heading towards new zealand i think some pos will see some dry and bright weather having said that south thought and certainly as we go through saturday what's the weather just pushing across the north island forward. so not too bad him a while things will take a turn for the west over japan over the next few days as that tropical storm makes its way in from the south.

this is al-jazeera. this is the news hour live from london coming up catalonia celebrate the declaration of independence the spanish prime minister. resolving of parliament and calling us not election. we are not suspending we are returning. to that region. and his rerun presidential election is mobbed by more violence voting in four opposition strongholds is postponed i could oregon his vice president receives a suspended jail term for embezzling money to fund his playboy lifestyle. sports news as catalonia verts to declare independence but where will that leave power house f.c.

barcelona and more coming up later in the program. in madrid. president on dismissed it's paul and i was off to the region declared its independence facing his country's greatest political crisis since the return of democracy four decades ago the prime minister mariano rajoy said spain was living. a snap election and catalonia on december the twenty first. mr premier of. the first measures that have been tasked are the following to depose the president of the catalan government the position of the deputy president and all other members of the council on government we will also abolish the delegation abroad known as the embassies except in brussels and the secretary general of the catalan police will also be suspended thousands of people have been rallying. to show their

support for independence and waving sampras's flags shouting liberty in the catalan language and singing traditional catalan song. citizens of catalonia in the coming hours we will have to maintain our country's poles a most of all to maintain the public spirit and our dignity as we have always done with no doubt it will continue to be that way. and has the latest. same. thing on the. entrance wound which is in front. of the speed of sound that's to my. mind now. the president will be defiant and try to keep his place possibly he could be

arrested but carla speech tomorrow is not reacting he hasn't reacted any way to the statement from the rough voice saying he's sacked and saying that the parliament is dissolved and basically saying that madrid is in control now the people want to know about that in fact they probably didn't even hear about it some of them but that getting on with the policy however there was a serious undertone to all of this there are millions of people who don't agree with what happened who don't agree with the folks in parliament even though it's being described as democratic by the president's and also his ministers. the mole they're all warnings now from many people who are in business wolf or in other areas of home i was concerned about whether or no this government if it was able to count them like event or whether or not the economy could already. in this

region. they spanish government. to impose direct trail on the constitution came into force. madrid. measures that will be taking and among them the sacking. of government and the chief of police now the question is will they follow the instructions coming from madrid after all just a few hours earlier the regional government declared independence just turn around and say well we do not. anymore so we have we don't have to listen to what madrid is to do now to. the wider spanish people he was trying to reassure them that everything that will happen in the in the future will happen peacefully he said that the government has

a mechanism to what he called. to do. that this has nothing to do and is. an attack against the autonomous region. but he said that simply the government could not accept that this whole process from the beginning to the end. is. independent. but it's also a historical day here in madrid in the sense that article one five five has never been triggered before ever since it was written back in one nine hundred seventy eight the government is going in every tree there is no precedent to base themselves on and actually prime minister said that this was actually a very sad day. well i'm joined now by ramon pacheco pada a senior lecturer in stylish politics at kings college here in london thanks very

much for coming in to al-jazeera and we heard from the prime minister in madrid seeming to take back power almost stunned and seeming also to be giving this by saying there will be elections when you can make a decision yourselves did complex do you think you could actually end up backfiring i think it is going to come there more than half of qatar non-school a month independence actually so they know the elections are coming up and i think for the rest of his finest people they want to see these measures being taken because they think that it is or has gone far too long and it should be solved in some way and i think this is the best way we half another mockers here which is actually having elections of course we're still waiting to hear what the cattle leader who's now being removed effectively by machard is going to say he's going to do he must have a plan he must have known this was coming yes he knew it was coming pretty sure he's going to react this decision he will say i'm a still the leader of the regional government in catalonia and then he might be

