in the struggle to survive in today's world and. talk to al-jazeera travels to brazil to meet leaders of endangered tribes. and those trying to protect them at this time al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of count folk abene dot. tossed by the security council to mediate between arabs and israelis. his death would prove one of the darkest days in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the count at this time on al-jazeera. what next for catalonia the spanish government the government and the police after

the unilateral declaration of independence. life also coming up the u.s. grand jury reportedly approves the first charges. in the presidential election. that. weapons will bring an overwhelming response. now suspended kenya's election commission. in opposition strongholds. the spanish government has announced in the country's official gazette that it's taken over the government and fired the region's police as increasing tension in

the country which awaits the next. from. the moment catalonia declared secession from spain a wave of euphoria across barcelona a mix of intense emotion elation and danger because of the uncertainty of what comes next they cheered they hugged one another they cried and they toasted what they see as a new nation it all started unfolding hours earlier at the catalan parliament passionate sometimes angry debates a sense of anticipation on one side. as had been invited. by the. it wasn't long before his wish came true a secret ballot slowly but surely moving as parliament into the history books most

opposition members walked out in disgust leaving the spanish national flag and the catalan flag draped over their benches then came the count again slow with reaction to every yes. seventy votes for ten against into abstention. and the catalan national anthem this time striking a different call before long another vote in madrid this time the senate making a decision on article one five five direct rule moving to the spanish government a large majority. two hundred fourteen for forty seven against approval for prime minister mariano rajoy to sack the regional government and impose sweeping powers back in barcelona these politicians and supporters hardly look like people about to go into the background president colors push them all called for calm.

citizens of catalonia in the coming hours we will have to maintain our country's poles a most of all to montane that peace public spirit and our dignity i think we have always done with no doubt it will continue to be that way this is an extraordinary moment but it's historic to find out why the way across this eighteenth century building there are mixed moods you know they said was on the brakes and the sticks you see are from the more right across the yard here to express the. you. don't see the look of what it was one of them was the. independent. independence is heartbreaking sad and distressing that is how all the catalans who are not pro independence feel including very democratic pro independent supporters that cannot

shed this destructive operation based on lies fraud and impositions it is causing on the social fiber of catalonia looking to madrid for the next move cats in lands who are angered or saddened or also fearful of what will happen mariano rajoy is already using his new powers dissolving parliament calling elections in december and listing those he's sacking. friday night in the center of barcelona a city known more for its football its beaches and sunshine than any resistance to state power and it's party time for a large number of people packed. into a square in front of the seat of government how long will the smiles last night so many questions along with another sobering historic night goggles between those who want to be in spain where you don't hear it's never been taken andrew symonds i

would use a possible. that's being reported that a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the probe over alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election now the charge is led by special counsel robert mueller said to be still sealed under orders from a federal judge it isn't yet known what specifically the accusations are but anybody who is charged could be taken into custody as soon as monday an official has more from washington d.c. . we know now that robert mueller has been conducting his investigation over the past five months or so or if it's true and this grand jury has decided that and they can be issued then that's a fairly speedy process if you look at two significant cases in the past from american political history bill clinton and richard nixon it took a grand jury almost a couple of years to come up with indictments there know how to grand juries work well essentially people and empaneled they come along they are given evidence from

the prosecutors they are low to issue subpoenas and at one stage when the prosecutor believes he's a strong enough case he sits down with the grand jury there are new judges and new defense attorneys there they just lying to the grand jury this is the case i believe we have and i would like to be able to present this to a jury were i believe we would be able to secure a conviction on these charges worth a grand jury believes the prosecutor at that point they will approve the indictment the indictment then is prepared and issued to the person at the center of the investigation normally within twenty four to forty eight hours though the indictment here has been sealed so we don't know who has been charged and what they have been charged with if indeed that is the case but this would be very significant you've got to remember that robert miller over the last few months or spoken to a number of people very close to donald trump including michael flynn his short lived national security adviser jared who is a son in law but also a special adviser in the white house holds

