but this time on al-jazeera. subzero temperatures extreme altitudes. this is where the hard part to get the extraordinarily journey from polish to touch it is done braved quite ordinary joy to avoid what we do high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all kurdistan but this time on al-jazeera. they're one they want a regime change that's just so obvious. qatar's america is the four arab countries behind a blockade of plotting to overthrow him. in

jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the leader of the iraqi kurdish region is stepping down as he defends his controversial push for secession . marching for unity hundreds of thousands of people rally in barcelona to protest against catalonia declaring independence. from canada to cabernet we examine the new growth industry and the lebanese. qatar's emir says the countries behind the gulf crisis are trying to force a change of leadership just to me been hammered out fanny was speaking to the u.s. television program sixty minutes his country's been living under a blockade almost five months since four arab states cut diplomatic and economic ties my kind of reports from washington. there was no sign of friction among gulf

leaders when they met president trump for his first foreign trip it was all smiles and a common pledge to combat terrorism in all its forms it less than two weeks later the blockade against cutter was launched much to the surprise of cutter's shaikh bin. we were praising each other. laughing with each other this cussing you know how to solve this terrorism that is a threat for the rest of the world they are making demands of you that you shut down al-jazeera that you may given your word that you're not supporting any islamist groups are you going to meet these demands our sovereignty is a red line we don't accept anybody interfering in our sovereignty when you tell me to close a china like al-jazeera history were right one day in fifty or sixty seventy years how it changed the whole idea of free speech in the region do you. i believe that they want regime change yes they one they want a regime change it's obvious history as well tells us teaches us that they tried to

do that before in one thousand nine hundred six after my father. became the emir of qatar has denied any support for terrorism. offered this explanation as to why the taliban was allowed to open an office in doha the reason why they came here it's not because we asked them to come here because other people like the united states america united states wanted the taliban here they wanted to have dialogue so they asked us if we can host them here and have the dialogue so that we host of them here this is the reason why they're here how what they say and we want to turn and believe me charlie we want to turn but nothing is going to be about our dignity our sovereignty what we want to turn i almost say that if they get no walk one meters towards me i'm willing to walk ten thousand miles towards them but maybe left to others to persuade those continuing the blockade to take that first step mike

hanna al-jazeera washington. is an associate professor of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says the enemy is interview shows there's no softening of his country's position. i think that certainly the emir was speaking directly to the american people going well beyond the government and rex tillerson in the secretary of state making the appeal to the american people that this is unjust and so on i think his claims about sovereignty which he made in an earlier interests over the summer are not new i think what he did show determination and the and the claim that this was about regime change which route which we all knew from the very beginning i think also is a toughening stance as it were all of us knew from the very beginning that the saudis and the emirates is behind these new directions would have loved to bring about regime change and in fact there might have been a military possibility in the first couple of days and they also miscalculated

thinking that the qatari people would somehow rebel against their government after the ending of formal relations and so on none of that happened so this was about regime change but see here the emir say that it was a bit startling so i think this was a serious attempt to address the american people and also the kind of educated classes and so on and i think it's also important to point out that in addition to his determination and his tough stance he did offer a leaf or a possibility as you mention with this claim that he said it's said twice in the interview that he's willing to go ten thousand miles if they are willing to come one meter so in addition to determination there was also a claim that we are that qatar is moderate and reasonable and claim to find a reasonable solution to this crisis i mean all bahrain's foreign minister is calling for qatar to be frozen out of the regional bloc the gulf cooperation council khalid been ahmed on how the fed has tweeted that bahrain won't attend the

upcoming g.c.c. summit unless qatar meets the demands of behind and the three other blockading nations. the president of the kurdish regional government in iraq is stepping down barzani says he won't stand for reelection his term in office ends in just two days time he was the driving force behind last month's controversial kurdish referendum on succession which the iraqi government dismissed as illegal from ed a bill to stephanie decker. an independent kurdistan was supposed to be his legacy and yet it seems to have led to his downfall a somber looking must do better than he finally addressed the people directly on sunday night after relative silence for weeks went on and. according to the law the presidency camp extended by the parliament however i informed the parliament and i will not extend my term i will not accept any amendment in the law to extend my term as president. supporters of the president gathered outside parliament they

