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a million catalans rally in barcelona as their leader compares the spanish government's actions to general franco. they were practically deciding the future of a nation is not a crime. now i'm glad designs are alive from london also coming up on the program another attack in the afghan capital just twenty four hours after a suicide bombers targeted a shia mosque in kabul. now open in japan could become the country's longest serving democratically elected leader. and the czech voters elect a party led by a euro skeptic businessman who's been charged with. seven

hundreds of thousands of people have been out on the streets of barcelona to support catalan secession is the constitutional crisis comes to a head in a t.v. address is a short time ago the regional president said the people of catalonia could not accept what he said were illegal measures taken by central government here the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy announced plans to dismiss most government subject to approval by the senate next week madrid intends to impose direct rule taking control of ministries the police and the cattle and television channel for six months until fresh elections can be held under symonds has been following a dramatic day's events in barcelona. street protest again in barcelona and i may just scale shock instead of indignation now but defiance in the air. if you expected such severe moves from madrid aimed at removing the political leadership of this region and within the actions inside six

months. anger was directed of its. anish police helicopters repeatedly over flying the demonstration. occupation forces go out those shelters. earlier they are no real holy made history with a cabinet meeting of grim faces and the triggering of article one five five it's destined to take power away from catalonia in less than a week it will be. the government has had to trigger article one five five of the constitution that was not our wish or intention it never was i think that most of spain society knows this article one five five is part of our constitution and it is only invoked in extremely extraordinary circumstances back in barcelona president carlos pushed him all sacked by rome joined protesters and then moved on

to make a television address. the cats and people cannot accept this attack or these measures the spanish government is trying to own or life in catalonia and this is outside the rule of law the catalan parliament's president was even more damning about the action ability then. prime minister rahul he has shown political recklessness and exceeded all limits he has announced a coup d'etat the aim is to put him into catalan institutions and to own them this is an attack on democracy in the twenty first century what's happening here by no means represents everyone in the loonier but the numbers here and the sentiments being expressed could indicate there will be problems ahead for mario no role wholly in getting what he wants but at the midst of that we're here because the spanish government made a coup without weapons against the catalonian people and their government in the sense of living here in the twenty first century we have other problems we can't

hold on to a constitution which is forty years old and that's. they did today we want to speak if we have to change it let's do it the brinkmanship in this crisis has reached an ultimate phase the stakes couldn't be much higher for either side the referendum asking residents of the region if they wanted to break away from spain took place on october the first but whether catalonia will declare independence is still unclear it will take less than a week before article one five five reaches the senate once that happens it's certain to be approved parliament here will be meeting soon a few people still think there could be a solution but they're getting thinner on the ground andrew symonds al-jazeera.

there's been another suicide bombing in the afghan capital the taliban says it targeted a minivan carrying military academy cadets in western kabul killing fifteen soldiers it's been a deadly week for afghanistan and least eighty nine people are now known to have died in two separate mosque attacks on friday jennifer has more from kabul. it's extra security guards started work at the mosque last month but they weren't enough to stop friday's attack the bomber entered the mosque before guards started their security searches and. is a regular volunteer who helps clean the mosque he was knocked down by the blast then ran inside he says there was smoke and blood everywhere he helped the wounded and move the dead. they do this to divide as they won't be able mow their foreign hands behind such attacks and they do it for later benefits to their slaves why they come to attack this mosque of course they want to divide us and that's like you said. i saw fighters in afghanistan said they carried out the attack the shia

mosque was about half full with three to four hundred worshippers the bomber waited for prayers to begin before he launched his attack first throwing hand grenades over here a curtain area where women and children were praying he then said himself over here in the middle of worshipers killing him mom and dozens of others workers have already removed the charred carpet and abandoned possessions they say it will take a month before their clean up is complete and the mosque reopens among the mourners or relatives of eight year old mustafa husseini. the president is the father of this country and in this possibility of the father to bring peace in a country or in the family then we have the president to bring peace and to protect us from the afghan president ashraf ghani says this is attack and others across afghanistan are crimes against humanity and contrary to islamic values terrorist groups will never succeed in their sinister goals for divisiveness he says and will

