it's a vaccine so it's only good for twenty four hours there are patients waiting for his mother who must be in pain life's worth risking a week ago one of the gang stops on the cars on the road at that kenya with weapons risking it all guinea at this time on al jazeera. right.

the u.n. blames the syrian government for a chemical attack that killed more than eighty people in april. alonzo raman this is sound is there a line from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes. violence miles kenya's disputed election at least three people are killed during clashes with police. the catalan crisis deepens hours the regional president rules out holding a snap election to break the deadlock. plus the u.s. releases some of the classified documents linked to the assassination of president john f. kennedy. good to have you company welcome to al-jazeera a report by u.n. war crimes investigators has blamed the assad government in syria for

a major chemical weapon attack in april more than eighty people including children were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the rebel held town of concha cone almost six hundred were injured the images of the moments after the strike sparked international outrage over the following days the u.s. bombed the syrian government airbase in response syria has repeatedly denied any responsibility for the attack the united nations and the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is that of a joint investigation commission to find out who conducted the attacks today's report is the culmination of the stage of their work now our correspondent mike hanna has more from the united nations. well the joint investigative commission or jim as it is known has presented a thirty three page report to the u.n. security council in a says that it's received

a number of allegations of the use of chemical weapons within the war in syria over the last few months it focuses though on two specific attacks the one that hunch a coup in it finds that the syrian government must be held responsible for that attack it admits that it did not send its fact finding team to the actual scene of the attack however two satellite imagery interviews with witnesses cell phone footage and importantly it found that the precursor used in the explosive that disperse the siren was identical to the precursor that had been stored by the syrian army when it was tested before the civil civil war began so it found that the syrian government must be held accountable it looked into the syrian claim that aircraft had dropped bombs on a warehouse where rebels had stored a chemical weapon but found that that particular theory could not be upheld and

found incontrovertibly it says that the syrian government was responsible for that sarin gas attack the other incident it looked at was in all my heart in september last year where jim found that i saw had used mortars to disperse mustard at a village and at least two people were killed in that particular attack now the mandate for germ is due to be renewed by mid november earlier this week the u.s. brought a resolution asking that its mandate be renewed before its report russia vetoed that particular resolution what we'll be hearing over the next few days and weeks is discussion between russia and other members of the security council as to whether this report by jim can be seen as a fair unbiased and honest it will be russia's reaction to this which will determine whether or not it withholds its veto when the mandate for jim comes up for renewal within the next few weeks. three people have been shot dead during the

repeated presidential election in kenya voting was perspiring beast for counties when violence broke out between demonstrators and police reports from nairobi after months of political uncertainty it's back to the ballot for the people of kenya falls these poll is a rerun of the most contested elections in kenya's history now promising to be the most likely long this. does that we have survived that where we have seen people being intimidated in some parts of the country already is not a very good thing in terms of transparency you can see the diva process for those groups because. of. a free atmosphere in which. would be able to. and franchise themselves as far as wanting what is concerned. vaulting incubate or kenya's largest number was interrupted when protesters but it created droves leading to polling stations police used tear gas and fired live

a mission and blanks into the air to dispose of the protesters water lentulus grouping us fast as they dispersed the playground of the olympic primary school in q.b. it tells the story of this election adequately usually these field will be full of . enthusiastic voters with accused making into the alleys of the slum today there are none the protesters here succeeded in ensuring as few people exercise their right to vote the police showed no mussy to those they arrested the violence was however most pronounced in the city of kisumu in western kenya almost all the fatalities were here. i do believe that we have living in a fascist society where the government intervention the freshest. profiled a little community and definitely determined to. punish the no community.