managed to get into its grounds despite the presence of riot police at the entrance opposition media was attacked and these men also asked around for the names of critical opposition m.p.'s but it didn't disrupt parliament which after hours of talks approved the redistribution of presidential powers among the government parliament and the judiciary. after twelve years as president come wednesday by design he will take some more of a back seat he remains head of the k.g.b. party and he'll still lead the high political council a body created to deal with the post referendum phase and he said he will remain what he called the highest rank of references to the peshmerga featured heavily in his televised address last saturday. in the fight against. great bravery the people of kurdistan short of defending spirit the international community came here admire the role of the peshmerga the people of kurdistan but unfortunately at the time they had to show action they all went back to their own interests and all the principles disappeared you also referenced

a kurdish proverb saying again we realize that the kurds only have the mountains as our friends but you also mentioned the betrayal over losing her cook in reference to fellow kurds in an opposition party at the end of his address present must food but is that the kurds to be unified they've always been internal divisions here but the aftermath of that controversial referendum seems to have widened those cracks in kurdish unity could perhaps be the biggest challenge in the short term stephanie decker al-jazeera. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in barcelona calling for spain to stay united the protesters say they are the silent majority who don't support castle and his bid for independence some were even demanding the arrest of the sacked. under simmons reports. two days after the vote to break from spain and for anyone who wondered how strongly those opposed to the move feel then is the answer. i think

cool for the jailing of karla's police drama and they describe themselves as the silent majority you couldn't find silence in the center of barcelona this sunday in sound square the seat of power for a regional government has been sacked by the state it was tense and a small number of pro unionists pushed against barriers in front of the government palace overall it was a peaceful protest though the crowds cheering the spanish national police helicopters that provoked anger when overflying procession demonstrations for those who say that the loonier should stay in spain this day belongs to them a sign for my age range of people here what's striking about it is the number of people who are actually demonstrating for the first time this is a family day out louisa column a and two of her daughters were reticent about it's a bit weird to think see a spanish flag out like you wouldn't normally do this

a people would literally in the street be i watch out whatever and i play you know i don't know like i wouldn't feel comfortable doing it because of the guards m.p. but they tend to be quite like the kind of hate crimes people sometimes a mother says unionists on not extremists regardless people they're not rights the right we're not fascist i'm never in the social splits it would be maybe two generations three generations. in. neighborhood nearby some of the session campaigners are working out their next moves and the mood isn't celebrated. this man says the movement is losing momentum because the regional government is spending a weekend doing little while the madrid government makes all the moves and he isn't alone we have confidence in our president. but it's very difficult vice president that is very difficult for us to understand and seem very minor.

most of the campaigners here say they are prepared to defend public buildings if the police try to arrest politicians with institutions all returning to work on monday their plans could soon be put to the test and do symons al-jazeera barcelona a seventh round of talks on syria's ongoing war is due to begin in kazakhstan's capital in the coming hours last time deescalation zones were agreed on in certain areas but since then there's been renewed fighting human can reports from a stunner. so the flags out for the various delegations are going to be arriving here in stana on monday and choose a for the seventh round of talks now the sixth round of talks took place in september where there was a major breakthrough for deescalation zones agreed upon within syria and places like the taqiyya homes and lives now those deescalation zones have worked to some

degree say the russians the iranians and the turks with a guarantee guarantor story of those deescalation zones however others say that clashes have taken place now the russians say that they've been fighting groups like hates t s a crawl a sham and isis fighters now the observers have said actually civilians have been caught in the middle of those clashes now and the next couple of days we are going to see talks taking place between those three guarantor countries russia turkey and iran are also going to be seeing talks take place with the syrian opposition and with representatives of the syrian government also here are the united nations and the united states now that's going to be interesting because rex tillerson has in the last few days the secretary of state said that he wants to see independent verifiable elections take place within syria but he doesn't see a role for the assad family doesn't see the outside family having a political role of any kind in syria so that's going to be an interesting