a very powerful position in the oval office and of course paul minor for two at one point was a campaign chairman for the trump election campaign and of course some point his home was even searched by f.b.i. agents so what we're waiting for now is to find out who is being charged and what they've been charged with and that will be important because then we will see just how close they are to donald trump and to the trump campaign and just hope course this investigation takes us in for twelve to the white house. the u.s. defense secretary has warned north korea against escalating its nuclear and missile tests james mattis is in the south korean capital seoul for two days of talks and he says the threat of a nuclear attack from the north also known as the d.p. r. k. is excel orating if it remains on its current path of ballistic missiles and atomic bombs it will be counterproductive be in effect the d.p. r. k. will be reducing its own security. live now to our correspondent in seoul tony

betty tony says the secretary of defense then offering up tough words for north korea but words of reassurance for the south. yes indeed very strong words again following the pattern that's been set in washington and he made it quite clear that the you know united states will not tolerate any nuclear weapons attack and that would happen if that would happen that would provoke a response a massive military response from the united states and that's words i think for south korea who is very concerned they're basically in the backyard of north korea they're very concerned about every step that north koreans take he was very strong in his language he did also say that he couldn't imagine any condition under which the united states would accept a nuclear north korea now that is a problem because north korea is fully fledged to producing nuclear.

weapons it's producing a nuclear deterrent it also is now producing extending their ballistic missile range that's causing concern at the moment it can only have a range of one thousand five hundred kilometers they're working on missiles that could hit the united states and that is a very big cause for concern for the for the americas but i have to say also that general mattis did stress the diplomacy was the way ahead he preferred diplomacy to the war he said the united states was not looking for war they wanted a denuclearization of the korean peninsula but he also is working in a very highly tense situation here now the ante has been up considerably in the last few weeks and with president trump visiting here on the seventh and eighth of november some people believe that will be a catalyst for some kind of response the north koreans have been saying that they have now produced six nuclear tests they have been underground but the foreign minister of north korea's intimated that there could be an atmospheric nuclear test

maybe that could happen during president thomas visit and what will the reaction be to that i don't know but the problem is that the tensions are increasing there is concern here also the south koreans although they are reassured by the support of america are a little bit concerned. that the rhetoric of president trump much different to general mattis has caused some concern there of the fire and fury speech at the united nations in august and the threat to totally destroy the north korea is something that perhaps was not necessary they want also to tear up an agreement made more than fifty years ago after the korean war which gave the united states total control of the south korean military forces in the event of conflict they now want to have control themselves that's a note of concern that they're showing tony betty live in cell. some others former president also put as more leno will be tried on corruption charges on friday a judge ruled in favor of charging him with bribery and tax avoidance to the tune of several million dollars his vice president was in office roxanne about dirty is

also facing trial bases and resigned in twenty fifteen after un investigators linked them to a massive corruption ring lots more to come here at al-jazeera including a change of policy the u.s. is to bypass u.n. agencies and instead will provide direct assistance to persecuting christians in the middle east as we report on how violence still plagues the southern philippines despite a clamp down on illegal weapons. with. from flowing on and when it's too enchanting that's it brings. hello there the weather is quite unsettled across europe at the moment with two main weather systems one down in the southeast corner of your the other one galloping down from the north and behind that it's going to turn a lot colder for some of us over the next three days this first system though this

is already giving us lots of thunder and lightning as it works its way across greece bogus area remain and now it's working its way into turkey behind that only a small break before the next weather system is pushing its way down and this one is the one that is bringing us all cold air so that's going to be screaming down from the north over the next few days a many of us will see the temperatures dropping for struck home on sunday will only get to four degrees here there will be a fair amount of cloud around maybe the old spot of rain or snow but really the wettest weather is for the south that's making its way across the alps giving us a fair amount of snow there and we're also seeing some fairly heavy rain towards the west as well now for the other side of the mediterranean here there's largely fine weather at the moment but you can see that area of cloud that's making its way out of southeast europe. now it's working its way steadily towards the coast i think we'll see a fair few showers there around the coast of libya and egypt as we head through the day on sunday some of the showers here are lightly to be rather heavy a bit further towards the south plenty of showers in the southern half of them up

