so you remind us of catalonia status now and if the spanish prime minister is actually going to be able to resolve any of these outstanding issues. there are many issues at stake here not least in the middle of it is kerry's position all of spain's prime minister he is reading between a rock and a hard place he is surrounded by opposing voices within even his own party as well as those from the right wing parties as well who are vehemently against any kind of of easing of tensions with the cast like government there red line was this referendum that take place across a legal really is a legal issue as well as they believe the prime minister should be taking a much harder stance than he has right now is the side show is of a different opinion he says that there needs to be some form of dialogue and that is something which is also being echoed by the castle and government as well if there was

a meeting on thursday night between the capital of president and thought i missed it and the prime minister they agreed to continue dialogue but they both have very different stances however of the rhetoric not any homes from the opponents of this but also from the caps like on the side of self the president has also said some things which are quite islam which in this one is even advocated a slovenia solution for catalonia of course referring to the power slovenia got in the highlands of the beginning of the yugoslavia was not really for those who are requiring a kind of more. moderate solution to this they weren't really appreciative about very inflammatory remarks so where you thought you've got a desire for dialogue but you have the two sides actually still firmly entrenched in that despite fourteen months of this. speaking to us live from the sidelines of those protests in barcelona thanks for updates on their. weather next but still ahead on al-jazeera. american and its many allies know what china's doing to

chinese men become the latest focus of a cyber dispute with the united states. stranded travelers in britain second largest airports are back on the move after drone sightings grounded all flights. hello there there's also a cold weather across the northern parts of asia at the moment we are seeing this area of cloud also working its way towards the east that's giving us a fair amount of snow and some rain at times today that will be here over the northern parts of japan as we had three set today safe oh it doesn't run the way to the times roll the wintery and then the area of just drags back towards the west north korea and into parts of china to the north of that is where it's coldest as

you might expect say flatly both struck two degrees on maximum but to the south of that area of cloud it will be milder with ten of them ice of in-cell more cloud across the southern area as well particularly as we had three sunday and so it could give us a few more breaks of rain for the southeastern parts of china we've got a large about a cloud over this belt am that's giving us a few outbreaks of rain on saturday breaks up in the little bit as we had three sunday but still a few breaks of rain are likely at times the west whether that was further south and force across parts the philippines is the really quite wet over the last couple of days in fact for some of us here we've seen around one hundred fifty millimeters of rain just in the last two days and there's more wet weather still to come so is the eastern parts of the philippines we're seeing the worst of the weather here but also forcing vietnamese with pretty soggy for sunday. xenophobia violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of

europe. al jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's fastest growing far right organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine le pen's national rally party generation eight. part two of a special two part investigation on al jazeera. welcome back. a reminder of our top stories this hour president donald trump has reportedly ordered the withdrawal of up to seven thousand u.s. troops from afghanistan that would halt the number of american soldiers in the

country meanwhile u.s. defense secretary james masters has quit saying this is the latest high profile resignation in the trump administration it comes a day after the president announced that all u.s. troops will be leaving syria. proconsul on independence activists protesting in wasilla spain's prime minister holds a cabinet meeting in the city these are live pictures of those demonstrations tensions are running high a year off to spain's government ruled the customer to session referendum was illegal. opposition supporters in the democratic republic of congo a waiting to hear response to the election delay demonstrators rallied outside the headquarters of one of the opposition parties to the decision voting will now take place a week later on december thirtieth the electoral commission says violence and the just tickle issues forced the postponement catherine soy has more from. right now why do you.

think to. hold a press conference. and. all. that. i really. want you to be very disappointed that. all this time and then it. all ready to go. on sunday. all of you. the. advice to katie who have stayed that way also disappointed they want their president of the electoral commission to step down directly that he's not done his job but other presidential candidates also say that we need to give a lecture a commission find and i'd be selected by the real question really is is

a week or even not. election commission put everything in place to have a credible election china has rejected us accusations that it's responsible for a massive hacking operation that targeted organizations including nasa and the u.s. navy people have been arrested the u.s. justice department says the suspects are linked to the chinese government. may found the association with the u.s. side is making groundless accusations against china on cyber security by fabricating facts and making up a story out of. the us is charging to chinese in the name of so-called cyber theft this move seriously runs counter to the norms of international relations seriously harms china u.s. cooperation and is in essence extremely nasty china is resolutely against this and has lodged a stern representation in the first instance well patty and has now more from

