it's true as it always was with his job. catalan nationalists regain control of their regional government and vowed to seek independence in a challenge to spain's new prime minister. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up thousands attend the funeral of a young palestinian medic shot dead by israeli forces at the gaza border. is yemen will lose a vital lifeline as pro-government forces advance on the rubble helped course of her data. and as hurricane season starts again puerto rican small in the fowls and thought to have been killed by hurricane maria.

come to the program our top story spain's new prime minister pedro sanchez has been sworn in a day off to ousting mariano rajoy in a vote of no confidence about an hour later catalonia new government was sworn in ending madrid seven month to write rule of the region and it immediately pledged to seek independence in a major challenge for spain's new leader catherine stansell explains. spain's new and old leadership side by side mariano rajoy six and a half years in office came to an end in friday's no confidence vote led by the socialist who ousted him petro sanchez. i promise on my conscience a monetary law will be fulfill the responsibilities of prime minister and to be loyal to the king and to safeguard the constitution as well as to maintaining secret deliberation of the cabinet sanchez is promising to root out corruption and

help spaniards who suffered in years of austerity measures under the royal government but he's expected to find it a challenge to pass legislation given the socialists have just eighty four to three hundred fifty seats parliament supposedly he will have to make. alliances we did different parties the problem is the parties he's got the support. to go ahead with these no go but very unlikely partners they are either independent east. and the basque country or they are delayed the extreme left party which has been disputing with the socialist party the left. of our voters so he will have to look for some policies that he can move ahead after several months months without any movement at all and to be able to do something in this period before he goes new elections catalonia and it's dr friend dependence is

a major issue for us and as to tackle the whole imposed direct rule over the region in october after nationalist held an independence referendum deemed illegal. the regional government regained control at a swearing in ceremony in barcelona on saturday the new cabinet is led by kim torah a close aide to former catalonian president carter has put through my charro wants talks on independence for sanchez but tara's seen as a divisive leader after like he used to and to spanish russia he once described opponents of the catalan language and culture as vipers and hyenas sanchez had the support of six parties for the no confidence vote but he will have his work cut out when it comes to leading the fractured spanish parliament in madrid catherine stansell al jazeera. our own r.-o. his departure has been welcomed by venezuela's president and took advantage of his ousting to poke fun at one of his biggest critics my dear also said he hopes

spain's change in leadership will improve relations with crackers sort of put in the oh. i was surprised that raul went away so fast almost without saying goodbye i respect the political life of spain we do not get into the political life of spain i hope that the new government the new president can build a new vision about going to swallow and can open new policies of dialogue understanding and respect about venezuela i want relationships of respect. well now to italy where the five star movement has called on supporters to push on a show of force at a rally in rome as the country's first populist government gets to work a new prime minister just said conti has also begun his first full day in office conti leads a cabinet formed of the five star movement and the far right party sonicare go is in rome for us now and sonia what's happening there. well barrie i am we have a rally here which was initially organized as

a protest rally when the first attempt to make a government was rejected and the five star party were calling out to be free pietschmann of the president for not accepting the government as it was with a very much euro skeptic economy minister he has since been replaced a government has since been signed in or was sworn in a new prime minister and so this has become really more like a celebration rally for this out type of party is finally in the very height of power here and it's silly they say it's a game changer and many people who have gathered here as well for them this is also a very important moment because really these obviously this is one of the i'm to stop posses that has been really pricing up here. all of the major political parties here and has managed to trounce them in their own way and be able to forge ahead with the government but the problem is of course is that they are

going into coalition with a government they leave which is essential to a political. position is totally the opposite of some of the things which they stand for survey despite the fact that they have been able to reassure brussels that this is a coalition they can work with there are many challenges that lie ahead with that because they have to consider such opposing view forces such as on social issues and on immigration but may be trying to consolidate that through their shared euro skepticism as well as shared visions for the economy mariyam that's right they've managed to strike an agreement at long last but now the hard work really begins because of course each party made a long list of promises to their supporters what are the possible pitfalls that might lie ahead. for the obvious one that stands comes to mind really is on immigration now the leader of the party material salvini.

