story in fly out. subzero temperatures extreme altitudes. this is where the hard part because of the extraordinary journey from polish to tajikistan braved ordinary joy to what we do high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all. this time on al-jazeera. deposed leader calls the release of his colleagues from jail 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 not britain israel mark a hundred years of the balfour declaration but not everyone celebrating. venezuela's president says he'll renegotiate his country's debts with banks and investors plus inspired by freedom a rare look at the art of the impressionists were refugees in london. and arrest warrant for the ousted leader of catalonia is expected to be issued on friday catalyst puja months lawyer says the move has already been approved in madrid but there's been no official word from the spanish capital budget mount is currently in belgium and as peaceful resistance from catalans and just spend a lot of yet to go if we can expect a long and fierce repression 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 al-jazeera as david has following developments from brussels. lawyer here in brussels 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 of that 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 prerecorded interview by a local catalan t.v. station t.v. three of which 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 thursday in the ports in the druid and who tomorrow 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 remeasure because if a warrant 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 the belgian courts. well for my cabinet members have been jailed and another is being detained in madrid had counted on president called the move a serious mistake reports. protests in the capital capital

barcelona in support of the regional leadership summoned to face justice in madrid i feel very very very sad. but first of all. this way of governing a country like spain is not we don't deserve it neither spaniards nine of the fourteen members of the ousted regional government arrived at the court not knowing if they will walk out free. the catherine 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 they. spin justice with a billion dollars. i have. to belgium or the video and 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 there were two 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 this 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 got 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 the money but richt when they are about cells as from georgetown university she says this is their nature of the charges may actually pose problems for prosecutors there are

a number of especially those of lawyers and even like former course 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 any of these issues for instance and this is the fund that they're being charged for rebellion very contested because there was no violence whatsoever in the actions of the cartel on. the referendum that took place in october 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 garner dinner in london hosted by his u.k. counterpart to reason may to commemorate the centenary of the balfour declaration

signed in one nine hundred seventeen and endorsed by britain it was key to the later establishment of israel palestinians from their lands one of the 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. 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. liberal zionists like me ardently wish were not in the 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's 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 theresa may and benjamin netanyahu have 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 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 in the discussed

a range of prices 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 do strict military cooperation until the violence stops minimize leader aung sang suu kyi has visited northern rakhine state for the first time since a military crackdown forced more than six hundred thousand ranger to flee she's been widely criticized internationally accused of inaction over what the u.n. says is that samick cleansing from young gone is translated. this is a first time in rakhine state military offensive began in august accompanied by government officials and prominence 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 that 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 a hinge 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. but 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 to august and the

exodus hasn't stopped. meanwhile any groups are warning of the potential for a major cholera outbreak among the revenger who fled me and they face poor sanitation and a lack of hygiene facilities in makeshift camps in bangladesh we are 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 in 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 are flown out. the korean peninsula they were joined by south korean and japanese fighter jets the u.s. says it was a shuttled exercise in a south korean aspace but it comes at

a time of heightened tensions with north korea president trump and senior officials are due to visit someone on tuesday as part of a tour of asia young young has consistently said such military exercises are a provocation but also to come here not just here including the man accused of killing eight people with a truck in new york city appears in court as president demands the death penalty on the cia releases a trove of documents on osama bin laden with allegations of secret dealings between iran and al qaida more in that state. from long flowing i mean when it's to an enchanting desert breeze. as if to prove the change of month it's been raining recently in lebanon northern syria possibly even northern iraq you see the cloud still telling off and that's not the end of it the system still strong through there so chances are it'll hang