conversation they'll take place between the americans and the syrians if they actually do sit down and talk so a lot of talking going on in the next couple of days let's see what happens but it's likely that we're going to see some sort of movement on these deescalation zones where they extend the deadline for the deescalation zones to last longer than the current six months while an agreement on establishing the escalation zones in syria was signed by russia turkey and iran back in may the deal laid out the areas where rebels and government forces should stop hostilities. airstrikes for six months one includes italy province as well as northeastern parts of the takia western areas of aleppo province and northern parts of hama more than one million people live there. in northern homs province forms part two of. eastern ghouta northern damascus countryside is home to about six hundred ninety thousand people that's part of zone three the rebel controlled south along the

border with jordan which includes parts of the. provinces are in for. denounces the russia investigation as. speculation builds the first arrest could come as early as monday. the global online campaign against sexual harassment hits the streets in france stay with us. by the time. howlers bit of wet and windy weather on its way across the eastern med to the levant at the moment the most active stuff from satellite is up over turkey heading towards the caucasus but ahead of it the winds already picking up and forecast for

as we're knocking temperatures back to the low twenty's the cloud will pick up you know if i was forced to reign in passing showers which may well get as far north as the far north of iraq in the next day or so but mostly concentrated the moment still thirty the north twenty nine degrees is the forecast in baghdad but going to get to choose day for that thirty two down in kuwait has been a bit of a drop but two rounds hang on that was to see the sunshine through art iran which is still true throughout the arabian peninsula but temperatures still low to mid thirty's on this side low to high thirty's further west but nothing hitting forty you'll know she's been on shore breeze in means increase unity in salalah maybe a bit more cloud even the potential for a shower running off the horn of africa is a facet of yemen but most of the rain in africa is concentrated still in the tropics and that's killing dion's here and go in botswana it's tailed off in the eastern side of south africa and mozambique where recently we've seen wet weather but it looks for the next two days it will be ready to speaking dry and warm.

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welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera qatar's emir has told a u.s. television program sixty minutes that the countries behind the gulf crisis want regime change his country's been living under a blockade almost five months after for our country's cup ties in june he says he never saw it coming. the president of the kurdish regional government in iraq is stepping down. was the driving force behind last month's referendum to secede from iraq parliament voted to distribute his powers between itself the government and the judicial. and hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in barcelona spain to stay united is the biggest show of force yet from the so-called silent majority who don't support catalonia his bid for independence some are even the modern day arrest of the such leader. kenya's opposition leader has branded the presidential election a rerun a sham and call for a new poll within ninety days. church leaders and supporters in the capital as

a country remains in political limbo. well the poll was marred by violence and a low turnout of just forty three percent mamadou as more from nairobi. there's little doubt present a hook in yachties headed for lunch slide when after thousands election was boycotted by the opposition parties shrunken electoral mandate due to a timeout continues to tarnish the credibility of a process that has deeply polarized this nation. opposition leader a loading case leading the company to discredit that. i think. is a bizarre it is. i think really no elections no one. you know kind of the turnout. because you know from the record of.

the kim skits we had then different people voted. three point five million people. but is printed in so called an actual. custody. was on the bottle of and boy declared that he will 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 prevented polling from taking place with voting incomplete it's unclear whether the commission would wait or declare victory. it's violence between cannot time rain a supposed is the cost most kenyans consigned in nairobi scalding water slum members of canal to. stand over the remains of their houses and shops of time i

took clashes with the biggest supporters. both sides were armed with machetes my voice and other crude weapons what's taught that the violence is disputed with each side blaming the other yet wolf like knowledge the thing is it's a place it's pod's kenya's deputy president says they're willing to hold conditional talks with all positions we cannot engage in any discussion outside the league and from work on the constitutional provisions that fix to change these or not we believe in dangerous situations of our country. police are also accused of brutality and killings in opposition strongholds in the capital and was then kenya . erico two knows brother paul was shot and killed in mother slums in nairobi. palos short but how many point pain points now i'm amused. can you imagine the parents who are you know in this study is the news that indy's biting the child and

