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a crowd in melbourne australia injuring at least fourteen. zero. also ahead. we're watching those votes let them vote against us will save a lot donald trump members as they prepare to vote on a resolution opposing his recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. the polls have opened in catalonia it's a vote many hope will finally resolve spain's political crisis. a verdict for the so-called rage case of a former korean air vice president accused of delaying a flight with her. but

first we begin with some breaking news a ferry carrying two hundred fifty people has capsized near the philippines capital manila coast guards are saying bad weather is hampering the rescue operation over the past week heavy rain and landslides triggered by tropical storm left more than forty people dead. and joining us on the line from manila what can you tell us about this ferry capsizing. well what we know at the moment is that. by dr graham bones. the truth in the bill to the voters i want to be on or i can mention really playing at the doctors here as you know all good to see is in each of the most important time of the year capability and budget just do we are heading home because you know i like working in several parts of the next room again so i'm hoping that the need be i do feel that they can

be the thing up there already helping out with the desk people were all to me that they feel that at least one of the dynamics i mean actually go up ok jim and i will leave it there we'll check in with you a little later thank you for that update from the philippines. well police in australia say a car deliberately rammed into pedestrians in the city of melbourne injuring up to fourteen people a white s.u.v. crashed into a cable car stop on flinders street during late afternoon rush hour police have arrested the driver and another person police arrived at the scene within minutes and of a race to the main at this stage we have fourteen people injured and several are critical. at this stage we believe is that a deliberate act and a report that at this stage we believe is deliberate act however we do know that my device can and does feel it early stages of the investigation so enter thomas joining us from sydney police giving that press conference where they're saying

it's a deliberate act according to them but not really revealing any other details andrew . or they haven't said crucially is what they think the motive of this attack was was it oddly logical or political in which case it would count here as terrorist or was it something else but they have said it was a deliberate act and for the first few hours after this only happened three hours ago just over the first a while afterwards there was some hope i suppose that this was a terrible accident but that is not what the police believe this is a street right in the middle of melbourne city center it's a street that would have been packed full forty five in the afternoon as it was just over three hours ago now with office workers coming out of the finishing a day's work but also we shoppers remember is the busy pre christmas period in australia at the moment that would have made the streets particularly crowded and this is a road that is open to traffic but has a pedestrian crossing on it the lights were red because green for pedestrians there were lots and lots of people crossing the road when this call apparently

accelerated at speed according to witnesses right through the junction knocking down many people as you say the place is saying fourteen people injured some of them many of them critically if indeed it is proven to be that it was a quote terror attack as it's called anger would australia have prepared for this type of attack. the prime minister ministers in the government have certainly said that they think something is coming they've been a number of laws passed in parliament paying the security level of this country giving the police more powers to investigate so-called plots before they happen all of which has been very controversial but all of which has been to guard against an attack of this nature if indeed this is an attack of that nature and of course we don't know that says yet the hasn't really been a terrorist attack like this if this is what it sees in recent months in australia or even in recent years there was an incident in the middle of sydney three years

ago now where a gunman took people hostage in a cafe that he was very much alone operates he has links to international groups like oh yes we're very very sketchy at best earlier this year in january very close to where this incident happened right in the middle of melbourne another car went down a pedestrian street knocking down many people killing five people that case hasn't yet gone to court but the man who was definitely carried out the place alleged that he didn't do it for any ideological or political reasons he was a drug user he had many domestic issues he'd had a bad instance at home that same day they say that that was criminal rob them terrorists so this would if it is a terrorist incident and that is a big if at this stage this would be the first for for many years in australia ok andrew thomas thank you u.s. president has threatened to cut aid to un members who vote against this recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital at the request of arab and muslim countries the united nations will hold an emergency meeting on thursday i can has the latest from

