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and welcome you're watching al-jazeera live from the heart of it with me peter dhabi also coming up attacks on two mosques in afghanistan leave more than seventy people dead. kurdish fighters say they feel betrayed as iraqi forces claim the whole of kirkuk province from peshmerga forces and. i'm malcolm webb in the town of cameron jala in the democratic republic of congo where last month thirty nine refugees from rooney were shot by soldiers following a demonstration will be talking to the security forces and the surviving refugees about what happened. the spanish cabinet is today expected to trigger article one five five of the country's constitution imposing direct rule over the autonomous region of catalonia

now the move follows weeks of political deadlock between madrid and the catalan regional government so what is article one five five well it consists of just two short paragraphs allowing madrid to use quotes all measures measures necessary to prevent an autonomous region from breaking the law it has never been applied before the spanish government's options include suspending the cattle and government and removing leaders including the regional president carter's preachment government leaders in madrid could also take control of the catalan police force which defied court orders to close polling stations for the referendum and madrid has already said it plans to call for a snap regional election in january under simmons joins us live following that story out of barcelona so andrew all the politicians involved in this debate seem quite happy to up the stakes. most certainly it all sounds like

a convoluted process but this is sheer drama we haven't heard from the president here president he is silent it's nearly ten days now since he's spoken publicly could he declare independence as a countermeasure to direct rule going to madrid these are extraordinary times never have we seen before in spain anything like this politically in four decades of democracy we're seeing also a level of tension building up as no one is quite sure how this article one five five will play out the spanish cabinet is in session in madrid right now deciding how it will play out whether it will mean elections whether mean as you referred to the regional police force here being forced into line to actually a baby orders from the national police also there could be other measures and no

one is sure quite where it will lead and furthermore no one is sure what level of protests there will be here right now we're hearing that there's been this is unconfirmed but spanish media is reporting that the constitutional court website is under cyber attack by the anonymous group and that is one of many actions taking place now that don't involve people on the streets shouting with slogans different types of protests. and online message from a pro independence campaign group saying peaceful direct action shows the power of the people. to take some money out of banks that are moving their red. straight out of catalonia in case of independence

withdrawals of one hundred fifty five euro the number of an article in the constitution being triggered to impose direct rule on catalonia by madrid why because this spanish dictatorship is unbearable. i think putting pressure on is a good move with thousands of people doing the same thing. some ed symbolic the government still has no mood for any compromise. in catalonia there are movements that want revolution so they want civil disobedience today there was a call to withdraw money from banks. then came a message from the prime minister himself saying the crisis was at a critical point and his party and the main opposition were agreed on action. 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 and government imagine if i decided to close parliament so nobody could question me it would be a scandalous situation. article one five five from the one nine hundred seventy eight constitution will take power away from the regional government here it could mean elections it could mean a formal declaration of independence it might lead to public disorder in barcelona and now you really sense a fear of the unknown on both sides of the divide in this crisis shared by politicians and the people alike we fear that we are. so to the danger end that maybe we will not be able to push back when we are there and that's a feeling that they are all in barcelona half right now. on saturday will hold an emergency cabinet meeting it's unlikely to calm the situation right now. and there's a risk it could mean cause for peaceful direct action could turn into something

more dangerous so andra to get the feeling where you are that we're within a couple of hours of basically a critical point in this process because what we've had over the past ten days or two weeks surely simply cannot be allowed to carry on. that's right after all of this playing for time on both sides we're going to see now definitely within the next few hours a declaration from the government of what it plans to do that will be overstating article one five five that will be history never before has been seen to be enacted and then you will see a process that will go to the senate and the be a plenary meeting of the senate it's likely to be next friday when it will rubber stamp this into legislation it becomes law it's what happens between this decision by the cabinet on saturday and the senate on friday for

example this be a tactic on the part of a whole way to try to put more well certainly not try but put the pressure on. them all and get him to possibly call is only elections declare independence there are very high stakes on both sides very big risks and we're seeing now certainly a lot of support for old boy from the european union it's made it quite clear it doesn't want to intervene it will not mediate it will not get involved there's been no internationalization of this independence vote which has been declared null and void by the constitutional court. them all we've heard again reiterated the view of king philippe and he says that categorically this is an unacceptable secession attempt at it must be resolved through legitimate legal institutions backing all

