how they were indoctrinated and wrenched from their childhood into a life of unspeakable violence. lion cubs of i saw. this documentary at this time on a. pedestal. i have yet to have that. we wanted for a group that's. now. jumped from the truck. like the one today. this time just era. iraqi forces launch an assault on the last strongholds in the country.

a welcome. life from doha also coming up. an opposition boycott overshadows kenya's election rerun as people head to the polls. bidding farewell to a revered moment bangkok comes to a standstill for kingpin the palm's five day funeral. brazil's congress rejects a corruption case against the president that threatened to i was to. iraqi forces have launched on a soul to recapture two key towns held by eisel in the country and rawa in the west of iraq near the border with syria and they are among the last. strongholds in the

country straight to stephanie to build in northern iraq staff the iraqi prime minister mr t. has announced a start of an offensive in the west and province against eisel has significant is this. little significant because it is some of the last territory they hold in iraq and also the particular location raul was in the area just before all but all crime is the town on the border so this is the last border crossing that. still holds the syrian side of that is called abu come out and of course it's also a symbolic victory once the iraqi forces would take that area because i saw made such a propaganda about you know bulldozing down the borders and establishing their so-called state so this is the very last international border they hold in the rockies will tell you that they do believe this is not going to be an incredibly long fight they think they can do it morale is high of course off the back of you know the victories in the mosul offensive and you have iraqi forces on the ground the army

the federal forces also the national shabby the shia militia and sunni tribal fighters from that area all now engaged in this fight that's now officially started stephanie we're also hearing these reports of skirmishes further north along the iraqi syrian border is that iraqis squaring off against peshmerga forces. yes just the complications of it it is interesting the timing of the announcement of the iraqi prime minister focusing on the last push when i saw when there's a lot of political and military action going on in this area peter so this is basically northwest of mosul in the area of the hope there been skirmishes this morning what we understand shelling from both sides sporadic from the iraqi forces shia militias and also the peshmerga around an area called we understand from iraq he military sources that the peshmerga have withdrawn from an area in that space now the bigger picture here peter. seems to be that the iraqi government wants to

take back control federal control over all the border crossings that fall under at the moment the kurdistan regional government now course we've had calls from the international community that dialogue needs to take place that military action needs to be talked about on both sides but it is very complicated so this is a fear and of course people will tell you the kurds are going to defend these positions if they do not want the iraqis to take hold of that border crossing between iraq and syria that is held by kurds on both sides but at the moment again it's skirmishes but this is the wider fear if it will from the kurds and this is the wider aim it seems from baghdad is the worry as far as the kurds are concerned that what was a kurdish slash iraqi fight against isis is in the process of morphing into being a civil war i guess a civil conflict between iraqi forces and the peshmerga all to do with kurdish session. i think you're right in saying that the referendum

certainly triggered all of this i think it's way too early and dangerous to talk about something like a civil war but yes i think because there are so many unresolved issues when it comes to this region when all these forces had a common enemy it's almost like they were put on hold what you also saw during the push against isis is more shifting of territory of disputed territory the kurds took pretty much around forty percent of territory that had previously held by iraqi federal forces before eisel came and when it came to the referendum the k r g decided to include some of the disputed territories in the referendum it's very complicated peter but that certainly was a red line not just for baghdad but for neighboring countries for iran for turkey turkey was traditionally an ally of our below here of the president they have now turned their back on him as well so you're seeing all this develop and i think the kurds will tell you well it comes down to the constitution it should have been resolved ten years ago it hasn't been resolved so we've done it it doesn't work

that way the americans are now saying let's all calm down going to have to resolve this they're going to have to be referendums in these areas but the but baghdad seems to be on a roll where it says that it is now going to instill federal control over certainly the border areas and that is changing the status quo not just from before two thousand and fourteen but it goes back way back to ninety ninety one when the kurds sort of started getting their real borders implemented steph thanks very much. ok let's get you right up to speed on a developing story scuffles a broken out in kenya as the controversial presidential election rerun gets underway today the police have been fired tear gas in the flashpoint areas of kibera in nairobi and live rounds against protesters increased suman with the polls have failed to open the opposition leader didn't go as asked his supporters to boycott what he called a quote sham election the supreme court and all the poll held in august because of irregularities so how did we get here today well the president uhuru kenyatta was

