provoking debate the corporate taxes not job growth on the barack obama the well. that's not true tackling the tough issues restrictions on media freedom killings torture. but challenging the established line every single one of the three thousand people who is killed with a drug dealer yes how do we know that he didn't try them prosecute someone saw him join mehdi has done for up front at this time on al jazeera. deposed caps on leader catalyst put him on coals of the release of his colleagues jailed in spain. this is obvious there are live from tell also coming up. so when some people

suggest we should apologize for this letter i say absolutely no breaking of israel mark a hundred years of the balfour declaration but not everyone celebrating. that as well as president says he'll renegotiate his country's debts with banks and investors plus the cia releases a trove of documents in a sauna 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 governors puja months lawyer says the move has already been approved in madrid but there's been no official word from the spanish capital which amount is currently in belgium peaceful resistance from catalans. if we can expect a long and fierce repression of the fury in which the spanish state has attacked

a beaut. 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 is david chato is 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 a pre recorded 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 dritte and said that this was nothing less than a terror attack as he called it on democracy and he warned the catalonians they've faced. 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 very as 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 well eight approached amongst former cabinet members have been jailed and another is being detained in madrid or double whammy that has more.

protests in the capital capital barcelona in 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 neither got them into the 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 are. spinning justice with the. spin. 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 there were two hearings taking place at the same time while ministers of the now the government appearing in front of the national court just a few meters away. of the dissolved catalan parliament and five other people were standing in front of the supreme court their 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 a 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. outside the madrid court emotions ran high among pro 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 reason to make government. i doubt that honey madrid. tells us from georgetown university she says the severe nature of the charges may actually post problems for the prosecutors. there are

a number of us especially those of lawyers and even like former constitutional court members who are challenging some of the decisions that are being taken by by the magistrate 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 it through very contested because there was no violence whatsoever in actions of the cartel on. the referendum that took place in october first and also in the catalan parliament when they are declaring the panels. a week ago so it is very very contested god 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 his u.k. counterpart reason made 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 driving palestinians from their lands bonamy phillips reports. his invitation to downing street 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 still. 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 alternately wish were not in the act for all the demolitions and terrorist atrocities on the other side that make a shadow further and further out of reach israel still stands as a living breathing debating striving rejoicing democracy. on the streets of

ramallah very different sentiments. to many palestinians even britain itself are synonymous with treachery it period 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 than now 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 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. 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 binyamin 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 palestine is still committed to a two state solution with israel abbas said palestinians are suffering under israeli occupation but want to live in peace. america's top diplomat is the visit me and martha discuss in the u.s.

senate a bipartisan group has introduced a bill which would restrict military cooperation until the violence stops and minimize leader aung san suu kyi has visited northern rakhine state for the first time since a military crackdown forced more than six hundred thousand or injured to flee she's been widely criticized internationally accused of inaction over what the u.n. says is ethnic cleansing from young gone this far and slowly. this is. the first time in rakhine state new 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 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 has no 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. manoel and groups are warning of the potential for a major cholera outbreak among the ranger 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 the efforts being deployed in building latrines nocturnal profound enough in a 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 of. over the korean peninsula they were joined by south korean and japanese fighter jets the u.s. says it was a jewel exercise in the south korean airspace but it comes at a time of heightened tensions with north korea president trump and senior officials are due to visit seoul on tuesday as part of a tour of asia young young has consistently said such military exercises are

a provocation. lots more still to come here and al-jazeera including the man accused of killing eight people with a truck in new york city appears in court as president trump demands the death penalty 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 morning stay with us. hello 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 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 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 tale of cat the goes further south into society that could be telling when you get cloud as far south as that running is sure eventually turns to occasional thunderstorms or spots of rain it's possibility that 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 society 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 the may be but the forecast for friday is a much drier one for most of southern africa. sixty seven words that spelled promise for one people 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. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories at this hour they asked the leader of council only as one of a long period of repression for his people by spain. is currently in belgium

spanish government is expected to announce a warrant for his arrest on friday eight of his ministers have been jailed in madrid over the region's independence declaration. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been in london to mark 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 to resume a declaration has long been condemned by palestinian. and aid groups are warning of the potential for a major cholera outbreak among range of muslims who fled me and now more than six hundred thousand people have crossed into bangladesh since late august and they 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 company 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