soon be suppressed and destroyed by the legitimate struggle of the afghan mind but as well as to the to its international counterparts wherever and whenever they want to on martyrs hill on the outskirts of kabul another victim of the mosque attack an elderly woman is laid to rest dozens have been buried here today as this spiritual and another body arrives and the morning goes on jennifer glass al jazeera martyrs hill kabul hundreds of kurdish protestors have demonstrated outside the united nations office in erbil the capital of iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region they were protesting against a military operation by the iraqi army in areas disputed by the kurds and by baghdad around one hundred twenty thousand people have been displaced since iraqi forces launched the campaign in co province troops have already or seized control of all the disputed areas in northern iraq including the city of kirkuk stephanie decker has more now from erbil. there is a feeling of tension here in erbil people are not sure how this is going to play

out certainly the protesters that took to the streets really rich orating there cools of the feeling that they've been stabbed in the back they've been abandoned by the international community by the united states saying that the pressure the kurdish forces occurred to shoulder as we fought so hard to push myself back within the last three years or so that was praised by the world and they now feel that everyone has turned their back on them of course the irony of this is that you have two forces now the iraqi forces that were trained and armed by the united states they fought together just a year ago to push i saw a lot of mosul now they're pointing the guns at each other so certainly a real feeling here of the fandom and also an element of humiliation the fact that the had to retreat from these areas that the iraqi army moved into and the fact that they had no international support no one actually came out to say that this is not what would be happening so this is something that people are dealing with right

now and again these are uncertain times which is why people in erbil are feeling so uncertain and certainly just seeing the movements on the streets far less people out and about as you would expect. voting is just begun in japan's general election polls suggest that the prime minister shinzo is on track to win another term and if he does he will become japan's longest serving prime minister so our clock is in tokyo for us and sarah tell us more about what the polls are indicating. well as you suggested the polls are indicating that she will be returned with a stronger majority than he had before he called this snap election now this this election's been called twelve months ahead of shared jewel what the polls are suggesting at the moment is he'll be returned with a two thirds majority three hundred of the four hundred sixty five seats his looks set to secure now there were two new political parties which were launched in this campaign one in particular was called the party of hope led by eureka. she's the

governor of tokyo she was considered a potential challenger someone who could actually try and sway or wound some of the support base. but unfortunate the polls have said that they for her unfortunately for her the polls have suggested that any early popularity that's faded because the voters have decided that she simply offering similar policies to what. is offering now despite our by looking to return to power poles have also indicated he's not the most popular prime minister and he's not a popular leader it's simply a case of he is the best option on the table it's always possible the projections could change. the projections could change as of thursday friday up to forty percent of people still said they were undecided so they could they vote could certainly determine who was returned to power you might ever see a bit of rain behind me as well we've got a typhoon that's about to sweep across or is currently moving across japan typhoon

land that might play some milk of course some problems of course at some hurdles for those people wanting to. all voters have been encouraged to to go out and vote early as a result all because of this typhoon early numbers at this stage suggest that fifteen percent of voters in japan have already turned out i should also say that voting here is not compulsory i believe last the last national election fifty percent of eligible voters turned out and two thirds of those were over sixty so what could determine this particular election result could be number one the typhoon as well as eighteen year olds for the first time they've been allowed to vote in the lower house it's a pretty critical time in the east asia right now is that is return to power what does this mean well if our bodies return to power with two thirds majority he does get gains the right to change the constitution now on those grounds he's been long been pushing for a change to japan's military to build up its military and if that's the case if he

does get a solid victory this would encourage him to push ahead with his proposal to revise the post-war constitution to clarify the status of japan's military and this is considered one of the big or first moves he might take should he be returned to a solid majority the other thing is that he will as you mentioned earlier be by will be japan's longest serving leader if he does gain power again or a surface very much a little support from turkey or more from user as things develop the time being thanks a lot. still to come in the program your searchers state rex tillerson the arrives in saudi arabia once again in a bid to win the blockade against gaza. that america's biggest carmaker hits the brakes on one of its largest factories. hello there we've seen a lot of heavy rain over parts of australia recently particularly ivory coast of