washington d.c. . at the justice department sweeping allegations against two chinese nationals accused of widespread hacking the victims included companies in banking and finance telecommunications and computer consumer electronics medical equipment packaging manufacturing consulting healthcare biotechnology automotive oil and gas exploration and mining the government says the hackers were able to get into the computers of nasa the energy department and the navy stealing the personal information of one hundred thousand sailors they wouldn't name the companies that were targeted but did say many of the attacks were aimed at managed service providers you've all heard about situations where you see somebody essentially the cyber equivalent of breaking into a house this is more like breaking into and getting the keys from the maintenance supervisor who has keys to hundreds and hundreds of apartments and all the residents in those apartments according to the indictment the to work for the

chinese government and are believed to still be in china meaning they are unlikely to actually be arrested but this comes at a time of increased tensions between the u.s. and china after the arrest of a chinese tech executive at the request of the u.s. on charges of violating sanctions and the clock ticking on a ninety day window hoped it ending the trade war leading to another bad day on the stock market as the u.s. injects even more tension to the over the front u.s. china relationship. al-jazeera washington. some flights have resumed at the u.k. second largest airport after trains brought it to a standstill on thursday but as troops have been sent to gatwick airport south of london as police continue to hunt for the operation of two drones the device has reappeared nearby everytime the airport trying to reopen its runway. at gatwick airport well after thirty six hours of chaos the misery for passengers here again

the is now tentatively reopening a very limited number of flights are being allowed to arrive and takeoff have just been inside the terminal building the arrivals area is a ghost town hardly anybody there at all but if you go into the departure area where people are trying to check in there are queues as the airport tries to clear the massive backlog of passengers overnight restrictions on aspace and parts of the k. were lifted to allow diverted planes to reach their final destination some people were diverted as far away as paris the netherlands but police now say that there is all of the security equipment in place largely through the help of the military to mitigate the possible effects of these drones the last recorded sighting was on thursday evening still no indication who the perpetrators are still no indication whether or not possibly one of the drones is in the hands of the thirty's the police say they have several lines of inquiry one suggestion is that perhaps

environmental protesters may have been involved in organizing this but as the authorities say it is early days their main priority is to get this airport up and running as quickly as possible. black americans were the prime targets of russia's efforts to help donald trump win the twenty sixteen presidential election that's the finding of a report from the u.s. senate intelligence committee black americans make up nearly thirteen percent of the population and tend to vote democrat al jazeera has the story. september twenty sixth seen was a vulnerable time in charlotte north carolina the city was in upheaval over the police killing of a black man in the us presidential election was just over a month away and you feed was among the local activists using social media to organize protesters there was somebody to reached out and say can we share this on our or on our criminal justice reform page or something like that and i looked at

the page and i had about three to four hundred thousand followers you know likes or something like that so you know i'm thinking of but black matters us was actually made by hackers working for russia's internet research agency or the i r a a senate intelligence committee report found the most prolific ira efforts on facebook and instagram specifically targeted black american communities in appears to have been focused on developing black audiences and recruiting black americans as assets if these people were able to chart facebook twitter you sue google cia the f.b.i. the obama administration of course they're going to trick the activists that are on the ground there. but tricked them to do what u.s. intelligence has concluded russia wanted donald trump to win the presidency knowing that african-americans by and large were supporting hillary clinton they need to find some kind of way to intercept that leaders in the black church say russian

hackers preyed on african-americans historic disenchantment with the u.s. political system by tying that system to clinton and encouraging a paralyzing anger against her they polarize they highlighted the issues of. blacks in america and. you know again it was divide and conquer the protests that filled the charlot streets garnered national attention and when racial tensions just weeks before the presidential election when it came time to cast a ballot the voter turnout among black americans was down seven percent from the previous presidential election now the question is how much of that was due to russia's influence and was it enough to determine the winner do you think donald trump would be president the russians have interfered directly targeting

african-american voters in the u.s. . i don't think you would be president the u.s. government says there's no way to know for sure but to the people who were targeted by russia's influence campaign the answer is already clear. castro al-jazeera charlotte north carolina. schools and universities have been suspended and dollars capital after eight people died in protests against rising food and fuel prices demonstrations spread to khartoum on thursday and there's a state of emergency in place in the city is about and get our if protesters are angry about inflation now at nearly seventy percent that's one of the wilds highest the sudanese economy has struggled since the independence of south sudan in twenty eleven when it lost the majority of its oil output. the widening global health gap is raising particular concern in thailand to one seven and the country is having the biggest disparity one percent of the population controls more than two thirds

of the country's wealth it's got highly reports from bangkok. even though the physical distance between thailand's rich and poor can be small for it to put love it's just a matter of metres the wealth gap between them has been steadily widening and according to one report it's now the world's largest tos lived in a bangkok slum for forty five years and now in the shadow of the capital's latest ultra luxury model she picks while vegetables for her dinner to swear it should be kicked off the land her situation is not unique. a recent international report put thailand at the top of the wealth gap list in a country of nearly seventy million the richest one percent controls sixty six point nine percent of the country's wealth economist a bank executive and it raised concern on social media about the growing wealth inequality as it leads to social unrest like with the rival thai political groups known as the red shirts and yellow shirts that some things have been in new