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a lot of the top stories here at al-jazeera castle and police have called on offices to remain neutral in the country's crisis over the region's declaration of independence spain has now officially taken over the castle and government by firing the leaders and the piddly police chief prime minister mariano rajoy has called for regional elections to be held in december. a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has reportedly approved the first charges in the investigation of a russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election u.s. media is reporting that is not yet what's the specific accusations are but anyone who's charged under them could be taken into. this monday the charges will be led by special counsel robert millner. the u.s. defense secretary has warned north korea against escalating its nuclear and missile tests james mattis is in the south korean capital seoul for two days of talks and

says any attack by the north would be met with what he called a massive and overwhelming response. now official results from kenya's presidential election rerun have now put president a little kenya in the lead with ninety seven percent of the vote compared with less than one percent for the opposition leader raul or a dingo who of course boycotted the whole exercise voting in four opposition strongholds has been suspended because of fears of others for me to miller is following developments from the capital nairobi kenya electoral commission is faced by quite a dilemma at least three thousand six hundred polling stations didn't open on election day and that represents at least one point seven million voters who haven't cost their vote they say that they would extend the deadline by which the polling station should open but that given no clear indication of when that will happen it's almost impossible for the commission to hold elections in the

opposition stronghold in the western part of kenya and other parts of the of the country where the opposition has boycotted the election so far incumbent president who are kenyatta has garnered about seven point three million votes in theory allowing him to begin his second term in office but the commission faced by this dilemma around whether or not to announce results with out certain polling stations opening and as well as the withdrawal of opposition leader raila odinga from the election does create a number of questions around legitimacy and activist rather activist has already taken the electoral commissioner to the supreme court demanding that the. nullify the rerun saying that it wasn't legitimate and it didn't provoke constitutional requirements based on opposition leader raila odinga withdrawing from the race for let's go live now to another of our correspondents in kenya katherine sawyer she's

actually in the opposition heartland in consumer in the western part of kenya which of course katherine is the part of the country that hasn't voted at all do we think that the exercise of this presidential election rerun will go ahead in these four counties in the west of the country. very unlikely marty and let me just start by telling you the situation things here in soon when the other three counties that we're talking about have significantly calmed down since the electoral commission announced the suspension of this election a lot of people really quite relieved people who had been just calling on the electoral commission to cancel this election because the situation most fear was just not right there was a lot of there's been a lot of tension on thursday we covered all day running battles between police and protesters and you know there's a lot of people who were injured as well and you know the biggest problem even

yesterday afternoon we traveled around some of the neighborhood and already we had seen young people putting up road blocks using stones and electricity poles and other things and they were telling us that they want to make sure that nobody polling materials gets to the polling stations and that is really the biggest challenge to the electoral commission has been facing in this region just getting materials to the polling stations safely another problem has been getting employees of the commission to come to work those are the presiding officers clarks people really who are very crucial in running the election and they're saying that you know they're fearing for their safety most of them are hired luckily so they say people know them and there was that fear as world so now you are asking about whether the election are going is really going to happen the electoral commission chairperson awful lot your book katty say that they will set another date but from where i'm standing from my perspective it seems very very difficult to call an

election between now and wednesday which is the deadline for announcing the winner of the election and which like you mentioned is very clear is going to be king arthur and so roy has been successful hasn't he effectively cooling for his supporters to boycott the entire exercise he's been successful in this part of the country the governor of kisumu has been perhaps the most vocal supporter of raul hasn't he saying that they're now going to go into resistance what do we think they mean by supporters going into resistance. well we're still people are still trying to figure out what this meant but yesterday at an interview. that they tried to explain what he means he was talking about peaceful resistance he was talking about boycotting fatty products he was talking just making the life of you know this coming government impossible just you know peaceful resistance that's what he was talking about mostly but when people