killings yes because the media fused to vote in this. election while tensions simmered in some opposition strongholds the situation was called. they were peaceful since the voting in kimball outside there will be strongholds of president who can no voting took place in four counties in western kenya results are expected today after voters in those counties are expected to vote. right now dingell was criticized polling stuff in the run up to the vote is likely to argue that the boycott of the poll in some parts of the country shows that iran is pointless and will do little to improve president kenyatta legitimacy if he is declared the winner. mohammed at all just. because. u.s. president donald trump has declared interdiction a public health emergency the government will now have more power to address the issue wolf freedom to change legislation it's estimated more than sixty four

thousand americans died last year due to the diction and white house correspondent kimberly how good how small from washington d.c. . the white house president said that the opioid epidemic in the united states is the worst drug crisis in american history with the signing of this presidential memorandum the president says this is a critical first step in addressing the epidemic for too long we have allowed drugs to ravage american cities and towns we have led to our children and to our country to do everything in our power to address this national shame and this human tragedy. we must stop the flow of all types of illegal drugs into our communities. many people are disappointed the president has stopped short

of declaring this a national emergency had that occurred this would have provided the necessary federal funding that states say they need in order to address this crisis instead by calling this a public health emergency what this will do is in absence redirect existing funds something that many critics say stopped short of the president's promise not only on the campaign trail but also as president still acknowledged this is an important first step one they hope will push the u.s. congress to take measures even further to europe now i can tell you as president has refused to hold early elections deepening the crisis in spain's autonomous region karla's pujols says he would not hold a new regional election unless the central government agree to certain conditions meanwhile the spanish senate is due to vote on friday on whether to allow madrid to directly administer catalonia andrew symonds has more from barcelona.

demonstrators defiant towards the actions of the spanish government are calling on their regional leaders to declassify session but before their march begins their hearing councillor media reports saying their regional president was planning to announce not elections in a deal with the dread that would take charge of who won five five and avoid the imposition of direct. point i mean isn't it we are completely opposed we didn't conceive of any other scenario apart from the declaration of independence we cannot conceive of any other elections the demonstrators change their plans marching to the building where president carlos was due to speak at. as went to his party's headquarters. we were protesting today against a sickle one five five and all of a sudden we hear that pushed him on wants to call for elections we are totally

against it we feel this is treason to the castle and paco. eventually pushed him on amounts that no decision had been made to me when she didn't even say you know that i'm willing to call an election so long as there are certain guarantees so that we can hold elections under normal circumstances those guarantees of not being provided and after elections are not warranted my duty was to try to hold elections and to do it honestly and truthfully in order to avoid any impact on our institutions after the president finally did make an appearance these crowds seem to the main supporters that earlier they had shouted traitor when reports emerged that he was going to actually announce the stuff the election is a barrister who showed you was then quote suspended by his start. in madrid the spanish deputy prime minister said nothing had changed article one five five would go ahead on friday i presume in that article if it doesn't want to think

contrary to what some say the procedure of article one five five does not mean a new political centrism but it means the beginning of the end of the repeated disobedience of the law and the interest of all and to the use of self-government against its foreign autonomy. there may have been some new twists but this crisis is now back to where it was nearly a week ago madrid intends to impose direct rule on the lonia and sackets government friday is the day when politicians will take big steps into the unknown with risks on both sides and the lives of millions of people could be affected andrew symonds . pass alone or. well still ahead here on al-jazeera an exclusive report about alleged torture methods used in secret prisons in yemen by soldiers from the united arab emirates. also u.s.

bound travelers face longer accusative as new security measures are imposed. how some rather when she whether in our forecast over the next couple of days a cold plunge into central parts of north america just coming out of the canadian prairies and pushing a little further south was behind this area of a white cloud that's we're going to see the live is for the weather as we go through the next hour to quite a temperature contrast you notice seattle calgary seventeen degrees celsius there is that color where i want to pay just to graze and all the wind coming in behind so just coming out of ontario down across the lakes some very cold some rather wet and wintry weather pushing it will make its way further east with this we go through saturday long a lot of cloud away pushing over towards the appalachians we're going to see some