arrested we are all along he thought this could be the case and i don't think he's afraid of the spin what happened so ultimately if he was arrested would almost galvanize the country alone ians because even if they don't want independence all they really going to want to see the man who was president put the handcuffs and led away well i mean two thirds of got their hands in different polls have said that they're opposed to our unilateral declaration of independence now two thirds of catamounts here opposed to the triggering of article one five five so you see how most cardinals actually don't want any of these two extremes so i don't think that many cutdowns are going to think differently because of the arrest because they were opposed to what has happened tonight but also i think that if elections don't take place within different summer i think they will but if they don't take place then the situation could escalate further but you say that but i remember when the. ballot was held they were very angry whichever way they were going to vote that they were going to be prevented from voting of course it was dreadful

seems brutality at the time and surely that they will be thinking we don't want it to be imposed on us what happens next and that is what's happening with midget well i think some cardinals will think this is really important as i said very clear and probably they're the ones celebrating in the street it's also true that in the referendum that we're half on the first of october around sixty percent of qatar's in actually turn up on what we see in the process this is the sixty percent of people who don't want independence so i think that the british actually want to continue and i don't think the sixty percent of people are really going to change their minds because they were really opposed to what happened tonight and actually they feel that they have been silenced for a long period of time because they don't support independence so she dishes had to it more complicated than we can see from us of course the police chief has been suspended we saw that some of the fire men were going in and protecting the ballot was during the vote what happens if that does sort of take to the streets some element of violence will it be the national police that go in could make things

quite tricky well the national police already in a battle on in the rest of the of the region what we see there is that in the tunnel most police and they're going to police there's also the beheading and there are many kind of police people out over the past few weeks have been saying we have been signing to our leaders here we don't support these move towards an illegal the chlorination which is what has happened today so i think we feen and they cut and. police forces fire people we see these the byplay now and i think there are people who actually support their return to the constitution and the elections that are taking place in a couple of months very good to get your thoughts from pacheco thanks for coming in to told us still to come on the al-jazeera news hour. i'm going to make sure that. i'm going to get back to work and disqualifies the. government. israeli settlers are accused of violence by palestinians in the

west bank. region. takes no action against israeli football club's west bank settlements. in the house. officials have called off positions strongholds flares over thursday's presidential at least six people have been killed and witnesses say armed gangs are roaming the streets kenya's election commission has appealed for calm while the results still being verified turnout has been low around six million kenyans cast their ballots around thirty four point five percent all for just a vote by contrast in the august election was eighty percent on every fifteen

million voters and his election commission said more than one in ten polling stations failed to open due to what it described security challenges mohamed atta reports from nairobi. kenya's second presidential elections and three months what designed to bring along political season two on. there now doubts they may provide any closure after all what we witnessed was a very low voter turnout into our climate of fear and intimidation and in that political environment is difficult for an election to be considered credible with nearly all followers of opposition leader raila odinga heeding his call for a boycott. victory is not in question but some already question whether the low tunneled will give president kenyatta a reasonable monday took a major defeat. to the total voter turnout is a little over thirty percent kenyatta may have won there is no way he can be the

leader of a few and form a government for old people voting on thursday was mobbed by skirmishes between police and stone throwing opposition supporters police used tear gas and fired live ammunition and blanks into the air to disperse them but the protest this big grouping quickly how about the situation was calm elsewhere for voting in kimbo outside nairobi and other strongholds of president kenyatta. the election comes after weeks of political twists and tongues in the central business district of ny rule b. this through almost empty the kenyan economy slowed sharply they see as businesses have held back on investments until after the elections many kenyans say they want this crisis. some even say the continued uncertainty is threatening their livelihoods down when is the does the we've been stuck at home since wednesday the children want to they want to eight and who else will provide for them yes we want

a president if you wins if he is sworn in and it's fine as long as we can continue to work and our children kind of food and an education. of election numerous cold bottles resulting in a controversial run which many stayed away from thought is the story of this presidential race there is hope it will have a happy ending but the confidence is high mohammed all just it will be can a wrong day has become the first country to withdraw from the international criminal court it comes a year off to burundi notify the united nations secretary general of its intention to leave the court the prosecutor is the world's worst atrocities. this report from the get taken. human rights groups a president couldn't see this government is trying to avoid prosecution and protect individuals accused of human rights violations in august a un commission of inquiry report said crimes against humanity including killings in situ of violence are still happening in the government says the allegations are