qualities you know for me. red target. problem is quite clear to me that inequality at the grassroots suntanned capitalist thailand's military government quickly responded to pump on it and the wealth reports when you look at the data. the real data come from many countries table sixty six have only forty countries dessie make that country and the one in doubt but if you look at all country around it will be the number one so for those ties at the lower end of the wealth chart it's not just about having few or no assets or even a low income it's about the lack of opportunities and resources so their chances and hope of changing their environment working their way up are extremely low a great deal of industries in retail in thailand are controlled by a select few firms or families they're well connected to the government ensuring their position at the top top up lim chip doggone runs

a craft beer company but he says he had to shift his brewing out of thailand because of regulations that favor the too large beer companies huge production minimums and strict advertising laws he was even arrested emanuel. you cannot do it because someone already told superior to fire. in the country that you know oh man i'm not going to. really hold up i think it's possible for them too many people live at the moment it's all their money. according to economists pump and it those unfair advantage is given to people who are already at the top of the wealth chart are the most damaging to the economy and the country it not only makes the rich richer but it takes money and opportunity away from others scotland al-jazeera bangkok. well a lump of coal isn't a typical christmas gift but one that needy families in south korea are grateful to

receive thousands of charcoal briquettes are being handed over by u.s. troops to households north of seoul the coal is much needed for heating and cooking during the winter months and will help to make christmas a half year time for people struggling to make ends meet and. do this because in traditional american spirit. this is the season so given. we're glad to be a party. on the just looking at the brick it's delivered here makes me feel warm and wealthy whenever i see them i will feel like i'm a rich person living in a warm place are truly appreciate it. by mr hall and these all the top stories president donald trump has reportedly ordered the withdrawal of up to seven thousand u.s. troops from afghanistan that would halt the number of american soldiers in the country meanwhile u.s.

defense secretary james mattis is quitting this is the latest high profile resignation in the trumpet ministration it comes a day off to the president announce that all u.s. troops will be leaving syria prior castle and independence activists are protesting in boss alona as spain's prime minister holds a cabinet meeting in the city tensions are running ha year off to spain's government ruled that catalonia secession referendum was illegal go has more from boston. but you say it's a symbolic provocation here however the spanish government itself says that it's a symbol of due new emotive trying to ease tensions between madrid not involved in the spanish prime minister suggested south and said that it's really it's sort of a function towards council outside sweden but that's not a french really has gone down like a stone. schools and universities have been suspended in

sudan's capital after eight people died in protests against rising food and fuel prices demonstrations spread to call a tomb on thursday and there's a state of emergency in place in the city is about and to get a ref protest as angry about inflation now at nearly seventy percent that's one of the wilds highest. opposition supporters in the democratic republic of congo are waiting to hear their leaders response to the election delay demonstrators rallied outside the headquarters of one of the opposition parties to vent their anger at the decision voting will now take place a week later on december thirtieth the electoral commission says violence on the just ticklish use of forced the postponement. some flights have resumed at the u.k.'s second biggest airport after drones brought it to a standstill on. british troops were sent to gatwick airport south of london as police continue to hunt for the operation of two drones the device has reappeared nearby every time the airport tried to reopen its runway those are the headlines

they'll be more news here after the stream. national she won't get out of the said ass the only ocean he only. has to like the oil has the little bits of them directly show you.

but i haven't used however how much i would rather you know what was or what i have not. the saudis are not the first country to make this mistake. yemen. after nearly four years of relentless conflict the world has grown used to images of killing and destruction. there is a danger the trolling news coverage can make viewers desensitized to prolonged conflict especially to the human suffering. but sometimes a single event can make the world sit up and take notice. a bombing on thursday the ninth of august twenty eighth teen in the northern yemeni city of sadat knew the

border with saudi arabia was one such events the argument about the one economy of yours i am. the one who by the letter when he got about how did you know what a here's how when i die. and you can get he didn't even know if i'm saying that and i have lived just well paid to love and i want the hearth love last lesson in the early bite on that on supply dog the somehow that. this who looks at what's happened that day and how planes deployed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition managed to bomb a bus full of yemeni schoolchildren in sadaf killing nearly everyone on boards.

yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world. in twenty eleven a revolution parts of the so-called arab spring ousted president ali abdullah saleh . the armed sheogue group in the north of yemen. took advantage of the instability they moved south and ultimately captured the capital sanaa seizing power from the government of new president up the rebel and fluid had to. take over prompted a group of arab states led by saudi arabia and including the united arab emirates

to launch an all out of touch on who the positions in march twenty fifteen saying that the who things were supported by iran and. the united nations estimates that since then around six thousand six hundred yemenis to billions have been killed ten thousand five hundred injured and the largest humanitarian crisis in the world including famine and widespread disease has been allowed to develop. it's in this context that the bombing in saw a known who the stronghold took place. an international news story circulated saying that coalition forces had hit a bus carrying children on a summer school excursion. this little boy covered in soot and surrounded by the dead just minutes after the strike was asked if you was ok. my legs he said. the

west bank saudi led coalition responsible offering no apology dozens of children killed in a saudi led coalition air strike that hit a school bus the instant caused outrage was condemned around the world. so to forces bombed school. managed to shock a lot of people this is a school bus this is not a military target of course what happened was dozens of children were. fifty one people including forty children were killed and seventy seven others injured in the start that attack. the international red cross said their medical team at the hospital received the bodies of twenty nine children each under fifteen . the hospital also treated forty eight injured patients

of whom thirteen were children. hell it was a theory sort of film that i guess that's part of the hell are you to school or tell i said. yes i was to have a valid how that will show her. being. off of a bottle at night yet about well how can i you are. aware that. yes big hustle it's getting bad the most. well if you don't. plan. it will admit you. have a. i don't think i want to go to the idea that. they have to. say that if you. have an alley i do. something when i get anywhere i have to go.

so none of us are. husband allow an unreal. but the basic explanation about why these tragedies have happened is because often in war your intelligence is not very good and if you have someone who is trying to win a war fast who has a sense of impatience and recklessness they will take shots even when they should not and i believe that sometimes what the saudis have been doing. the initial saudi reaction was to deny responsibility for the bomb hitting the school bus. coalition spokesman maliki told c.n.n. that the attack had been on what he called and it did to mitt targets and that this was not a school bus and maliki went on to see that the targets had been after

a few rockets launched sites that had been used the day before to attack the southern style the city of just killing one civilian and injuring eleven other is. just fundamentally western diet be the i don't i still emotionally were you know yes and i said why yes but if we are not only did you waste time. when the bombing initially invaded what we do every time the terrible bombardment same thing as we said from the bomb to weddings same thing as i said we found a few same thing as we said from people in the market place they always say that. initially because i've always say if it really quite happened like well. then the bug out bag that they got and i got i was a lot guidant human got that was so out of a bad had bag of oil men bought other to what other high. profile that it had

bad luck how i knew that it was a stellar band of. at help at that i want to tell them i get what happened in. this mobile phone survived the attack but it's only going to knott's. there were video clips on the phone of the children on the bus before the bombing. once these were made public it became difficult for the coalition to stick to its original story. the next day the announced that the bus bombing was cannot or will damage resulting from another strike against a so-called legitimate targets and now the deal judy is an iraqi academic who sympathizes with the coalition in this conflict on one of those two was in a jar people that are more length of knowledge to have. those see it and know oh my

god it's a slight fear for them to have thought about what they are and who feel how he's throughout the year. and the home of them in the rubbish area but the color nautical mile and i walk into the nearest walk i'm. doris you know head of. your own a day. one hundred thelema oh democrats over to him if you have had us over so on a number of us are going on the one note the harder for the other we have to meddle in. the united states has provided to coolish and with military support since twenty fifteen yes. the blowing up of a bus with civilians and children it is a horrible incident but first we have to find out the facts. then the united states has to make some choices if in fact our saudi allies were not involved in this we will continue this type of support for some time. we have

made it clear at the u.n. from the secretary general's perspective of the perspective of the high commissioner for human rights our outrage at the targeting of minibuses and we've called for there to be. authority best occasioned this attack obviously these various attacks obviously all international humanitarian law must be respected and we need to make sure that there is a proper test a geisha and we'll have to see whether that happens or not. the thought the bus bombing triggered international condemnation. the commander of u.s. air forces central command lieutenant general geoffrey harrigan severely criticised both the coalition and the saudi authorities. the u.s. army central commander in the middle east michael x. garrets went to riyadh's to urge the saudis to conduct

a thorough investigation. donald trump told fox news that the saudi lets coalition in yemen didn't know how to use an american made bomb in the attack. and the un security council called for a credible and transparent investigation into the incident. we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident and what we want to see is a stop to the fighting what we want to see is stop to the humanitarian suffering what we want to see is a halt to civilian casualties members of the security council met and had a briefing from the assistant secretary general on the recent attacks.