the way. and rick many thanks and just to give you the complete backstory on what's going on in spain we are expecting a news conference from merriam arroyo at ten hours g.m.t. will very probably dip into that and carry that live for you and analyze it in real time as it happens here on al-jazeera we knew the two rockets have landed near the international military headquarters in kabul now this comes less than a day off the ice and said it carried out one of two attacks targeting mosques which killed at least seventy people in one attack a man walked into a shia mosque in kabul and detonated an explosive vest the mosque was packed with worshipers for friday prayers the second attack happened in the central goal province where a suicide bomber struck a sunni mosque jennifer glass has more now from kabul. the afghan capital awoke to two explosion just at just about six thirty local time two rockets landing not far from nato headquarters here in kabul the taliban has claimed responsibility for that the latest attack in

a series now here in the end here in the afghan capital and around the country the islamic state claimed responsibility for a friday night attack on a shiite mosque the in mom's arm on mosque in dusty bargee here in kabul that killed thirty nine people according to the ministry of interior that attacker going in placing himself among the worshipers spraying them with gunfire before detonating himself killing thirty nine wounding forty five another attack in friday prayers friday evening prayers in a mosque in central afghanistan in gore province killed thirty three we don't know who was responsible for that caps a very deadly week here in afghanistan more than two hundred twenty people have been killed so far in taleban attacks on military outposts and police headquarters across the country in the south in the west in the north and in the southwest of the afghan security forces facing a resurgent taliban the islamic state also weighing in a big challenge for the afghan security forces this

a try and grapple back territory from the taliban who control or contest almost forty percent of the country it's a very difficult task for these forces who are taking punishing casualties in the continuing fight. more than fifty police officers have been killed and six more wounded in an ambush in egypt the attack happened in the aces in the western desert security forces were fired on a road around two hundred kilometers southeast of cairo they were on their way to carry out a raid on a suspected desert hideout. iraqi troops of claim control of the whole of kirkuk province after intense fighting against kurdish peshmerga forces the army says his capture the last time i'll tune cooper in erbil province with the help of shia militia stephanie decker has the story from the front lines. a new front line opened early friday iraqi forces together with our shia militias move towards peshmerga positions. in kurdish it's around thirty kilometers south of erbil on the

road to kirkuk. yes they were talking in al to play another talking. and there's nothing we can do about it i'm urging the coalition forces to come in and help as it hit the peshmerga no doubt we have martyrs. a steady stream of reinforcements were sent throughout the day blankets and mattresses packed in with the soldiers defend their positions many here feel betrayed by iraqi government leaders in baghdad some fellow kurds and the international community. in reality when we used to fight everyone used to play the peshmerga they are brave they are fighting for the world and now they have done this plan they are attacking us as i see right now everyone is turning their backs on us. mortar shells machine guns were fired throughout the day well

it's going to everyone here is tense. waiting to take any of the injured. back to. prime minister hi there labatt is ordered iraqi forces not to enter abele and to stick to what he called the two thousand and three lines this is all about disputed territories longstanding on resolved issues between baghdad inner beale about who controls what the peshmerga gained more territory since two thousand and fourteen as it pushed out of many areas the iraqi army used to control and last month's referendum on secession seems to been the final straw for the iraqi government and neighboring countries who oppose kurdish independence the irony there were very similar scenes just a year ago as the peshmerga iraqi government forces and shia militias all moved in to ward a common enemy i saw but now their guns are turned on each other stephanie decker

al jazeera on the road to kirkuk michael bridgend is a former adviser to passion forces in mosul he says the latest fighting shows hopes for an independent kurdish state might be a thing of the past. this is a very serious situation baghdad is is actually treating the kurdish population of iraq like they're there isis in a way they're actually conducting military operations against the peshmerga and they're still isis pockets in and around we just a new round ramadi so this is this is this is move laterally body to to punish the kurds for this peaceful war and then they're surprised that the united states didn't back them up and the k.g.b. barzani's party is surprised at the puke a case that would be that i don't want to. kurdish regional governments. encourage cook you know federal forces we keep hearing federal forces are moving in but we