when you come to areas like this where his supporters are saying that they will not accept. his presidency and you spoke of that governor. young young no we did speak to him and what he said to us that you don't expect. if a regime wants to impose its mandate on people then people have a right to resist so people here feeling disenfranchised saying that they will not accept they will not accept it as we are saying that they will not recognize his presidency at all all right from now catherine so i thank you very much catherine live in the heart of opposition country in kenya consumer. now the u.s. vice president says the country will no longer fund what has cooled ineffective u.n. relief efforts to pass a q-tip minorities in the middle east mike pence said fons one instead has more now

from washington d.c. . christian groups in the united states have long wanted their government to do something about what they see as the ongoing persecution of christians in the middle east especially in iraq our fellow christians and all who are persecuted in the middle east should not have to rely on multinational institutions when america can help them directly and tonight it is my privilege to announce that president trump has ordered the state department to stop funding ineffective relief efforts at the united nations pence's announcement was cheered by the oven jellicoe community which wields considerable political influence but officials at both the state department and the u.n. don't yet have a lot of details on the policy and funding changes this does not apply to all u.n. programs it applies to programs that address the first cuban displaced religious minority communities usa id will be involved in the us state department well as well we continue to make sure that our aid efforts on the ground including in iraq

which was part of this discussion are on the basis of need and we try to serve all communities based on need this isn't the first time the trumpet ministration has told you and funding in order to advance its policy agenda earlier this year it cut funding from the family planning program because of concerns over forced abortion in china something which the government in beijing denies however this plan to help a specific religious group is raising some concerns because it would use tax dollars to help a specific religious group not help an entire country in crisis. u.s. law has long been clear no public money can be used to pay for religious services education or proselytizing and even though presidents george w. bush and barack obama allowed religious groups to apply for federal grants to help the needy around the world these groups had to follow strict rules to make sure their programs served everyone regardless of faith one expert in the faith based

initiative community says the trumpet ministration could face lawsuits if it goes ahead with its plan the separation of church and state found in our constitution and the establishment clause in case law would really impede something of that sort think of vice president pence announcement what kind of degrade that aspect and have a lot of smaller again is ations buying for these fines that might not meet the requirement of fundamental conflict at work trying to protect those being targeted because of their faith without breaching the u.s. is wall between church and state rosalyn jordan al-jazeera at the state department now for decades a southern philippines island of mindanao has been plagued by conflict and rebellion filipinos say that's force them to buy sometimes even make their own illegal weapons to meet alan day than has been speaking to gun makers in this

region. i am adverse to hold the gun at the age of thirteen it was nine hundred seventy four when martial law was imposed nationwide by president for than and marcos. years later he learned how to make and repair illegal weapons. now martial law is imposed in mindanao again after the mouthy armed group pledged allegiance to iso and seized offices in malawi city. resident will be go to third to says he intends to clamp down on armed groups suspect to developing linked to politicians in the volved in the illegal drugs trade and has extended martial law on the island until the end of the year it's a kind of life that the knows all too well for a moment here if you're poor you don't have a voice in order to protect my family and our livelihood here by a less is the only word they understand the situation is similar all across the

island of mindanao decades of armed rebellion has forced many civilians here to acquire farms illegally making it difficult for the government to contain. the government estimates there are more than a million firearms which are unlicensed many are high powered rifles used by armed groups in mindanao most of the high powered weapons are manufactured here to mindanao has suffered decades of war and armed rebellion and the instability is one of the main reasons why so many filipinos here take matters into their own hands. because of discrimination and the violence here in mindanao it feels as though you are defenseless and there is no security for your family this is why you are forced to carry guns here if you don't carry guns they trample on your rights and this is why guns for us are important. one of the largest armed groups in southeast asia

