in the middle east. killing the count at this time on al jazeera. in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being a good thing. going to be. men and women for the forces that are available what makes an al-jazeera story is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story wants to know the government not going to do the one thing the demonstrators more apologize for that's what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth. on the streets of barcelona a show of strength by opponents of castle and independence.

elegant my name's peter you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up on the pressure after the controversial referendum iraq's kurdish leader will not extend his term as president. there will be no election in ninety days there will be no. dialogue with god on. president rejects the opposition leaders claim that the presidential election rerun was a sham. and thousands marching and going in support of myanmar as military over the river crisis. protests are taking place in barcelona against catalonia as efforts to break away from spain organizers say more than a million people attended the. well consulate he is deposed. is calling for

democratic and peaceful opposition to move towards direct rule of the region declared independence over a bill he joins us live from. in amongst all those protesters on either side of the debate give us a sense of how much anger there is. from . people here say that they had been the silent majority those who have been sitting at home watching events unfold in a very rapid way. some of them even have time to actually take a deep breath before the next step. is coming out of here. and i think organize a. point to give this speech. just to underline the fact that from their point of view.

this same point now many. people go and vote in the first place. it was. from the beginning. simply did not want to take. their majority presented by the regional government to the now the government. do you think this is going because it seems that that anger is not going to dissipate anytime soon i mean people are saying mr should be sent to prison i notice as well a leading belgian politician is on record as saying we will give him political asylum. but it's true we are really in uncharted territory here. and i think now you have article one five five which basically extended the powers

of the central government to this autonomous region and that definitely is what is current is pushed him on himself going to do to the leader should not be working anymore from the generally that is the building which is the headquarters of the regional government he has an answer to that been officially sacked he's concerned he is a leader independent catalonia. i think this is one of the things that is worrying most people here how is that going to unfold at some point the central government will have to. extend its authority to take over that building and put in that building the people that have nominated namely the deputy prime minister will the regional authorities actually evacuate one thing that is really worrying people no one has forgotten the. violence during the referendum and i think it has

backfired on the central government so there is an effort to avoid similar being beamed really on television screens across the world but how is that going to happen is really the big concern. we should hear from the prosecutor general he should issue a list of charges against him on the understand part of those charges are sedition and abuse of public funds. it. appears in front of a high court probably in madrid will he actually go and do that or maybe. belgium as it has been as we heard from the belgium authorities that is actually being considered but we haven't heard from him what's his position on that so certainly a lot of balls in the air at the moment and i think the greatest concern is how. are the regional how is the regional government going to. do now the power is

extended by madrid thanks very much. members of parliament in iraq's kurdish region a meeting to discuss the future of the president must be both zani has been under pressure to quit following september's controversial secession referendum triggered more than ten days of fighting between iraqi and kurdish forces joins us live now from bill so staff have we got a decision and crucially what happens to his powers where do they go. for that's what parliament is debating right now we've had a letter now made public in a system and one of the senior advisers to muscle tweeting that the letter basically says according this is resigned as a person will continue at the service of our people i refused to get any extension and will not continue in this position then nor should not be amended for me so what that translates into as we've been reporting is that november first on wednesday elections are supposed to be held presidential parliamentary they've been

extended by eight months while he's not going to be present as of that day as of wednesday onward so what parliament is debating now is how to distribute his powers how to deal with this interim period and just interesting me one of the good the k d p members that runs on his parliament just recently came out of the session and started talking to journalists quite angrily and shaking saying that he refused to vote against a man that he believed represented the voice of three million people referring to that referendum which of course peter can you offer any kurd whatever side of the internal political divide they're on that an independent kurdistan is their dream so we've just seen him walk out so there is a back and forth within parliament but we are expecting at some point this evening for them to come out and to actually spell out how powers are going to be sort of administered whether it's through parliament the judiciary perhaps in the in the hands of the prime minister who's resigned his nephew so we're waiting to hear how exactly they're going to sort out all the details does this leave the whole move

towards secession or independence in disarray or is it just on the back burner. well i think it's fair to say that many kurds will tell you that their dreams have been shot turned kurdistan on the and the idea of an independent state certainly when they lost her cook in their eyes because her coke is disputed it's complicated peter but certainly they saw her coke as the beating heart of any independent state it was also going to be the source of revenue because of it will richness any independent kurdistan would need to be able to fund itself while that is gone it needs to go to another referendum of the issues you know of who will control in the future has been dealt with but is not being dealt with that moment and also the fact that they're going to lose their borders peter it is illegal under the rock the constitution but the k r g has administered these borders with syria with turkey with iran since two thousand and three well that is going to be changed now