around the twenty mark in aleppo and beirut and that slightly greater picture may produce a little bit more rain in the coming days more especially it looks like it's redeveloping as it hits the high ground in western iran so rain for iraq seems quite possible including in baghdad the tail of care that goes further south into society and that could be telling when you get cloud as far south as that running is for it eventually turns to occasional thunderstorms or spots of rain it's a possibility now in the immediate future was to go to suddenly breeze out of saudi that's been really quite murky recently still is taking dust with it temperature wise still middle thirty's bit more humidity down the south coast still and case in point thirty degrees a bit more cloud around and here's the start of the potential you watch this couple thunderstorms in the northeast a saturday and saturday or even sunday. but proper rain is rather more easy to find down in southern africa it's been very wet recently interesting in namibia but the full cost of friday is

a much drier one for most of southern africa. the weather sponsored by. it when they're on line we were in hurricane. almost like thirty six hours these are the things that has to address or if you join us on saturday i'm a member of the ku klux but. this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag a stream and one of your pitches might make. join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on the al-jazeera the ousted leader of catalonia has warned of a long period of repression for his people by spain. staying put in belgium the spanish government is expected to announce a warrant as arrest on friday eight of his ministers have been jailed in madrid of the region's independence declaration. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in london to mark the centenary of the balfour declaration when britain promised the creation of a jewish homeland in palestine. with britain's to resume a declaration has long been condemned by palestinians. and groups are warning of the potential for a major cholera outbreak among muslims who fled me and more than six hundred thousand people have crossed into bangladesh cox's bazar since late august face poor sanitation and a lack of hygiene facilities in makeshift camps. but as i am 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 and all company makes its next debt payment the country sank into a deep recession following the collapse in oil prices and struggling to deal with shortages of basic products such as food and medicines. venezuela has always met its international obligations we have met them in june oil times and during times of little 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 maduro unveiled a new one hundred thousand dollars on note in an attempt to reduce the amount of paper money people must carry just for daily use but the large bank notes worth less than two and a half u.s. dollars on the black market he also raised minimum wages by thirty percent but in dollar terms it's still lower than the figures for september due to skyrocketing

inflation and a depreciating currency on twenty or more is a latin america analyst he says venezuela defaulting on its debts is inevitable. it hasn't paid those eight hundred million dollars that have already come due and tonight it owes a principal payment at least the of it as well company owes a personal payment of one point one billion dollars and so technically that as well we can default by midnight tonight although my girl said that the paid of was going to be made tomorrow it is so i have to put it simply it's this is the day of reckoning that everyone knew was going to come up that as well simply does not have enough money to pay for and this has very little to do with the american sanctions that's what i want people to think the reality is that under thomas is just us are and them a grow they the venezuelan government has indebted itself. astonishingly most of that money has been robbed by the government itself there are norma's public works projects that were financed into the billions of dollars and as well it went

nowhere that money went into the pockets of the government so the government is indebted itself terribly and would have been in in bad shape anyway and then had the oil prices fall which made things even worse so this is a disaster that was long in coming 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 the twenty nine year old safe on a side of to face the death penalty question some of the reports 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 the 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 in tears which mark 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 they're 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 supposed pov was inspired to carry out the rampage by eisel and found videos from the group on his cell phone. the bike route 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 if 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. harris should know this this ministration 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 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 cyprus and also for stricter immigration policies. who 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. yes president donald trump's former campaign chairman has appeared in court accused of conspiracy against the united states and money laundering. says the criminal case brought by special counsel robert muller is embellished his lawyers argued he's a successful political consultant involved in international financial transactions as part of his work the judge has ordered him to remain under house arrest well as investigating alleged russian links to the trump election campaign and interference in u.s. politics. and trump has nominated john powell to chair the fed reserve from next year it follows a long period of speculation over who be chosen to head the central bank. of the federal reserve board since twenty twelve and who will take over when the current said janet yellen term expires. newly released

documents recovered from asama bin laden's pakistan compound show secret dealings between iran and al qaeda the cia says the files including videos documents and photo has provided more insight into how bin laden ran al qaeda and why he wants to wage war on the west which is in a state department correspondent robin 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 songs 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 i saw 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 shia religion however short term