new york. security council staff pose with the secretary general for an annual photograph is called then it's business as usual in the chamber like most other member states those represented here unwilling to comment publicly on the extraordinary letter sent by u.s. ambassador nikki haley at ambassador did you receive the letter from hillary about the years many letters and the majority view apparently summed up by one representative who was willing to comment on our position in this case has been very clear we had the opportunity to express ourselves in the security council so so that's our very strongly prince principled position sweden was one of the fourteen council members who voted in favor of the jerusalem resolution monday the veto by the u.s. is accompanied by an angry statement from the ambassador what we witnessed here today in the security council is an insult it won't be forgotten what some would

regard as a thinly veiled threat driven home in a letter circulated to all member states regarding the vote taking place in the general assembly thursday as you consider your vote the ambassador writes i want you to know that the president and the u.s. take this vote personally she continues the president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested i report back on those countries who voted against us president trump made clear what the possible consequences could be they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while we're watching those votes let them vote against us will save a lot we don't care. but privately many un members are outraged at the letters bullying and threatening tone and what was to be a vote condemning attempts to unilaterally change the status of jerusalem may gain even added significance in november more than one hundred fifty nations voted in

favor of a resolution declaring all israeli actions in jerusalem as now and void as it was an occupying power a similar result in the general assembly thursday would also be a sweeping international rejection of president trump and his policies mike hanna al jazeera united nations well the turkish and palestinian foreign minister has dismissed trance threats and said no country should be intimidated humen no we. the u.s. says we'll track down who voted for what and we'll report to the u.s. president we will get the names of the countries one by one what we do by getting these when you allow invasions into those countries or you punish them the world has changed the notion of i am powerful therefore i am right has changed now the world is rising against the unfair from now on no honorable nation no honorable state will bow to such pressure. of. world. and.

on. the. well south africa's ruling african national congress has passed a resolution to downgrade the country's embassy in israel to a liaison office it says the decision to give practical expression to the oprah people of palestine south africa is among the countries who condemn president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital well now cross over to gaza and speak to malcolm webb so we're just a few hours away from the general assembly vote malcolm we know that hamas has obviously spoken out very strongly against the u.s. is decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital but for gazans ordinary gazans how closely are they watching this vote do they care at all people here angry and incensed than they have been ever since the december when trump announced

the u.s. administration would recognize you as israel's capital and that hasn't changed very much the mood now whether or not following people are following the details of what's happening at the u.n. well we'll see later today following the vote at the general assembly but there was a demonstration wednesday against specifically against the u.s. is veto of the resolution at the security council to. us vetoed a resolution that was going to maintain status of jerusalem so that didn't pass people who demonstrated on wednesday on weekdays the crowds normally number in the hundreds but the biggest demonstrations are on fridays and another one planned for tomorrow so we'll see what happens then that's what i wanted to ask you in fact because we've seen last friday it was called the day of rage and we saw demonstrations and in fact gaza has really felt the repercussions of that decision that was made by the u.s. president donald trump so do we expect a big turnout on friday. well every friday so far since the sixth of december

that's when the biggest demonstrations have been and that's what the organizers say will happen tomorrow but we'll have to wait and see four people have been killed so far here in gaza and two in the west bank during these demonstrations rights groups say hundreds have been imprisoned and that dozens have been injured as well but we're waiting to see tomorrow if this momentum continues here in the street to gather and also towards the border with israel as well where some of the protests taking place ok martin webb think you. still ahead on al-jazeera for the fourth time this year any north korean soldier or defect to the south of. poland's president signs to laws curbing judicial independence triggering a possible confrontation with the.

welcome back now if you look at the weather across southeastern parts of asia it's looking quite interesting moment that is contact pushing away towards southeastern parts of asia that is our next system that is tembin tembin is going to be pushing right across southern parts of the philippines and eventually again towards vietnam it's not got a great deal of strength at the moment but it will gather strength as it moves across the south china sea but certainly for southern parts of the philippines it does mean some pretty heavy rain in the next twenty four hours and an already between systems seeing some very large rainfall totals so if you like the whole area's been softened up by some big amounts of rain extending into borneo too so looking pretty wet across those southern parts of the philippines and the rain will eventually push in across northern parts of borneo we've got some heavy showers for java we've got circulation which is going to threaten heavy showers for kuala lumpur in particular further north into southern parts of thailand and across cambodia generally doesn't look too bad and then as we head down into