false and that the international criminal court it's liberty targeting africans for prosecution in near this while there are some people think that if they come to others on the edges elizabeth out. i.c.c. as a tool to the military commissions as they think it then we are. unfortunately for them we want to work we are very strong we have several missions. brindley has experienced political violence since april twenty fifth dean when president announced plans to run for office for their time after a crackdown by security opposition protests at night he disappeared some people who were in the have come back they say they want to start over but the united nations says there are still four hundred thousand people living as refugees in countries such as rwanda and uganda opposition leaders accuse the government of brindisi of crimes against humanity including execution and torture when you see some vehicles

circulating rebelde number plates and you hear that some people are kidnapped we've people on board such kind of cars and some other times it is done in a day broad daylight and the government cannot explain. the european union has renewed sanctions of some top government officials in the police and intelligence for another year but it is still finding humanitarian projects such as school feeding schemes the international court is boring these withdrawal will not affect its investigation. according to. the withdrawal. the jurisdiction of. tribes that they have committed prior to the date where with that order. and you note that there is a nation. case that has been ongoing since.

and i see prosecutor will announce the results of this premier league so you should bring these justice minister and his leaving the i.c.c. is an achievement other african countries are tried to leave in the past but it is the only one so far to follow through on the threat how tight al-jazeera but indeed the son of equitorial guinea is president has been found guilty of embezzling money to buy property and luxury cars to adore and obiang who is also the country's second vice president was found guilty in absentia by a french court david chaytor has more from paris. the vice president of equitorial guinea embezzled more than one hundred seventy five million dollars from his country's public funds to finance his playboy lifestyle in france the verdict on don't usually introduced legislation to deal with so-called ill gotten gains was hailed by his opponents and described by prosecuting lawyers as an historic decision then is an unprecedented and global message to court is sending to

kleptocrats it is de beginning of the end for this rule of impunity and immunity is kleptocrats imagine it was a turnoff and universal unity or bangs father has been president of equitorial guinea for nearly four decades a country made rich by its oil reserves but when nearly two thirds of the population live in squalor and poverty his sons multi-million dollar mansion in an exclusive suburb of paris has now being confiscated as well as many of the luxuries artworks and antiques inside the former butler of the vice president alleges that live behind his mansion walls with one full of whores alcohol and cocaine those days are definitely now over but at the paris courthouse a reminder of what life can be like for opponents who challenge the family's grip on their country or to live meanies through our stacia may the minister or the

minister himself was giving orders saying do it is do that it happened at the ministry building in equatorial guinea to me is a touch of me that means did or didn't endear the activists who launched the campaign want to return the embezzling money back to the people it was stolen from but no mechanism is yet in place to do that investigations have also been launched against the presence of good one and the republic of congo but it could be months before they reach the court david chaytor al-jazeera paris. iraqi prime minister. day has ordered a twenty four hour suspension to military operations against kurdish forces in northern iraq he says it's to allow for the deployment of iraqi troops at the border crossings with the kurdish region seventy deca sent this update from a bill to these twenty four hours are for a joint committee with both iraqis and the kurds to figure out the details of areas

of redeployment in the words of the iraqi prime minister to save iraqi lives because we have seen violent mature confrontations at some of these flashpoints now the intention here is for the iraqi federal forces to take back all of the disputed territories and also significantly to take control of the border crossings that the k r g still holds with syria out with turkey and with iran they've been holding those borders since two thousand and three so since this is certainly a huge reversal of fortune for the kurds i don't think anyone would have predicted that these were the consequences of that controversial referendum australia's government has lost its pollen mention majority after a call to expel the deputy prime minister from the lower house on the rejoices one of five people who were made to leave jobs because they were in breach of jewel citizenship laws under thomas. barnaby joyce liked 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 us is there any other country but israel was born just there just there and you know i grew up over there and i served in nation's defense was this not no reason to label thing but as a straight is constitution says no when 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 joule citizenship was no excuse five m.p.'s have been thrown out of parliament in all but most a senate says it 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. tamworth is most famous for its annual country music festival but understand the second will be a by election here in which joyce is now renounced 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 either 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 doubt about it it might well. a that those decisions are vulnerable that's 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 been laid back indefinitely andrew thomas al jazeera. for more on this i'm joined by john was sent from washington a senior fellow at the international a fast think tank the atlanta council thanks very much for joining us. i suppose people watching from outside must be thinking why is this caught everybody unaware as why so many now imagining. well it's a very good question and one i can can easily answer i mean. it is a proud country of immigrants and it is not uncommon for people to have citizenship and while the constitution article is pretty clear about the eligibility of people to be members of the center of the house. and having to be a single citizen it's something that's changed a lot of the time people may not be that familiar with the constitution it doesn't have the same profile in australia as it does in the us and other places are people