though basically for his xenophobia rhetoric that he has come paint on as well has come out and said that prior to the elections that he would want to see five hundred thousand what he calls illegal migrants to be cast out of italy that this is something that the five star movement actually do have a problem with they say that this is not something which could be. without infringing on human rights issues here and on the human rights law international human rights bill there are also issues of how they would go about it but what they do say is that they try to forge away with this see what we can see eye to eye with the league is how they consider certain issues such as into such as industry farming and fishing topics like that which promote italy and italian produce. they want to see their exports all some kind of scheme to be able to try and guarantee those exports they said they can work with the league on that but as far as the

rhetoric is concerned that is a possible cause of certainly of a lot of differences between the two parties let alone the others for example on social issues as well but this is something which they say they believe that both sides can try and cattails some of the more extreme elements in the party but this is only something which really can be seen as the days go on and the vote of confidence which is expected to happen in the coming week we'll see where really the important issues will stand and which ones that accept and which ones they'll drop maryam thank you very much sunny gago bring us all the latest from rome where that rally is just starting to gather pace. in gaza thousands of people have attended the funeral of a young palestinian medic shot dead by israeli forces at the gaza border on friday

twenty one year old resin alhaji are volunteered to get medical help when the weekly demonstrations began in march since then israeli soldiers have shot dead at least two hundred twenty one palestinians have been protesting for the right to return carry force it was at a funeral and han eunice in gaza. the body was on a child is now being brought towards the mosque i found him a star is a huge mixture of emotion here we've seen some of her colleagues crying quietly to themselves but here as a body comes in way hearing shots are dying and defiance there has been a huge reaction publicly across gaza to the death of this young woman she was shot on the friday protests as she went to the aid of somebody himself he'd been shot near the border fence and she died of her injuries the palestinian medical association saying that she was shot through the chest and she died of her injuries we spoke a short while ago to a colleague who was right next to when that fatal bullet struck her and she lived

in the southern only reason our hands who were no uniforms were about twenty meters from the fence and they could see us easily so we thought they would shoot at us as we arrived they shot two bullets one had resigned in the chance and the second went through my other colleagues and then hit me in the leg with two bullets they hit three of us killing resign. omissions are running very high here at the cemetery where rosen has been brought to bury and we've been seeing people trying to stop others from walking on top of graves we've seen a father come in his face entirely a wash in tears when we spoke to mahmoud her colleague earlier on he said that she was a young woman of sweet nature someone who never tire. add a risk to your own life to help others these ready army says it is investigating the reports of her death but as far as people here are concerned they are outraged that someone who is volunteering as a medic trying to help other others who'd been injured by israeli sniper fire.

victims are. meanwhile israeli forces have killed a palestinian man in the occupied west bank city of hebron soldiers say they opened fire after thirty five year old rami sabbar now try to run them over with his digger but witnesses say savannah didn't hear the soldier's commands to stop his vehicle which he'd been using for work at a local construction site none of the soldiers were injured in the incident. pro-government forces backed by the saudi led coalition a closing in on a major rebel held port in yemen in a battle that could reshape the course of the civil war more than one hundred soldiers and rebels have reportedly been killed in less than a week of fighting near the data government troops are preparing to launch an all out assault have already driven the rebels from dozens of nearby towns and villages aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster jaan egeland is the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council he told our desire that an escalation of violence in her data could have an impact on hundreds of thousands of yemenis. given is that they country on

earth with their as they highest number of people who are fruit very few can secure who are at the brink of starvation many many millions seven ten more million who won't face starvation soon if that life line in this is a cut and one of the one of the things that could happen is actually that this city which is said only dispute it it's on the hands of the government in the end sana the head that there is claims that bad things that come through why not make in it and internationally and minister that port since it is so vital for the civilian population where we can at. and we must at all costs avoid these war in a day that not only because of the hundreds of thousands of people who would come in

crossfire but also because the park would be destroyed and the lifeline would be destroyed. still ahead for you on the program us defense secretary accuses china of tipping point i miss elting the south china sea trying to mediate its neighbors. and government forces in kashmir fight a gas in shotgun pellets at the funeral of a protester run over by a paramilitary vehicle. welcome back as we look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia we've got a frontal system moving down through the stands across the caspian sea and that's going to push further towards the southeast so we could see some showers for our marty in kazakhstan for tashkent as becky stan and so also the possibility of some showers in the southern side of the caspian sea that might include to iran as well