need to find these kind of forces there counterterrorism forces and hospitals shall be hired you see backed shia militias not just sheer militias but commanded by custom salon in the tenet audio armory and on many on handouts so how do we use counterterrorism forces against the kurds and then the u.s. state department says we're not taking sides well if you're not taking sides you're actually taking a side you're taking baghdad side and you're actually taking to iran side says. ok still to come here on al-jazeera as japan prepares to hold elections on sunday we'll take a look at prime minister shinzo aves popularity and his policies. or . hello there we've got some very lively showers across the southeast in parts of asia at the moment on

the satellite picture you can see a little earlier there just making its way northward that is all super typhoon land working its way away from us but it's intensified all the showers a bit further south as well so for some of us across the philippines and even further west into thailand we're seeing some pretty lively showers currently but we more of them as we head through the next few days again it's going to be from thailand including bangkok all the way across towards the philippines where we see the worst of the showers and further south there's actually more in the way of dry weather to be found here in just a handful of showers so for jakarta we should get to around thirty three degrees and no major problems with rain here further towards the south we've certainly seen some very lively downpours here queensland seeing most of the heavy rain but also we've seen some in sydney and asked me very good news after such a long stretch of dry weather so here is what we've been seeing some very useful rain and it looks like there could be one or two more showers as we head through the day on sunday i think during the beginning part of the day it will be dry later on they could be just one or two more showers also more showers for the west as

well quite a few of them over parts of western australia including force in perth but as we head into monday things there should dry up. with. on counting the cost china two point zero zero how president xi jinping wants to reboot the economy with ai and robotics look at what i'd reckon all makes is causing tension along the river nile plus the u.k.'s e.u. divorce is breaks it failing counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera.

recapping our top story so far today here on al-jazeera the spanish cabinet is in the next hour or so expected to trigger article one five five constitution imposing direct for over cattle only others the autonomous region in spain the decision follows weeks of political deadlock between madrid and the catalan regional government after the secession referendum in barcelona two rockets have landed near the international military headquarters in kabul this comes after i source said it carried out one of two attacks targeting mosques in afghanistan on friday at least seventy people were killed in the suicide bombings iraqi forces have in control of the whole of the kirkuk problems after intense fighting against kurdish peshmerga the army says his capture the last town that's cool premier bill province of the help of a shia militia. thirty nine people were killed when soldiers in the democratic

republic of congo opened fire on burundi and refugees last month one thousand four walls were wounded in the violence that happened after a protest held by the refugees the congolese army says it began firing after the refugees attacked its men but they deny that his welcome where. esperance i'm sure a man i says bullets broke the bones in her arms when soldiers shot her dozens around her died they're buried in this graveyard she says she was among a crowd of other refugees from burundi protesting peacefully here last month who said she was lucky to survive a perch at russia's plant there was i can't remember everything because i feel i'm conscious when i was shot but i remember people throwing stones at house and painting us and then soldiers started shooting. a community of refugees belongs to a unique catholic sect from burundi they fled conflict at home to come to the neighboring democratic republic of congo where religion doesn't allow them to eat

processed un food or to biometrically register in the u.n. system so they temporarily camped here outside a base of u.n. peacekeepers in the town of kemah yola they say that they wanted the release of four men from their community has been arrested by congolese soldiers this camera phone video was taken as the crowd gathered and sang. when the shooting began but only when the refugees came down the road from this direction they say they met soldiers about where the blue truck is they say the soldiers opened fire without any provocation you can see bullet holes in the wall here they say the machine gun fire went on for several minutes but the security forces tell a different story captain bhangra kill him a was there he says the refugees overpowered him and other policeman stole a gun he used it to shoot him in the leg and attack the soldiers who then fired back in self-defense one soldier was killed making

