but ended up a disaster for another. that led to the establishment of a jewish homeland at the expense of the palestinians one hundred years on al-jazeera world tells the story of the british declaration that changed the middle east for seeds of discord at this time. deposed catalan leader calls for the release of his colleagues jailed in spain.

hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. so when some people suggest we should apologize for this letter i say absolutely no breaking in israel mark a hundred years of the balfour declaration but everyone is celebrating. venezuela's president says he'll renegotiate his country's debts with banks and investors plus . the cia releases a trove of documents asama bin laden with allegations of secret dealings between iran and al qaida. and arrest warrant for the ousted leader of catalonia is expected to be issued on friday catalyst huge amounts lois says the move has already been approved in madrid but there's been no official word from the spanish capital but mount is currently in belgium and has urged peaceful resistance from catalyst and just spend a lot of. if we can expect

a long and fierce repression of the fury in which the spanish state has attacked a beautiful european nation is outrageous and is threatening us all but we cannot fail we must fight it we will do this as catalans have always done without violence peacefully and with respect for everybody's opinions david is following developments from brussels. lawyer here. brussel said that he told him that an arrest warrant had been issued against him and four of the cabinet ministers in exile here in brussels but the national court that was hearing the case in madrid said there had been no official confirmation about but it does appear that this arrest warrant as you're aware from the warrant will be served against both bush tomorrow and his cabinet ministers here. probably very early on friday morning and there was a pre recorded interview by a local catalan t.v. station t.v.

read. bush tomorrow here in brussels we don't know where it was but it was a very sharp response to the events that have taken place during the course of thirty in the ports in the dritte and said that this was nothing less than a terror attack as he called it on democracy and he warned the catalonians they faced a. very strong repression in the months ahead not repression was the word he kept using why did he use that word dramatic because if a warning is served against him here in brussels if it can be proved there is a political motive behind. this arrest warrant then he has a very strong chance of receiving asylum here in belgium is not the belgian government that decides this case it is a belgian court what eight of his demands for my cabinet members have been jailed and another is being detained in madrid and counting on president called the move

a serious mistake or how many reports. protests in the capital capital carcillo now it's support of the regional leadership summoned to face justice in madrid i feel very very very sad and sudden there's always ends with some anger but first of all i i feel very sad this this this way of governing a country like spain is not we don't deserve it neither got them in here spaniards nine of the fourteen members of the ousted regional government arrived at the court not knowing if they will walk out free. the catalan deposed president remained in belgium in defiance of the court order his lawyer says he is still willing to cooperate with justice but from overseas if the. justice. injures. i have.

been issued. to belgium or the video conference it's possible to do the there are no permits to do and search. charges range from rebellion to sedition and abuse of public funds to finance a referendum they could receive up to thirty years in jail if found guilty they were to hearings taking place at the same time while ministers of the now they pose regional government where appearing in front of the national court just a few meters away speaker of the dissolved catalan parliament and five other people were standing in front of the supreme court there session got adjourned for a week the defense arguing it didn't have enough time to prepare the parliamentarians were allowed to walk free although they will be put under police surveillance tougher rulings were handed down to the ministers of the ousted regional government all but one were remanded in custody without bail pending

investigation catherine separatists say the legal procedures are politically motivated separation of powers in a spain is now a fiction because all powers in spain are working in the line of the spanish government and this shouldn't happen in a western democracy this is what we are calling on the wall. because. it goes now through saving that along and helping catalonia because the future of europe at the stake now in catalonia. outside the madrid court emotions ran high among true independence supporters they had travelled from barcelona in a show of solidarity. there are plenty of catalans who still regard tuesday moment and his cabinet as the only legitimate government of capello without that honey but dripped. from georgetown university she

says the severe nature of the charges may actually pose problems for prosecutors there are a number of especially those of lawyers and even like former corps signal corps members who are challenging some of the decisions that are being taken by by the by the court by the judges that are deciding on these issues for instance and this is the fund that they're being charged for rebellion it's very contested because there was no violence whatsoever in the actions of the cartel on. the new station of the referendum that took place in the two were first and also in the catalan parliament when they declare independence. a week ago so it is very very contested these politicians are being charged for rebellion which is a very very serious charge that can lead them up to thirty years in prison.

israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has attended a garland dinner in london hosted by a counterpart to reason may to commemorate the centenary of the balfour declaration signed in one nine hundred seventeen and endorsed by britain it was keen to the later establishment of israel driving palestinians from their lands to be phillips reports. his invitation to downing street on this day to israelis an affirmation of friendship to palestinians an insult to reason may says that britain is proud of its support for israel doubtless. at a lecture in london organized by the british jewish community a leading historian says the balfour declaration should be celebrated as a lead to the birth of a great country for all its problems and troubles for the acts obstinately liberal zionists like me ardently wish were not an act for all the demolition. and terrorist atrocities on the other side that make a share further and further out of reach israel still. living breathing

debating thriving rejoicing democracy on the streets of ramallah very different sentiments. to many palestinians balfour even britain itself are synonymous with treachery imperialism and broken promises the man the country that set in motion a century of oppression. not all british politicians are. at another london gathering the main opposition party says the government's policy towards israel and palestine must change. the opposition labor party's emily thornberry said there's no better time then for the british government to recognise the state of palestine she said that the labor party if elected is ready to take that step the british government is not about to apologize for the balfour declaration. no matter what the palestinian authority would like

a british government minister said this centenary is being marked with pride and respect but also a degree of sadness sadness because as the british acknowledge when it comes to israel and palestine so much is still unresolved the israeli and british prime ministers spent the evening at a dinner to mark lord balfour declaration but the british are careful with their language because as rival demonstrations suggest there is too much division and anger for britain to truly celebrate this. part of the phillips al-jazeera lancaster house in central london well tourism a and benjamin netanyahu met for dinner in london palestinian president mahmoud abbas addressed his people on local t.v. he said while the people of palestine cannot accept the hatred prejudice and injustice that the declaration has caused to palestine is still committed to a two state solution with israel about said palestinians are suffering under

israeli occupation but want to live in peace. america's top diplomat is to visit me and to discuss the range of crisis secretary of state rex tillerson will meet leaders and officials on nov fifteenth pressures increasing on the white house to impose measures against the government in naypyidaw in the us senate a bipartisan group has introduced a bill which would restrict military cooperation until the violence stops and minimize leader aung sang suu kyi has visited northern rakhine state for the first time since a military crackdown and forced more than six hundred thousand re-injured to flee she's been widely criticized internationally accused of the inaction of what the u.n. says is ethnic cleansing from young on this front slowly. this is. the first time in rakhine state military offensive began in august accompanied by government officials and prominent business leaders she visited several villages and spoke to people there including both muslims and buddhists. all of us want to live in peace

she reportedly said adding that everyone will have to try hard to achieve that analysts say that's a wider message is trying to put across i think it's all designed to give the appearance of some kind of stability and a normalcy that simply doesn't exist there and again i think this is her. dissolve tree attempt at spin to convince the world that everything so kind and that she's in charge of the situation these are the scenes that would have greeted the myanmar and her entourage house after house destroyed by fire entire villages once home to revenge of families deserted the government has refuted allegations that its troops are committing ethnic cleansing is defending the military operation as a legitimate counter offensive against a group of fighters it calls a terrorist organization the spokesman for the rakhine state government told al jazeera that. it shows that the region is now stable.

spoken to say they don't believe have changed things on the ground or that more than six hundred thousand people have crossed into bangladesh this august and the exodus hasn't stopped floristry al jazeera. now a groups are warning of the potential for a major cholera outbreak among the ranger who fled me in my face poor sanitation and a lack of hygiene facilities in makeshift camps in bangladesh we're definitely sitting on a ticking bomb as far as water sanitation and hygiene is concerned so the if you look at the sheer number of people and was the efforts being deployed in building latrines in that are not in a profound enough you know way the west you know have to be managed one way or the other to have. every reason to feel that we can get into situations that can lead to breaks to us b. one bombers. flown over the korean peninsula they were joined by south korean and