for baghdad is should be drawing across iraq it is really hot that moment temperatures into the forty's some thunderstorms likely across the eastern side of the mediterranean extending into eastern parts of turkey and through the caucuses those expats of the continues we head through into monday then in theory be in peninsula and we've got hot. across the u.s. and saw the potential of forty one america around the gulf states though not only is it hot but it's very humid there's not much in the way of breeze here at all in this could be an issue over the next week before we start to pick up more of a smile just clearing that humid air away so sticky here for the time being across into southern portions of africa we have quite a bit of cloud around the eastern cape so durban really seeing clover the chance they'll share a not particularly warm in cape town with a high of just sixteen degrees further towards the north we've got the chance they'll show on the coast of mozambique but across some bad weather conditions looking fine highs of twenty six expected in new saka.

welcome back a look at the top stories this hour catalonians new nationalist government has been

sworn in ending the trade seven month direct rule of the region catalan president kim tara immediately pledged to achieve independence in a direct challenge to spain's new prime minister pedro sanchez. thousands of people in gaza have attended the funeral of a young palestinian medic shot dead by israeli forces at the gaza border. and in yemen pro-government forces backed by the saudi led coalition in preparing a full scale assault on the rebel held city of her data aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster as most of most of yemen's food and medicine pulses through her day just court. now the u.s. is accused china of deploying high end weapons systems in the south china sea to intimidation coerce its neighbors these comments by defense secretary jim mattis drew a shot rebuke from a chinese general who called them irresponsible speaking at an international security conference in singapore where the korean peninsula took center stage ahead

of donald trump's plans on it with kim jong un scott hyder reports. the focus of the high level discussions here at the shangri-la dialogue all came down to one peninsula u.s. secretary of defense jim backus just hours after president donald trump confirmed the u.s. north korea summit was back on june twelfth here in singapore made something very clear that the number of u.s. troops in south korea is something that will not be discussed if we could restrict or confidence building measures with with something verifiable then of course these kinds of issues could come up. subsequently between her and democracies the republic of korea and the united states but it is that issue is not on the table here and singapore on the twelfth. that adds weight to comments from trump that it's unlikely that a major breakthrough will come after just one meeting also here the shangri-la dialogue the defense ministers from japan and south korea both spoke about the upcoming summit but with guarded optimism saying it's

a historic first step down the right path but north korea cannot be rewarded just for dialogue concrete actions are needed. south korea was more conciliatory toward kim jong un urging patience with the north koreans for congo because just because we have been tricked by north korea before does not guarantee that we will be tricked in the future if we start to think like this we can live a negotiated with them and we can never look to achieve peace with them for all and also on saturday secretary mabus described china's buildup in the south china sea as militarization used for intimidation and coercion and i think mr mattis was doing that simply to remind everybody that the geopolitical chessboard straddled across the pacific is extremely large and a lot of moving parts and the current korean peninsula crisis is just one portion of the chess board clearly a red line or several red lines have been crossed and the u.s. is now hitting back at these diplomatically trying to defend it it's actually

saying what the u.s. and their allies are doing is simply being managed for now the countdown to the much anticipated summit in ten days remains in the spotlight it's got harder al jazeera singapore. is known for pushing the envelope with nuclear threats and warnings of war but this time kim jong un is getting attention for his actual envelopes on friday the north korean leader sent his former spy chief to handle over a letter to u.s. president trump as they prepare for a historic summit but it's the size of the less so that's got social media buzzing it was almost as large as a folded newspaper the fens analyst adam out suggest that the north koreans have trumped figured out because it's the size of a price check in a t.v. game show of course for years the president was the star of the reality show the apprentice it also robert swartwood asked are we sure the letter is really that big or a triumph hands just that small on the tokyo bureau chief for the washington post and if i feel tweeted when it comes to nuclear buttons and now the envelopes size

apparently matters trumps all anyone who's supersized mail-o. who got supersized mail kim sent a similar letter to the south korean president when he held talks with the north korean to desist chairing the winter olympics. well the u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross has arrived in beijing for talks aimed at easing tensions over tariffs that of heightened fears of a global trade war is visit comes after the trump of ministration new threats to reduce the nearly three hundred forty billion dollar trade deficit between america and china lawrence louis has more from beijing this is the third round of trade talks between china and the u.s. the world's two largest economies and the idea is to avoid a full blown trade war but the events of the past few days have complicated matters first up you have the about face by the u.s. when it comes to the imposition of tariffs on chinese goods now having initially said it will put these tariffs on hold while talks are ongoing the u.s.

