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but have a long process continues the spanish senate mates to debate removing autonomy from the region. hello i'm off into the show without is there a live from doha also coming out to run d. becomes the first country to leave the international criminal poll. a low turnout in thursday's rerun presidential election in kenya. i'm going to make sure that i don't promise b. i'm going to get back to work. an australian court disqualifies the deputy prime minister because of citizenship laws meaning the government loses its one seat majority.

but first to kenya where the counting is underway after thursday's presidential election round turnout was low after the opposition leader. called for the vote to be boycotted the election commission says just over six and a half million kenyans cast their ballots although four of the forty seven counties at least still haven't voted they're due to vote on saturday and the turnout so far represents a round about thirty five percent of all registered voters now in the august election which was a no by the supremes caught turnout was well over double that around eighty percent and that was nearly fifteen million people casting their ballots. let's go live now to for me the miller who is in the kenyan capital nairobi so this this is turning into a rather untidy affair isn't it and obviously the question is how legitimate is

what ever the result of this election is. martin if you have just about a third of the just the voters are putting giving right rather president uhuru kenyatta his second term in office there of course would be questions around the embassy of this election and the president's mandate this is the boycott by the opposition and raila odinga withdrawing from the election certainly has made an impact in and could possibly be grounds for any sort of. further opposition to the election that's taken place we don't know what the opposition will do next raila odinga has said that his national super alliance will now be a resistance movement he hasn't given very much detail about the way forward or what that entails and if he would indeed take any specific legal action to contest this vote that happened a day ago but with a turnout of just over thirty four percent there is concern around the elections

legitimacy. and whatever i mean we expect of course who kenya afterworld will take up his post as the incumbent president but it does mean doesn't that house of the country around half of the country half of kenyans have either not voted or have voted for ryder adding. well in staying away from the polls we have seen of course there is a significant amount of support for raila odinga in the last election there was an eighty percent turnout we know that election is that it's been allowed but you know of course this is very important to the opposition because they have a significant amount of support for counties at least are still to vote these are essentially strongholds of the opposition that's due to take place on saturday according to the electoral commission but it's not likely that these outstanding

votes would make much of a difference as we know the opposition says we are boycotting the vote we've done so and we intend to maintain that stance going forward all right for me to live in nairobi thank you. let's go to burundi now which has become the first country to withdraw from the international criminal court it takes effect today that friday and that's a year after it notified the united nations of its intention to leave now is the only one of the three african nations who threatened to pull out of the i.c.c. and we'll go live now to the capital. and speak to a correspondent there. why has he decided to leave the i.c.c. . the government and the ruling highly are very proud about the move rather than the

international criminal court the president will be in the countryside in the area few hours from now will be meeting with the porters telling them about the move time that he will the president is willing to work for them the government's main argument is that they feel that the political crisis started back in two hundred fifty and they say that the international community that particular has been siding with an opposition party one official said it's become a case of big and it does not. mean that we can nation even if you don't do this and if we would do this to you the government really part by relieving the support we have of course you can do whatever you want to do but will no longer be part of the organization and that is why they left and i think is because of calls the international criminal court is considering what could be crimes committed in burundi following. his decision to go for

a third term which led to. the currents of violence around the country and leading to many people leaving the country and becoming refugees in neighboring countries. in the case people have returned or started coming back because it is relatively peaceful now we're not seeing the protests we saw three years ago. or the other people had violence that we saw to that extent but what a lot of people are still in refugee camps in neighboring countries they say they are concerned about coming back and kind of the activists and opposition are lost we seem to have lost communications with her own metacity who's in the. awaiting the arrival of president and currencies are. now spain's senate is meeting to decide whether to trigger article one five five now that will suspend

catalonia is political autonomy as well as prime minister mariano rajoy is just arrive you can see the proceedings there live under way now this is all coming a day after the catalonian president refused to hold early elections and in so doing deepened the crisis in his autonomous region car less published a month says he wouldn't hold new elections because the central government has agreed until the central government agreed to certain conditions so that momentous decision currently being discussed as you can see in the upper house of the spanish parliament will our correspondent harder abdulhamid is there in madrid and harder this is crunch time isn't it potentially because if they decide to trigger one five five this controversial article of the spanish constitution known as the nuclear option that's it really for catalonia and it's autonomy.