so they've really gone back from the start the status quo ante if you will the situation that they had before the referendum they have lost so much and many people will blame. me for that are saying that perhaps he wasn't listening he did it in the wrong time and others who support him will tell you that this was his right and this was the timing was correct so i think at the moment certainly the idea of that secession of any independent state has been pushed way way further down that it ever had been before saf thanks very much. ken his deputy president has told this channel al-jazeera that they will be no discussion of a repeat election with the main opposition party now that comes after the opposition leader while it didn't go round it says days where people vote a sham and called for a new poll within one today so far the election commission is putting presidential working out ahead with ninety eight percent of the blues but a dingo says he's open to talks with kenya his party it was

basically to who was a who or who was the king. computing. is competing against. the. three point five million that is it is god knows something to me do the. visit. or is he going to call a sham elections shambolic. unwilling to talk but the gender would still be the same agenda. to create a level playing field so that solution can be held in the next ninety days mohammad has the latest from nairobi. the results been targeted by the independent electoral commission in various parts of the country are dividing the people of kenya just like the election process before you opposition supporters are saying. they did

believe tinkering with numbers to make up for very little for. the government we've just come back from interviewing the deputy president of kenya william. that. they are more than ninety five percent of the votes cast and that it's just a matter of time before president who took. him. for another in office now what has kenya's most concerned however is the killings going on in some parts of nairobi with some militias allied to politicians cutting out killings of different ethnic groups police say they're looking for the politicians more of those militias. talks minor they're talking about having had a conversation with william russo we had a conversation with him as well in the last forty five minutes with mr ruled out any talks saying it was kenyans who chose not to vote when all the country

on the end of all got fifteen million kenyans forty. in this election seven point six million kenyans wanted those who did not vote was asked to boycott the election by the opposition it is a choice that citizens make in kenya it is not it is not mandatory for anybody to want it is our choice that you make you choose to vote or you choose not to vote what we are against either. you or militia and violence to stop citizens from exercising their democratic constitutional right and he has succeeded in a very small section of kenya that is only nine percent of kenya the money to stop citizen from four to twelve million people twelve million people are not you asking a vote is not a small percentage of the country we've got on tape rial are doing or saying he is

prepared to talk presumably within a parameter of another election happening within three months ninety days what is mr kenyatta central message to rial will they come together and talk to each other or negotiate through something like the supreme court again or the electoral commission again our our statement and our position to our friend that would be is that kenya is that constitutional democracy and every imaginable situation has been provided by the constitution whatever he is alleging about an election i don't know in ninety days he is no where in the constitution. and no one person however important they think they are how well via popular they think they are can change the provisions of the constitution kenya is not the

animal farm where there are. some that are more equal than others all of us the president included are subject to the constitution the constitution provides that there will be a rerun within sixty days that is what happened on the twenty six day last week and can now we'll move on from there there will be no oil action in ninety days there will be no discussion on matters to do with elections we will have dialogue with mr odinga on as a matter of not a matter that have been suckered by the people of kenya in their supreme will in a bubble. william ruto talking to us earlier still to come on the lookout children become the latest tool for mexican cartels to gain the upper hand on u.s. immigration measures. thousands of women running in paris against sexual harassment .

how it were into a pleasant spell of weather for rest southern parts of china the awesome sunshine coming through we'll see you hong kong at around twenty seven celsius over the next couple of days lots of fine and said weather perhaps a little bit of cloud just clinging on to the coastal fringes but the wet weather is getting dragged through the south china sea central parts of vietnam seeing some very lively downpours as we go on through the next couple of days with the possibility of some flooding that way a few showers too into the northeast of india maybe pushing across into myanmar right across the by a bingo you can see this line of cloud and rain which is pushing its way down towards tom will not do towards. the heavy showers he has to go through the next few days but of the northeast the monsoon coming in that means settled and sunny for a good part of india had also of course into pakistan karate around thirty four celsius

the showers will continue into the southeast and colder into sri lanka i sort of a showers across the river in place behaviors fine and dry them a little bit of cloud just around the gulf of aden pushing into southern parts of yemen further north present sunshine for many will see temperatures in abu dhabi getting up to around thirty four degrees a high here in doha a lovely high. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they're putting out every day but the message is a simplistic brain that good logical rational. and misinformation is right dismissal and denial of well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on

al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera and our top stories this hour spain central government says more than a million people have rather against catalonia to break away the deposed leader their calloused put him on just calling for democratic and peaceful opposition to the kurds direct rule of the region. m.p.'s in iraq's kurdish region a meeting to discuss the future of the president last week barzani has been under pressure to quit following september secession referendum he says it will not stay he will not stay in his role. kenya's deputy president has told al-jazeera that