a few days ago said it would push ahead of tariffs and this has left chinese and u.s. officials in a state of uncertainty and without much confidence that whatever they agree on this weekend will actually amount to anything and then of course second is the issue of the u.s. imposing tariffs on steel an element in products on the e.u. mexico and canada this has angered and alienated its allies it will make it harder for the u.s. to find other countries to come together and confront what they say are unfair chinese trade practices because many of these countries have the same grouses they complain of intellectual property theft by chinese companies allowing them to benefit unfairly they complain of chinese overproduction flooding world markets with cheap steel and aluminum products and then the u.s. by going ahead and imposing these terrorists on its allies it's bypassed world trade organization procedures and acted unilaterally which means it's making it even more difficult to confront china especially at

a time when china has said it supports the rules based trading system centered around the world trade organization. government troops in indian administered kashmir a fired up hundreds of people attending a funeral they gathered to pay their respects to a man who was run over by a military vehicle during a protest on friday when a hawkster has long. soldiers and police fired tear gas and shotgun pellets to scatter mourners in srinagar on saturday they were burying another casualty of the violence and the contested region of the judge and as many tear gas shells on it what kind of humanity is this. the dead man second to his injuries after he was run over by an armored vehicle another man was also badly injured during the protests after friday's prayers a military spokesman said soldiers showed extreme restraint but some witnesses say the armored vehicle deliberately targeted protesters. this incident has

barbaric it's a stain on indian democracy it's not just a blot on democracy but almost all humanity in india doesn't have a right to call itself a democracy this incident is barbaric and there are no words to condemn it. the mourners were marching with the man's body to a graveyard and sure to go on saturday when police and soldiers use force to stop them police said that they would define a government order that bans assembly of more than four people in short ago the region's largest city anti-government sentiment runs deep in the disputed himalayan territory kashmir is divided between nuclear armed rivals pakistan and india and borders china ninety percent of kashmir is a muslim with buddhists and hindus making up the rest of the twelve million population separatists have been fighting indian control for almost thirty years demanding the territory be united with pakistan rule or gains independence oh. nearly seventy thousand people have been killed in the separatist fighting since

one thousand nine hundred nine india's prime minister briefly visited kashmir two weeks ago provoking a furious reaction from protesters both india and pakistan have agreed to abide by fifteen years ceasefire. but peace remains elusive. as there. funerals have been held for people killed on one of the bloodiest days of the anti-government protests in nicaragua sixteen demonstrators died on wednesday in what opposition groups and the catholic church a calling a massacre the u.n. has called on the government to end the violence which is killed more than one hundred people in the past six weeks from the capital managua. reports a funeral procession makes its way through a neighborhood in the nicaraguan capital onlookers watch from their homes as the remains of thirty four year old princes go to raise are moved to a nearby cemetery. overcome with grief francisco's mother says goodbye to her son

for the last time. i don't mind as the most precious thing in our lives is being taken away all of our children are in danger. fransisco was shot while attending a protest on may thirty his father is a police officer for the city of managua he believes his son was killed by a sniper under orders by the government only and. this was the government there killing innocent people the person was trained because a sniper shoots to kill on the moments after francisco was shot were captured on camera and we have the record as was the anger that demonstrators felt upon learning that he was dead i found they is blood there is blood they shot our brother francisco is one of at least sixteen people who were killed during one of the largest anti-government protests seen any get out in decades his name is now added to a list of over one hundred others who've been killed since the start of this crisis

on april eighteenth entering with his body laid to rest the schools closest friends say they feel compelled to join in the anti-government demonstrations they started as a protest against planned cuts to social security benefits but the focus is why did to getting rid of president at dega and his administration let the people support francisco and if the people rise up i will support him to do. while the unrest in the gut i work continues mourners at the funeral ask collectively how many more of the country's youth will be buried before the conflict is over. when arwa puerto rico's health department is being sued over its refusal to release mortality data following last year's hurricane maria the families of those killed paste shoes outside the capitol building in san juan to show how many people died as a result of the hurricane vigil was to highlight the discrepancy between the