a straight here we've got this trough of low pressure here and frontal systems out in the southern oceans otherwise we should see a temperature of twenty eight members are quite warm twenty three in sydney and the risk of some showers out across western australia of perth highs of twenty five. she. looks. like she's a journalist be a writer for the. show felix failing to. see if you can't.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera a ferry boat carrying two hundred fifty people has capsized near the philippines capital manila coast guard officials say bad weather is hampering the rescue operation and. a car has driven into pedestrians in the australian city of melbourne injuring at least fourteen people police say it was a deliberate act but don't know the motivation two people including the driver have been arrested. the u.s. president has threatened to cut aid to un members who vote against this recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital at the request of arab and muslim countries the united nations will hold an emergency meeting on thursday. catalan started

voting in a regional poll which may help settle the question of whether there province should secede from spain the leaders off the separatist movements are pitted against candidates who want to stay part of spain a record turnout is expected opinion polls suggest the candidates are neck and neck madrid called for the snap election after a procession of leaders held a vote in october to see. separate from spain pov right and following the vote joining us from barcelona just give us a sense of what's going on today paul what you're seeing in terms of turnout whether people are coming out in these record numbers that are predicted and what the mood is. well i'm outside the industrial the technical college which is the largest polling station in the whole of catalonia here in the center of barcelona and the doors would you to open at nine am local time in fact they were a little bit delayed with the final checks taking place inside and as a result to give an indication of the interest that there is there was

a queue out of the courtyard that i'm standing in and somewhere around one hundred metres down the road with people turning out early doors to cast their votes it's settled down now into a sort of steady rhythm but it's clear that people are turning out in force and we'll have to wait and see whether the predicted turnout figure of somewhere around eighty percent actually materializes but there has been a huge level of interest from both camps in this debate to try and mobilize their forces mobilize their support as much as possible so that the result of this is as accurate as possible an indication of two sentiments here in catalonia how close though are we expecting this vote to be. it's going to be very close i mean to the opinion polls leading up to this ballots and the poll of polls aggregating all of those polls together appear to give the produce a session parties the biggest block but not an outright majority if the polls it's

a be believed they're going to get somewhere around forty seven percent and the pro unity parties more likely to be somewhere around forty three forty four percent so not enough for an outright majority in the parliament that said the pro unity parties are kind of banking on what they describe as a silent majority perhaps. as many as a million votes is who remain undecided in the hours leading up to this ballots and they hope will come out and cast their votes and they hope according to the produce parties anyway that most of them would prefer to be closest to madrid now it remains to be seen whether that will happen. it's a tall order to be honest and the outcome will not be known realistically until late tonight perhaps around twenty three hundred g.m.t. proportional representation is in play here it's going to take a while to count those votes and actually allocate the seats all right paul brennan

thank you. the former korean air vice president who's not raids tantrum delayed a flight in twenty fourteen will avoid more jail time the supreme court ruled that show here not was not guilty of the most serious charge of changing a flight route cho the daughter of the airline's chairman got angry when a flight attendant served her nuts in a bag instead of on a plate she forced the plane to taxi back to the gate at new york's john f. kennedy airport kathy novak has more from seoul. back in december twenty fourth teen the then vice president of korean air and the daughter of the company's chairman show here ana was in the first class cabin of a flight from new york's j.f.k. airport bound for seoul and she was so outraged that she was served back a damia nuts in a bag instead of on a place that she ordered the plane returned to the gate so that she could have the chief flight attendant thrown off now the question before the courts has been didn't show break aviation security law by changing the flight path when she

ordered the plane back to the gate originally a district court back in twenty fifteen found her guilty of that charge and sentenced her to one year in prison but later three months later the high court on appeal overturned that ruling finding her instead guilty only on lesser charges and handing down a suspended ten month sentence while now the supreme court the highest court here in south korea has agreed with the high court saying that there is no definition of the flight route so instead it had to use the broadly accepted term which meant that the flight referred to when the plane is actually in the air and therefore it could not find show guilty of that most serious charge and so she remains free today for the fourth time this year a north korean soldier has defected to south korea the government in seoul says he crossed the demilitarized zone which was covered in thick fog south korean soldiers