very heavy downpours coming in behind to the east that is generally fine and dry because there was some rain further west l.a. for example could do with some of that wet weather stay hot and dry temperatures here at around thirty one degrees celsius some decent sunshine into parts of the caribbean over the next day we have this area cloud this low pressure which has been stuck in place for the last few days possibility of a tropical system just developing here just around nicaragua pushing further north that is likely to bring some flooding rains across much of central america pushing up towards cuba. one. change as america struggles to contain its worst ever drug crisis through lines

looks at the devastating impact it's having on the children who are left to pick up the pace of. heroin children this time on al-jazeera. but the market watching all just arrives the whole ramadan reminder of our top stories a report by u.n. war crimes investigators has blamed syria's government for a chemical weapons attack which sparked international outrage in april more than eighty people were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the rebel town of concha coup. three people have been shot dead during kenya's repeat presidential

election voting in four counties has been postponed due to the violence and catalonia as president has refused to call for an early election. says he hasn't received enough guarantees from madrid won't impose direct rule if you election is held the spanish senate is due to vote on friday on whether to trigger article one five five which would allow madrid to directly at the state level. let me explain sigs actually what triggered one of five five from madrid. neither the sentiment or grievances of catalonia separatists up within question but the central government is contesting the way the regional government went ahead with the referendum which puts in question the territorial integrity of spain in violation of the constitution at least that's how my drift is framing this crisis

and prime minister. is a vile every single power to him. namely article one five five of the constitution it says if a region does not fulfill the obligations imposed upon it by dicko situation or other laws or acts in a way that is seriously prejudicial to the general interests of spain the government may take all measures necessary to compel the region to meet obligations and to protect general interest. government all options without going into specifics absolutely not to be defined gives a broader. way of action to the government so it really it really can be interpreted. as it is needed in this particular situation in catalonia so the government would have any kind of means including the use of the

army to protect the constitution. but the government needs to get the backing of the senate spain's upper house just until recently very few people here had heard about article one five five now triggering it will. never happen before. nine hundred seventy eight. and the country is entering uncharted territory the government wouldn't have a hard time passing the bill it enjoys an overwhelming majority in the senate in blue here with one hundred forty nine seats out of two hundred sixty six it also has the support of the socialist party the second largest bloc in red. catherine leader. turned down an invitation to take part in there is that instead he was represented by fair. who was not given the floor. the constitution doesn't allow

a region to have a different future it's not open to amendments in this case catalonia if they apply article one five five on their terms they are talking about they will be going back to nine hundred seventy seven to dictatorship at a time when there was no freedom and no one tanami state is recognized. once article one five five is triggered this spanish government says it will return to rule of law. and call for regional elections but the divide with. voters will only grow wider. madrid. seven australian politicians on find out whether or not they'll be removed from parliament holding citizenship the high court has juice to hand down its verdict on friday the list of politicians in jeopardy includes the deputy prime minister barnaby joyce if he is a jack to parliament prime minister malcolm turnbull could lose his one seat

majority under thomas has more from sydney. most of those whose cases will be decided by the high court say they didn't know that they would yield citizens when they stood for parliament are they being born abroad but two australian parents or one of their parents or grandparents have been born abroad but they themselves have been born in australia they say that in no they would your citizens therefore how could they were now for the high court we decided is what ignorance is enough of an excuse for most of the m.p.'s in the prime well it doesn't matter that much what the high court decides frankly apart from for themselves in their own careers but deputy prime minister bonnie joyce this matters in a big way he's an m.p. in australia's lower house and there the government only has a majority of one so if he is found to be ineligible and it theory australia's government could fall and practice to be a by election in his constituency and if he were to lose that government before but also this raises the question about over the sessions that barnaby joyce theme part

of sitting in parliament as a minister if he wasn't eligible to be there think should those decision stand as well so in theory this not only ends a few careers but could jeopardize some of the decisions that australia's government has made. a prisoner in yemen has spoken exclusively to al jazeera about alleged torture methods used in secret prisons run by the united arab emirates and its allies dozens of detainees have gone on hunger strike in the city of aden saying that they are still being abused victoria gate and the reports. human rights watch says there are at least eighteen secret prisons run by you a forces in southern yemen they include med prison in aden al jazeera has obtained a voice recording of one detainee he says prisoners are regularly tortured. there are various methods such as the electric shock waterboarding as well as forcing detainees to strip naked this is how they torture and different prisons they use