a commitment they had never seen such people were not afraid of bullet one carried a bible and they all kept singing and advancing. refugees deny they took a gun or attacked but the u.n. says in any case the army should not have used lethal force but the army told us it acted as any army would it solve the new men. came threatening and throwing store not yet in the host country what country can tolerate that they were caned to scatter them but they didn't go you know i'd have been up in nearly a hundred refugees were injured many are still recovering the government says an inquiry underway. repudiates meet twice a day to pray in the camp they say they were attacked after officials stirred up hatred against them because of their own religious beliefs the legal authority to unite the refugees say they were persecuted at home then persecuted here there's

nowhere they can be safe now come where. in the democratic republic of congo the world health organization has been criticized for appointing robert mugabe a goodwill ambassador the director of the world health organization praised the zimbabwean leader for his public health policy mr mugabe's role will see him help tackle economic chronic diseases rather physicians for human rights see my god his government is responsible for its population's lack of access to food clean water and health care. the u.s. has to shift its counterterrorism strategy to focus more on africa the defense secretary james mattis discussed the changes with members of congress it comes amid growing pressure for the white house to be more forthcoming about the deaths of four american soldiers in two weeks ago. eighty percent of puerto rico is still without power one month after the caribbean island was devastated by hurricane maria despite emergency crews working around the clock to fix hundreds of kilometers of electricity lines the governor of the u.s.

territory says it could be christmas before full power is restored many islanders say the u.s. government's response is slow and unacceptable following promises of help from president trump alan fisher has more now from san juan. this is normally the convention center in san juan the capital of puerto rico but for the last month this has been the coordinating hub of all the rescue efforts across the island the federal emergency management agency the department of defense a number of local agencies and a number of charities are all based here trying to coordinate relief efforts but one month or one after the hurricane many people are saying they're seeing nothing nothing from any of these agencies coming into their communities to help them there are many people here still without food still without electricity still without drinking water there are real health concerns as well because people are turning to polluted water just to try and sleep their thirst or even doing simple things like washing their clothes in water that is highly contaminated so there's

a real risk that there's going to be another health problem just a few weeks down the line that the people here aren't unrealistic they remember hurricane one thousand years ago and said that the expected things would take some time before they even started to get back to normal but they're deeply concerned that it's taking longer than any normal expectation they are seeing the expect to see a lot more of the government they realize that they can't just drive trucks here that you've got to bring things in by plane and by boat but they say they feel they're being neglected one example of that is that someone from fema said recently that they do so many blue tarpaulins catering for the hurricanes in florida and texas there simply weren't enough to bring here to puerto rico and the people here believe they are being forgotten and they want that to stop and to stop no. peru's conservative congress has passed a bill to legalize medical marijuana the bill was passed by a big margin allowing cannabis oil to be produced imported and commercialized the president's petro public osinski proposed a measure after a police crackdown on

a group of mothers making cannabis oil in a makeshift lab to treat their epileptic children. today congress has taken a historic step towards a more just society today we've given an example of how empathy information and compromise can overcome fear and prejudice this is the great lesson of today. the police in brazil have arrested more than one hundred people in a nationwide bust of a paedophile ring these are some of the suspects detained in the operation that reach most of the country and did include the capital brasilia as well more than one thousand police officers took part in the operation over six months in argentina the results of sunday's mid-term election is expected to be influenced by the mysterious death of an environmental activist santiago de nada disappeared two months ago provoking nationwide protest and allegations of police involvement political parties suspended election campaigning on his body was found in

a river two days ago and now reports from buenos aires. there were demonstrations across argentina and he shoots social media campaign asking a simple question where is. the twenty eight year old activist disappeared an organist during a protest in support of indigenous rights in the south of the country. i want to ask those who lead our country's president maurice your mockery and his ministers. and. i want to ask them where santiago is urgent that he be alive we need him. for the well being of everybody and probably santiago's out there. slick elation was rife opponents of the government generally believed he'd been beaten possibly killed by

the police and his body hidden there asking why it took seventy seven days to find the body then the area that was searched three times other speculated that he drowned or disappeared voluntarily perhaps crossing into neighboring chile pressure was on the government especially the security minister to provide conclusive answers. i will not allow you sen to compare our government to the dictatorship that's an atrocity if it loses have been committed by security forces you should know that those involved will be sanctioned accordingly. memories in argentina are still strong from the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's the time of the so-called dirty war with an estimated thirty thousand people were kidnapped tortured and killed by the military authorities both the main parties fighting sunday's legislative elections have suspended campaigning where the sensitive case and human rights the top of the political agenda.

