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marching for unity hundreds of thousands stage a rally in barcelona to protest against catalonia declaring independence. the murder investigation into alleged meddling by russia and the u.s. election a warning of criminal charges after details a leaked. on the child people smugglers used by mexican gangs to get undocumented migrants into the u.s. . iraq's kurdish leader massoud barzani is to step down as president has approved his request not to extend his time be on november the first of all we distribute his powers in his speech following the announcement he said the iraqi central government no longer believes in kurdish rights and is using september secession vote as a pretext to attack the region. well i know now. according to the law the

presidency can be extended by the parliament however i inform the parliament that i will not extend my term i will not accept any abed but in the law to extend my term as president. for the latest let's go to stephanie decker in arab el so he's stepping down but a very frosty frustrated message barzani there what else did he have to say. yes you could see it in his face he certainly wasn't happy this wasn't a live recording this was recorded he went through a lot of points actually what he wasn't happy about he made the point that all the kurdish parties voted for the kurdish referendum for that to go ahead he also basically said that this was being used as an excuse now by the various by iraq to do what they did when it came to taking over places like her cook the disputed territories and said they would have done it regardless of this referendum there

was a plan in place it was preplanned he pointed the finger at the united states as well saying while there are key forces reasoning american weapons against us and they stood by and did nothing he said that once again the kurds would realize that the only friends they had were the mountains which is an old kurdish saying he did stress for unity and i think that is something important because that is i think the question going forward now what happens when it comes to the internal divisions here we already saw it outside of parliament when we left still going on just a while ago supporters of but is anyone looking for some of the opposition m.p.'s who had been critical of him with sticks in their hands guns as well remember everyone is armed here is a some people who you speak to will say that they are slightly concerned that perhaps things can escalate on the ground of course at the moment that isn't the case it is a significant day merriam so as of wednesday there will be no more president much

food but is that he up to twelve years at the helm of this region and as you say the. secession referendum has really exposed some of the. sort of divisions within the kurdish bloc as a whole in terms of going forward now what kind of relationship will they have with the central government in baghdad. well they have to have a relationship with the central government because you know it is still one country it's a semi autonomous region we know at the moment for example one of the backlashes of that controversial referendum is the fact that the federal authority of baghdad is going to take over the control of the border crossings that the k r g has been in charge of since two thousand and three so talks are going on at the moment not right now because it's late but that was the second day that they took part in mosul between the rockies between the peshmerga going to the all spaces of the international coalition there seems to be an agreement just in the last couple of

hours around fish which is that border crossing of iraq into syria that federal forces will be deployed there it's not a question when it comes to baghdad this is what they're going to do so dialogue is going to have to remain open both sides have said they want dialogue so i think you know the relationship with baghdad perhaps at the moment in the short term less critical i think more importantly will be to watch how things pan out here on the ground supporters of both sides because you have two main parties here they are very divided there's already a lot of victrola in the media that supports both sides the better than is the taliban is what we're going to have to wait and see how the evening progresses and how the next few days thank you very much stephanie deca in air bill who says you've been hearing that goes on he was one of the biggest driving forces behind the kurdish bid for secession from iraq but pressure had been mounting on him to step aside ever since september's controversial referendum just thirty six hours after the vote iraqi government moved in to take back last areas of land under kurdish control. takes

a look at his political legacy masoud barzani spent much of his career fighting for and leading the kurdish cots a mission that ended for him soon after the kurds voted in favor of succession from iraq. sonnie was born in a kurdish region of iran on the same day as the kurdish democratic party was established on august sixteenth one thousand nine hundred forty six he followed his father's footsteps joining an army struggle for kurdish autonomy interact at the age of sixteen and then taking over the political party in one thousand seventy nine when his father died he spent two years fighting with the pressure off the battling rival kurdish forces but after the us invasion of iraq in two thousand and three as saddam hussein's death he began to work with the iraqi government and two years later he was voted as leader of northern iraq kurdistan regional government since two thousand and fourteen his forces have helped fight eisel in iraq the

kurdish region remain an area of relative stability and safety for people who have been displaced from other parts of the country. after hinting at it for a while bar sonnie called for a kurdish independence referendum in september two thousand and seventeen. kurds voted overwhelmingly in favor of it. great people of kurdistan you did not allow anyone to break your will when you voted yes to independence we entered a new stage and this is a win for all of kurdistan baghdad rejected the referendum calling it unconstitutional. again pitting bar sonnie and his peshmerga against iraqi government forces and yet after more than forty years pushing for it can still claim more kurdish autonomy than his legacy. on al-jazeera.