different methods human rights watch says other detainees at the prison have begun a hunger strike in response to mistreatment it wants the u.a.e. and its allies to take action to stop the alleged abuse in a statement it said detainees should not have to refuse food to be treated humanely and free from abuse the u.a.e. and the yemeni proxy should stop denying responsibility for mistreatment and investigate and act on the complaints. the u.a.e. is part of a saudi led coalition helping the yemeni government fight the rebels taking control of northern and central yemen including the capital sana'a more than ten thousand yemenis have been killed and almost forty thousand injured since twenty fifty. eighty percent of the population is in need of humanitarian and human rights watch

says the u.a.e. has been arming and training yemeni special forces to fight local branches of al qaida and eisel it's documented dozens of cases of people including children who were detained by those horses and may have been subjected to torture the u.a.e. denies the allegations. lawyers though say nearly two thousand men have disappeared in southern yemen family members have been demonstrating for the release of their relatives for months big story gates and be al jazeera. now the white house has ordered the partial release solve secret government files relating to the death of john f. kennedy the thirty fifth president of the united states those assassinated in november nine hundred sixty three shortly after his after this footage was filmed and he was shot in the head as his convoy made its way through downtown dallas shortly after this man that lee harvey oswald was arrested and accused of shooting

the president but two days later while in police custody as walt was killed by night club owner jack ruby the following year a commission headed by chief justice earl warren looked at the evidence and concluded that oswald had acted alone in killing kennedy but in january one thousand nine hundred ninety two the film j.f.k. by oliver stone captivated the public imagination with conspiracy theories including the alleged involvement of u.s. intelligence agencies in order to contain that congress passed a law promising the release of classified files relating to j.f.k.'s death within twenty five years while peter could sneak is a professor of history at the american university in washington d.c. he says the three hundred documents that are being held back will be the most revealing. what we're trying to figure out after fifty four years is who actually assassinated john f. kennedy the public in the united states does not trust the warren commission report

and it's not only since oliver stone's movie came out in one thousand nine hundred two from the very beginning the public did not believe that lee harvey oswald acted alone even today more than sixty percent of the american public does not believe that lee harvey oswald was the lone assassin why would why did lee harvey oswald shoot the president at the at a more difficult angle rather than when the motorcade was coming toward him and the book depository he shoots in a much more difficult going away with a mail order rifle that f.b.i. marksman were not able to replicate the shots so there is not a smoking gun we don't expect there is going to be a smoking gun people don't write down the conspiracy to assassinate a president but there are things that are going to come out about lee harvey oswald is very suspicious behavior in mexico city about lee harvey oswald very suspicious behavior in new orleans when he was meeting with as opposed to working with both pro castro groups and anti castro groups and there are some top cia officials who

have got documents in this collection and these are cia officials who really were very very hostile to president kennedy. also breaking news coming out of australia it's a deputy prime minister has been ruled ineligible for parliament over the july citizenship issues under thomas joins me now live from sydney andrew it seems that we now have a great deal of political question marks now over what happens next. that's absolutely right so the seven. who are being considered by the high court just to have been found to be eligible for parliament by of the others have been found to be ineligible and crucially one of those five is part of yours australia's deputy prime minister and of course of representatives where australia's government has a majority of just one so if he is now ineligible to sit in parliament the government

loses its majority now the government doesn't fall just yet will now be a by election in barnaby joyce is on what was party joyce's seat he will stand if he wins the government side but of course that's a big if so in about five weeks' time it's quite possible that opponents of anime joyce takes over that state that he did hold and then australia's government is in jeopardy it polls also important part of the joys australia's deputy prime minister but he's also been a minister make you crucial decisions about australia over the last year and a half since he has become deputy prime minister here through those decisions stand if he was ineligible to be an m.p. he was ineligible to be a minister so all kinds of other legal questions now flow from this legal decision . both of them over we'll leave it out of course come back to as we get more developments coming out of sydney thank you. passengers heading to the u.s. can expect new security measures the u.s.

