive the family of basic human rights

a fair trial they should stop making a mockery of justice she is the heir to the sharif political dynasty her future complicated by the release of the panama papers the leaks showed she and her family had much greater wealth than reported which helped them buy elegant expensive homes in london that revelation led to pakistani supreme court judges disqualifying the prime minister his third time in office once again ended early. wasn't in court he's visiting his alien wife in europe but his daughter says he will return to face the charges political analysts say prosecutors have a strong case against them in this case there is a case of corruption. is just it's a just a matter of thirty days if the procedure takes its natural course the family will be you know in jail and they will be. from the unit of seven fourteen years still his is

a powerful name and to many pakistanis the rightful leader. we have always shown our respect to the law of the country and even to all institutions we are here to peacefully support our leaders and to show our solidarity with them sharif preview . so he was deposed by coups and then the courts for that he paid a political price but now facing a future with his very freedom on the line calling al-jazeera. former u.s. president barack obama has urged americans to reject the politics of division growing in the country it appeared to be a swipe at president donald trump without mentioning his name of all of the speaking at an event for the democratic candidate to the race to become the next governor of the state of new jersey is the first time the former president has returned to the campaign trail since leaving office. the leave the thing in the. air force one.

this is the ritual for the. fighting or for the in. the in the only way to tell it to the. we are sure. to make. the eat. eat in will protest is of great white nationalists with charts and rays first says he made a speech at a u.s. university as russia spent his first major public appearance since violent demonstrations in charlottesville in may and he gallagher reports from gainesville in florida. the from the moment he took to the stage white supremacist richard spencer found himself at odds with his audience you. know what

i am going to be the world for you won't have something. to do now. was we or soon to the e.u. oh no it was the we were the one that. was was for much of his speech chants of go home nazis echoed throughout the venue the university of florida didn't invite spencer but were unable to ban him because of freedom of speech laws following a state of emergency a huge security operation was launched some arrests were made and minor scuffles broke out but those that turned out to protest spencer and his racist views prevailed i just but it's really important for a person with a problem and i'm why i'm straight to come out here and denounce all hatred and bigotry and to show these people who advocate for cleansing and tonight and take

a that there is no hate tolerate in our community and that we will fight against i mean to them that we are united i mean i've respect their right to free speech obviously the first amendment i think it's important to demonstrate that we don't tolerate that type of rhetoric and it's important for us i mean not only just people but students to show up and i think that's kind of ultimately why we're all out here. expenses first major public appearance since violence broke out in charlottesville virginia following a unite the right romney that he helped organize one protester was killed in scenes shockley us on the world richard spencer then didn't get quite the reception he might have hoped for protests as he had drowned out anyone from the so-called alright but it's also worth noting that this entire security operation cost more than half a million. dollars if this is the model going forward handling people light spencer it's going to get very expensive for other institutions. spence's appearance here

has reignited a debate about freedom of speech but it's almost certain he'll continue to talk the country on campus most are just happy the event was peaceful. and that a message of resisting hate was loud and clear and he gallacher al-jazeera gainesville florida. britain's prime minister has urged european leaders to help her result of key issues over the brakes and dale tourism ala speaking at a dinner in brussels ahead of an e.u. summit frets that negotiations have been hampered by disputes over citizens rights and the amount that person has to pay in order to leave china how has more from brussels. to reason may has had the opportunity to address over dinner her fellow e.u. leaders here in brussels talking about what she described as concrete progress in brics in talks so far she had hoped until recently to be able to persuade them that sufficient progress had been made in the thorny talks around money the so-called brics is brics a divorce bill to be able to move on to the next substantive phase talks about the

future of trade relationship between britain and the e.u. which of course big business in the u.k. is desperate to know about as it tries to plan for the effects of breaks it down the road well the e.u. is not convinced about sufficient progress they are not sold on britain's offer of meeting its outstanding liabilities and commitments to the tune of twenty billion plus dollars over a two year transition period the figure they have in mind is likely tens of billions higher than that so she's not going to get the breakthrough in talks the cheap hoped for but will the allow her to go away empty handed well the e.u. knows only too well how politically weakened she is of home they don't want to damage her any further that only makes talks even harder the hope exists i think that on friday after she's left they may offer. some kind of an olive branch some kind of a concession which allows her to go home at least with a minor victory and the possibility of preserving what's left of her political