and as familiar with the details. there is individual circumstances well new zealand citizens automatically become citizens of new zealand if their parents whereas other countries you obviously have to go through a formal process to find a little surprising that some people weren't aware of that and their citizenship status but i guess there are some situations where people just wouldn't be aware do you guess the son the step forward gave the population feels that well this should change because as you say there are so many people house jewishness in shipping box there might even be many more still to emerge that maybe have bush's decision shipped as well as all straight. well absolutely and i think it's probably unlikely now after the scrutiny that's happened over the last couple of months that there's any sitting representatives that are still joe citizen on aware of it but it raises the question for six in the current government and crop of politicians you wonder how many formally have been citizens and been able and the public hasn't been aware

maybe they haven't been aware and therefore positions illegally so i i think it raises some big questions there's a very big question of the heart of australia status why is it that elected politicians can't be joe citizen and yet we still have the queen of england as the head of state there are a lot of republicans republicans out there who are raising this is something of a hypocrisy. but i think it's a law that made sense of the time under the circumstances and context in which the constitution was written i think as a society change involves in my view something needs to be reviewed and indeed the promise i'll come temple has lost is one see. if the deputy prime minister to be joyce kong regain his seat and that by election what happens then to the policy. well i think that there's a couple of aspects to this one is that the last several governments in going back to the last labor government as well as the most recent liberal governments have

had very thin majorities for a number of years and. had somewhat unstable ruling parties just as is the case in britain at the moment so this is not a once off thing it's not something that's changing the dynamics has been a razor thin margin for error in the last couple of years generally i think it's unlikely that the particular seat that bond to be represents will fall the other direction to the other party you know he comes from the country national party which is a very right wing it's very conservative it represents the country communities and they traditionally along with it so that is unlikely that the state will flip but if it does then that could cause some real issues many thanks feel phillis on this just staff speaking to us from the think tank the atlantic council.

presidential. records. however got some rather cold air plunging down across central europe over the next couple of days you can see how the clouds are already making its way from north to south long a lot of cloud here just tucked in behind this cold front and you can see how they are lined up from the north and that's why we're going to see that cold air starting to push its way and still there is high pressure for the west to things a little more settled cross the british isles over the next dial to where those cold winds they do come down into central parts of vienna warsaw struggling to get

up to around about double figures over the next couple of days may wobble got a fair amount of cloud of the rain that will sink its way further south with. come back in across western parts but with that cold mobley past it really will feel quite shitty even though we're getting up to around fifteen celsius in london and paris a real nip in the air here for the south where we got to fight in trying weather across northern parts of africa twenty five celsius the forward that we're into the low twenty's to across northern parts of libya perhaps a little more cloud to sliding in here as we go on through sunday but i do suspect it will be a fair weather variety and dry the wet weather well that's for the south anywhere from the ethiopian hard as through the horn of africa i don't look across to the gulf of guinea. on counting the cost to italy's wealthy northern region say see the moral ptolemy

of who are the forces reshaping european politics how might china's new leadership lineup affect the economy plus why trade is the hong kong stock exchange is saying bye bye to the back country the cost of this time on now just. with bureaus spanning six continents across the two. al-jazeera has correspondents live in green the stories they tell. us about it. would you say europe food in world news it was an audacious bid to capture a city in the southern philippines and turn it into a province of eisel. with rai left a smoky room is asia the new battlefront one or nice to meet us to gets at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back our mind of the top stories today on al-jazeera as polish prime minister has announced he's dissolving the catalan palm and and calling regional elections after it declared independence from the rest of the country thousands of people are rallying in barcelona to show their support for independence i've been waving separatist flags on singing traditional council on songs kenyan officials have called off voting in four opposition strongholds as violence flares over thursday's presidential rerun at least six people have been killed. two white south african men have been sentenced to a total of twenty five years in prison after they were found guilty of trying to force a black man and two

