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madrid ways using the nuclear option the prime minister threatens to sign but the language. again on this show without is there are live from doha also coming up. violence and low voter turnout in kenya's rerun presidential election who kenyatta is guaranteed victory the opposition says it's now the resistance movement. randi becomes the first country to leave the international criminal court. the u.n. says nehemiah is allowing it to resume food aid in rakhine state even as ranger continued to flee to bangladesh. now procession passes in catalonia have registered

a motion with the regional parliament which would proclaim independence from spain this. move comes as the senate in madrid debates whether to grant the prime minister special powers to sack the catalan president and his regional government catalonia as president has refused to hold early elections unless the central government agrees to certain conditions speaking in the senate the prime minister always said hey planned elections in catalonia soon but you know most you know if you will that i mean. if the senate approves this the president of the spanish government will dissolve parliament and call elections within six months my aim is to call elections as soon as possible we also ask you to authorize the following decisions to remove from office the president the deputy president and the cabinet members of the catalan government all right let's go live now to barcelona the

catalan capital and speak to andrew simmons our correspondent there so we have an idea then what are the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy wants to do with regard to calming the situation in catalonia what are the catalans doing what is this motion to declare independence and how likely is it to be adopted by the parliament . it's a very big motion it will be historic should it be voted upon and every sign is pointing towards that vote taking place some time on friday it's going to be hours it seems before that takes place but let me just bring you first of all the wording of the resolution this is a translation of it we've seen the document it says to reconstitute the catalan republic as an independent sovereign state with social and democratic rules of

law to initiate the process which is democratic and citizen based there is no reference to elections as such but this will be voted upon and it is a minority government has to be said but with the backing of far left party the c o p it will mean that should it be put to the vote it will pass and we've already heard from other opposition parties now a number of them including the socialists and also the ruling party the p p that they will boycott this vote sure it's taking place there's only one party the yes we can alliance which will vote and that party is split so no one knows the numbers but that's really irrelevant it would pass in terms of what the atmosphere is like well there are very large crowds building now there's layers of security around this parliament and so far all of the demonstrations are peaceful and they're in

support of a declaration of secession from this parliament building now nothing sure in this crisis who knows what could happen there have been suggestions from some parliamentarians on thursday night that it wasn't too late to avoid article one five five from rolling out. if there was an agreement in parliament to actually have elections and there will be one motion tabled by the socialists suggesting that those elections should take place to basically cool things off and perhaps come to a deal with madrid but with annoy the numbers work in this parliament that just isn't possible not seen just to be clear then give the whole issue of catalonia possibly holding snap elections is a ruse really it's a risk that would stave off the madrid triggering article one five five because they're not allowed to if there is an election in process in catalonia region is

that what the whole issue is about calling elections are not. what will the elections it is slightly confusing but the election issue is something that would have been part of the article one five five rollout it is part of the article one five five rollout elections within six months that's what the government wants that's what the senate will agree to today friday that is a certainty so what was happening you used the word ruse well possibly a ruse what was happening is that the colors pushed more was going to be announced elections that's what people are suggesting that could have happened but he says he couldn't go down that route because he couldn't get agreements concessions from the met richard government to actually go for the option to avoid article one five five from being triggered he said that categorically he did everything he could now some

are questioning that because he was on the colossal pressure from his partnership party in coalition which is the the e r c and they were saying categorically that they considered this completely non-negotiable the had to be a declaration of secession all right. now andrew thank you very much andrew symonds there in barcelona let's go live to madrid now to the spanish capital. for us and harder senate meeting now seems to have wrapped up at least for now how did it end where did it take us forward in this in this whole debate now december third. you what's happening now is the prime minister of oil left the chamber but the members of the senate are still there the baiting and well actually

probably a significant development over the last hour or so is that the party that was proposing an amendment article one five five in case the government had called for elections it was putting that forward as maybe a way for both the government here in madrid and the government to get out of this . article one five five well it seems that it has now backtracked on the saying that the deal was there was no other option but really to implement this article one five five in full it has to be said that the socialist party has been calling for a gradual implementation of this article once it's triggered now it could be a reaction really vote events unfolding in barcelona and whether this declaration of independence it will happen or not but certainly if you listen to the debate yesterday compared to the one that's ongoing now. hardening of positions here in