they'll be no discussion of a repeat election with the main opposition party it comes after the opposition leader raila odinga branded thursday's repeat vote a sham and called for a new poll within ninety days. the chiefs of police and intelligence services in somalia have been sacked because of security failures after a ten hour siege in mogadishu five al shabaab fighters detonated car bombs before storming a hotel and taking hostages at least twenty three people died security forces killed two attackers and arrested three others catherine sawyer from kenya. hours after the attack on a hotel in mogadishu volunteers and rescue workers are still clearing the debris and pulling out. the siege is over and once again residents of this city. just two weeks after another attack the wost in somalia's history close to four hundred people were killed and dozens are still missing out how. two of the

attackers were killed and three others were. battle between security forces and the terrorists we don't yet know the official death toll the rest of the fight is over most of those killed by security forces this hotel is popular with government officials and members of parliament it's very close to the presidential palace and the president was supposed to hold a meeting here with somalia's five regional states and i'm going to cry out i was driving a truck at 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 i saw four dead bodies. claimed responsibility the group remains active in mogadishu and other areas even after being pushed out by african union forces and the somali government and despite constant asked by u.s. forces in areas still under the group's control government officials say they have

prevented more attacks but keeping people safe is proving difficult as all continues to take control of surrounding districts catherine soy al jazeera. thousands of people have marched through young gone and supported me in laws military over the range of crisis it was a rare show of support for the army who is accused of killing and raping a range of muslims in rakhine state florence from yangon. thousands marched some bussed in from neighboring states the rally organized by nationalists and military veterans is to show support for myanmar's troops the military has come under criticism from the international community for its ongoing crackdown against the range of minority in rakhine state people here say the criticism is unwarranted we need to support the military because they are defending the country we need to stand with our soldiers. by being here and supporting our troops we hope to reduce the criticism against our military. the army chief has defended the operation

in rakhine as a counter offensive against an armed group of fighters that the government considers a terrorist organization the. nationalists monks at the rally say muslim in rakhine are trying to turn parts of the country into an islamic state. this is one of several pro military events. more than rakhine state in all this other. countries are rarely such as israel because the military the country. isn't a popular institution. some analysts say these events shouldn't be taken as a blanket support for the military they also show backing for the governing national league for democracy party or in reality if the military goes against. the. military. in this instance

the military and the ruling party appear to have taken the stand the fact the leader. has been criticized not only for not speaking out for the rich but for defending the military's actions the support for both the government and military at this event underscores one other thing there are very few people in myanmar who will speak out for the ranger florence louis al-jazeera yangon. thousands of people are protesting in paris against the harris meant of women the demonstration follows more than three dozen actresses that claim they were sexually assaulted by the film producer harvey weinstein he denies all the allegations the claims prompted a social media campaign that women to speak out against sexual abuse our correspondent david chaytor joins us live from paris so david the women of france the men of france having their hash tag me to moment as well.

that's right just a few statistics perhaps to give you some background every year there are something like eighty four thousand rapes in france and two hundred twenty thousand sexual assaults second gives you an idea of the size of the problem here in france now they do have a gender equality minister. she's. bringing in new laws next year but at the moment the penalties for a sexual harassment are up to two years in jail and thirty five thousand dollars fine for cleaning is really growing here in france is not based around hollywood in the costing count this is reaching all parts of french society and to get me some more background on exactly how well this demonstration is going i have with me. who is one of the organizers of the hash tag me true in real life that is

a good change isn't it because this is happening everywhere this is a real part of your life and so many other women i think it's a part of everyone's life and i think it's a day to day struggle from when you wake up in the morning to choosing what you're going to wear is going to be appropriate and i'm going to be harassed in the streets for it you know work in the streets it's a battle it's an everyday battle very recently a judge decided that an eleven year old girl had consented to sex this wasn't a rape this was a sexual assault that's caused a great deal of worries hasn't it that is something that you want to protest about too i think it's just preposterous first of all i don't think an eleven year old girl has even the notion of really sex i don't think it i think it's just crazy and i think the guy should seriously be punished and i think the law has to be revised right away and this girl has to get justice she's going to be traumatized and it's wrong it's just wrong now imagine your president. did appear on television very

recently he said to add insult to injury that in these cases where there is sexual harassment there is a there's a side and this needs to change it's not true that there is a taboo the response i'm going to break that. that's a wonderful question and i think it's still something we're trying to figure out and i think it's actually going to take a long time so the fact that it's only starting now is i think it's you know it's the what happened with hollywood that started you know everything but it should this have happened such a long time ago and yes there's a taboo in france i mean you have to be politically correct in france about a lot of things and i mean there's the power is with the men in general whether it's in france or i think and you were in the world actually and saw a woman or it sort of already are scared to speak up because we have to speak to

men about it we don't even have a choice i can only speak to a woman i mean maybe when you go to the police but not every woman goes to the police not everyone has the strength or is going to be supported through they have families you know what it is it's a struggle and i think there should be more women in power so other woman can feel empowered and can feel like they have the right to speak up and that men are not going to be you know sticking by each other like oh no this guy can do it you know . we have to leave it there we've run out of time inc you so much but very very clearly the problem in france is just as wide just been revealed to be united states and united kingdom where this movement is really growing here david thanks very much. australia's former deputy prime minister has fought his campaign to be reelected to parliament on friday the high court ruled the barnaby joyce was

