the nation is rife the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera some. six years after the death of gadhafi. al-jazeera the world travels to libya. to hear from some of those who felt his regime contributed to his downfall. the battle of misrata at this time on al jazeera. at least ten people have been killed in two call bomb attacks and somalia's capital mogadishu one appears to have targeted the president.

following citizen this is al jazeera live from london also coming up catalan sacked leader speaks for the first time since spain imposed direct rule he's calling for a democratic opposition to madrid's takeover. make no mistake any attack on the united states or our allies will be defeated the u.s. issues a tough new warning to north korea but insists diplomacy still comes first. growing violence in the democratic republic of congo leaves nearly eight million people in urgent need of food. and confidence grow that hundreds of thousands of or hendra refugees may never be allowed back into reality.

at least ten people have been killed in two call bomb attacks and somalia's capital mogadishu the first targeted hotel where the country's president was expected to be hosting a meeting a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into the building and detonated the device please say the gunfire could be heard from inside the hotel the second bomb went off near the form of parliament house building and appears to have targeted the military. i was driving or took to the front of the hotel i saw a car exploding at the gate of the hotel i don't know where two of my clients have gone i don't know if they're dead or alive but i saw four dead bodies. and will be speaking to our correspondent who will be covering that event slightly later in the

program. let's go to spain now where we've heard from catalans regional leader for the first time since madrid sacked him dissolved his parliament and called a new election prime minister mariano rajoy imposed the measures in response to his declaration of independence preached amounts reply has been measured he's calling for democratic opposition to madrid's takeover. of our soil is a message that i want to convey is that i'm sure that we have to be patient but actually have to have perseverance and. it is clear to us that the better way to defend what we have achieved so far is to have a democratic opposition to article one five five this is the response to the deliberate action against catalans who have for many centuries felt different that we have to overcome any threats and to act in a civil and peaceful manner not wish to use force on us. our correspondent is in

barcelona and has more. colors was speaking from his home city of jerome calling for calm here in barcelona in sun square the seat of government where his ministers would normally be well no one is sure who is pulling the strings of power the spain flag flies above the building here and everyone is asking who is calling the shots now madrid says it's firmly in control it's taking over. the situation here and one of the head will be. wards of the rest on the ministers of the government for their declaration of secession parliament and also pushed himself will be taken away in handcuffs well no one really knows but students are certainly prepared to try occupying this building if necessary so no one who is really sure what is going to happen in terms of any

potential physical conflict between the security forces and the government or indeed protesters in the dritte pro-union is demonstrated in a very large demonstration calling for basically exactly what the whole is doing for putting down this procession movement here with other parts of the government here you know those parts certainly from the ruling party are saying that no way can they tolerate a situation like this. and we can go back to our top story the double bomb attack in somalia that has left at least ten people dead mohamad a dow is following the story from neighboring kenya and joins us now live mohammed any updates on whether that the gunfight going on in the hotel. so we can now confirm that the fighting inside the hotel has come to and security

of the hotel and somali police have managed to kill all the al shabaab fighters who had gained entry into the hotel after the massive car bomb the rescue workers say the death toll could be a high of because they have recovered so many bodies from inside the hotel they say that the fighters who gained entry into the hole tell were using han bombs which they wanted to meeting inside the hotel targeting the rooms. the people who were staying in the hotel walk in and we have also confirmed from eyewitnesses that several buildings around the hotel have also collapsed and that would mean more people under the rubble this comes just two weeks of the was. in the somalia's history and see you people expected al-shabaab to carry out such a brazen a tuck so close to the top when many people in mogadishu still trying to come to

toms without bombing i might indeed has al-shabaab claimed responsibility and if it has the people must be getting quite upset really with the fact that they are now being repeatedly targeted. yes indeed this is only going to to the unga of the people of mogadishu and somalia as a whole because what these are talks show is the for a deity all for the security system in somalia out some of us have claimed responsibility for the attack and the fighters are getting more and more resilient yes they have lost all their strongholds they are now a confined to their little strongholds which is in most parts of southern somalia and central somalia but in recent days they have been gaining more target city especially around the cup we're told they seize the district of body they are about