queensland so when thanks to this weather system here finally that is beginning to clear away things he should be a bit drier as we head through the next few days instead though we've got some showers towards the southwest those are with us in perth if a sunday but gradually it will improve because as we head into monday the showers will clear away and then we'll see more in the way of sunshine the temperatures in perth making it to around twenty one degrees those showers a reason is the edge towards the east but we still could see just one or two perhaps around adelaide and maybe over parts of victoria in the next day or so now the wet weather that was over queensland has also been extending all the way across parts of new zealand as well we have seen some very heavy downpours hit lots of cloud around as well and it looks like it's going to stay fairly unsettled as we head through sunday and into monday i think monday is the day we're going to see the wettest of the weather though for the north island it really does look very wet at times during the day the south island is looking a little bit better if we head out towards japan there's already a lot of cloud and a lot of rain with us and we've got all storm land working its way towards us you

can just about make it out here it's galloping pretty quickly northwards it looks like we're going to see some very intense winds and very heavy downpours to. short films of hope. at this time.

again a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera and the leader says spain's plans to impose direct rule of the worst attacks since the dictatorship of general franco. fifteen minutes he could have been killed in another suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul the taliban are claiming responsibility. hundreds of kurds have been protesting outside the united nations office in angry over the military operation by the iraqi army and shiite militias. a right wing billionaire businessman he's been called to check donald trump looks set to become the czech republic's new prime minister. zero skeptic and i party is what about thirty percent of the parliamentary election he's been critical of the two in the past and is against the

czech republic joining the euro zone and he's beginning talks to form a coalition government. not. we have extremely excited and we really want to thank you you've supported us in such numbers almost one and a half million voters is something we did not expect would you put the confidence in it even despite a massive information campaign that's been going on for almost two years well earlier i asked the czech economist thomas i'd like czech about his victory and he believes the right wing leaders rise reflects a general trend in the west. it came as no surprise you know this is quite a general trend i receive in the west that populists are sort of gaining elite and the likening to trump or to berlusconi i don't think is that far off but i would say that this populous of ours mr bobbitt is not the worst kind and we have much worse here in europe or in united states of america so he seems to be that same moderately populist and also his stand seems to be somewhat moderate i mean we are

bohemians we've always been sort of standing on the fence and it seems like no matter what system we have we always decide on a very sort of big us and double slit the result of elections. argentina will very sure place members of congress in the senate on sunday but the election is being overshadowed by the discovery of the body of indigenous rights activist santiago maldonado missing since august. has more now from the capital one of. these people are expecting to be at rallies tomorrow the close of campaigning for sunday's legislative elections but the party's cancelled this week a body was found to be that of missing activist santiago. i believe it's all got to change because people can't go on disappearing like this there's a complicity between the repressive state forces which is repugnant. the police did what happened and the justice system backed them up there was

a government cover up it's all organized so they can do what they want. disappeared in order for protesting for indigenous rights in the south of argentina his whereabouts dividing the nation where wounds are still war over the kidnapping killing of an estimated thirty thousand people under military rule in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's tension with. trying to establish the identity of the body a running high dominating debate in the days leading up to the election was he killed by police or did he drown opinion largely determined by which side of the political divide both are on how much faith they have in state institutions other election issues or where the president government is home and if he has trouble with economy back on track holding inflation and tackling rising crime like all mid-term elections this is it's has of the government in office argentines will decide the makeup of congress which is important to the government it's

a pledge to important legislation and will test the comeback aspirations of former president cristina fernandez. still popular but she and many of her former allies fighting allegations of corruption. what's in play for the opposition is how they regroup and present themselves for the twenty one thousand presidential elections who will lead the national puranas movement well all of argentina's parties are trying to present a bright future many voters are still coming to terms with their country's troubled past. their al-jazeera one of cyrus mourners have been attending the funeral of a policeman who was killed during an ambush on security forces in egypt's western desert lefthand argument hovers was among sixteen security personnel that were killed on friday they were radio hideouts at the races when they came under fire from fighters rejection security sources say the number of dead is far higher than