a severe shortages of banks of products such as food and medicines and. venezuela has always met its international obligations we have met them in to an 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 maduro unveiled a new one hundred thousand dollars bond note in an attempt to reduce the amount of paper money that people 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 raised minimum wages by thirty percent but in dollar terms it's already failing to keep pace with skyrocketing inflation and a depreciating currency the black market exchange rate has fallen by nearly a hundred percent sure it was elected president in april twenty making it tough for

the millions of people to find or even afford food 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 a twenty nine year old. 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 marked 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 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 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. well done electron's from emory university believes that support for the death penalty is forming in the us

a sense of the about the year two thousand we've seen a sort of slow decline in the popularity of the death penalty according to public opinion polls we've also seen executions fall the average number of executions went from a high of approaching one hundred in the late ninety's to a few dozen in recent years and we've seen as a result as part of that trend juries refusing to give the death penalty to capital defendants and prosecutors are increasingly reluctant to pursue capital charges there's a bunch of reasons for this some of it comes from the d.n.a. revolution that revealed the convictions of folks in the death sentences in some cases who were later exonerated we also see some states adopting life without parole they didn't used to have it which appears to give juries some sense of security that the people that they convict won't be paroled at some future point so there's a there's a number of explanations for the decline one of the biggest i think is the

disillusionment that many conservatives have with the death penalty in the united states it's imagined as a penalty that's inflicted you know to bring about the ultimate justice but of eight thousand people that have been sentenced to death in the united states since the seventy's just about fifteen hundred or executed and the average time it takes to execute them can can take up to decades so there's a real kind of decline here newly released documents recovered from osama bin laden's pakistan compound show secret dealings between iran and al qaida the cia says the files including videos documents and photos provide more insight into how bin laden ran al qaeda and why he wanted to wage war on the west state department correspondent robin george reports. according to the cia the man in this wedding video may well be the future leader of al qaida has 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 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 the 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 al qaeda as a threat true both the state and to the shia 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. the presidents of south sudan and sudan have met in khartoum to try and ease tense relations with south korea's third visit to the sudanese capital since the

country's split in two thousand and eleven following a twenty two years civil war the leaders addressed border disputes and mutual accusations of supporting rebels in each other's territory even morgan has more from khartoum after two days of talks and consultations the sudanese president omar bashir and his staff had missed counterpart salva kiir have agreed to some points they've talked about all resumption in salsa dance form a unity state our production has been cut down 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 demarked and this has caused a lot of tension between the two countries to gain independence in twenty eleven but perhaps the most important agreement comes in terms of supporting rebels in each other's soil. 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 south that means rebels 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 throughout the past decade more than eight hundred journalists have been killed while doing their jobs few of the cases have ever been solved and in mexico twenty seventeen is said to be a record year for the number of journalists who have been murdered john heilemann 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 the 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 that's the gate of journalism go. 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 great 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 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 chrissy john home and how does it. 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 occurring again. at the top stories here and arrest warrant for the ousted leader of catalonians expect to be issued on friday governance puja months lawyer says the move has already been approved in madrid but there's been no official word from the spanish capital amount is currently in belgium and peaceful resistance from catalogs and just yet to go 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 base ready prime minister binyamin netanyahu has been in london to mark 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 to reason may the declaration has long been condemned by palestinians. she 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 u.n. describes as ethnic cleansing aid groups are warning of the potential for a major cholera outbreak amongst the ranger they face poor sanitation a lack of hygiene facilities in makeshift camps but as well and 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 oil company makes its next debt payment the country sunk into a deep recession following the collapse in oil prices it's been struggling to deal with shortages of basic products such as food and medicine the man charged with killing eight people in new york with the truckers told investigators he felt good about what he'd done twenty nine year old immigrants a fellas a pov said he was inspired by online i still videos donald trump has called for sipe of to face the death penalty. and twitter says a rogue employee used their last day on the job to shut down donald trump's twitter account on thursday it was reactivated eleven minutes later the company had initially said human error led to the brief closure of the account to say it is working on steps to prevent such incidents happening again but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after risking it all thanks for

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