what osiris. now to japan where candidates in that country to be making last minute efforts to convince voters ahead of an election on sunday the opinion polls suggest the prime minister shinzo is on track to win if he does he'll become the longest serving leader in japanese history sarah clarke now from tokyo. it's carry much first foray into japan's political arena is appointed by the current government the harvard graduate decided to run for election and says the party of hope she stands for often is a credible alternative. if basically just doing it for the certain people not for all the public i think we have to change it and if people want to change it. gov tokyo yuriko quake it launched the party of hope last month pledging popular policies and a nuclear free japan the body was initially considered the most prominent rival to

prime minister shinzo law by its hold on government but on the eve of the general election polls show voter support has filed to gain ground and any hope of challenging his parliamentary majority is unlikely body of hope doesn't have a policy platform is different from the current ruling party on top of this governor created the party is not running for the prime ministership so it looks like a very strange situation prime minister abbott has played the strong and stable card in the wake of escalating tensions with north korea telling everyone to vote for experience analysts say that campaign strategy has also paid off on a man when he's been lucky more than having played his cards right. when there's a national security crisis as your only helps the incumbent government. on top of this the opposition party the democratic party were so weak that it ended up in

prodi. despite polls predicting our by returning to power projections could still change forty percent of voters reported to be undecided which candidate or party backing mother who does the i haven't been able to decide at all so you can support stability of an administration but at the same time i wonder if everything should remain the same with the latest opinion polls suggest that shinzo ruling coalition party could secure as many as three hundred of the four hundred sixty five states up for grabs plus a two thirds of the majority held before the election if that's the case his decision to call a snap election could pay off paving the way for him to potentially become the longest serving leader in japan's history sarah clarke al-jazeera talked. this is al jazeera these are the top stories spain's cabinet is expected to trigger

article one five five of its constitution imposing direct rule over the autonomous region of catalonia the decision follows weeks of political deadlock between madrid and the catalan regional government after catalonia secession referendum two rockets have landed in the international military headquarters in kabul this comes less than a day off to a source said it carried out one of two attacks targeting mosques which killed at least seventy people in one attack a man walks into a shia mosque in the capital kabul and detonated an explosive vest the mosque was packed with worshippers attending friday prayers the second attack happened in the central goal province where a suicide bomber struck a sunni mosque. right after the cleric started the prayer as i was passing by the mosque and an explosion happened there was chaos amongst the people all the windows of the mosque were shattered the police from a nearby checkpoint arrived and tried to control the crowd all the wounded victims injured by the shattered windows were taken to hospital by ambulance and the dead

bodies were lying. iraqi forces of claim control of the whole of kirkuk province after intense fighting against kurdish peshmerga the army says his capture the last time. will province with the help of shia militia. more than fifty police officers have been killed and six more wounded in an ambush in egypt the attack happened in the behavior oasis in the western desert the security forces were targeted on a road around two hundred kilometers southeast of cairo they were on their way to carry out a raid on a suspected hideout fights as the interior ministry says some of the attackers were killed in the shootout. the police in brazil have arrested more than one hundred people in a nationwide bust of a paedophile ring these are some of the suspects detained in the operation that reach most of the country and it also included the capital brasilia the chance. she's against him include producing and sharing pornographic material of children online and a thousand police officers took part in the operation over six months the u.s.

counterterrorism strategy is to shift its focus to more on africa the defense secretary james mattis met congress members to discuss the changes it comes as the white house faces growing pressure to reveal more details about the deaths of four u.s. soldiers in the asia two weeks ago up next counting the cost adrian's after that with the news i will see you very soon by. al-jazeera. and for your.