that at least fifty five officers were killed no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack well earlier we spoke to timothy coldness from the institute for middle east politics and he told us these types of attacks are ready the subject of a public investigation. so massive loss of life for the security forces in egypt and there's been a lot of different stories coming out since since it took place so there's a lot of there's a lack of clarity right now on who is involved the initial rumors was that it was house which is a militant group that has primarily been targeting the security forces for years now but then there have been all the reports of some people trying to claim it was isis some people are trying to suggest might have been other groups and that lack of clarity is continuing to this moment even when the official statement was released by the ministry of interior we heard a number of people were killed but no clarity on the number. and state of the government's been kind of slow to to let the public know exactly what happened who

was behind it and what the casualty figures look like there's going to be a lot of big investigation into how this could happen where the mistakes were made and how the intelligence was that it it's very troubling i mean the thing that we often don't see is any sort of public investigation into these types of incidents and so the public doesn't really get a chance to have a look at the review process and learn from what has taken place i don't anticipate that investigation will be terribly public either although for the for their own sake i'm sure that they're going to be trying to figure out how this happened to prevent. losing more officers in the future officials in somalia say the number of people killed in last week's bomb attack in mogadishu has risen to three hundred fifty eight another two hundred twenty eight people were injured when a truck bomb exploded in a busy area of this money and capital it is the deadliest attack in the country's history fifty six people are still missing officials are accusing the group al-shabaab but it has yet to confirm or deny any involvement. security forces in

cameroon of halted a solidarity march organized in support of the country's english speaking regions police stopped the demonstration in the port city of due allah which was planned by the main opposition group cameroon is mainly french speaking the english speaking western regions are pushing for greater autonomy aid agencies say security forces have killed dozens of pro independence demonstrators in the last few weeks the maltese government is offering a one point two million dollar award for protection for anybody who has information on monday's car bomb murder of a prominent investigative journalist deafening it. is reporting that uncovered alleged links between the multis prime minister joseph muscat and offshore accounts revealed in the panama paint was leaked carried out are going to see his family are refusing to endorse the reward unless the prime minister resign it's china is refusing to condemn in mark over its crackdown on the ranger which the u.n.

has called textbook ethnic cleansing the un says five hundred eighty nine thousand revenge of muslims have escaped from him are to bangladesh in the past eight weeks and accuse me of miles army of rape torture and murder of the record state china which is a longtime ally of miramar says it supports its efforts to safeguard peace and insists the situation can be resolved without outside help and time to charge me has more now from carly in cox's bazaar in baghdad last. desperate unhygenic living condition waterborne disease malnutrition are threatening over three hundred twenty thousand children according to unicef among the newly arrived refugees sixty percent are children a staggering number u.n. report also cite that at least over fourteen thousand children a risk of dying due to severe malnutrition mobile clinics like run by unicef care and shared bangladesh up and sprout up in several of the camps they have to treat

people with children suffering from major malnutrition or acute malnutrition so far at least over fifteen hundred children are in this program they've been given specially nutritional food to. take care of their nutritional problems despite all the effort by aid agency led by bank of those government lot of the essential needs of the children are still not been met you can see among the children the sadness and the quietness among them that not only traumatized that deprived of their childhood in the long run by me this government and aid agency needs to address the issue of education health and security a daunting challenge indeed by any definition. yes searchers stay rex tillerson is in saudi arabia as part of a new push to try in the gulf crisis it's been four months in saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain suspended all ties with carter after accusing it of supporting terrorism but citizens says he doesn't anticipate

a breakthrough earlier this week he blamed the saudi led group for being unwilling to find a solution party culhane as this report. he's back u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has landed in saudi arabia he was here in july then hope cited a memorandum of understanding with carter would be enough to end the blockade it didn't despite his shuttle diplomacy so now he's coming back trying a new tactic for the four blockading countries saudi arabia u.a.e. egypt and bahrain assigning blame and then in an interview saying qatar is willing to negotiate and the saudi led coalition is simply refusing to talk because he tried before he tried to try to be nice with everyone but this took him nowhere. produced no results so i think that's probably. the time has come to use some leverage analysts say there is a renewed hope they might be more willing to engage now has the president for

