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and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up in the program. fierce battles as kurdish fighters try to stop iraqi forces taking back the last district and cut off. spain's prime minister secures opposition support to dissolve catalonia parliament and called new elections plus. i'm sure in puerto rico it's a month since the hurricane struck and many communities are still struggling with the aftermath and they're asking where is the government help that they were promised. so the suicide bombers have targeted two mosques in afghanistan killing at least sixty people police say one bomber detonated explosives inside a ship. killing thirty three people a separate bombing at

a mosque in the line province killed at least the latest in a series of attacks across afghanistan in the past week let's get more now straightaway from jennifer in kabul and jennifer what more do we know. nic thanks thanks very much we know that the attacker walked into the mosque here in kabul in the middle of friday prayers it was the mom's amman mosque in her in the west of kabul it's a shiite mosque when her stand he put himself in the third row of those prayer goers and set them off as they were during the middle of friday prayers we understand from the ministry of health that thirty one people died and another forty were injured in that of course those numbers are very flexible because we're not exactly sure how difficult how how difficult is injuries are and many people winder stand took the injured and the dead in individual cars and so a very very serious attack here in the center of kabul in the middle of friday

prayers and as that was happening here in gore province in central afghanistan another attack or in another mosque this one a sunni mosque attacked there as well during friday prayers now as the target of that was a militia commander a local commander there that may have been some sort of local dispute but two very different attacks here in kabul. in the middle of friday of course the prayer day here day of prayer and a day of rest two very different charges as you say any closer responsibility any clues to the. no we don't have any claims responsibility as of yet we are again a girl problems it's very difficult to tell there are a lot of differing problems there here in kabul that attack was on a shiite mosque by and large every attack that has been on shiites in afghanistan has been claimed by islamic state but there's been no claim of responsibility but nic it caps a very terrible week here in afghanistan more than one hundred fifty people had

lost their lives before today in a number of attacks across the country those of course all claimed by the taliban the majority of them security forces but the idea of how much how many how big the challenge security forces face here when when you have suicide. bombers willing to go into crowded mosques on a friday afternoon and blow people up. there thanks very much indeed that's a picture from kabul jennifer glass reporting. there's been fierce fighting north of kirkuk because iraqi forces battled to take control of the last area of province in the hands of the kurdish peshmerga iraqi forces are thought to have shelled kurdish military positions with kurdish fighters responding with rocket fire push were reportedly fighting shia militia in the same area tensions have been high since last month's kurdish referendum which was declared illegal by baghdad but the situation in northern iraq has changed

dramatically in the last week just a few days ago kurdistan regional government claimed a vast area of the north which it sees when iraqi troops fled eisen in two thousand and fourteen and that included province which accounts for half its oil revenue but since monday iraq's army has largely driven peshmerga fighters back to the four provinces officially under kurdish control the latest fighting broke out near elton capri forty kilometers south of erbil for full control of cook province. because took up new positions on the highway between a bill and cook on thursday stephanie decker is. we've seen heavy military reinforcements along this highway which is the highway that leads. to car cook throughout the day also trucks so that munition in particular the last couple of hours convoy with peshmerga fighters in high spirits and some of their vehicles mattresses blankets that they were here to defend for the long haul the one of the

come on here told us that they didn't trust. these are the shia militias were fighting alongside the iraqi army and that they were going to do everything to defend. their areas he also mentioned that he believed that the person who has been praised when they effectively pushed for many of the areas here and saying that now the world has turned their backs on also there is a feeling of disillusionment here at the moment we understand the fighting has stopped but of course this is a fluid situation it's been ongoing since seven thirty friday morning and it leaves a question mark as to where this is going to go next well kurdish fighters who help drive out of raka say the people of the city will determine its future u.s. special forces have fully recaptured the syrian city and which can be nice will self-proclaimed capital since two thousand and fourteen they formally handed over control of rockets to a council of local officials and tribal leaders most of it has been reduced to

rubble and less than one percent of the pre-war population of three hundred thousand still live. the future of raka will be decided by the people of raka this is quite important and family if the government will administer their affairs by themselves we urge every peace loving country and people to come and take part in the reconstruction the rebuilding of the city and its countryside. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has congratulated the syrian democratic forces for retaking raca from eisel control but turkey's president is angry at the kurds presence in the city reza typo one has condemned the group for displaying a giant poster of the leader of the kurdistan workers party which take it considers a terrorist organization and is currently in jail in turkey. in syria they're collaborating with a terrorist organization like the white b.g.