a coughing and threatening to burn him alive natasha going on. there were tears on both sides of the courtroom in the so-called coffin case it was a case that laid bare the ongoing racial divide in post apartheid south africa on friday a judge sentenced tayo jackson to fourteen years and villa. to eleven years in prison the most appalling and. was to leave. again. video shot by the men on a mobile phone led to nationwide condemnation and eventually their arrests victor millo she was says he was taking a short cut on the men's farm when they kidnapped him drove him to another location forced him into a coffin and threaten to kill him in their defense the farmer say was trespassing they caught him stealing copper cables and said he threatened to kill

their families and burn their crops but the judge pointed out this was not the first time the men had force someone into a coffin and their behavior had quote fueled racial tensions analysts say this case spotlights the haves and the have nots in south africa which is largely split along racial lines heaven to come to terms with exactly who we are as a country with a country that is. on sexism. in sentencing the two men the judge said they showed no remorse their prison sentences should send a message to others that this kind of behavior will be punished and punished severely. deserve. cattles emea says he is worried about chaos in the middle east if the gulf crisis continues to escalate speaking to the us television program sixty minutes shake to member in folly said the us

president told him washington could not let the crisis continue saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and behind cut ties with cattle in june and then post alone see and. i'm fearful that if anything happens any military act happens this region will be in chaos i met with the president when i was in new york few weeks ago for the united nations the united nation and the president showed that he is committed to find an end to this crisis yes it is true here he suggested that we come and i told him straight away mr president we are very ready i've been asking for dialogue from day one and what did the other countries say it was supposed to be very soon this meeting but i don't have any response. the u.s. government released on thursday more than two thousand eight hundred documents relating to the nine hundred sixty three assassination of president john f. kennedy that shed more light on the events around kennedy's death which have been

shrouded in conspiracy theories here's what we know so far kennedy's assassin lee harvey oswald spoke with the k.g.b. sabotage on the soft and nation officer of the russian embassy in mexico city two months before kennedy was shot two days after the president's death oswald was shot dead whilst in place custody but could this death have been prevented the documents reveal that the f.b.i. had warned the dallas police of a death threat against oswald another memo tells how a british regional newspaper received an anonymous phone call about some big news in the u.s. hours before kennedy's assassination according to the documents the soviet union suspected that lyndon johnson the vice president was behind kennedy's killing fear that it will be blamed and attacked in retaliation hijo castro has more. there is. a u.s. president gunned down on a dallas street

a day in one nine hundred sixty three ever remembered here and around the world i am i am and i am the killing of john f. kennedy was investigated by law enforcement and congress there unanimous conclusion a civilian sniper we harvey oswald had acted alone to sassa made the president but also will never provided the reason why just days after his arrest he was killed on live television shot by an enraged businessman named jack ruby who joined the throng of reporters to see oswald escorted through the dallas police department thinks it's the room the way that the police in the. middle of. and old. walden. groovy deal harder sign that there's a lot of things that we need to know researchers hope more answers can be found in

the twenty eight hundred j.f.k. files released by the national archives they're among the last classified records of the investigation hidden from the public for fifty four years and now compelled by law to be released what secrets do they contain nothing that would change the outcome of the investigation but some pages stand out a report about jack ruby's possible ties to the mafia and interview with a cuban embassy worker about oswald's request for a visa and various records of the kennedy administration's covert efforts to overthrow the cuban government it just shows a good. eye opener powers are capable of and that scares me a little bit and then either way i'd just like to know what happened the files are a treasure trove for the mini j.f.k. enthusiasms who still visit the site of his assassination and they may have more to look forward to some three hundred records remain hidden due to national security