the moro islamic liberation front is still pinning its hopes on a peace deal with the philippine government this should behave the way for its more than thirty thousand fighters to finally lay down their weapons. all the things so we will work with government civilian leaders and muslim leaders here and they are with us they are on board with us to stop the spread of violence. it is almost sixty now and says he cannot remember a time with peace in his homeland this is why he cannot lay down his weapons. despite the government's effort to go after the illegal guns trade. dogon al jazeera line of those source southern philippines. now to me amala state media is reporting that the government is to harvest rice from abandoned farmland left fake and by range of families in northern rakhine state the government says it will

start harvesting more than seventy thousand acres in mound daw now that's a positive record and state that was hardest hit in a military crackdown against the regime which started in august let's go live to our correspondent florence levy who is in million miles biggest city young girl in florence so the government's announced that it is going to start harvesting the rise from this particular area why is this leading to say much concern. particular because this is land that the ranger refugees and fix more than six hundred thousand of whom have crossed into bangladesh in the last two months fearing for their lives now there are questions of course as to who the rightful owner of these crops are these the range of farmers will tell you that they were working on this land they planted those rise crops they're not going to see a thing gold cent of the crops being sold they've already they're already in

bangladesh and we just spoke to a spokesman of the agricultural ministry and he says the local rakhine officials are in charge of harvesting these crops they will be selling these crops to private companies and the profit from the sale of these rice crops will then be ploughed back into the local government coffers now the fact that these crops are being harvested also raises other questions such as what well the refugees who are there were plans for them to eventually be resettled and repatriated back to myanmar if they can prove residency what will they return to once they have to go back to myanmar their homes and villages have already been burned to the ground and now in their farmlands that they were working on if the government is appropriating these lands then what really will they have to go back to martine right ok thank you very much indeed that is florence louis reporting live there from yang gone mia miles

biggest city. now don't forget there's a norful lot more on our web site out jazeera dot com that's where he came right up to date with all the day's developments there is lots of background information to . take a look at the top stories here at our jazeera castle and regional police have cold on offices to remain neutral in the country's crisis over the region's debt khorasan of independence that's according to a government note spacing has officially taken over the castle and government and father regions leaders and the police chief the prime minister mariano rajoy has called for regional elections to be held in december a federal grand jury in washington d.c.

has reportedly approved the first charges in the investigation of a russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election so far it's not known what specifically the accusations are but anyone who is charged could be taken into custody as soon as monday and the charges will be led by special counsel robert mueller the u.s. defense secretary has warned north korea against escalating its nuclear and missile tests james mattis is in the south korean capital seoul for two days of talks and says any attack by the north would be met with what he called a massive and overwhelming response it remains on its current path of ballistic missiles and atomic bombs it will be counterproductive in effect the d.p. r. k. will be reducing its own security. now me a model state media says the government will harvest drives from abandoned farmland left fake and by range of families in northern rakhine state the government will begin harvesting more than seventy thousand acres of rice paddy in mountain dall

that's the red hinge a majority area that was hardest hit by state led attacks on the group the move raises concerns about the prospects of a return for more than half a million ranger who have fled the violence the unofficial results in kenya's presidential election rerun have put president kenyatta in the lead with ninety seven percent of the vote compared with less than one percent for royal a danger of the opposition who boycotted the ballot rerun the u.k. says military action should be considered against those who carried out the chemical attacks in syria this follows a un investigation the blamed the syrian government for an attack in april in which more than eighty people many of them children were killed when sarin gas was dropped on the town of chicken the syrian government has rejected the un report australia's foreign minister is to become the acting prime minister after the

deputy prime minister was booted out of office by the high court barnaby joyce was one of five politicians expelled from office because they hold dual citizenship those are the headlines coming up next the listening post. as native amazonian is increasingly struggling to survive in today's world. to al-jazeera travels to brazil to meet leaders of endangered tribes. and those trying to protect them at this time. u.s. backed forces and spirit are celebrating the feet of ice and rock rock it's a. hard place.