to defeat another terrorist organization this kind of logic is unacceptable there waving the poster of the terrorist leader in iraq ah how is the united states going to explain this. to spain now and the government there has secured backing from the opposition to dissolve parliament and hold new elections there the prime minister mariano rajoy says he will unveil specific measures on saturday to him put his direct rule on catalonia after its leader refused to drop his bid for independence and to simmons's more now from barcelona. what you really sense here in barcelona right now is a fear of the unknown and that's shared by both sides in this crisis politicians and public alike people on friday were going out to protest in a very different way going to banks and withdrawing one hundred five fifty five euro as a protest of protest against two of five banks which have actually moved their main administrative registrations out of catalonia because of the fear of independence

or what that might mean as far as article one five five goes it's never been used before from the constitution of one nine hundred seventy eight and it will mean direct rule from madrid this is what the spanish prime minister had to say. they have broken the rule of law a basic principle of the european union they have deprived the representatives of the opposition of their right to exercise control in government if you imagine if i decided to close parliament so nobody could question me it would be a scandalous situation article one five five will go before the senate after the cabinet meeting on saturday and then it will be considered and possibly by thursday or friday it will actually be agreed upon after that it's unclear what will happen will catalonia declare independence it's completely unclear no one is really quite sure but the risks for both sides are very high indeed the french president

a man well micron says talks on the u.k. has to call divorce bill for leaving the european union or not even halfway through the e.u. summit in brussels britain's prime minister to resign may called for more cooperation from e.u. leaders in the slow moving breaks it talks to and a whole as the. to resume a new in advance there'd be no major breakthrough her fellow e.u. leaders made clear that insufficient progress had been made to move talk beyond the current deadlocked difficulties over money and to begin talking about future trade she instead issued what sounded like an appeal for help by a politically weakened prime minister who's come as far as she can and desperately needs something in return if we are going to take a step forward together it must be on the basis of joint effort and endeavor we must work together to get to an outcome that we can stand behind that works for

people watching got in return wasn't much they were encouraging words from some e.u. leaders including the all important dangler merkel. we have made progress and it is perhaps the nature of the thing that we look at it step by step i have absolutely no doubt that if we are all focused and the speech in florence was a contribution that we can get a good result and there was an end of summit commitment by the other twenty seven members of the e.u. to begin preparatory talks among themselves about what sort of future trade deal they'd like to see. that means that at least some work will have been done on trade as the park takes down to breaks it so that if the green light is given of the next council meeting on december the fourteenth for talk to move all well they'll be just a little bit ahead of the game it is the very smallest of concessions by the e.u. where the bar for such minor victories has been setting creamery low but in order

for talks to move on the e.u. wants britain to go much further than its offer of over twenty billion dollars to meet outstanding commitments and liabilities that something the prime minister may not have the political capital to deliver jonah how al-jazeera brussels. well the european union has sent her protest letter to israel demanding compensation for payments it made towards palestinian buildings that were elated to lift. countries are asking for forty six thousand dollars if israel does not return seized equipment more than one hundred fifty palestinian buildings were seized or demolished in the occupied west bank between march and was this year many were funded by the european union. still to come this two former u.s. presidents voiced concern about the current political climate. veiled attack on donald trump's leadership plus. packing up we look at why holden is closing its

last car making factory in australia. i see now across the middle east i had settled and sunny not too much right in our forecast over the next few days don't see much cloud of the truth but then little bit of cloud a little bit of fair weather clouds just around the caspian sea stretching over towards the black sea temperatures typically getting up into the high twenty's by roots at twenty seven celsius baghdad getting up to thirty two degrees or still getting into the thirty's then pushing down into the most part about thirty three celsius there in kuwait city said the down on a recent values not to be the case as we go through saturday and on into sunday temperatures just

a touch too across the reagan prevents that doesn't mean the humidity just edging up a little bit and i just called the station on the outside of my window last night to talk temperature. on saturday and a similar value as you go on through sunday and you can see similar temperatures there right across the region it will be settled sunny and pleasantly warm should we say present sunshine to into a good part of southern africa but we are still seeing some showers coming back towards just spilling out of botswana some wet weather a possibility just around. and been settled in sunny further towards the west.

and again a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera and suicide bombers have talked to two mosques in afghanistan killing at least sixty people the latest in a string of attacks. has been fierce fighting between iraqi forces and kurdish peshmerga grip the sched border to the north of. spain's prime minister is accusing separatists in catalonia of violating the basic principles of the european union in

that bid for secession and mariano rajoy he will announce measures on saturday to impose direct rule on catalonia. the russian foreign secretary and foreign minister sergey lavrov is warning that abandoning the iran nuclear deal could undermine the chances of curbing north korea's nuclear ambitions was speaking at a nuclear nonproliferation conference in moscow attended by u.s. and north korean delegates u.s. president donald trump has been denouncing the iran deal as the same time applying pressure to north korea and its nuclear program. u.s. president barack obama and george w. bush have appeared to have taken swipes at president donald trump well they neither directly refer to trump by name but he commented on the growing divines within american society folks don't feel good right now about what they see. that they don't feel as if our public life reflects our vast.