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article one five five. now the regional leader. kenya's opposition leader has branded the presidential election rerun a sham and called for a new poll within ninety days. church leaders and supporters in nairobi a day after the repeat vote was suspended due to violence ramadan has more from nairobi. there's little doubt present. headed for months later when of the thousands election. by the opposition parties shrunken electoral mandate due to a timeout continues to tarnish the credibility of a process depletes. opposition leader leading the company to discredit. i think. the busier

it is. i think elections. look at the turnout. the. from. the kim. we said than the. three point five million people. but it didn't in the so-called election on thursday. was on the bottle of and boy declared that he would play no part in the run up to the repeat tell action but didn't get demand of the electoral commission make reforms that he believed necessary to avoid previous mistakes that did not happen the election commission has promised to announce so one voltage will take place in twenty five constituencies and was then kenya where security fears and violence prevent the

polling from taking place with voting incomplete it's unclear whether the commission would wait or declare victory. it's violence between can now time remain a supports is the cause most kenyans coincide in nairobi scalding water still members of canal to stick with charred stunned over the remains of the houses and shops of time i took clashes with the biggest supporters. both sides what i'm going with machetes my views of the. what started the violence is disputed with each side blaming the other wolf like knowledge a thing is it's a place it's bought kenya's deputy president says they're willing to hold conditional talks with all positions we cannot engage in any discussion outside the league or from walk on the constitutional provisions that fix to change these or that we believe in dangerous situations of our country. police also accused of

brutality and killings in opposition strongholds in the capital and was them kenya . medical journals brother paul was shot and killed in mother slums in nairobi. but how many plain jane lynch now. that he's buying the child and that he's a very much. it's kenya crisis is a two thousand and seven bolt sparked months of post-election violence that left one thousand one hundred people that mohammed atta while jazeera. you're watching out is there a much muscle telling about libya's renegade general have to or does an investigation into the discovery of mass graves. i mean reporting on moves to bring apex predators like wolves back to the scottish highlands after an absence of more than three hundred.

hello sunday was not a quiet day for germany and austria as the winds screamed dancer it pushing or following this car down now that's cold and it's coming down as a cold front and there be a big change in the weather throughout most of central and eastern europe so overnight it is snow for the talks just to prove the competence of the air then it gets clear temperatures will reveal what's the difference is vienna is next is nine book rest ten ankara eleven is to the twenty's just about in italy and degrees for that won't necessarily last the center of the storm but this time it's more as of east and better. best for london's down to twelve still run about twenty one in madrid you'll notice in this part of europe if anything is going to get away with it and. changed very much but we're still not in vienna or not in berlin the

slightly lower wind speeds on tuesday sun's out but definitely feels like a change in the character so you know what's happening every year at that which is going to screamed out of the gene for a while it's already knocked him for his back the next and temperature likely in tripoli all mondays twenty five twenty two in benghazi even cairo is not below thirty the breeze will ease for the still clatter an attempt is going to recover. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts folk abene dot. tossed by the security council to mediate between arabs and israelis. his days 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. going back and watching al-jazeera quick recap of the top stories now. iraq's kurdish regional leader massoud barzani says he's stepping down parliament has approved his request for his time not to be extended beyond november the first. hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of boss alone are calling for catalonia to stay united with spain some were demanding the jailing of sacked catalan leader collars pushed him out. and kenya's main opposition leaders called the presidential election rerun