in a sense yes i mean we're going to hear from prime minister briefly yesterday there was a very long session of the liberations and during that we heard several opinions but basically the most important one was from the vice prime minister and she said. you know she sort of basically said that time has run that. point of view they had made a lot of offerings towards the regional government in catalonia and in return and i'm quoting her is a lot of noise but no action so that gives an indication of where we're heading that said there have been sort of back door negotiations with the regional government in yesterday actually there was an expectation that. it would call for early elections and that it would have stopped the process of triggering article one five five because there is

a belief that you cannot apply that article if every jinn is going through an electoral election season that didn't happen as you said earlier. he didn't get enough and i think now the conversation here in madrid certainly put forward by other parties like the socialist party which is supporting the government and its action is to have a gradual approach to this article one five five and certainly to underline the fact that if indeed at some point the elections are called upon in catalonia then this article would be suspended. what exactly what specifically is the senate likely to decide upon today in the meeting that we're currently looking at life. well everything is possible until the last minute but as we stand now it is supposed to vote to trigger this article. one five

five which is a first in the modern history of this country ever since that constitution was written back in one nine hundred seventy eight it's never happened before so it is really stepping in uncharted territory not only i mean for the government here in madrid for sure now we know that the aim of doing that is basically reinstalling the rule of law in catalonia that means. the government the regional government not the parliament just the regional government there is also an option of taking over the local public media whether it's radio or television that is something for example that the socialist party here doesn't favor. and then certainly sending the security forces from madrid to catalonia time the six month period which is the limit for calling for elections in catalonia but all of this is

what is broadly said at the moment and i think we really will know the fine print and the details of how they will triggered this article once we hear from the prime minister and once the bill is effectively passed all right thank you for that. is there live in madrid for us. still to come here at al-jazeera a u.n. panel blames the syrian government for the chemical attack in which more than eighty people were killed in april. and find out why this vice president of an african country is being tried in paris the corruption allegations will be life. by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera.

europe's getting cold as you wouldn't be surprised to hear really given the time of year it has been quite warm recently but that cloud is definitely coming out of the north a northerly wind is a cold one fronted by that line a cold front to be rain with it as well best eleven in berlin and the cows leap to head zero six hundred thirty next find out in madrid at twenty eight degrees the cold really will concentrate on central and eastern europe that's where it lies during friday the green being rain throughout the outset through austria and towards northern ukraine behind sunny but the temperature is going to be on the way down and overnight just a bit of snow you know it's in the forecast whole thing goes down towards the g. and keeping up part of europe in the low temperatures ten best in vienna only nine in warsaw moscow has been hovering around low single figures for a while even madrid second a bit of a drop with a northerly breeze at twenty four sunny degrees now we've had showers in the eastern part of europe never about a week because we've had this happen before the kodachrome they're there they are

circulating now they are weakening so once the light showers are still possible in eastern libya possibly northern egypt the chances have come down to the low to mid twenty's and the cloud is more light to be in the sky than just clear blue skies which for batters during. the weather sponsored by god time place. and when they're on line we were in hurricane. almost like thirty six hours these are the things that new york a hundred. thank you. live now to madrid in that all important senate debate underway there you see the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy anime. they pretended to not know the law or revoked them. and this has been acknowledged that they laws are ignored and they are not observed.

a new legalities has been approved without the powers to those who are law on the referendum law on decision. constitution the will be valid until the next one is adopted after constituent protests that what we've been told the opposition leaders have been deprived of acting are such that remember what happened in the parliament of catalonia on september sixth and seventh probably that's was the greatest scorn to democracy in spain in the last forty years except for the attempt of a coup in one thousand nine hundred eighty one. in a very few hours two laws were passed the agenda was twice modified to include those bills and there was

a time for amendments and some sort of eight the two laws were passed both against the law and rethought on them was convened and the legal referendum. and to make it worse the bureau of parliament decided to close parliament and to suspend that control session of the government. ladies and gentleman what would you do if this had happened in this chamber or in the congress a spanish congress what would you think if the spanish government or the president of this chamber suspended. question time for the government controlled session for the government without a timeline how can they do that is this really the moccasin