tactically if they can gain advantage particular 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 the presidents of south sudan and sudan have met in khartoum to try and ease tense relations it sounds like a is the third visit to the sudanese capital since the country split in two thousand and eleven following a twenty two years civil war the leaders addressed border disputes and mitchell accusations of supporting rebels in each other's territory. as the latest from khartoum. after two days of talks and consultations the sudanese president omar bashir and his sausage miss counterpart salva kiir have agreed to some points

they've talked about oil resumption in salsa dance form a united states production has been cut down in south sudan by more than half since conflict broke out in twenty thirty in the country as well as establishing a demilitarized borders on between the two countries more than sixty percent of the border between the two countries are yet to be demarc and this has caused a lot of tension between the two countries in south sudan gained independence in twenty eleven but perhaps the most important agreement comes in terms of supporting rebels in each other's soil and later murdered. we in sudan have decided not to support any armed group and to move in a positive direction with the countries this issue has taken us a long time and we have been patient with a lot of violations from the other side till they were assured that what we promised has been implemented and the result is that we now have a stable and secure border. now if they are started miserables in sudan or sudanese rebels in south sudan this agreement or pledge would make them very vulnerable because it would mean that they have to go back to the country whose government they're fighting and it would also mean that they would get no supply of arms from

any side making them vulnerable to the government that they are fighting now twitter says a rogue employee used 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 led to the brief closure of the account twitter says it's working on steps to prevent such incidents happening again now in paris came under siege in the franco-prussian war and eight hundred seventy one unexpected consequence was a number of artists who escaped a london as refugees in a new exhibition of their work as impressionists is now under splay of the city's tate britain gallery just a couple that went along for a quick look impressionists a surefire way to attract crowds london one of the most illustrated cities in the world put the two together and what's not to like. tate britain is showing french impressionist who came as a refugee artist to london in one thousand nine hundred seventy they looked at

london with an outside his own eyes if you look at so this painting for example by my mooney of hyde park and he got very interested with the fact that people were allowed to walk on the grass in the country interest is in the sheer expanse of these pockets of nature within london at a time when paris was you know bombarded by the persians paris was under siege and badly damaged in the franco-prussian war the wounded soldier by james t. so has never been seen in public before nor has his watercolor showing a mass execution in paris in eight hundred seventy one escaping the violence in london provided a sanctuary the english aristocrats proved interesting subjects but many of the frenchmen were transfixed by london the grime the din at the time the largest city in the world the city's river the thames held a special fascination with its pollution grittiness and fogs the houses of

parliament had just been completed with what was then europe's tallest building a powerful symbol of the british empire. the houses of parliament along the river thames. at one point he was working on a hundred different at the same time trying to perfect the light in the fog that enveloped london and for the artist became his impression of the city jessica baldwin. all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address. that's out is there 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. lawyer says the move has already

been approved in madrid but there's been no official word from the spanish capital whose demand is currently in belgium and as peaceful resistance from cattle and. we can expect a long and. 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. as catalans have always done without violence peacefully and with respect for everybody's opinions israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in london at the centenary of the balfour declaration when britain promised the creation of a jewish homeland in palestine he was hosted at a gala dinner by the british leader trees in may the declaration has long been condemned by palestinians. has visited northern rakhine state for the first time since a military crackdown forced more than six hundred thousand range at the feet of bangladesh has been facing international criticism for failing to stop what the un

describes as ethnic cleansing aid groups are warning of the potential for 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 and that ministration move will start after the state owned oil company makes its next debt payment the country has sunk into a deep recession in the collapse and oil prices the man charged with killing people in new york with a truck has told investigators he felt good about what he'd done twenty nine year old immigrants said he was inspired by online video. to face the death penalty and 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 led to the brief closure of the account and twitter says it's working

on steps to prevent such incidents ever occurring again. with the headlines that he's continued on al-jazeera after. reality president said that there would be a. hundred percent. getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying that the future of the. story. at this time.