later fired around twenty warning shots of border guards from the other side last month a north korean soldier was shot by call the eggs as he escaped across the border in an army jeep c. one who is a political analyst from seoul and publisher of korea exposé he says fewer north koreans have been defecting through the land border with china under kim jong un's regime. many people attribute to decrease to the fed ever since the current leader of north korea kim jong il into power there has been increased surveillance along the main channel of defections from north korea to the outside world which is the border between north korea and china and as a result the numbers have certainly been as going down and we have seen a slight increase in this extraordinary defections from the embassy and by sea from last year which was around five cases to disappear in fifteen but the fact that we are paying so much attention to these cases of defection really also goes to show

that we are struggling to find out what is going on in the oriya and there are simply not enough sources to tell us information about it would seem so but watch these cases very closely but it's unclear what is exactly driving these people. her president has rejected calls to resign ahead of a congressional vote that could remove him from office over corruption allegations in a televised address pedre public. making mistakes but denied any wrongdoing his company is accused of taking money from the brazilian construction firm breasts some of the payments were made when he was a government minister autographed has been at the center of for bribery and corruption scandal that's calls political upheaval across latin america. has more from the last. will be people in peru are fewer years because of what they think the president up law might be on the few real because they set the precedent a bit about look you can't keep the night all along for

a month that he had not done any deal with all of it the construction company and then just a few days ago the president acknowledged that in fact he's companies have done some advisory services for all the footage and that he had received some payments but he have denied any wrongdoing and that he didn't know about the contracts and that it was his partners that all that did all of the dealings when he was a finance minister about a decade i go now many here are gathering at the center of lima in the capital where many people here not support the president but many here are saying that they are they are protesting against what they say the power grab from the majority the opposition majority in congress which has caused the crisis in peru the worst political crisis even years that is already affecting the

economic growth and and that political scenario many people here are saying that they are angry at president to keep you but they don't want him to go they want him to stay. and they say that the political majority will oust him will remove him from office without profit the president will be arriving early on thursday with his lawyer and he will have. sixty minutes according to the law and perhaps more to come with and explain what more he's dealing with all day but it. the european union has given a firm deadline for the ukase transition out of the block it must be complete by the end of december twenty twenty coinciding with the end of the current seven year budget that will officially happen in march twenty ninth seen the two sides have agreed a transition period will follow during which the u.k.

will continue to apply in new laws. it's important i think we have the same position legally as the european union and that's why we've accepted the amendment to the friend the member for westall sit but i can assure you the friend the house we would only use this power in exceptional circumstances for the shortest possible time and an affirmative motion people in the house thousands of people are fleeing unrest in english speaking areas of southern cameroon the government has banned public gatherings suspend the transportation and shut businesses that's as activists seek a state independence from the majority french speaking areas my the reports from southern nigeria where many of the displaced are ending up. dazed and confused at a macro struggles to come to grips with their new reality was. the refugee mother of eight is also forced to take on the additional responsibility of looking after two other children orphaned by the fighting in and out and cameroon

john but he was easier to baghdad rock where their father was killed their mother died of a heart attack a few days later they're my late sister's children it was a struggle looking after my own and now there. the more than thirty thousand refugees now in southern nigeria are being looked after by the nigeria refugee agency and a few non-governmental organizations but many here say they don't have much to eat or any way suitable to live. beatrice and he also displaced by the violence tracked for three days before reaching safety in nigeria she was eight months pregnant. i saw soldiers killed two young men for pushing up a flag in troops invaded and started shooting at people that was when i decided it wasn't safe for me or my baby most of the five hundred displaced in this camp on the hills overlooking. women and children so one hundred fifty