declared the winner of the initial vote in august but his rival mr was quick to cry foul saying the result was hacked and manipulated the dinka took these fraud allegations to the country's supreme court and on september the first judges to clear the elections invalid and ordered a rerun within sixty days more than a month later the dingo withdrew his candidacy from the rerun saying he still didn't believe the election commission could ensure a fair race shortly we'll get the latest from katherine sawyer who's in the opposition stronghold of kisumu first let's cross to for me to miller who's in county for me what's going on where you are what's the turnout like today. we're looking to what the turnout was in all because they are certainly a number of people coming into this polling station in which is bored is the narrow we county but if you compare it to the number of voters coming through isn't as

high as one of the analysts we spoke to previously had said that while there is an expectation that many do believe supporters and that's the governing party in kenya would come out many may not because it would be a foregone conclusion about who would win this election given that the main opposition the leader of the main opposition has pulled out of this election we've spoken to a few people here and they say they of course they. vote is their democratic right and they wouldn't waste this opportunity given that it happens every five years what we do know that this isn't the case though in all polling stations especially across nairobi and in the western part of kenya where it's a opposition stronghold in kibera specifically in nairobi. polling stations have been barricaded with rocks and some people they are preventing people who want to vote from entering those polling stations we know that police have used tear gas

to disperse people gathering around polling stations at least two of the polling stations in that area have been open about five others have but the turnout is very low if anybody's coming through at all and carry through on this process and at the end of it say look it's got credibility. that was one of the major concerns even coming from kenyans around the jetta mysie of this election the main opposition leader has pulled out nasser the national super alliance got at least forty four percent of the vote in the august election now if you have about six million people not voting in this rerun because of the boycott called by the opposition there would be serious questions around the legitimacy and until the eleventh hour we had a number of ongoing court cases looking at this election including the appointment of electoral officials and of course the supreme court eventually not to meeting

and not hearing an application around perspire winning this vote so they are concerns around its legitimacy the legal process is around it and of course what the electoral commission said just a week ago the commissioner of the chairman of the commission had said that he couldn't guarantee that there would be free fair and a credible vote. just before the polls opened earlier today he then said we would go ahead with the election we have a constitutional obligation and he says that they would carry it out as far as possible but one issue that did come up is he said that polling stations that didn't actually open the officials they could postpone the the vote until a later date but it's very unclear what will happen around when those elections will happen in polling stations that have been opened at all thanks very much catherine joins us from the opposition stronghold of kisumu katherine what's the

picture where you are today. you know we certainly have had what sounds to be gunshots and police have been firing tear gas at protesters this is an area called condell it's one of those areas where protests have been sustained since january and just less than ten minutes ago there were many people right there and police there was a standoff but then police have managed to push back most of the protesters and even coming to this location tita has been problematic roadblocks improvised roadblocks have been have been set up and it was you know we had to negotiate very carefully with the people who are money those who are blocks to lead us through they were telling us that they are trying to make sure that no polling materials get to the polling centers and we were at a polling station ali i was very difficult to get open polling stations here in

kisumu central pizza but when with mine to find one there were ballot boxes of all the ballot materials but there was no one there we spoke to the. officials there and they said that their biggest concern and their biggest challenge is just getting materials to the various polling stations in this area and also getting their staff members to come to work now there are around three hundred ninety nine people employed by the electoral commission to walk in the different polling stations but when we were there and the situation i'm told is still the same only four had turned up and you know and the situation in the city is the same in all the other polling station they are observed as well peter that we've seen in hotels but we haven't really seen them come out to some of these areas so it's there's a very big security challenge for everyone who's involved in the election peter within security challenge catherine i guess it would be very difficult for those protesters indeed for anyone who wants to exercise their democratic rights to accept the result when we know what the result will be because if you haven't got