madrid so is it safe for us then to assume a halt or the by the end of today. five five will have been approved by the spanish parliament. as of now all indications really seem to yes confirm that we haven't heard anything else. that would go against that but as andrew said this crisis is really a some sort of a rollercoaster and anything can happen until the last minute i mean. saying that he did not get guarantees from madrid madrid is on the other hand saying well we invited him both on thursday and on friday to come here to the senate and spell out his position clearly he did not want to do that so you do have this blame game going on and i think at this stage even the government here in madrid is cornered it has to go ahead with this article one five five because it's not only about

catalonia here is about really the repercussions of always going in catalonia on the rest of spain and the government says all this process has been. so giving it having a softer approach on that could trigger other. separatist movements here in spain and is also a concern at the european level certainly catalonia is being watched very close to from many other countries many other separatist movements in europe so there is pressure on prime minister hall to stick to the constitution as much as possible all right for now. reporting live from madrid so as you can see we've got this covered will keep you right up to date with this ongoing story with regard to how spain this spanish central government is going to react to the ongoing crisis in the catalonia region so stay with us here at al-jazeera for that

let's turn our attention now to kenya because a low voter turnout in the rerun presidential election has further divided the country will move aging is expected on saturday it's a virtual given that the income. i'm burnt president to who kenyatta will remain in power the opposition leader raila odinga not only boycotted the election but said his party will now be the voice of the resistance at least four people have been shot dead after violence broke out between his supporters and the police for kenya's election commission says more than one in ten polling stations failed to open because of what it called security challenges more than six and a half million kenyans cast their ballots on thursday that's under thirty five percent of all registered voters and compare that with turnout in the august election that was around eighty percent or nearly fifteen million voters while.

nearly thirty six thousand polling stations actually opened more than five thousand polling stations did not a voting has had to be postponed in four separate counties in the western part of the country the elections there will be held on saturday in houma bay kisumu me gori and cia are for me to miller has the latest now from the capital nairobi. well hearing what kenyans have said up to this point there certainly is concern around to what this election and the thirty five percent turnout might represent your which we're a sickly looking at two camps those that voted for president uhuru kenyatta and those who stayed away from the polls opposition supporters who heeded the score by the opposition leader raila odinga to boycott the election really very much the focus will be going forward will be on the elections that are outstanding in some of those place also other areas where they weren't able to open polling stations

due to a number of reasons not just the protests or the clashes that we saw between protesters and police at various points in the country especially in the western part of kenya speaking to kenyans in recent weeks many of them want to move forward there they're tired of being in this eternal election cycle and they wanted to come to an end now looking at this process been extended because of outstanding polling stations there certainly of restraint and that will add to the sort of polarized country that we're seeing when we look at people supporting the opposition and the incumbent president raila odinga a south african court has sentenced to white men to long jail terms for kidnap and assault after they forced a black man into a coffin and threaten to set him on fire villa moose tyson and fear jackson have been sentenced to eleven and fourteen years in jail respectively the case calls outrage in the country and an outpouring of support for the victim lot sure after

mobile phone footage of the incident went viral. now the un says miramar has agreed to allow it to resume food aid to the northern rock island state in a suspended for two months after a military crackdown began in august more than six hundred thousand will slim brain injured have now been forced to flee to neighboring bangladesh during this period meanwhile secretary of state rex tillerson has made a phone call to mia myles top general in which he expressed his concern over the reported atrocities committed against the ranger personally has more now from young gone. the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson in his telephone conversation with me on my military chief men on playing also touched on other issues in northern were kind state he talked about the distribution of aid which has been affected not only because of the ongoing violence but because of the hostility displayed by local

rakhine population towards aid workers he also urged to myanmar authorities to grant unrestricted access to journalists to the area to report on what's going on there and the media the u.s. state department is said to be considering formally declaring what's happening to what steve will hinder in the kind state as ethnic cleansing the u.s. and the u.k. have already suspended defense cooperation with myanmar because of the ongoing violence now the telephone conversation between tellus and men on playing comes just hurts the u.n. human rights and boy to myanmar young he leaves spoke to the un general assembly in new york and said it was time for the u.n. security council to issue a strongly worded resolution because what was happening the violence happening in rakhine state could fuel extremism and create a bigger problem for the region now the myanmar government has denied the allegations leveled against it and says the crisis is being distorted by

a campaign of mis information the government spokesman told our jazeera on friday that there is no such thing as ethnic cleansing taking place in myanmar but written your refugees continue to stream into bangladesh or bringing with them consistent accounts of persecution and abuse. still to come here. i'm going to make sure that i don't be able to get back to work. an australian code disqualifies a deputy prime minister ship laws so the government loses its one majority. exhibit. of what was a major symbol of hong kong's rise to an international financial hub.