four to five kilometers from mogadishu just on the day that bombing happened two weeks ago and security officials are saying that it's becoming more and more difficult to avert a tux like this one when districts around the capital all falling one left on the other to the fighters many thanks for that you have it out there with the very latest on that attack in the somali capital u.s. defense secretary james mattis says the threat of a nuclear missile attack by north korea is accelerating speaking at annual defense talks in neighboring south korea not just insisted diplomacy was the preferred course of action but stressed it was only effective when backed by credible force make no mistake any attack on the united states or our allies will be defeated uni used of nuclear weapons by the north will be met with a massive military response affective in overwhelming tony badly is following

developments from the south korean capital. there were strong words from the united states defense secretary he was here in seoul on part of a two day visit partly to discuss the defense of the peninsula which is an annual thing between the u.s. and south korea and partly to pave the way for president transfers it on the seventh and eighth of november now that visit in itself is creating increased tensions here and general mattis was at pains to warn north korea that any nuclear attack with weapons would be met with a very very massive military response and he did intimate that north korea could not win in that situation having said that his tone in the last two days has been more conciliatory than that of president trump you may remember his fire and fury speech at the united nations in august and also his threat to totally destroy north korea and he has resorted to a word

a war of words of mass destruction and people are worried that the world may turn to weapons there was a lot of concern here the united states is upped its defenses its bought three naval carrier groups into the region it's flown it's moved its five stealth fighters to japan just in case the president trumps visit produces some kind of reaction from north korea they've conducted six nuclear test most of those have been underground but the north korean foreign minister has warned that they will conduct an atmospheric nuclear test and who knows what that will provoke but there is a lot of concern on the korean peninsula that will happen what will happen general mattis is said basically the actions of north korea are provoking and accelerating the situation and causing a greater possibility of conflict on the korean peninsula but he also stressed that the need was for diplomacy for talking he said the united states would not want war it wanted a denuclearization of the canary

a korean peninsula now also said that he couldn't imagine any situation whereby the united states would accept a nuclear north korea now north korea is well on its way to being a nuclear power though so something has to give the big question here is what will give and who will give it. mammals government says it has put in place a plan to harvest rice from land the ban the buyer henge of families and northern states more than six hundred thousand ranger have fled to bangladesh since late august after a minute you crackdown by mammals military human rights groups say the decision to harvest the rice raises questions about whether the refugees will ever be allowed back florence louis has more from young gone. there are a couple of ways to look at this one is that this is simply a practical solution the rice crops are ripe for harvesting and if they were left to just stand in the fields they would go to waste so the myanmar government has

put in place a plan to harvest the crops bringing in combine harvesters and laborers to do the work and agricultural ministry spokesman has told us that the local government is in charge of the harvest and the eventual fail and the proceeds of the sale will go to the local government although there are no details on how they plan to use it but the other issue is this raises ethical questions as the asia director of human rights watch puts it you really can't call a crop ownerless when you've used a campaign of arson and violence to drive the owners from their land and this is what the myanmar military has been accused of doing and the other issue pertains to future use is this harvest perhaps a first step of the myanmar government to appropriate the land from revenge or refugees who've been driven to bangladesh now if it is it will raise other questions what about repatriation and resettlement of the refugees now granted we

are a long way from that bangladesh and myanmar officials haven't yet worked out details of how they plan to repatriate range of refugees but they will have to be other questions that that need to be asked such as where will they return to and what will they return to their farms and villages are no longer there. you're watching al jazeera still to come on the program speculation grows as they first challenges the fall interreligious to russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election we'll have the latest live from washington plus. person is rubbish it is another person's treasure this company in hong kong is designing clothes out of voice material. with.