the main opposition candidate on the ballot papers very difficult to say the election was free and fair. it's very difficult in fact that's what the protesters are saying that's what most of the people in this region are saying that if we do not participate how legitimate is this election riaa loading there has very many supporters in the last election is anything to go by he has close to seven million people who voted for him these are people who are feeling very disenfranchised and that's why people here peter really are saying that we will make sure that no ballot paper no ballot materials get to the polling stations we will make sure that we do not vote and we that we are exercising our rights and we will reject. the president's about we did speak to the one man we found our polling station where we were and he was he had come to vote

clearly he couldn't vote but he says he was also exercising his right but that is a minority of there are a few people this is a cosmopolitan town there are people few people who would want to vote but because they're fearful and you know it's very tense here it's going to be very difficult for them as well to go and vote peter this election observer she was talking about a little earlier catherine a very not the polling stations because they're being kept away or is there another reason why they're still in the hotels. i think it's a whole and vironment like i said here in kisumu it's very tense we have people very angry people on the road who are targeting you know anyone who has anything to do with the election or when we were leaving the polling station where we were at right at the gate there were angry just a few angry men and they were holed carrying stones and again we had to properly identify ourselves before they let us through so you can imagine you know with.

observers electoral officials just trying to get their way through there is a very heavy security presence as well so some of the observers we've had speaking say that there are a lot of security charging challenges that are making them. making it a name making it difficult for them to actually leave where they are and come to you know polling stations and areas like this where we are when it comes to the electoral officials where we were that polling station pretty much in the city because they have to be. wherever they're going they have to be under a lot of very heavy security presence so peter like i said it's really an issue of security from where i'm standing catherine matriculation i'm sure in the meantime thank you. busy news day today let's take you live to bangkok because what you're looking at right now is a coming together of

a nation i guess the cremation ceremony of the late king king. officially begun what you're looking at right now is the main part of a five day funeral service the ceremony is led by premier poem song rom of the tens the much loved time moment just over a year ago he reigned for seventy years. than wayne hay now has more from bangkok. the funeral ceremony lasts for five days but of course the main day he's the day when the late king will meet on a do new day will be cremated there are actually two cremation ceremonies one a symbolic ceremony and then the main cremation which will take place on thursday evening in a purpose built funeral site a purpose built crematorium on a site just outside the grand palace and before then it's

a very slow procession taking the royal containing the body all of the late king from the grand palace where he has been lying for the past year eventually making its way just outside the gates to that funeral site but it's a very slow procession will take around three hours before they arrive at that site as you can imagine it's a very hot day in bangkok but that hasn't stopped thousands of people coming out onto the streets the palace says it was expecting some two hundred fifty thousand people to fill the streets around the funeral side to say a final goodbye to the late king when we want to do new day. still ahead on al-jazeera. the city of boston has some of the highest income inequality anywhere in the u.s. i'm going to introduce you to a company that has a mapping system that we. really shows the economic divide all over this country that story coming up.

hello the storms have been rumbling around greece and turkey randi jean and dickie belgariad been spreading themselves out as quite a long line of potential but they're not quite as strong as they were how he said that they will still produce yet more rain in heavy bursts then further west we've got a tug of fairly warm weather this would high is just below zero that's settled weather now the temperature is slowly rising in twenty five in madrid twenty in paris that was the case on wednesday and that that you see sort of the tongue going in this general direction so it will stay warm in france and maybe even in germany right i think we're going to see tumbledown then get disappeared in the flow so you'll end up really getting colder in germany in poland maybe austria the tempest in the teens but then rain will start to fall rain not snow you'll notice and by this time

paris is gone that is sixty but madrid is to have a twenty eight so for spain and portugal it's nice and warm and at the same time so go on and settle down we've got the sun back out in greece and bogus area and in turkey but for the time being used to get that circulation it would use big showers as far south as the gulf to say it's maybe even reaching north and egypt which is in the low twenty's that's the forecast for thursday friday slightly drier.