hello significant rise getting ever closer to japan but in the last twelve eighteen hours or so it's just been a bit of cloud running through the sea of japan and telling all through south koreans nothing much of that but there is this is a coming out from for the south so well you go to sunny forecast for the korean peninsula a good part of northeastern china that's right saturday. increasingly less so south of tokyo rain start to fall and it will be persistent i think quite heavy osaka be a good deal of focus for it if you like about some of that to sunday is going up through tokyo as well this is all because of a tropical cyclone not quite a tar food but certainly pumping lots of moisture once again for us recently flooded areas now given that's happening we're also increasing the amount of class potential in the east coast of china from shanghai down to hong kong it looks cloudy and so bright and probably humid temps is having very very much for the rest of this central southern china beautiful really northeast monsoon terje cold at

night fine by day the sun is out and that's true always it's a good part of southeast asia when i was up to about thirty degrees in apartment a cloud in the sky we're talking now about dry days and dry weeks and dry months. yeah. you want to do good. but how would. you try to get them like. jump on the truck. with. this stuff just sirrah.

you with al-jazeera these are our top stories procession passes in catalonia have registered a motion with the parliament to proclaim independence from spain the move comes as the senate in madrid debates whether to grant prime minister mariano rajoy the special powers he needs to sack the castle and president and his regional government. the u.n. says mia mas agreed to allow it to resume food aid to the northern rock island state it had been suspended for two months after a military crackdown began more than six hundred thousand. have been forced to flee to neighboring bangladesh during this period. kenya's election commission says six

and a half million people voted in thursday's presidential election rerun that only a third of all registered voters the authorities had to postpone voting in four counties until saturday because opposition supporters fort with police. has become the first country to withdraw from the international criminal court it takes effect today that's friday a year after it notified the united nations of its intention to leave and it follows accusations that the court focuses only on africa the i.c.c. says the withdrawal though doesn't affect ongoing court proceedings. fareham a tosser has the latest from burundi the bahraini government and the ruling heikki are very proud about the rule rather they live the international criminal court the president will be in the countryside in the area few hours from now will be meeting to supporters telling them about the move

a time that he will the president is willing to work for them the government main argument is that they feel that the political crisis started back in two hundred fifty and they say that the international community the core to particular has been siding with activists and opposition party one official it's become a case of big. community. that we can nation even if you don't do it we would do this to you the government really partner by relieving us what we have of course and that you can do whatever you want to be part of the organization and that is why the island. a u.n. panel has blamed syria's assad government for a lethal chemical attack on a rebel held village in april more than eighty people including tens of children were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the town of khan she could almost six hundred others were injured two days after the attack president ordered a missile strike on

a syrian government air base the syrian government has repeatedly denied any responsibility for the attack the government russia criticizes the u.n. report saying it contains many inconsistences and unverified evidence mike hanna has more now from the u.n. . 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 omaha 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 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. well the u.n. human rights chief is demanding that food or medicine be allowed to reach parts of the syrian capital to alleviate the threat of famine there a tightening siege on the eastern suburbs of damascus has left many children severely malnourished zaid rubbed hussein has called the situation an outrage and a humanitarian emergency has been under siege by government forces since twenty

thirteen with three hundred fifty thousand people trapped in the area egypt's eight media says twelve fighters have been killed in the country's western desert the interior ministry says the incident took place one hundred seventy five kilometers southwest of the capital cairo it happened near an area where several policeman look killed last week. australia's prime minister has been forced to delay a trip to israel as he deals with a constitutional crisis that has cost his government its slim parliamentary majority the deputy prime minister barnaby joyce is one of five people the high court expelled on friday because they were in breach of the laws which prevent joel citizens from entering call in and under thomas reports. barnaby joyce like to crack a cattle within parliament to burnish his old image but on friday australia's high court decided when he was elected he wasn't australian enough to be an m.p.