then he's a very marked thing it's kenya's last crisis is a two thousand and seven vote sparked months of post-election violence that left one thousand one hundred people that mohamed atta well just. somalia's police and intelligence chiefs have been sacked after two suicide bomb attacks in mogadishu at least twenty seven people died in saturday's attack which has been claimed by the group al-shabaab most of those killed by security forces it's the second attack in the capital in two weeks. u.s. news organizations are reporting the first charges have been laid in the investigation into russian meddling in last year's election campaign a federal grand jury has been hearing evidence led by special counsel robert mueller what the charges are who they've been laid against haven't yet been made public but as rob reynolds reports that list of individuals being investigated is a long one. i. do solemnly swear that the road to indictment began in

january when the u.s. intelligence community concluded russia meddled in the two thousand and sixteen election on behalf of donald trump i have not yet seen any temp tentative that didn't have collided and i've seen a lot of bad end set the russians were very active in trying to influence the election f.b.i. director james comey was investigating possible collusion between russia and the trump campaign when president trump abruptly fired him in may trump soon admitted coma's dismissal was related to the russia investigation the justice department then appointed robert muller a former prosecutor and f.b.i. director and gave him broad authority to conduct a wide ranging investigation which is now about to bring its first charges. for your jersey governor chris christie is a trump supporter and also a former federal prosecutor but when you're going after the smaller fish to get the bigger fish usual charge them that's usually stuff that's working behind the scenes

because what you want to do is keep that smaller fish having turned secret because it helps them to be able to gather more information some bowlers team is interviewed current and former administration officials including former national security advisor michael flynn who was fired for lying about his meetings with russian officials during the presidential transition former trump campaign manager paul mann a ford is under intense scrutiny by miller we know that the russian government through intermediaries was reaching out to the trumka. paper reaching out to all men a fortnight others and offering information on hillary clinton they fought would help the trump campaign moeller has widened the investigation to clute possible obstruction of justice as well as the trump family's business and financial dealings and has taken a keen interest in the june two thousand and sixteen meeting at trump tower attended by donald trump jr trump son in law jared cushier and

a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin at that meeting trump jr expected to receive damaging information about hillary clinton from russian contacts. now the question we continue to vest again is. was the campaign coordinating in the russian help still remains to be seen there certainly evidence that's highly suggestive of that in terms of the meeting in trump tower but a lot more work needs to be done trump has called the inquiry a witch on there's no clear indication that trump himself is the target of muller's investigation most constitutional scholars believe a sitting president cannot be indicted and that the only remedy for improper or illegal behavior by the chief executive is impeachment and removal from office by congress robert oulds al jazeera washington now two u.s. senators who've been adrift in the pacific ocean for five months have been brought to shore in japan jennifer paddle and touch

a savior left hawaii in may bound for tahiti the trip was supposed to take three weeks but bad weather damaged their engines hundreds of distress calls failed until tuesday when they were spotted by a timing special which led to the u.s. navy. believe the navy were like yes someone who can actually help but. it is great that he's not in a different hissing going case and then being ever so great like we had here is going down i don't like it here. now thousands of people in france have taken that me to online campaign to the streets to have been used by millions of women worldwide to protest against sexual harassment was triggered by the harvey weinstein scandal a hollywood producer accused of sexual assault and rape has more from. the message has already gone viral on the internet in france women in paris sunday were making sure it was heard loud and clear on the streets as well.

paris meant as an everyday part of their lives and it has to stop because. i've experienced sexual. harassment work. with. the younger generation have been born is a time where equality isn't rights already exist once you've earned the right then you can start the struggle. how many of us have been bribed sexually harassed all the women i know who've been harassed but didn't know that many women had been right in. the gender equality minister. has set out plans for a new law on the spot fines for cat calling well let's just behavior public. and

the french president emanuel macron has also acknowledged the scale of the issue in a television interview this month he said what adds insult to injury is the silence the to boom too often women don't press charges because they don't dare to he said activists have set up a special mobile phone number for women being repeatedly press for their personal contacts if the man doing the harrison rings it will get a text message back saying if a woman says no she means no. street terrorist meant makes up ten percent of the violence against women so this is a tool for them but to find a long term social solution we need the government to act only five percent of reported cases of harris mage reach court in france and less than ten percent of those result in a conviction and four hundred thousand women have actually lost their jobs for reporting it david chaytor al jazeera marriage. now lebanon's bekaa valley is