sovereignty. new zealand has a new female prime minister the youngest in one hundred and sixty years said the order to lead a center left coalition government with support from the new zealand first party and the greens the thirty seven year old labor party came to the headlines miles election behind an incumbent said to write a national party. to address new zealand's housing crisis and inequality issues i feel extraordinarily honored and privileged to be in a position to form a government with a labor with labor it believes i want to thank all those who gave labor support throughout the election and through this period of negotiation we campaigned had on issues that we believe strongly on and now we take very seriously the responsibility that we have to deliver on them. now it's the end of an era a stray as last call factory closes on friday holden

a shutting down its pond adelaide after more than fifty years bought as andrew thomas explains the loss of the domestic car manufacturing industry isn't expected to hurt the country's overall economy. in australia two thirds of people drive to work big distance road trip holidays a common classic car fare is a popular affinity with cars here is cultural and ingrained but after friday calls will no longer be made in australia it's lost car factory will close the company closing its general motors owned holden has been a fixture of australian industry and culture but decades old is an icon to a strike like the kangaroo in the make pies and i was brought up with the holding cars what father bought one example is from holden brain you. holden's advertising played on there as being all of the cars they'll continue to

sell cars in australia they'll now be imported from europe asia and the united states where production costs are lower the story is overall car industry was not a huge that is peak it made nearly half a million cars a year but that was when it was protected against imports at one point there was a tariff on them of almost sixty percent as tariffs disappeared and other countries made cars cheaper australia is common to fracturing suffered ford was the first big player to close its factories earlier this month toyota shut down production holden has held out just two weeks longer the end of australian made cars like this one is a sign of the changing nature of australia's economy but it's not necessarily a sign of its decline. australia's unemployment rate is lower fine. point six percent as manual work declines people are getting more skilled work or work in

high tech manufacturing capitalism and economic evolution is the story of industries slowing down closing and evolving and the important thing is to concentrate on what needs to absolve so that next twenty five years is a successful on the basis of last twenty five. holden says it will keep on hundreds of designers and engineers in australia and it will help its thousands of former factory employees to find jobs i'm sure thomas al-jazeera said. just to remind them that you can always keep up to date with all the news on our website that you can see on your screen there that said al jazeera dot com. you know again all that is a problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s.

secretary of state has criticized the four countries imposing the blockade on gaza rex tillerson says the seller led quartet as well and to negotiate despite being ready to engage all tell us in is due to visit the gulf in the coming days he is the state department spokeswoman. we want to see these come hundred keep their focus on the areas of mutual cooperation that we have and that includes the fight against terror terrorism and other things of that nature so i think the secretary is you know certainly discouraged that nothing has been resolved just yet he's talked pretty consistently although folks haven't haven't paid much attention to it reece recently about the disappointment that the nations haven't been able to solve the g.c.c. crisis we hope that they well we hope that they'll sit down and have talks but it seems like they're not ready to do that yet. the white house chief of staff has come to the defense of u.s. president donald trump's call to the widow of a slain soldier tromps accused of making insensitive remarks during

a phone call to the widow of the soldier who was killed in an ambush in these areas this month. european leaders are backing spain as the cause long crisis escalates and brussels prime minister many are little boy won the support from french president emmanuel macron and german chancellor angela merkel but the e.u. says that one end of the the dispute between madrid and barcelona the kurds in syria celebrating after their forces backed by the u.s. recaptured the city of raka it had been on the on still controls and two thousand and fourteen years of airstrikes and fighting have left much of the city in ruins with a victory is still a major blow to eisele. fighters have killed forty three afghan soldiers in an assault in the middle of the night at a military camp the group set off two suicide car bombs that are base in the my one district of kandahar followed by hours of gunfire new zealand has a new female prime minister the youngest in one hundred and sixty years since

ardern will lead a center left coalition government with support from the new zealand first party and the greens the thirty seven year olds labor party came second in last month's election behind the incumbent center right national those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is coming up next. valued as a gem of africa nairobi has gone through many changes over the past decades. to al-jazeera travels to the kenyan capital to hear from those who witnessed the city's progress to becoming a metropolis and discusses where it's heading now at this time on al-jazeera. and you're in the street what's it like to be in the middle of one of the world's biggest humanitarian emergencies you can.