senators in addition to everything in addition to anneal ating the law ignoring the law and inventing a new legalities and in addition to depriving the opposition leaders from exercising their rights under presenting their citizens. the constitutional court has been ignored the constitutional court has suspended and banned both laws and also the decree to hold of referendum and the nation the additional regulations to carry the referendum out in spite of all this nothing mattered there. what prevails is

the will of those that have a majority those that also call for a dialogue in the markets nothing else matters a referendum on the legal referendum was held without any the marker to the democratic or in tea. leaves so there you see mariano rajoy the spanish prime minister expounding on his his view of events in the catalonian province over the last month or so and basically he's seeing it as a matter of legality he's talked about this being the referendum the vote on secession was actually against the constitutional court and he's basically said it's illegal this is an important moment of course the upper house of the spanish parliament debating whether indeed to trigger that all important constitutional provision of one five five we're going to be keeping across is for you here at

al-jazeera throughout the day so stay with us but in the meantime. we will look at australia where a court ruling on jewel citizens citizenship is now thrown the country into somewhat of a political crisis the high court that ruled that five politicians are in eligible to hold office because the constitution prefers it's joe nationals from entering parliament now four senators are affected but the real focus is on the deputy prime minister barnaby joyce he is the only member of the lower house is affected and his expulsion now means the markham turnbull's government has lost its one seat majority now barnaby joyce says he's going to recontest his seat in a byelection that will be held in december but until then the deputy leadership position is open australia will now face weeks of political turmoil if barnaby joyce loses his seat in the opposition labor party is able to win the support of

m.p.'s from smaller part is there could be a change of government without in the action. you know i know no reason to believe all says of any other country those trails born just the justly and you know i grew up with. the nation's defense forces not my reason to labels and people trying to take hits and take the second force but you know we all bought the ticket you know the risks and that's and now i'm going to make sure that i don't crombie i'm going to get back to work where there are some in australia who think that this provision in the constitution which bans jewel citizens from entering parliament is pretty much outdated i mean the constitution is ninety you know one of the prime minister malcolm turnbull says the government will consider whether changes need to be made . we'll closely evaluate the full implications implications of the courts to the high court's decision was essential a n.e.m.p. who'd been born abroad even to australian parents or whose parents had been born

abroad should have done some investigation as to whether they had citizenship of another country and if they didn't then they were ineligible for australia's parliament when they stood and that applies to five of the seven m.p.'s that they were considering crucially they have ruled that bobby joyce australia's deputy prime minister is in eligible to sit in parliament so that has two consequences first it means that australia's government which only had a majority of one in the lower house of representatives no longer has a majority a tall and if barnaby joyce does not win a by election now due in december in his area then the government in australia could fall because of this but second because australia step the prime minister has also been a minister in the government making decisions when he wasn't eligible it throws into question all the decisions that he has been making and that opens up the possibility of lots of legal cases questioning some of australia's government's big

decisions over recent months and years. now a u.n. panel has blamed the syrian government for a lethal chemical attack on a rebel held village in april more than eighty people many of them children were killed in that attack when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the town of homs shaken you remember those stunning pictures that shocked the world almost six hundred other people were injured and you'll recall the two days later president trump decided to order a missile strike on a syrian government base in retaliation now syria has repeatedly denied responsibility for that attack but the u.n. investigation was carried out in collaboration with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and it's the only official mission which investigates chemical weapons in syria so what it says really matters more now from our correspondent mike hanna. 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 sulfur mustard at a village and at least two people were killed in that particular attack now the mandate for jerm 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. that is the u.s. secretary of defense is in south korea he's meeting the country's president as well as defense officials he's toured the demilitarized zone between south and north korea and is in the country to lay the groundwork for the planned visit of president trump which is due in two weeks he says diplomatic efforts in needed to find a peaceful solution to the tensions on the korean peninsula and as the u.s. secretary of state killers in his made clear our goal is not war but rather the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean peninsula well secretary of state rex tillerson has phoned a senior army general in miramar about atrocities against the rangers in iraq kind states speaking to senior general min clung he urged an end to the violence and the