japanese fighter jets the u.s. says it was a scheduled exercise of a south korean air space but it comes at a time of heightened tensions with north korea president trump and senior officials are due to visit so on tuesday as part of a tour of asia. has consistently said such military exercises are provocation. canada says it will admit nearly a million immigrants over the next week. and hundreds of journalists have been killed while doing their jobs we take you to the most dangerous place in the world to be a reporter. and i was been raining heavily again the southern states specifically in louisiana now you'd expect to get some flooding here but again this time the years bit heavy they

might like we're not talking about huge amounts of rain here we are talking about enough to cause a bit of annoyance now that's just the size for most of the rest of the u.s. was free of cloud and you get to maybe the northern plains states in the great lakes and there's a bit of a differential between the two areas this is still warm potentially it's wet this is the winter but it's been pushed back across canadian border for the most part it is creeping down through washington cascades through oregon and montana and this i think is where we'll see temperatures more or less stay where they are look at that differential minus ten calgary plus six in seattle same time you got ten in chicago and mass two in winnipeg so i guess where the snow is going to be you know when it takes a good guess but more especially come back to the high ground in the u.s. and how the b.c. british columbia has been very steady recently but it's heading south it's heading into the high ground even of northern california take you into saturday by this time by which time you will find the winter weather trying to come back into the

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welcome back a quick recap our top stories here on al-jazeera the ousted leader of catalonia has warned of a long period of repression for his people by spain amount is currently in belgium the spanish government said spezza to announce a warrant for his arrest on friday eight of his ministers have been jailed in madrid of the region's independence declaration. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been in london to mock the centenary of the balfour declaration and britain promised the creation of a jewish homeland in palestine it was hosted a gala dinner by the british leader trees in may the declaration has long been condemned by palestinians and a group some warning of the potential for a major cholera outbreak among ranger muslims a fled meanwhile more than six hundred thousand people have crossed into bangladesh is just bizarre since august twenty fifth the face poor sanitation and a lack of hygiene facilities in makeshift camps. now the venezuelan president

nicolas maduro says he plans to renegotiate all future foreign debt payments with banks and investors it's in response to financial sanctions imposed by the trumpet ministration the move will start after the state owned old company makes its next debt payment the country has sunk into a deep recession following the collapse in oil prices there were severe shortages of basic products such as food and medicines. venezuela has always met its international obligations we have met them in been oil times and during times of low prices we have paid every last cent of our foreign debt sometimes with great sacrifice and great effort we plan to continue meeting our international financial obligations but our intention is to put a stop to the financial persecution by banks and international organizations when it comes a day after my dear unveiled a new one hundred thousand dollars on note in an attempt to reduce the amount of paper money that people have to carry just a daily use but

a large bank note is worth less than two and a half u.s. dollars on the black market he also raise minimum wages by thirty percent but in dollar terms it's already failing to keep pace with skyrocketing inflation and depreciating currency. the man charged with killing eight people in new york with a truck has told investigators he felt good about what he'd done u.s. president donald trump called for twenty nine year old safe to face the death penalty question salumi has moved from new york. lifelong friends from argentina on the trip of a lifetime they were in high spirits as they rode along the hudson river bike path in new york to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary of their high school graduation just a few kilometers later their ride would put them in the path of a truck driver intent on killing five of the ten men died in tuesday's attack the deadliest in new york since nine eleven. back home in argentina a vigil was held in their honor there were candles and tears which marks such occasions in new york

consular officials from the country said the men's families would be arriving over the next few days to claim the bodies of the victims really strong yes suffering a lot they've been friends through all the lives they lost very very very close friends but they keep fighting and we are with them three others were also killed in the attack a belgian mother of two a new yorker and a man from new jersey prosecutors say twenty nine year old subpool was inspired to carry out the rampage by eisel and found videos from the group on his cell phone. the bike on the roadway where the attack happened have reopened and new yorkers are going about their lives as usual but investigators are still trying to find out of anyone else was involved while the trumpet ministration is looking for ways to ensure an attack like this doesn't happen again. the country's attorney general