concerns but us president donald trump has given intelligence agencies six months to justify their secrecy or release them hi joe castro al-jazeera dallas and his is a presidential race a specialist of the university of virginia and joins us now from washington d.c. thanks very much for coming on al jazeera j.f.k.'s death has always been shrouded in conspiracy theories does this release of these documents put any of that to rest did you sort of see any of them and think about raises eyebrows. i'm sorry to say siri that i don't think anything is ever going to put the conspiracy theories about j.f.k.'s assassination to rest because i think those conspiracy theories are not really so much fueled by evidence by fantasy. a lot of documents came out yesterday they provide a lot of interesting details about lee harvey oswald and about the u.s. government's response to the assassination but they don't prove that anyone other

than oswald was responsible for kennedy's murder was anything in the documents something that really surprised you or did you kind of where law is what was done to calm i'm always surprised many of the documents weren't really. the documents always contain interesting nuggets of information and i thought it was very intriguing that at the same time that the us government was concerned that kennedy's assassination might be part of a communist plot the russian government and their premier nikita khrushchev was concerned that j.f.k. had been assassinated as part of an american right wing plot. but i would actually were interested in the documents that were withheld we've learned from these document releases more about what i call real government conspiracies covert

operations undertaken during the kennedy administration such as the cia's attempts to get the mafia to assassinate fidel castro of cuba those attempts were of course unsuccessful. there was a report that was supposed to be released about the us government's involvement in the overthrow of the president of south vietnam. most people don't remember that john f. kennedy was actually the second president who was assassinated in november of one thousand nine hundred sixty three d.m. was the first and that really was the result of an international conspiracy that involved elements of our own government that's not a theory that's verified by documents declassified by the government long ago so i'm really much more looking forward to the documents that are yet to come because i think they can tell us more about genuine government conspiracies in the one nine hundred sixty s. of course we all find these nuggets of information as you describe them fascinating

to me but how interested do you think the likes of the russian and another in intelligence agencies around the world will find poring over some of america's secrets that have just been exposed. well i don't think that they can learn very much other. historical information. the methods that the u.s. government uses to gather intelligence and conduct surveillance are vastly different today than they were more than fifty years ago most of the sources of information the human sources of information that our government relied on the one nine hundred sixty s. have either long retired or passed away entirely so i think. the information that they're received will give i think a better understanding of how the u.s. government used to operate but i don't think it will provide much valuable

information about how it currently operates. good to get your thoughts though on the other words i think the u.s. government has much to fear. thank you very much can use thank you into us from d.c. the palestinian farmer so i've been injured as they tried to harvest all of us when they were confronted by israeli settlers it's the latest incident in a harvest season beset by harassment around illegal settlements palestinian farmers need special military commission to reach them and how useful is it spent the day with one group in the village of self it in the occupied west bank in the predawn light a handful of farmers gather for the chance to get to their land for a few minutes israeli soldiers openly gates. id papers are taken. and they go from being locked out to locked in they were cast fitting the branch isn't good for the trees but it's quick which helps when you have

a six week old baby to tend to as well. each family has just a few days not only to harvest their lives but to carry out maintenance work that would normally be done throughout the year. the trees don't get the trimming or fertilizing they need the land doesn't get plowed or maintained so the production goes. the restrictions are the result of a separation barrier and military road that cordon off the nearby illegal settlement of. the palestinian agriculture ministry says of eleven million olive trees five hundred thousand cut off in this way requiring coordination with the israeli military to fund a recent un report said those trees were sixty five percent less productive than those that are regularly tended less than twenty kilometers away near nablus another group of palestinian farmers was confronted by israeli settlers three were injured earlier this month by an illegal israeli outpost in the same area settlers simply help themselves back in south we find and rummy's harvesting some of the

nearly two hundred family trees they say they get two days access to do two weeks worth of work in february and seventeen days now at harvest time. at their mercy it all happens quickly as if we are stealing time we come at don't sometimes we wait until eight or eight thirty we wait in the cold sometimes they come late sometimes they come early it's the same when we leave ten hours after they first opened the gates unlocked once again the farmers expect another week or so of this restricted harvest season from then until late winter the locks will stay in place are a force that al-jazeera south feet in the occupied west bank. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour. i'm john hendren in detroit were thousands are gathering to turn the energy from the women's march in january into an ongoing international women's movement. the japanese speed battles burning up tokyo's streets but fighting to attract young fans on the identity of the semifinalists in singapore of