example try to put pressure on the saudis in the u.a.e. to be willing to to to me to solve some of the sanctions and stop that they put on the fact that the president has come out now and basically decertified the iran deal is that going to make the saudis more willing to work with us to deal with the situation with god or us president initially put all the blame for the crisis on cutter but after being pushed by his secretaries of state and defense he now says it's time for all sides to talk if i can help mediate between cutter and in particular the u.a.e. and saudi. maybe i would be willing to do so and i think you'd have a deal worked out very quickly his own secretary of state is publicly disagreeing taking the trip while downplaying expectations the g.c.c. crisis will end soon what he does during this trip could very well determine if

that is true. al-jazeera. one of the world's biggest economy because general motors is temporarily shutting down its detroit plant in the united states the closure will affect one thousand five hundred workers who put together four different models at the site demand is low and production will be reduced when the plant reopens next year so one hundred is this. a slowdown in motown has general motors cutting back. auto sales in the u.s. it dropped nearly ten percent so far this year but it g.m. the fall is nearly double that this plant makes cars buicks cadillacs and chevy volt hybrid but it's s.u.v.s that are selling now so the detroit him tram assembly plant has gone from two shifts to one this month it's slowing down production. very quickly don't use of facilities and do what they want down to two to deal with excess and the toy so they're quicker to riyadh just. don't play with them one on

nov twentieth this plant will shut down entirely until january while demand catches up with production when production restarts it will do so with two hundred fewer of its eighteen hundred workers alternative fuels may be the way of the future volvo is going all electric or hybrid by twenty nine teams and america is slowly working its way in that direction but americans love their big cars and they have cheap gas and as america goes so goes detroit. this was once one of the busiest plants in the u.s. but automakers have moved their plants from the detroit area across the u.s. and the world. as cars have morphed into what are effectively rolling computers manufacturing is required fewer but more tech savvy workers with the demands that they're going to have for the. technical expertise i think the manufacturing

is going to be more concentrated in the u.s. . simply because that's where the talent is i mean you need to to produce the kinds of technology that they're working on now you have to have a very highly educated workforce. that workforce is set to bear the brunt of the cutbacks as g.m. and other automakers deal with an ever changing market that will see thousands of jobs being lost john hendren al-jazeera detroit. or i just time for a recap of the top stories making headlines here on al-jazeera and a catalan leader. says that spain's plans to impose direct rule otherwise attack since the dictatorship of general franco pro independence demonstrators are still gathered on the streets of barcelona spain as prime minister has called one five five to be triggered which would mean that catalonia as leaders are moved in

a snap election cold. but i think of this year the couple that no spanish government can i raise the capital and will that will that has enabled us to restore our institutions what we have we have earned it with the power of people and democracy that cats and people cannot accept this attack or these measures the spanish government is trying to own all life in catalonia and this is outside the rule of law. there's been another suicide bombing in the afghan capital of couple the taliban says it targeted a minivan carrying military academy cadets in the west of the city fifteen soldiers were killed on friday at least eighty nine people were killed in two separate attacks on mosques. hundreds of kurdish protesters gathered outside the united nations office in the iraqi regional capital of erbil they were protesting against a military operation by the iraqi army and by shia militias the voting has just begun in japan's general election opinion polls suggest that the prime minister. is

on track to win another term and become japan's longest serving prime minister in his final campaign speech be valid to step up pressure on north korea and revive the economy. and ambush on security forces in egypt's west and it has left up to sixteen dead that's according to the egyptian government it happened after a raid on armed fighters at the bases on friday turned into a gun battle about security sources put the number of dead far higher they say at least fifty five officers were killed officials in somalia say the number of people killed in last week's bomb attack in mogadishu has risen to three hundred fifty eight another two hundred twenty eight people were injured when a truck bomb exploded in a busy area of the somali capital it is the deadliest attack in the country's history fifty six people still missing but. right you're up to date with the headlines coming up next a.j. selects with three short films about wrestling in bolivia. valued as

a gem of africa why ruby has gone through many changes over the past decade. took 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.