hello there we have a fair amount of heavy rain over parts of turkey at the moment the first system is already edged eastwards away from turkey so here it is over lebanon making its way over the northern parts of iraq but then behind it there's a cluster of rather intense showers there also affecting us in cyprus and then more wet weather working its way into the northwestern parts of turkey at the moment now that system is going to gradually track its way eastwards there for sunday so sunday again it's a very wet weather over cyprus over parts of turkey and then up towards the northeast and ahead of it maybe some clouds maybe the old spot of rain perhaps but for most of us it is dry for baghdad it looks right certainly thirty three degrees will be our maximum temperature and force in kabul will be getting to around twenty four or twenty five as we head through the next few days a bit further towards the south and here in doha we're looking at temperatures around thirty five degrees at the moment and they're dropping down to around twenty five or twenty six at night at the moment for the south also a fair amount of cloud with us in salon twenty eight degrees will be our maximum here as we head through sunday on monday a little bit more in the way of cloud could bring us

a few more outbreaks of rain there but also get to around twenty nine degrees down towards the southern parts of africa far more in the way of unsettled weather here you see this area of rain that extends all the way down towards mozambique the wettest of the weather is in the north tracking westwards. with.

welcome back a reminder the top stories here on al jazeera two car bombs have exploded in somalia's capital mogadishu killing at least ten people the young group says it carried out the attack catalonians deposed leader carlos wish them all calls for continued democratic opposition to the spanish government takeover of the region. u.s. defense secretary james mattis says the threat of a nuclear missile attack by north korea is accelerating and warned of a massive response to an attack. hunger in the democratic republic of congo has soared in the last year leaving seven point seven million people in urgent need of food aid in the car fire region more than three million

people that's one quarter of the population are going hungry and need urgent assistance an internal power struggle over has given way to tribal violence that has also left thousands dead since august twenty sixth seen with more than a million people displaced and cuss i there's been an alarming thirty percent rise over the past year of acute malnutrition in the region the world food program says it needs seventeen point two million dollars to support its work from september to december twenty seventh teen david basely who is the executive director of the un's world food program is in the sea on a four day mission and he joins us live now from goma via skype thanks very much for joining us on. just on that very question the conflict has been going on since twenty sixteen but we're seeing people in more more desperate need for food are measures in place to try and get food to these people or really is nothing really

changed. well that's what's changed as a stick to ation has gotten worse than some ways and it's improved in other ways but the bottom line is we need money and we need money fast we literally are talking about in just the cost side a region of three point two million people that are dearly malnourished i mean it's bad as bad as it gets literally hundreds of thousands of children if we don't receive funds and food and access immediately will die over the next couple of months now and that the r.c. alone you have seven point. seven million people surveyed really food insecure but almost half of that is in the region all because of nothing but man made conflict it is wrong it's only except the bill this is a country the international community has spent billions in and to continue to have

this type of mismanagement in government and corruption and conflict is absolutely unacceptable from the international community and we're doing everything we can to theat innocent victims of conflict say that if the money comes through and let's hope people are having a plane if that money comes to you are you able to get to the people that need they say the most. yes we can but we need it quickly because the rainy season is almost upon us in is hard enough in these roads as you can imagine we're travelling our trucks are driving over twelve hundred kilometers in deplorable roads and if it starts raining you know and the rainy season that makes it that much more difficult and then of course if we can't fly food in the cost of flying food and it is anywhere from seven to seventeen times the normal calls and we already or very serious funding shortage in fact the funding shortage just for the

next two months is twenty seven million dollars as opposed to the seventy million and we are at a literally about a one percent level of funding for the cusp. so we're asking donors to step up and step up now but i cannot tell you what we hearing from donors this daughter's very upset that and they have donor fatigue and we're saying and well let's not blame the in the sit victims of conflict let's use food as a weapon of peace not as a weapon of war and bet's what we're trying to do to make the case and what can we do differently than than what's been done in the past how much we have displaced people adding to this obviously you have areas where people have been suffering from this conflict but then having to follow people almost as they try to escape is that really excessive eighteen the cost that the problem. oh yes it is it's