let alone australia's deputy prime minister joyce's father was born in new zealand and though he says he didn't know it joyce was entitle to new zealand citizenship to know no reason to believe it was assisting in any other country those trails born just they're just there and you know i grew up over there and i served in the nation's defense forces not reasonably well thinking but it's rather a straight is constitution says no one it's hard to the rights of a citizen of a foreign power can stand for parliament on friday the high court decided ignorance of jewel citizenship was no excuse five m.p.'s have been thrown out of parliament in all but most a senate says will be replaced by others from their party's barnaby joyce his case was different he was an m.p. in the house of representatives where the government of prime minister malcolm turnbull had until friday a majority of just one without joyce the government is at risk the decision of the

court today is clearly not the outcome we were hoping for but the business of government goes on it can for now. time with its most famous for its annual country music festival but under some of the second will be a byelection here in which joyce is now we're announcing his news even citizenship will try. to win back his old seat but even if he does there are other problems if joyce wasn't properly elected as an m.p. he wasn't properly a minister only the decisions he made as one could now be challenged in court when it came to the point where he realised that he might not be a minister when it was referred to the high court when there was sufficient doubt about it it might well be that those decisions are vulnerable the has already been a more immediate consequence australia's prime minister was supposed to be travelling to israel on saturday leaving barnaby joyce in charge here at home

malcolm turnbull has now delayed that trip indefinitely under thomas al-jazeera. the trading floor of the hong kong stock exchange is closing its doors at the end of the month giving way to online transactions the venue which will soon become a museum symbolizes the city's growth into an international financial hub in the one nine hundred ninety s. . with a bang and much enthusiasm goal rise of china base logistics company debuts in hong kong stock market initial public offerings from chinese firms are becoming more frequent with more than a thousand companies from across the border trading their shares on the hang seng index you have only with hong kong within greater china this large equity market place that basically is accessible as long as you are qualified company so without government interference you can easily come here with the size of china's economy

that just pushes more of these quality companies to the listing opportunity here chinese entities account for about half the number of companies on the hong kong exchange compared with five percent in one thousand nine hundred seven and the territory transition from a british colony to a special administrative region of china hong kong has always been a financial hub but over the past two decades the nature of the city's markets have changed drastically along with china's economy chinese companies and investors looking for international exposure are now a huge part of the financial system but there is a nother big change y.p. taking place in the city's stock markets. the news that hong kong stock exchange is shutting down its trading floor by the end of the month has caught many by surprise despite the fact that it's used by only a few brokers now online technology and trading by computer have made this place redundant before you. get to so many friends and so made a connection news. reader is changed by. the exchange has shrunk

over the years but has always remained an important symbol. in the early ninety's a popular t. . series captured the excitement on the exchange floor and the lives of traders in the red vests you think your cool when i was proud. and a very sad i don't doubt this article and other places like this in another era although there are those who are less sentimental i will take a close because after they did not working in there anymore because everyone knew if the internet it's the end of an era for your kind who has spent thirty years here with icon hong kong the wonder of well financial center is unbelievable we see how computer financial center treating home from next month the trading floor becomes a part of a museum dedicated to the stock market making it yet another piece of hong kong's unique identity relegated to history t.v.

gopalan hong kong. traverses take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera procession passes in catalonia have registered a mission with the regional parliament which would proclaim independence from spain the move comes as the senate in madrid debates whether to grant prime minister mari mariano rajoy the special powers he needs to sack the president and his regional government after nine years president refused to hold early elections unless a central government agreed to certain conditions speaking in the senate in madrid prime minister said he planned elections for catalonia soon. but you know most you know if you look at it i mean. if the senate approves this the president of the spanish government will dissolve parliament and call elections within six months my aim is to call elections as soon as possible we also ask you to authorize

the following decisions to remove from office the president the deputy president and the cabinet members of the catalan government the un says me and mom has agreed to allow it to resume food aid to the northern rock state aid was suspended for two months following a military crackdown more than six hundred thousand muslim have been forced to flee to neighboring bangladesh during that period kenya's election commission says six and a half million people voted in thursday's presidential election rerun that's only a third of all registered voters in the authorities press prone voting in four counties until saturday because opposition supporters fighting with police. burundi has become the first country to withdraw from the international criminal court it takes effect from today friday a year after it notified the united nations of its intention to leave and it

follows accusations that the court focuses too much on africa the i.c.c. says the withdrawal will not affect on going court proceedings a court in south africa has sentenced to white men to long jail terms for kidnapping and assault after they force a black man into a coffin and threaten to set him on fire both men were sentenced to eleven and fourteen years in jail right up to date inside story is next. a young prince in a hurry the hamad bin song has a vision for saudi arabia's future he talks about radical change and returning his countries to quote moderate islam but what exactly does he mean and can it be

achieved.