notorious for its lucrative hashish industry but the illicit trade has been struggling as a result of the war in neighboring syria so some growers and now turning from kemah best to cleric and cabinet isn't his type now reports. cannabis is big business in lebanon according to the government bulis it trade is worth more than a billion dollars a year much of the crop is process that plants similar to this one to make his sheesh which is shipped across the middle east and around the world. but increasingly these fields are starting to disappear over the years the military has launched periodic crackdowns across the eastern because valley setting fire to plants and causing major losses for growers would lead hub she comes from a long line of cannabis cultivators he says despite the risks his family had often been able to make healthy profits but not anymore. we have to stop hashish

cultivation because although it was lucrative and the environment here is excellent for growing it was illegal we faced several challenges because we were small dealers and couldn't keep up with the big dealers who can export that has shisha brought one of the biggest issues facing the cannabis industry in recent years is their traditional smuggling routes through syria have been blocked because of the war tired of the uncertainty many farmers have turned to another crop to revive their fortunes grapes for making wine. this vineyard was planted just a few years ago it produces grapes of such high quality that it is already being made into wine michelle who had been in the house she she destry for decades but gave it up to make wine says growing cabernet instead of cannabis was an easy choice. in the end we want to live with dignity and with

a clear conscience rather than living with the fear of being fugitives that's why i was one of the first people to leave the drugs business because everyone here wants to live a dignified and legal like. this winery was set up to allow small scale wine growers to work together as a cooperative it's part of attempts to help them crack the competitive lebanese market with their own vintages. since january more than one hundred thousand bottles had been produced here which is still only a fraction of the eight million bottles of wine lebannon produces each year but with profits from grapevine cultivation started to surpass earnings from count is growing there is little doubt there will soon be more wine then we'd hear. al-jazeera in lebanon eastern because bally.

remind of the top stories here on al-jazeera has told a u.s. television program sixty minutes that the countries behind the gulf crisis want regime change his country's been living under a blockade for almost five months after for our country's cut ties in june he says he never saw it coming. yes they one they want a regime change it's just so obvious history as well tells us teaches us that they tried to do that before and nine hundred ninety six after my father. became the emir you know bahrain's foreign minister is calling for qatar to be frozen out of the reason a bloc the gulf cooperation council. has tweeted that bahrain won't attend the upcoming g.c.c. summit on this council meets the demands of bahrain and the three other blockading nations. the president of the kurdish regional government in iraq is stepping down massoud barzani was the driving force behind last month's referendum to secede from iraq the parliament voted to distribute his powers between itself the government

and the judiciary. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in barcelona is a call for spain to stay united is the biggest show of force yet in the so-called silent majority who don't support catherine his bid for independence some are even demanding the arrest of sacked catalan leader. as police and intelligence chiefs have been sacked after two suicide bomb attacks in the capital mogadishu at least twenty seven people died in saturday's attack which has been claimed by the armed group al-shabaab most of those killed were security forces it's the second attack in the capital in just two weeks kenya's main opposition leader has called the presidential election a rerun sham he's demanding a new vote within ninety days the poll was marred by violence and the turnout of just forty three percent. to u.s. sailors who'd been adrift in the pacific ocean for five months have been brought ashore in japan jennifer pell and weaver left hawaii in may bound for to haiti the

trip was supposed to take three weeks but bad weather damaged their engines hundreds of distress calls failed tuesday when they were spotted by a taiwanese vessel which alerted the u.s. navy pattern of dry food to last a year but those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after listening post station time so watching. his native am increasingly struggling to survive in today's world. travels to presume. leaders are in danger trying. and they're trying to protect them at this time. u.s. backed forces in syria are celebrating the face of isis in iraq saying rock is a major blow for isis the exposure of. such. but is that the attacks that have been a hard sell in much pressure as u.s. backed forces spin around the sort of pressure.