again you know with al-jazeera a reminder of your top stories so far they were up the forces of launched an assault to recapture the last times held by ice so on iraq's western border with syria. are considered last wrong holds in the country the cremation ceremony of the late thai king pin upon has now begun it's considered the main part of a five day funeral service is led by his son rama the tents. and security forces in kenya fired tear gas and live rounds of opposition protesters the polls opened a few hours ago for the presidential election which the opposition has called the

supreme court an old the first poll held in august because of irregularities let's get more on that one for you just as big as a political analyst who joins us from nairobi jaffa speak on both tear gas being fired live rounds being fired election monitors still in their hotels two hours after the polls opened how can this rerun. be credible how can it ever be free and fair. well i think that that hayden's the sense of intimidation and scares away even citizens would want to come out and vote . and it adds to what the opposition has called a sham election because even the electoral body itself a.b.c. in the run up to this in oil action has indicated that they're not all sucked into the lever of credible election saw to that extent i think all these factors are

firing all of you know teargas and labor munition protesters etcetera the barricading of roads by various protesters etc when you look at all these and even . certain areas especially in the main opposition front of stronghold in the younger region having not you know the ballot materials not in a delivered in time and actually polling centers themselves not open election officials having you know felt intimidated and some of them are to looters and and then wheeling to take by towards preside over the election itself has contributed to the conclusion that this election may not actually be very credible in the end what happens in the end it's apparent to lift your expression that what happens in the end if this election is deemed not to be in free and fair do we have to head then towards a third rerun. well it is

a failed rerun because so far from us put a check across the country it is evident that the boycott or the call for the boycott of this election by the main opposition nasa is evidently successful because when you look at you know many parts of the country you realize that many a position supporters have shunned but stating in this election heeding the call of the political leaders in the opposition and if i told more than a close to half the country will not participate in this election then the very question of legitimacy of this election upon its conclusion may arise and presenting at are may be compelled to find a way of bridging that divide and extending the hand of the only and or those of branch to the opposition leadership so that they see how to take this country forward with those that continue with a country that is divided may be very dangerous to the governance process and even

to the political stability of the country so it's very important that political leaders consider coming to get on the table of discussion and see how to reduce the state of turmoil and entertain it in confusion and then the instability that is continuing in this country beyond this election which may not actually be conducted in the threshold of the standard that was pronounced by the supreme court which means that the election was supposed to be totally constitutional and legal all following the provisions of the law then one wonders the question of legitimacy of the outcome of this election upon its conclusion and declaration of results by the a.b.c. in a few days time ok. thanks very much. the catalan parliament will meet to discuss its response to the madrid plans to take

control of the region be careful and leader carlos puja moments will attend the meeting in barcelona on thursday politicians will discuss how to tackle the possibility that the central government will impose direct rule if article one five five is triggered on friday he's turned down an invitation to speak to senators in madrid there have been more protests in barcelona as the spanish government seems poised to take control and are simmons's their. this demonstration is of two groupings school teachers and parents protesting at what they say are false allegations from the spanish government of indoctrination in the education system here in terms of prose secession they say that's not the case many of them protesting are in fact against the session then there's another grouping which is the defense committee for the referendum and they are intending to march to parliament with their message the steam is rising here in the sense that there is

more and more suggestion that there is now a path towards a declaration of secession from spain and in fact the real john kerry last who is the vice president of catalunya has in fact told associated press that quote there is no option now but to proclaim a new republic one of the big issues we're seeing at the moment is the future of the regional police force because a lot of people fear that they're going to be under pressure when article one five five goes into effect on friday in brazil the lower house of congress has voted to reject charges of corruption against the president michel tema the seventy seven year old was in hospital when the vote was taken he's accused of taking bribes which he denies the lower house has voted in tennis favor and decided he will not face trial of the supreme court on charges of criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice has more now from britain's ira's. president michel tamar has done it