instead of our politics reflecting our values. we've got politics infecting our communities after. instead of. looking for ways to work together and get things done in a practical way. we got folks who are deliberately trying to make folks saying. to demonize people who have different ideas. are identity as a nation one point many other nations it is not determined by geography or neighborhood misses. by so our blood. behind american policy braces high ideals and sitting with the sponsibility it means that people of every race religion ethnicity can be fully and equally american. he said but your freedom or why should the primacy in any form is blasphemy against the american creed what it

speaks to a white house when it can be how to joins us now live a company we've got the folks a different deliberately trying to make folks angry who might president obama have been referring to one one. right as you point out they both former presidents didn't mention donald trump by name but certainly he was the target that was very clear in both of those messages that it's pretty unusual nic to see this elite club a former presidents particularly living presidents a very small group to see sort of this political establishment turning on the newest member of the club donald trump it's unusual in that typically in the united states it's sort of an unwritten rule that past presidents don't comment on the work of the policies of the sitting president but at the same time for the both of these men it's almost become personal you have to think back to the campaign trail when donald trump was campaigning as the republican presidential nominee he

repeatedly attacked barack obama rallying and galvanizing his supporters by by calling barack obama the worst president ever and you have to remember too in the republican primaries when george w. bush's brother governor jeb bush was a candidate he was particularly cruel in fact one of the kinder things he labeled jeb bush was calling a blow energy jab so for these men it is is really kind of a personal in nature the they've come out and sort of had these thinly veiled attacks but again you have to remember it was donald trump that fired the opening salvo right we're going to see a repair from donald trump when one news. there is a white house briefing upcoming i may tend to try and ask that very question if we will hear some sort of response i haven't seen one on social media where the president often posts his his sort of musings in this regard but at the same time donald trump might also not flinch at all given the fact that this is his sort of

brand of politics he's very scrappy in nature he's an insurgent candidate and barack obama and george w. bush embody exactly what he ran against the political establishment and won the white house so in many ways it's not just donald trump but it is sort of donald trump bodys the values of many of the americans in the american electorate that helped him win the white house so that's donald trump's brand and for now it appears that this sort of back and forth bullying and personal attacks may be the new normal in the united states are very well we'll see what happens a briefing committee for the time being thanks very much indeed. now it's been one month since puerto rico was hit by harken maria yet much needed help promised by the u.s. government still has not arrived spite that president donald trump is approaching the government's handling of the crisis. alan fischer reports now from went to blank. on him is good tired of waiting one month after hurricane rita struck his community was

a mess so we called some friends we are in the process to clean up the creek because basically they created was. a real family so i guess the houses and around twenty blanco is a ninety minute drive from san juan the island's capital the people here feel that far away from the center they are far away from a company far from the belief that anyone is going to help the government is absent there is almost no coordination woman here just staying with someone. but their reality is right here we see sometimes and i'm sure our guard just provided. just a couple of occasions when no more we ask and then we beg them for at least two hours some excavator to clean over. the area and what we're being told is this isn't a one off but there are communities across this area that have asked for and waited for government help and now they're doing what they can where they can the

hurricane they say it was a problem the greater tragedy is a lack of government action. not far away from here to the how to keep brought a flood that overwhelmed and destroyed the bridge that was a lifeline to a nearby mountain community so the locals built a pulley system which carries food and water and diesel we haven't heard. we are going to have a great we don't know anything. you know we're just disconnected. across the island people are putting in their own fixes to get what they need a local stream by their would say if suddenly with plastic piping for comes the only source of fresh water for clothes washing drinking and even some fun. there is no where to be who wasn't well equipped to deal with a storm the size and intensity of maria one of the federal agencies here see few places are as this island was pummeled by over one hundred fifty mile an hour wind what that does to. the infrastructure that is in excellent condition versus

ordinary condition it's still the same it's highly destructive put to because governor disputes things here are slowly getting better in fact he says the may be getting worse and many communities fear they are being forgotten after a storm none of them ever forget alan fischer i'll just point to blanket puerto rico now the pollution is killing more people than war and natural disasters that's according to a report from the medical journal the lancet study blamed pollution for one in six premature deaths worldwide in two thousand and fifteen that's around nine million people sub-saharan africa had the highest rated desperate capital led by somalia chad and the central african republic where india had the highest death toll almost a quarter of all deaths there some two and a half million were blamed on pollution china was next with nearly two million when air pollution in new delhi hit more than twenty times the healthy limit on friday after a night of fireworks celebrating the hindu festival of diwali that's