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business update brought to you by chance are they always going places together. now in january two point six million people across the u.s. took part in the women's march the biggest national protest in the country's history the movement which followed the election of u.s. president don't trump spot sister protests around the world now organizers are meeting again in detroit for the women's convention john hendren the polls. a day

after the inauguration of president donald trump they marched. in washington chicago san francisco into round the world. now they're turning a women's march into a growing women's movement. thousands of women from the movement are descending upon detroit for the first ever women's convention the group called the women's march now has a permanent staff in a political action committee that raises money to elect women it is officially nonpartisan but it was no accident the women's march came the day after the man who said this i did join she was married he was inaugurated as president of the world's most powerful country there was a spark and we're trying to feed into that spark i think americans would tend to react to something that is painful and for many of us the election of president trump was very painful all of those things impacted us and we reacted and that's

what you saw in washington d.c. after he was sworn in the organizers of the women's convention want to transform the role of women in government in the workplace and in society and what better place to do that than here in detroit a city that's transformed itself since emerging from bankruptcy two years ago. coming as allegations of sexual harassment against producer harvey weinstein have rocked hollywood some see this global strategy session is the perfect opportunity to talk about the issue in the same way that it's going to take white people changing to change racism it's going to take men changing to change sexism and. the issues of sexual assault and sexual violence what we really need is for men to get involved detroit civil rights attorney john follow agrees the effort to enhance the rules of women need help from men too often as males right we may see something occur you know that. and say it's not right we didn't do it or we don't

speak out we don't. force change and i think what the women's movement really is doing is forcing the chance and that's needed that's right. and enough is enough the road towards january twenty first brought us together with great sister the women behind the women's convention hope the gathering this weekend is enough to launch this is stained movement. john hendren al jazeera detroit. as a sport now his pizza. thank you so much f.c. barcelona are facing perhaps the most uncertain moment in their history earlier on friday the catalan regional parliament voted to declare independence from spain the spanish government responded by firing catalonians cabinet and suspending the region's autonomy but the future of spain as a unified country is uncertain so too is the way forward for cattle and sporting

clubs like barcelona and espanyol who would likely be expelled from the league or ending stayed at play in a new catalonian league although goal dot com journalist ben heywood says that scenario is unlikely. talking about the possibility of possible playing out so now i still think it's far fetched. needs barcelona and needs as well are you actually top of the possibility of a cancer and really well look at the clubs that they would be. well to be only slightly older. than iran i. would lose so much interest lose a lot of money in television rights and i just don't. prepared to carry on without was one of the rows right now no team outside spain can compete in the us a change. clubs might look to take a leaf out of english football's book where a handful of welsh clubs are actually part of the various leagues in england this

group includes swanzy city who will be in english premier league action away from home against arsenal on saturday league leaders manchester city or away at west brom champions chelsea visit almost and the day's action begins at old trafford when manchester united host tottenham hotspur that is so important for us is so so exciting to go into play to old trafford and try to do when we are you know similar position and that they will. go in there try to be brave. try to be competitive and try to win. football's governing body has decided not to take any action against six israeli football clubs based in illegal settlements in the west bank the palestinian football association have been asking for to force the clubs to relocate or to suspend the israeli federation but after two years of delays a fee for council meeting decided to close the matter without resolution saying

they must remain neutral in regards to political matters. it's not about people being fine or not fine that there are clubs playing or not playing in. territories which. are considered. by the u.n. resolution as occupied territory that's under question if a council has taken a decision is not the late decision is taken a decision and the decision is to close the matter. because it was felt as i was saying that some progress has been made that at least some football is played in that region meanwhile an israeli jew who won a gold medal at a tournament in abu dhabi on thursday was forced to celebrate in muted fashion tell flicka who won the under sixty six kilogram category received medal but the organizers refused to play the israeli national anthem or raise the flag they claim that it was not allowed because of security reasons the flag of the international