again he survived a vote in the lower house of congress which wanted to suspend them for up to one hundred eighty days so the supremes court could try him on corruption charges he did the same back in august by a similar vote though he's one of the most unpopular presidents that brazil has ever seen with popular popularity ratings of around four percent he one managed to win enough support in that congress so that the opposition could not get the two thirds two thirds of votes necessary one congressperson at a time came to the microphone they were given fifteen seconds to speak before the microphone was cut off to say yes or no doubt as to whether they supported michelle tam or not he is accused of taking bribes by j.b.s. a massive meat packing for some of that conversation was recorded he all along has denied the charges he is part of a much larger criminal investigation known as

a lover's yard or the car wash scandal which is implicated hundreds of politicians and business people across brazil some of them serving time in prison some of them waiting to be tried some of them plea bargaining saying they're going to name names but michel tema has a skate he will serve out the last fourteen months of his time in office he says to push through vital measures boost brazil's ailing economy to get it back on track but he has survived but he has a much that we can the president of the u.s. city of boston of hers one of the biggest wealth anywhere in america the wealthiest five percent make more than a quarter of a million dollars each per year whilst the lowest twenty percent make below fifteen thousand dollars mapping income inequality in several cities shows the economic divide splitting rich and poor al-jazeera is gabriel is on the now from boston. the divisions between rich and poor in america nearly side by side in two

neighborhoods in boston on a tree lined street homes for those with access to wealth nearby rundown public housing units for those without. but now the area is changing as developers tear down the old and replace it with luxury apartments to cater to more rich buyers moving in and with the development as this place man saw all these families that live here and work here are being displaced because they can no longer afford the rent. like rita as an immigrant from mexico who is being pushed out by a landlord who has doubled her rent to nearly two thousand dollars a month well guess what we're trying to be strong but also we're upset because we don't have the money to pay the reality rita and people like her live with every day now part of new data mapping that shows the economic divide and how close together rich and poor live let's look at this neighborhood this dark blue

neighborhood analytics company esrey created a neighborhood by neighborhood breakdown of what he calls the will divide in america this is washington d.c. the darker the blue the wealthier the area the darker the orange the deeper the poverty and this is what the mapping showed in the area of boston where reader lives this neighborhood is called jamaica plain where the average household income is one hundred sixty nine thousand dollars a year more than three times the national average making this neighborhood one of the more affluent in all of boston. but just a few blocks away here in the forest hills neighborhood the story is much different here the household median income is only thirty four thousand dollars a year the hope is these maps prod people to think about inequality on a deeper level and maybe bring about change is the american dream viable it's sure it's or should be it must be and how can we how can we make sure that it

is viable not just for those of us who are privileged and wealthy but but that those opportunities are open to everybody a new way to identify the economic gaps in society the harder part is how to close them gabriel is on do it in boston. ok let's recap your top stories for you here on al-jazeera iraqi forces have launched an assault to recapture the last times held by eisel on iraq's border with syria. and rawa are among the last few strongholds in the country stephanie decker is following developments from northern iraq. where the significant because it is some of the last territory they hold in iraq and also the particular location. time is the town on the border so this is the last border crossing that. still

holds the syrian side of that is come out and of course it's also a symbolic victory once the iraqi forces would take that area because i saw him make such a propaganda about you know. the borders and establishing their so-called state security forces in kenya. and live rounds of opposition protest the polls opened a few hours ago for the presidential election rerun the opposition is calling for a boycott demanding electoral reform in the supreme court an old poll held in august because of irregularities the cremation ceremony of the late thai king pin the poem has now begun it's considered to be the main part of a five day funeral services led by his son rama the tense. the catalonian parliament will meet to discuss its response to madrid's plans to take control of the region the lead. will attend the meeting in barcelona on thursday politicians will discuss how to tackle the possibility that the central government will impose

direct rule if article one five five of the constitution is triggered on friday. brazil's lower house of congress has voted to reject corruption charges against president michel he's accused of taking bribes which he denies the white house has voted in ten his favor and decided he won't face trial at the supreme court up next it's inside story i'll see you very soon but the. news has never been more what i think but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. israel's accused of the systematic abuse of palestinian boys an occupied. some are detained in the middle of the night accused of. the occupation by israel is considered illegal under international law but is it breaking other laws and is there a hidden motivation this is inside story.