a sham and demanded another vote within ninety days while reading them at church leaders and supporters in a part of nairobi that seemed violent clashes since the election. now and other stories we're covering the governor of new jersey chris christie says whoever leaked details of the investigation into alleged russian meddling in last year's presidential elections could face criminal charges u.s. media reported that a federal grand jury approved the first charges on friday it's not clear what the charges are or who they are against as the indictment is sealed under orders from a federal judge investigation led by special counsel robert muller a former f.b.i. director is looking into whether trump campaign officials colluded with russia rob reynolds joins us live now from washington d.c. and rob of course we don't know who's going to be indicted but which figures have been under the most scrutiny by special counsel. well there's a fairly long list of people that miller has put his spotlight on mario but i mean

starting at the top there's michael flynn he was very active in the campaign a former u.s. military general and served for just about a month as the national security adviser in the white house before being fired when it was revealed that he had lied about the extent of his contacts with russian officials during the transition period then there is paul mann afore he was the trump campaign manager for months during the campaign and he is also under intense scrutiny of his had numerous contacts with russian officials business leaders and extensive ties with russia leaning parties in ukraine that that paid him millions of dollars for his work there then there's donald trump jr who held a meeting at trump tower in new york in june of two thousand and sixteen with

a lawyer who's been linked to the kremlin the object of that meeting as far as trump knew going into it was that the russians were going to reveal some dirt they dug up on hillary clinton and share it with the trump campaign also in that meeting jared pushed her the president's son in law who is also known to have had some back channel meetings with russian officials and also robert miller's looking at questioners own personal business dealings as well so it's a fairly long list and also remember that it's not only enough to have done some overt act of collusion with the russians but to have lied about any of those acts or anything else to investigators is enough to get you indicted and chris christie who is the governor of new jersey now was a federal prosecutor for a long time put a lot of people in jail and he says whoever is going to be named in the indictment probably already knows it. well the one thing that's clear here is. is i heard

someone say oh are people nervous believe me if you're the person you know i mean you've already been told you're a target. your lawyers have been if you've been asked come into the grand jury they've got to advise you of your status so whether you're a target if you've been told you're a target believe me or not sleeping well anyway. well so present all around hasn't been restrained in expressing how he feels about the rusher investigation what's been his reaction to these potential indictments where you're right all along he's called it a witch hunt and the president did tweet earlier today i'll quote his tweet saying all of this russia talk right now when the republicans are making their big push for tax cuts and reform is this coincidental he tweeted then in all caps not exclamation point all right thanks very much for all reynolds with all the

latest from washington d.c. general khalifa haftar who controls eastern libya has ordered an investigation into thirty six and identified bodies found to the east of benghazi some of the victims had signs of torture and gunshot wounds to the head when mrs say the victims were arrested months ago i have to as the libyan national army. had reports from tripoli thirty six bodies have been found in what appears to have been a mess excuse in in libya the bodies were found in the village of libya are about seventy kilometers east of the city of been an area controlled by the libyan national army or eliminate forces loyal to negate general khalifa haftar the corpses showed signs of torture and had gunshots to the head witnesses in benghazi say the victims who were arrested by have to the forces months ago and not heard of

since. sources told ages either those who went missing including opponents of have to and military dissidents did not agree with the operations carried out by his troops their linae which is affiliated to the top of the best parliament in eastern libya has ordered an investigation and a statement signed by highly for have to says they will try to identify arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of the crime or have that is the forces have been accused of committing atrocities on numerous occasions since that in a good general launch an operation dignity in two thousand and fourteen a campaign he said to drive out on with groups of from libya last march it's allegedly on earth the graves of opponents mutilated the corpses and set some on fire in a district west of one of. several human rights organizations have accused the have to his forces of committing crimes against humanity and more than i would fully one of his leading officers is wanted by the international criminal court for war

crimes including executions without trial. as have that has been supported by regional and international powers including egypt united arab emirates france and russia many libyans are losing faith in international justice. tripoli. demanding the release of its journalists hussein has now been in an egyptian prison for more than three hundred ten days is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al-jazeera strongly deny it has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail it was arrested in december while visiting his family criminal organizations are recruiting children to smuggle undocumented migrants into the u.s. al-jazeera has obtained rare access to some of the teenagers acting as guides and juarez just across the border from texas john home and brings us more.