says the measures i reducing the threat of terrorism and replace a ban a lot tops from eight predominantly muslim countries is the latest decision by the trumpet ministration affecting global travel and the galah reports now from miami. the u.s. authorities say the new measures are in their words raising the bar on global security and arraigned reducing the threat of hidden explosive devices u.s. bound passengers will now face additional screening of electronics and short security interviews the u.s. department of homeland security is convinced terrorist groups a targeting aircraft flying to the u.s. together we have the opportunity to raise a baseline on aviation security globally and we can do it in a manner that will not unduly inconvenience the flying public let me be clear security is my number one concern our enemies are adaptive and maria we have to be adaptive as well around two thousand u.s. bound flights a day for more than one hundred countries will be affected. the measures aren't as

controversial as president trump's failed travel ban on six muslim majority countries but security experts say the new rules will lead to further delays it's going to make things more complicated and i think you're going to have a lot of passengers very dissatisfied with the passenger experience it's so behavioral analysis will now be used to screen passengers focusing on their demeanor and travel background but the rest is that certain passengers may be unfairly singled out some are also concerned that placing additional security responsibilities on airline staff is unfair more than three hundred thousand passengers a day will be affected by the new measures but the airline industry have reacted with some criticism they say airlines weren't consulted and they also say putting the onus on ticket counter staff may not be the best way of enhancing security but all agree if you are traveling to the u.s. you need. then up to the airport even earlier and gallacher al-jazeera at miami's

international airport. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has expressed concern over reported atrocities against the rigging in iraq in state tellus and had a phone call with the me and my army chief seen the general being the carrying on thursday he urged me a man security forces to support the government in ending the violence and allowing the safe return of ethnic grouping or who fled the area in california the man who has driven his car through a pro immigration rally a video on social media shows the car pushing through demonstrators at the immigration rights march several protesters pounded the hood of the car as it moved ahead and then stopped. the leader of the roman catholic church has opened up a direct line to the heavens by dialing the international space station pope francis asked the crew some of life's big questions including man's place in the universe italian astronauts are powerless bawly replied that despite the bird's eye

view of the two remains perplexed. we're watching al-jazeera homes a whole robin these are our top stories australia's highest court has disqualified the deputy prime minister from parliament due to hold dual citizenship five other politicians have been removed from parliament for holding the same they will now that there will be now a by election for the deputy prime minister's seat the ruling means that prime minister malcolm turnbull's government could lose its one seat majority. a report by u.n. war crimes investigators as blames syria's government for a chemical weapons attack which sparked international outrage in april more than eighty people were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the rebel held town of cards or kuhn almost six hundred others were injured three people have been

killed in violence during can years repeat a presidential election voting has been disposed in four counties due to the violence the election commission estimates forty eight percent voter turnout in the election boycotted by the main opposition. that only this president has refused to call for early elections. says he hasn't received enough guarantees from madrid that it won't impose direct rule if a new election is held the spanish senate is due to vote on friday whether to trigger article one five five which would allow madrid to directly administer the region two thousand eight hundred documents relating to the death of former u.s. president john f. kennedy has been made available by the us and national archives some of the records will remain classified on the advice of the cia and f.b.i. president donald trump has also ordered a one hundred eighty day review so that government agencies could look at the remaining documents and justify why any should be withheld also us

president trump has declared and he would addiction a public health emergency the government will now have more power to address the issue and more freedom to change legislation it's estimated that more than sixty four thousand americans died last year due to opioid addiction and overdose and those were the news headlines here on al-jazeera more thirty minutes next on al-jazeera its fault lines. al jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bring that story to the forefront.

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