kilometers away from here is another camp populated mainly by young men it's late evening in this makeshift camp close to when i do not come out of order there up to a thousand refugees leaving for access to become conditions and the color of the thoughts on their minds as they go to bed many of them will go hungry tonight or tomorrow will be better was not any of the refugees say cameroon security forces up even crossed into niger in territory looking for them. at the separatist movement is recruiting in arming these young men for attacks on its territory separatist leaders deny that but say it won't be long before they fight back. self determination cannot be effective with on set defense we i'll pose to violence we are opposed to war but even at a public event un should continue to deal it dialing i got doing an lot of

public comms not to attack our people they are false they are bound by did laws of nature to defend themselves a stand that will no doubt prolong the crisis which means these refugees will have to endure more before setting off for the journey back or comedy greece al-jazeera at a south or nigeria. poland's president has accused the you are flying about his country's plan judicial reforms the e.u. has triggered a legal mechanism that could see poland stripped off its voting rights within the bloc russell says the polish laws are a threat to democracy as that house about le reports it was a message of defiance from warsaw to the european union poland's president signing into law two bills reforming the judiciary something the e.u. had warned against saying the changes threatened poland's democracy was arms of

provides i mean i think we've introducing very good solutions in poland i believe we're introducing solutions that will improve the justice system that will make people finally regained faith in justice regain faith in polish course and regain faith in the justice system just hours earlier the e.u. had taken an unprecedented step to try and stop poland forging ahead with the controversial reforms it launched article seven of the lisbon treaty a process that could lead to poland losing its e.u. voting rights sadly concerns of deep within a period of two years a significant numbers of laws have been adopted thirteen in total which put at serious risk the independence of the judiciary and the separation of powers in poland. since coming to power in twenty fifteen poland's right wing law and justice party has been at loggerheads with the e.u. and for its drive to tighten immigration and media laws analysts say the e's latest

move is unlikely to put government i don't know where it all. lauren just if the governing party in poland is riding high in the opinion polls i think that they are very adept at turning the battled with brussels to their own advantage they can say you just an unelected bureaucrats are trying to undermine our national sovereignty so they they we're perfectly content to think this one reckless way through. over the past months pollution opposition protesters have voiced their anger at a government is increasingly authoritarian. the e.u. has given punishment three months to address its concerns its may then consider suspending brussels voting rights but for that to happen all member states would have to agree and the problem for the e.u. is that hungary has already made it clear that it would veto such a move which al-jazeera.

hello again the headlines on al-jazeera a ferry carrying two hundred fifty people has capsized in the philippines ferry was reportedly traveling from the town of infanta in quiz on province to island coastguards say bad weather is hampering the rescue operation over the past week heavy rain and landslides triggered by tropical storm left more than forty people dead police in australia say a car deliberately rammed into pedestrians in the city of melbourne injuring up to fourteen people a white s.u.v. crashed into a cable car stop on flinders street during late afternoon rush hour police have arrested the driver hands and other person alisa roth at the scene within minutes and a risk to me at this stage we have fourteen people injured and several are critical at this stage we believe that a deliberate act and i repeat that at this stage we believe it is i believe.

however we do not know if my device and the seal in early stages of the investigation catalans have started voting in a regional poll which may help settle the question of whether there province should secede from spain the leaders of the separatist movement are pitted against candidates who want to stay part of spain record turnout is expected an impulse of just the candidates are neck and neck. u.s. president has threatened to cut aid to un members who vote against his recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital at the request of arab and muslim countries the united nations will hold an emergency meeting on thursday. another north korean soldier has defected to the south the fourth this year the government in seoul says he crossed the demilitarized zone which was covered in thick fog south korean soldiers later fired around twenty warning shots i voided guards from the north last month a north korean soldier was shot by colleagues as he escaped zimbabwe's former

mining minister under robert mugabe has been arrested on allegations of corruption and abuse of office walter she is the latest ally of mugabe who is facing action after the new government led by emerson. took charge. those are the headlines people in power is coming up next on al-jazeera. from toxic milk to fake meat food scandals continue to rock china as the world turns to it for its foods one when he goes undercover to expose behaving in a system geared for profit one east at this time and how does iran. make both the ravaged remains of. a suburb just a few kilometers from.