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 sent it 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 food i can do many things for my family. the cartels recruit put your toes in the poorer parts of quantities they can no more in a single night than their parents do in four months working in the city's border

factories. government officials told us that strong 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 ends but the young guides try to get their kites across the united states. for 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 your money would ask if they could finish getting into arms trafficking kidnapping he says. after being caught 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. the taliban has killed thirteen police in an attack in northern afghanistan fighters storm a police checkpoint in kunduz province early on sunday morning only one policeman managed to escape the battle and chip joyce has renounced his new zealand

sufficient citizenship and is expected to be there we gain his seat in december's byelection. the prime ministership to be held there by and that's a big one and. let's hope that if the people of new england find it in the hearts to give me a run of it again after the second of december that we can fix that problem i've got lower animals like bears and links for once a common sight across europe but centuries of hunting and habitat destruction has wiped them out now in scotland one project hopes project hopes to bring back wolves after an absence of more than three hundred years while another is reintroducing red squirrels and clark travel to the country's remote northern highlands to find out more. rugged and remote in the heart of the scottish highlands the wilderness reserve it is stunning to behold but it's a view shaped by mud is it but that's the goal we look amazing but it's not what

got you through the scope and used to be a great force. britain. that forest was slowly ripped out by centuries of ship building an industry full lister wants to return this land to how it once was and as well as already planting nearly a million trees he plans to release and control animals that have long since disappeared the large carnivores present made up the ecosystem such as. rick shut out think sion. to create a large scale fifty thousand acres of wilderness reserve and to bring back. like many rewilding such as this full believes this would help restore the balance of nature and keep the populations of red deer in check which reached destructively high numbers. now it's not just keystone species like wolves and bears that are in the frame much less controversial but just as important is the action being taken

over red squirrels here in scotland the red squirrel has been squeezed out of much of the british isles by its great counterpart scotland is one of the last strongholds but even here it's under threat within scotland as the situation pretty much the whole of the northwest doesn't have any rights. and so that's saying that this project to reintroduce them to the northwest recently in the morning health inspection take them across and then release them in specially built nest boxes it's a project that engages the local community college murdoch works on a nearby state and keeps an eye on the new arrivals i think it's a wonderful idea and i do and. this is done in several places new very successfully undescribable but really still. it's setting up a little population to see from the goodies and should be heating you back out on a dell red squirrels have already made a comeback there's also

a focus on wildcats breeding program is being attempted to help restore a national population which is dwindled to dangerously low levels. all in all the concept of rewilding is one which if properly managed can help species of all sorts thrive and also perhaps people connect with nature the way it once was little al-jazeera the scottish life on everything right here al jazeera dot com. quick recap of the top stories for you now iraqi kurdish president massoud barzani is stepping down. and has approved his request for his term not to be extended beyond november the first resigning has been on the precious since last month's controversial secession referendum vote which the iraqi government says was illegal led to days of fighting between iraq and kurdish forces or zani says the referendum

result can never be erased. according to the law or the presidency can be extended by the parliament however i inform the parliament that i will not extend my term i will not accept any abed but in the law to extend my term as president. hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of barcelona calling for spain to stay united the rally is the biggest show of force yet from the so-called silent majority who don't support catalonia independence bed some were demanding the arrest of catalan leader carlos pushed a moment the crisis came to a head on friday when catalan politicians voted to declare their region an independent republic. kenya's main opposition leader is called the presidential election rerun a sham and demanded a new vote within ninety days byler a danger met church leaders and supporters in a part of nairobi that seem violent clashes since the vote election commission is putting president to hear

a kenya strong course for victory with ninety seven percent of the vote again that told his supporters not to take part. renegade general hurley five to who controls eastern libya has ordered an investigation after thirty six on identify bodies were found in a village east of benghazi they were discovered on thursday some of the victims had signs of torture and gunshot wounds to the head there the latest in a series of apparent mass killings in territory controlled by libya libyan national army and thousands of prisons have protested against the sexual harassment of women in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal the demonstration in the french capital comes after dozens of actresses accuse their hollywood producer of sexual assault and rape weinstein denies the allegations. talked to al-jazeera is coming up next one is after that about twenty five minutes time then.

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