a jewel citizen and could not under the rules of the constitution mr joyce has renounced his new zealand citizenship and as a favor to retain his seat. a left leaning four party coalition in iceland has emerged as the biggest group in the second parliamentary election of the year where the alliance won a narrow majority the independence party led by the incumbent prime minister remains the biggest party though the president still hasn't asked him to form the next government criminal organizations in mexico are recruiting minus to smuggle undocumented migrants into the u.s. al-jazeera has obtained rare access to some of the children acting as guides in what is just across the border from texas to home and the story. beyond that train is the united states so close to see that what is mexico you can almost reach out and touch it. the dream of many is to get to the other side and that's where mexican cartels have scented an opportunity smuggling across those without visas

for a price. what's little known is to do that they're increasingly relying on minors as people smugglers they call them dogs. this fourteen year old boy is one of them like others we talk to two hundred dollars for every mexican he takes across five hundred percent from americans with the money i can do many things buy clothes and food and you do many things for my family. the cartels recruit put your tito's in the poorer parts of one is they can no more in a single night than their parents do in four months working in the city's board of factories. government officials told us that's drawing young people into the business along the u.s. mexico divide you might be surprised to know that only thirty percent of the us mexico border is covered by any sort of fence and it's where that end is that the young guides try to get their kites across the united states. but your return still

face the desert with its snakes biting cold and the waiting u.s. border patrol i think we had close to close to seventy people that were identified as human are smugglers in two thousand and six in twenty sixteen we had almost one hundred fifty people identified as being human are human smugglers the problem for the u.s. is that it's extremely hard to prosecute minors and that's exactly why the cartels are using them they can run the routes again and again if they're caught it usually just means a ride back to mexico. they're handed over to this government center where a small but dedicated team gives them classes while they wait for parents to pick them up trying to encourage them to go back to school and intensity that director here berthel saul is worries if they don't they'll only get more tangled up in the cartels you're messing with us because they could finish getting into arms trafficking kidnapping he says. after being caught in his first crossing is

seventeen year old is one of those who decided to begin working with the newman i got scared i thought something would happen to me he told us but like many of what is young his options are limited and the prospect of a night's work rewarded with hundreds of dollars is a temptation whatever age you are john home and out is it or see it out. china has unveiled the world's largest ship to install offshore wind turbines the two thousand ton vessel can install turbines at sea much faster than before china is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and has taken huge steps to develop alternative power sources the country's been pushing for offshore wind turbines as the cost of building them on land went up. recapping our top story so far for you today spain central government says more

than a million people have rallied in barcelona against catalonia has been recalled way has alone is to close to post leader comes be tremendous problem for democratic and peaceful opposition to middle aged direct rule of the region. kenya's deputy president has told al jazeera that there will be no discussion of a repeat election with the main opposition party it comes after the opposition leader. branded thursday's repeat vote a sham and called for a new poll within ninety days there will be no election in ninety days there will be no discussion on matters to do with election we will have dialogue with mr odinga on other matters not matter that have been funded by the people of kenya in their thought preen will in the ballot. the chiefs of police and intelligence services in somalia have been sacked for security failures after a ten hour siege in mogadishu twenty three people died when al-shabaab fighters detonated car bombs and stormed

a hotel on saturday. the leader of iraq's kurdish region has confirmed that he will not remain as president massoud barzani has been under pressure to quit following september secession referendum m.p.'s in iraq's kurdish region a meeting to discuss the redistribution of his powers. thousands of people are marching in un gone in support of me and mass army the minority muslim or hindu community accuses the military of rape murder torture and arson six hundred thousand of them have fled to bangladesh in the past two months demonstrators say condemnation of the army is unwarranted. thousands of people protesting in paris against the heiress when two women in the protests follows more than three dozen bankruptcy's that claim they were sexually assaulted by harvey weinstein he denies all the allegations the claims prompted a social media campaign that as women to speak out against sexual abuse. a left leaning for party coalition in iceland has emerged as the biggest group in the second parliamentary election there in a year the alliance won

a narrow majority the independence party led by the incumbent prime minister remains the biggest party the president still hasn't asked him to form a government jane is here with the news grid in about half an hour i will see you at the usual times tomorrow up next here on al-jazeera the listening post by. you know you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the. al-jazeera. u.s. backed forces and syria are celebrating that you think isis in iraq looking rocket is a major blow for i think. talking about such. close to the minute that i mean al hunt cornish the u.s. banks all sit around and said operation. hello i'm richard yes bourdin you're at

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