a you have a million people displaced in this region alone and then you have thousands upon thousands that are hiding in the forest they're hiding in the bush and you have militia you have rebels also in the bush it's just in the past couple days our team we've we've got pictures of videos of holden's of villages huts that have been burned down to the ground we have seen pictures of the chapter tade admitted women and children it's a very desperate situation in the region in the international community needs to step up ring pressure to bear all all parties involved in this conflict grant us access give us the funds it we need and we need to change way we've done things in the past to a better way for the future david very grateful for your time especially when you're there on the ground and let's hope people do hey joe cole on the don't respond well thank you very much.

u.s. media is reporting that a federal grand jury has approved the first charges and the investigation into russian meddling in last year's presidential election the challenges are said to be still fail to under orders from a federal judge special counsel robert muller a former f.b.i. director is leading the investigation he's looking into whether trump campaign officials colluded with russian efforts up reynolds joins us now for more on this from washington d.c. so who do you think is and robert more the sites here rob and does this go all the way up to the top. well we don't know at this point as you mentioned sue the the names or even the charges that are likely to be brought in these indictments but we do know who robert miller has been interested in for one it's michael flynn who served briefly as the national security advisor to president

donald trump before being fired for apparently lying about the extent of his contacts with russian officials he also did some work as a lobbyist for the turkish government which he did not report as he's required to under law so that may be a wedge to go after him for those financial dealings similarly paul mann afford who was for a time the campaign director for trump for president in two thousand and sixteen he did a lot of work for ukrainian political parties that were associated with the kremlin and also did not properly report that activity so again another potential wedge against him and muller has indicated he's already interviewed remains priebus the former chief of staff at the white house and he's indicated he wants to talk to five or six other top inner circle people at the white house formerly at the white

house including sean spicer who left the job of press secretary over the summer and what if this was to go all the way up to the president one of the legal issues that i'm involved if it came to indicting a sick a sitting u.s. president for something like criminal behavior. well you know it's standard prosecutor your view tauriel procedure is to go for the the little fish first and then you know get them to flip and give information and then go higher up the chain and as as high as you can if this was say a drug investigation that you'd be going for the you know the so-called kingpin but that's not the really the case here the there's never been an indictment of a sitting u.s. president for any criminal behavior there is a considerable difference of opinion among academics constitutional scholars as to whether it's even possible to indict

a president some republican scholars during the clinton administration devised some legal theories that would have allowed president clinton to be indicted but they were not used the general thinking i think sue is that the only remedy in this case is a political one and that's impeachment and of course we're getting a little ahead of ourselves here so we will have to see how these indictments turn out and where the chain leads but i think it's going to be a long process certainly leading into next year which of course is an election year for members of congress in the united states so there are a lot of political ramifications as well they could get your thoughts from pronounce that with the latest on that investigation. u.n. official unofficial results from kenya repeat presidential elections such just present kenyatta has won more than ninety seven percent of the vote but his monday to pay is to be weak ten items estimated to be less than thirty five percent to

opposition supporters heeding a call to boycott the po the election has also be maad by violence with voting suspended in some opposition strongholds for me to reports from the capital nairobi . less than twenty four hours ago the syria in the western part of nairobi was religiously peaceful there weren't any demonstrations or protests following thursday's election but now that's all changed this was an area that housed at least thirty shops a restaurant a bar and even homes for people living in the same area where he was attacked by a mob of protesters the people here are calling them gangs they say this area was petrol bombed bringing down any infrastructure and they've been left with nothing william is a painter who operated a small business in this area and when we were talking to you when you said that you felt victimized i felt victimized because expected this one we had