safe return of ranger who fled their homes there are now more than eight hundred thousand ranger in camps in bangladesh after a military crackdown in near mass started in august. now paris cold has handed down a suspended jail term in the corruption trial of equitorial guinea is vice president taylor dorian and gamer or be airing dirty in and game of the and is the son of the long time leader théodore be young and gamer who's been president of this oil rich west african nation for thirty eight years now well the younger of the un is accused of spending more than a thousand times his official annual salary on a six storey mansion in paris there's a fleet of luxury supercars not to mention michael jackson memorabilia the case was started by two anticorruption groups who say families of several african leaders

live in france on the proceeds of corruption let's go live now to david chaytor our correspondent in paris so this is this guy whole case is about france showing that it's not prepared to put up with the leaders of the african culture is living rather nicely on the proceeds of corruption. this case settles a very important precedent it's the new legislation they've brought in called ill gotten gains and that's a very good term now this case involves the son of the leader of equitorial katie and was actually looking at charges before he was vice president made by the president by his father so he doesn't have diplomatic immunity this case and it was examining charges of corruption and bezel meant and money laundering and this is an extraordinary case because they've actually decided the prosecutors in the tribunal

of corrections behind me that he should have a three year prison sentence not suspended a three year prison sentence thirty million euro fine and then also confirm that most of the property that's been seized from him will remain sees it will remain frozen he'll not get it back and that's very important including extraordinary range of luxury cars luxury mansions yachts private jets so this really does show very very clearly that the france and the south of france of the car will no longer be a haven for those who take the money out of their country by illegal means and then spend it here in france and perhaps it's a very good indication to the rest of the countries inside europe that they should have similar legislation to this the ill gotten gains that islay sion so it would be welcomed by most people especially transparency international that brought this case and by the people of their control guinea some seventy five percent of whom

still live below the poverty line while both the president and the vice president live a life of complete luxury and of course tailgating himself has been absent from absent from proceedings. that's right there was no way he was going to attend this proceeding he thought that perhaps this verdict would go against him so it's sent here this case and i think he'll probably try and stay out of the way of any country that might extradite him to france to serve out his three year prison term but it's an indication to many other leaders of states both in africa and elsewhere that they cannot any longer come to france on the proceeds of corrupt money embezzled money or illegal payments and the point about this case is that he was made agricultural minister by his father and it was then that he introduced a tax for timber cutting and it went straight into his private account and that can

no longer happen or if it does happen they can spend that money here in france david chase her live in paris thank you that highlands late king bhumibol. a dollar gedge is now being treated hundreds of thousands of people gathered in bangkok historic quarter to witness the ritual symbolic ceremony led by king bhumibol son the rama x. was the main part of his five day funeral for middle ruled thailand for more than seventy years. you know without these are our top stories spain's senate is meeting to decide whether to trickle article one five five and suspend catalonia is political autonomy this comes a day after the catalonian president refused to hold early elections which deepened

the crisis in the autonomous region. during the has become the first country to withdraw from the international criminal court this comes a year after it notified the un of its intention to leave the i.c.c. says the withdrawal won't affect on going core proceedings concerning burundi kenya's election commission says six and a half million people have voted in the country's presidential election really round the authorities perspiring voting in several counties until saturday after opposition fought with police four people were killed in violence a un panel has now blamed syria's assad government for a lethal chemical attack on a rebel held village in april more than eighty people were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the town of crown chicken the australian high court has disqualified the deputy prime minister and four senators from parliament because

they have joel citizenship barnaby joyce will recontest his seat in a by election but his expulsion means the government's lost its one seat majority in the lower house. you know i know no reason to believe all says many of the country those trails born just they just say. you know i grew up. and the nation's defense force is not reasonable it wasn't even trying to take its entire concert was you know we all bought a ticket we know the risks and. now i'm going to make sure that i don't crombie i'm going to get back to work. because in paris has given a suspended jail term to in the corruption trial of equitorial get is vice president dorian obiang he is the son of the long time leader daughter of a young and gamma he's been president of this oil rich west african nation for thirty eight years the younger of the and his accusers spending more than

a thousand times his official salary on a six story mansion in paris a fleet of luxury cars and michael jackson memorabilia all right you're up to date those are the very latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera the news continues in about thirty minutes or so that's after the stream. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs than. i am and here.