says guantanamo remains an option for terror suspects terrorists. this administration will use all lawful tools at our disposal including prosecution in article three courts or at guantanamo bay if anyone has any doubt about it they can ask the more than five hundred criminals in the department of justice has convicted terrorism related offenses since nine eleven and they can ask the dozens of enemy combatants at guantanamo so we're not slowing down. president trump repeated his call for the death penalty for side and also for stricter immigration policies. we want to select people based on their ability to contribute to our country not use people randomly we have no idea who they are. the political fallout from an attack which destroyed lives sparking debate over how to

prevent another christian salumi al-jazeera new york us president donald trump's former campaign manager has appeared in court accused of conspiracy against the united states and money laundering money for it says the criminal case brought by special counsel robert muller is embellished his lawyers argue he's a successful political consultant involved in international financial transactions as part of his work the judge has ordered them to remain under house arrest melissa investigating alleged russian interference in u.s. politics and links to the trump election campaign. and trump has nominated jerome powell to chair the federal reserve from next year it follows a long period of speculation over who would be chosen to head the central bank powell served in the federal reserve board since twenty twelve he'll take over when the current chair janet yellen term expires turkey's prime minister been on the old rim has announced plans to visit the u.s. next week it comes at a time of strained relations between the nato allies well last month consulates in the two countries suspended visas services to each other citizens the tit for tat

route followed the arrest of a local employees working at the u.s. consulate in turkey and anchor also wants washington to deport the character to laguna who it blames for a failed coup attempt in turkey in twenty sixteen. newly released documents recovered from a solid bin laden's pakistan compound shows secret dealings between iran and al qaeda the cia says the files including videos documents and photos provide more insight into how bin laden ran al qaeda and why he wants to wage war on the west state department correspondent in jordan reports. according to the cia the man in this wedding video may well be the future leader of al qaida hommes a bin laden one of the sons of osama bin ladin the video is one of hundreds of thousands of materials taken during the raid on the al qaeda leader's home in a bought a bought pakistan on may first two thousand and eleven the cia says it's trying to

give the public as much insight into his operations at the time u.s. special forces captured and killed bin laden i think it's important for everybody in both united states and the rest of the world have access to these so they can make their own judgments rather having to rely on the interpretation of any government including that of the united states included in this the fourth release of materials from a bottom bod bin laden's personal journal and our policy documents videos of him practicing speeches and what the cia calls propaganda material. some of the big issues dominating material includes al qaida split with isis over religious and operational policy bin laden's plans to use the arab spring uprisings for al qaeda as benefit and his plans to rehabilitate his reputation in order to get more support from muslims worldwide some of the documents also apparently reveal a much closer link between al qaida a sunni inspired group and iran

a shia country experts say that could be important in light of current u.s. policy toward terror on long term strategically the government of iran sees it as a threat true both the state and to the show. religion however short term tactically if they can gain advantage particularly against the united states they will cooperate with al qaeda including sheltering leading al qaeda figures if information is power then the international community now has more insight into how al qaeda operated in two thousand and eleven the challenge will be determining just how relevant this information is today rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington a kind of his government says it will welcome nearly a million immigrants seven the next three years that's an increase of ten percent the plan was announced by immigration minister ahmed hussein was born in somalia daniel like has more from toronto. already more welcoming of immigrants than many other countries canada is opening its doors even wider plans to admit more than

three hundred forty thousand people a year up from roughly three hundred thousand now were announced in parliament by immigration minister ahmed hussein who came to canada from somalia in one thousand nine hundred three once this was a former british colony home mostly to people of european origin today especially in cities it's one of the most diverse places in the world recently released census figures say more than a fifth of canadians were born outside the country most of come under a merit based system that rates education and job skills highly once accepted they're allowed to bring close family here in the shopping malls and neighborhoods around canada's largest city is where the transformative effect of immigration can be seen most vividly and with the government's plans to bring in even more people from around the world over the next three years and beyond those changes will be set to continue economists and policymakers have long argued that even more