judo federation was raised in stayed but flick it still saying the israeli national anthem from the top of the podium. tiger woods has pleaded guilty to reckless driving to settle the charge of driving under the influence which was arrested in may near his home in florida when police found him asleep at the wheel of his mercedes he was found to have painkillers sleep drugs and an active ingredient in marijuana in his body at the time of the arrest the forty one year old has agreed to enter a diversion program where the four time masters champion will be on probation for one year he would have to pay a two hundred fifty dollars fine and also pay court costs. and in tennis world number one some of the help is been eliminated from the w.t. finals in singapore she was dismissed in straight sets on friday by ukraine's alienates that alina going down six three six four she could lose her top ranking if carolyn the president of the czech republic wins the title on sunday. so i know

how in the semifinals all states alina for that matter instead it's the two caroline's garcia and was an iraqi who go through to the final full earlier in the day garcia defeated was the love six six three and seven five it means the french women will go through as the group with. australia are up and running at the rugby league world cup thanks to an eighteen four opening match victory of england in melbourne on friday the aussies did not start the way they would have liked as england's called the first try but met gillett and billy slater crossed the line to ensure a half time advantage for the home team just began winterval late in the match to wrap it up for the defending champions the action continues on saturday when co-hosts papa new guinea host wales in port moresby after that the third of the tournament co-hosts new zealand face samoa in all and and then fiji will be up against the united states in pool be there i believe is

a different sport to rugby union it has thirteen plays instead of fifteen different rules it's particularly popular in this year's three co-hosts nations australia new zealand and papa new guinea there are diverse countries among the fourteen competing nations varying from fiji and some earth to italy the united states and live in on who are competing for the first time earlier we spoke to the c.e.o. of lebanese rugby league remonde saffy who told us how and why the sport has gained a footing there. in australia there is a large dip in each community here to our opinion poll from the games since the early eighty's and we began here in ninety seven it dissipated in the sevens torn amount in sydney and participated in the world cup qualifiers in ninety nine where we participated in the world cup two thousand in england from

there was asked for us to establish the game in lebanon for us to continue to play at international level and use the name let me on then the state represent the state where we're just under one thousand in lebanon on we would have been more to it wasn't for the instability that we went for in the last five years where most of the plays and stuff had left on two thousand and twelve to two thousand and fourteen and have not returned back here i believe in the phenomenal sport coming up again later but for now that's all i have to say see. thank you they said the well stocked comic displaying their latest super cars on driving technology. but current. automakers aren't doing enough to attract young. in the screw up in the japanese town of oil yaman near mount fuji forty seven year old tuckey she can keep says most prized possessions some twenty modified and

customized cars he's a real estate agent by day. and by night he races his souped up cars. techie she is known in japan as a social media embassador of what may be a fading car culture he's worried millennialists those people aged eighteen to forty don't share his love affair with the automobile even all oh ok but that's a today's young people came of age during the recession where their family didn't have a car so some of them didn't grow up knowing how fun and convenient cars can be took issue another car enthusiastic get together in parking lots on weekends to show off their own cause and check out others. most of those who gather are men in their forty's and fifty's among them only a few millennial is good mid their peers just aren't interested. i know some people who has a t. to get a driver's license because a strap on some inexpensive researchers in the us say there's been

a continuous decline in the number of people under forty five getting driver's licenses and buying cars and manufacturers say they're selling fewer cars to young people since the global financial crisis in two thousand and eight some sociologists believe the century old love fair with the car may be a thing of the past. i think there's more to it than that it's rather more complex we have been seeing a financial crisis we've just been seeing general trends for millennia used to delay that big life choices that getting married later that moving out of home light up all the financial pressures partly other social pressures and there is less reason to call tookey she has friends believe millennial is no longer identify their freedom or personality with a car and that smartphones and high tech gadgets are how young people now express themselves car sharing and other services have also made it less essential to own a car. if japanese automakers want more young people to buy their cars they have to

come up with truly stylish and unique cars if they do i think consumers will notice . and that's exactly what car makers are hoping to achieve at the tokyo motor show . a lineup of gleaming new tech savvy cars and prototypes to capture the imagination of those whose interest in cars may have been on the wane. john al jazeera. from may soon. but don't go away i'll be back in a few moments with much more of the day's news seems to stop the bank. the

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