government's official death toll of sixty four and the latest estimate from a study by harvard university which puts the number at more than four thousand six hundred people all tens of thousands of puerto ricans fled to florida after the island was devastated by hurricane maria but eight months on hundreds of evacuees a still living in hotels were lying on government aid that will soon end some families say they could end up homeless and as the new hurricane season begins there a concern is puerto rico will be unable to weather another storm and he gallacher reports from florida. in the weeks following hurricane maria more than thirty thousand storm weary puerto ricans registered at this disaster relief center at all and those airport u.s. citizens by birth they came to florida looking for help months later many is still in limbo like hundreds of others namely gonzales has been stuck in a hotel since january but time is running out for drill assistance programs a temporary naomi has nowhere else to go nobody understands what we're feeling ok

because. many people they're in their homes they're all kids they could lead they've got their place but when you don't have a place well if it gets to you it's really tough for families that have already been in these hotels for months there's the constant fear that government aid will end and that is inevitable many simply don't have anything to go back to in puerto rico but for those that want to make a life here there's an even bigger problem ninety seven percent of all rental accommodation is already filled that the remains is prohibitively expensive we're getting calls from people who care about others orange county's commissioner says resources stretched and many evacuees who have little choice but to stay face an uncertain future when you lose everything and you can't pay your mortgage and now your credits getting ruined and now you're here in our new county trying to find an apartment they're looking at your credit score is and you can't get approved that's

just a domino effect from something that happened to them six months ago so what if you can only request one welcome to. the community hope center in kissimmee is help some families find homes say they too can't help everyone resources in this part of florida already dealing with an exodus of puerto ricans who left before the storm the limited as they come in the expectations for the families i feel may be higher than what we actually can provide at times i know that there's there's huge frustration and i know that there is just there's hurt and trauma hurricane maria hit puerto rico last september but the island is still struggling those that came to florida were looking for a new start many still waiting to get across to zero because florida. now the u.s. has been marking its eightieth national donut day with an eating competition in los angeles a sweet treats became popular during world war one when women in the salvation army

may doe not a soldier has. these. hayes those you can see it's become better known as an occasion for competitive overeating. the winner eight forty-eight donuts in the space of eight minutes you know where the. headlines now catalonia is new nationalist government has been sworn in ending the trade seven month direct rule of the region council and president kim torah has pledged to achieve independence and a direct challenge to spain's new prime minister address sanchez who was sworn in just an hour before him. in gaza thousands of people have attended the funeral of a palestinian medic shot dead by israeli forces at the gaza border on friday twenty one year old jar volunteered to give medical help when the weekly demonstrations began in march since then israeli soldiers have shot dead at least one hundred twenty one palestinians have been protesting for the right to return israeli

military says it will carry out an investigation into on the charts death. in yemen pro-government forces backed by the saudi led coalition a preparing a full scale assault on the rebel held port city of the data more than one hundred soldiers and rebel forces have reportedly been killed in less than a week of fighting around her data but aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster as most of yemen's food and medicine passes through the port. the u.s. has accused china of deploying high end weapons systems in the south china sea to intimidate its neighbors these comments by defense secretary jim matches drew a sharp rebuke from a chinese general who called them irresponsible. despite trying to claim to the contrary the placement of these weapon systems is tied directly to military use for the purposes of intimidation and coercion trying to militarization of the spratleys

is also in direct contradiction to president twenty fifteen public her interest in the white house rose garden that they would not do this government troops in indian administered kashmir have fired hundreds of people who were attending a funeral a gathered to pay their respects to a man who was run over by a military vehicle during an anti india protest on friday he died in hospital overnight the mourners when watching with the man's body to a graveyard in cern ika when police and soldiers used force to stop them well as the headlines i'll have more on everything for you in the news hour in about twenty five minutes time but that's off the inside story which starts now.

the first populist government in western europe kenneth sole bts problems the coalition of the far right and unties tabish bodies and months of political uncertainty but is it a threat to the european union this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. a very unusual coalition government has come to power and it's only leaders of the anti-establishment five star movement and the right wing on thai immigration league audie have been sworn into office ending three months of political deadlock they want to revive its least like ish.