immigration is crucial for canada's economy as it settled population ages and has fewer children the federal government is taking steps towards recognising that daniel lak al-jazeera toronto. the presidents of south sudan and sudan have met in khartoum to try and ease tense relations itself is third visit to the sudanese capital since the country's smiting twenty eleven falling a twenty two year civil war the leaders address border disputes and mutual accusations of supporting rebels in each other's territory sudan also agreed to help south sudan restart production in oil fields destroyed by the conflict now throughout the past decade more than eight hundred journalists have been killed while doing their jobs few of the cases have ever been solved but in mexico twenty seventeen is said to be a record year for the number of journalists who've been murdered john home and reports. eleven killed so far this year just for doing their jobs because one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists among them happy about

there is a middle slava breach internationally renowned reporters who investigated government corruption and organized crime now they're gone but it's not just that there that's worrying press freedom groups it's what comes after after half year was worth it even in these two high profile cases months later still no one's been arrested one of the main consequences of the impunity is that journalists start censoring themselves they stop reporting on organized crime to stop reporting on corruption and as a result entire areas in mexico basically have no serious journalistic coverage or if the gate of journalism going on. free speech groups estimate that ninety nine point seven percent of verbal or physical attacks against journalists go on punished in mexico. ricardo sanchez is the special prosecutor for crimes against free speech in the last six years it's only been three convictions what's going on . this is

a very complicated issue the federal government and attorney general's office know we face a big challenge in beating the impunity. we created a group to execute arrest warrants with the federal police and get people before a judge so we're doing important work i recognize we've got a long way to go we're working hard with the state governments. cinna lowest day in the grip of organized crime is one of the most dangerous for reporters. martin didn't fled after getting threats it still bothers him that the articles he and other journalists risk their lives for make little impact in an often openly corrupt society. i think sometimes it's kind of a suicidal calling you wonder why should we run these stories because we know things aren't going to change. martin and around. five hundred other journalists are in a government protection program that free speech groups say authorities themselves are actually responsible for the majority of attacks on the press and that really

doesn't bode well as we head into what's going to be a fiercely fought election season if politicians are willing to use violence against journalists and if there are virtually no consequences for doing so that spells bad news for the more chris a john home and how does it. twitter says a customer support employee on their last day working for the company shut down donald trump's account on thursday it was reactivated eleven minutes later the company had initially said human error led to the brief closure of the account twitter says it's working on steps to prevent such incidents occurring again. all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com. a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera an arrest warrant for the ousted leader of catalonia is expected to be issued on friday governors put months

lawyer says the move has already been approved in madrid but there's been no official word from the spanish capital huge amount is currently in belgium and the resistance from cattle and. if we can expect a long and repression of the fury in which the spanish state has attacked a beautiful european nation is outrageous and is threatening us all but we cannot fail we must fight it we will do this as catalans have always done without violence peacefully and with respect for everybody's opinions based really prime minister binyamin netanyahu is in london to mark the centenary of the balfour declaration and britain promised the creation of a jewish homeland in palestine he was hosted at ghana denied by the british leader theresa may the declaration has long been condemned by palestinian. leader has visited northern rakhine state for the first time since a military crackdown forced more than six hundred thousand ranger to flee to bangladesh so she's been facing international criticism for failing to stop what

the un describes as ethnic cleansing aid groups are warning of the potential of a major cholera outbreak amongst the ranger they face poor sanitation and a lack of hygiene facilities in makeshift camps. venezuelan president nicolas maduro says he plans to renegotiate all future foreign debt payments with banks and investors. it's in response to financial sanctions imposed by the trumpet ministration the move will start after the state owned all company makes its next step a mint the country's sunk into a deep recession following the collapse in oil prices. the man charged with killing eight people in new york with a truck has told investigators he felt good about what he'd done twenty nine year old is big in a grand safe in a side pub said he was inspired by online eisel that is trump a school for a site called to face the death penalty. on twitter says a rogue employee use their last day on the job to shut down donald trump's account on thursday it was reactivated eleven minutes later the company had initially said

human error that led to the brief closure of the account twitter says it's working on steps to prevent such incidents occurring again well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off the fault lines such of them so what if i get off. al-jazeera. and for us. this is james jackson. because his expression here so it's impossible to know what's going through his mind at this moment just after he killed another person. this is the man he murdered timothy kaufman. james jackson didn't know kaufman who he was.