almost got some people would come and bargain oh no businesses do somebody is going to die today but was arrested so we expected to stay don't go out of business unfortunately the police came to us i mean they took advantage of nothing he came he banged on your being real cons with a purchase a choice of files read so quickly you know when they made your own very chick your finger on a roof they. were raised so. that you would be ready to be talking about ari dunes. we're very sorry. about us thank you william now william is just one of many people here who doesn't know what he'll do next he doesn't know where he'll go what they have tried to do is they've put up this makeshift fence to at least try and protect what's left he isn't very much

when we moved out of this area further down the street we were met by a very aggressive mob of people who said we couldn't move any further they said they they would chase us out of the area if we try to stay too long this situation in where is is unsafe it's tense and people here say they're worried. and hong kong a movement is on the way to help guide the fashion industry towards the same ability more than one hundred billion garments will be made this year but millions of tons of materials will be wasted craigie some ripples. victor kong is searching for inspiration he's designing a collection for new fashion label b.y.t. but he can't use just any material for hong kong based company is sustainably conscious which means he has to design clothes out of waste textiles. the fabrics

are coming from different suppliers some of the stock from manufacturing and some of them are eco friendly material we have to think harder and consider more not just focused on how to make the clothes fashionable or trendy. one hundred billion garments i'm a globally every year most of them manufactured in china where waste is a major issue some companies have begun to tackle a problem finding cost savings in solutions such as recycling water the technology is now getting more mature you know to to be able to to. to treat waste and i think you know we're in the forefront. in the technology one of the reason to be in the forefront is we want to find new ways of treating waste and being able to share the same knowledge to add to the whole industry globally the industry creates ninety two million tons of waste any only which environmentalist say is unsustainable what we need to do is unlock the design solutions and the

technological solutions and of course scale this within the industry and create a market for it so that we can recycle all of this waste to highlight the problem sustainable fashion advocate redress created the eco chic design awards the world's first catwalk a vent to encourage designers to think about the environment ten finalists put their reputations on the runway at hong kong freshen week with collections created by up cycling textile waste same fashion have to be important because if we don't have enough resources to carry on the way we are the industry leaders say change has to also come from beyond the runway from governments from brains and consumers . we are beginning to understand the importance of a transparent supply chain of publishing that first and second to supply chain and consumers are we beginning to understand that they need to know more about the fashion supply chain for us consumers that means taking more notice of where the clothes we purchase come from and more importantly what they're made of and also

buying fuel clothes by taking better care of the ones that we already are craig leeson al-jazeera hong kong. reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera two car bombs have exploded in somalia's capital mogadishu killing at least ten people the first targeted a hotel where somalis president was expected to host a meeting three gunmen were killed by security forces after opening fire inside the hotel the second bomb went off near the former parliament house building and appears to have targeted the military. i was driving it took to the front of the hotel i saw a car exploding at the gate of the hotel i don't know where two of my clients have gone i don't know if they're dead or alive but i saw four dead bodies.

catalonians deposed leader called for continued democratic opposition to the spanish government takeover of the region colace pushed them all accuse madrid of ignoring the will of catalan people who voted to secede from spain the spanish government sacked him and dissolved his parliament after it declared independence from spain on friday and independence demonstrators have gathered on the streets of madrid in support of the government. u.s. defense secretary james mattis says the threats of a nuclear missile attack by north korea is accelerating speaking at the annual defense talks in south korea mattis insisted diplomacy was the preferred course of action but stressed it was only effective when backed by credible force. the government has put in place a plan to harvest rice from land abandoned by range of families in northern iraq

and states more than six hundred thousand led to bangladesh since late late august after a military crackdown by myanmar's military human rights groups say the decision raises questions about whether the refugees well ever be allowed back those are the headlines i'll be back in twenty five minutes but for now you can see inside story . in control of catalonia spain pushes back fire in the government and the police chief but will that simply exacerbate callahan's ambitions to split what happens next this is inside story.