a thick haze in the air. by a court ordered ban on the sale of fireworks many new delhi still set off firecrackers to celebrate the festival of lights residents complained of coughing and watery eyes. yes my eyes opening as if someone put a chile in them and i'm having difficulty breathing it because of the supremes course ordered to ban fireworks it looks like the pollution has come down since last year but it is still so high that humans can't live here in any other part of the world if if our air quality index would have crossed three hundred the entire city would be evacuated or the entire city would be shut down the have to look at short term medium term and long term measures. the chief executive of kenya's election board has announced he's taking three weeks' leave for personal reasons the opposition has demanded that as rich be sacked before the presidential election is rerun next week result of the election in all this was an old by the supreme

court because of voting irregularities or fraud is here is day in kenya a chance for people to remember those who fought for kenya's independence from the british but is being overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the election when so it is in nairobi. but this is a day that's supposed to be unifying the day when it came to celebrate men and women who fought for the country's independence those who fought for democracy in the one nine hundred ninety. year olds who have on the country in different ways but. by political uncertainty over the election people are deeply divided along ethnic lines politicians are speaking from completely different ends we've had statements this week with the electoral commission chairman in south saying that he cannot guarantee of free fair and credible election under this toxic political environment he said that he wants talks between the president to

looking outside and write a law that he did maybe. he wants the election postponed. electoral reforms carried out then he can. dissipating in another election. commission. next month to go back. to the guidance. we've also seen. chief executive officer. stepping aside he said he's. leave and he's one of the people who the opposition has been pushing to have removed the had. he stepped aside but then. the process has already been damaged they do not want an election held on the

twenty sixth. and outbreak of plague in madagascar has killed ninety four people and could spread further according to the well how can i say there are cases of the people that plague on the island nearly every year but authorities say this epidemic is more dangerous and is arrived early than expected one point three million doses of antibiotics have been sent to madagascar that's enough to treat five thousand patients. what is distinctive they share in madagascar is that the season of transmission started much earlier and we have zones that are not easily endemic that were affected but we also have significant repercussions in the big cities like time a tab and not the capital antenna. togo's opposition has asked french president emmanuel macron to intervene in the country's violent past drug at least seven people have died and dozens have been injured in protests against the government's fifty year reign the french foreign ministry is calling for calm on both sides the

testers are demanding changes to the constitution to limit presidential. it's the end of the road for cars made in australia holden has shut down the last remaining factory in the nearly seventy years of history under thomas looks back and the end of an era. in australia two thirds of people drive to work big distance road trip holidays a common classic car fare as our popular affinity with cars here is cultural and ingrained but after friday cars 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 holden is an icon to a strike like the kangaroo in the make pies i was brought up with the holding cars my father bought one example is from holden brain you. holden's

advertising played on there's being all of these 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 a study is overall car industry was not a huge it 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 collars cheaper australia's car manufacturing 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 low at five point six

percent that's manual work declines people are getting more skilled work or work in higher 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 evolve so that next twenty five years is as successful on the numbers as i was 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 andrew thomas al jazeera sydney org a little nudge in the direction of our website al jazeera dot com is the address there plenty of comment and analysis on all the stories that we're covering al-jazeera dot com is the address headlines coming right.

alright let's look at the top stories here on al-jazeera and suicide bombers have targeted two mosques in afghanistan killing at least sixty people the latest in a string of attacks in the past week police say one bomber detonated explosives inside a shia mosque in the capital kabul killing thirty two people a separate attack at a mosque in the lima province has killed at least thirty people jennifer glass has more now from. it really shows the kind of challenges the afghan security forces face here in afghanistan they face a number of militant groups now in the taliban the control or contest almost forty percent of the country but also a number of anti-government groups from the islamic state to internal rivalries that they have to police here it's trying to build a rule of law in a country where it's difficult to do there's been fierce fighting between iraqi forces and kurdish peshmerga at the border to the north of coke cook iraqi forces are thought to have shelled kurdish military positions with kurdish fighters

responding with rocket fire the pressure reportedly of fighting shia militia in the same area or kurdish fighters to help to drive eisel out of rikers say the people of the city will determine its future u.s. banks forces of fully recapture the syrian city which had been i sold self-proclaimed capital since two thousand and fourteen they formally handed over control of record to a council of local officials and tribal leaders spain's prime minister is accusing separatists in catalonia of violating the basic principles of the european union in their bid for secession mariano rajoy he will announce measures on saturday to impose direct rule on catalonia the european union has sent a protest that it to israel demanding compensation for payments it made towards palestinian buildings that were later demolished eight countries are asking for forty six thousand dollars if israel does not return seized equipment the russian

foreign minister sergey lavrov is warning that abandoning the iran nuclear deal could undermine the chances of curbing north korea is transitions or speaking at a nuclear nonproliferation conference in moscow attended by u.s. and north korean delegates which that's it for now for news coming right up. is there a way forward in afghanistan taliban attacks this week have killed more than one hundred twenty afghans nationwide despite the u.s. air force.