having been. all i have that i have lighted thank you thank you very very well thank you for what you want to see if you are correct . their own status outside within space was at the moment you hear them they are challenging. the child pretty much already it will likely continue thank you are you getting the state particularly government or the madrid central government both sides are certainly not backing down just yet and so your catalan leaders have expressed concern about some of the violence saying that does not represent us in their words and also concerned that that feeds into opponents of catalan independence what's the sense that you will get in there about how controlled these protests and the possibility of violence as momentum

builds. when it has to be said that the great majority of these protests have been peaceful this is the intention of of most of the people who have been attending the marches and they've been focalizing how they are against any of the violence that has been seen on the streets in these past few nights but it is problematic in the sense that the governments there have been calls from the very top of the government to civil disobedience now that echoes one of the independent dismayed which thinks that. just protesting on the streets enough that more direct action needs to take place the problem is how does civil disobedience and more direct action getting targeted by members of society who are deeply frustrated with the ongoing situation and how do they take that amongst their own into. the right hand says well now the problem is that while the

president told catalonia has been calling for civil disobedience he's also been sending out to the very same police forces that have been trying to control the rising as well so really it has been the source of contradictory message that has been dying out but to have the entire protest movement defined by the violence that's been seen that night would be perhaps i would say unfair for it to be tainted that way however it is a problem that has always you have it hasn't really seen pilots at this level really since the illegal referendum and that is a serious issue that they would have to contend with and see how they deal with in the weeks to come. sonia thank you for that some of you are joining us live there from those protests in the law in the dim baba is live for us now in brussels where the former leader who's now in exile then of course laid out laundering that pro independence push has now faced the public prosecutor there why has this step

happened now nadeem given that. fled spined of course concerned about being being taken to trial why we seeing this movement right now. well what we know is that colors pushed him all according to his office came here in the last couple of hours to the brussels prosecutor's office in the company of his lawyers now we understand he left fairly shortly afterwards but his office is saying that it was in relation to a new arrest warrant issued by spain this week and that followed the sentencing of mr push to moms former colleagues his office says that he rejects the warrant and any attempts to send him back to spain now just a reminder he's been in self-imposed exile here in belgium a full 2 years he doesn't hide his whereabouts just this week he was outside the

european commission for example joining a pro council on demonstration now on friday spain's supreme court has issued a statement saying that they have told the belgian oath or tease that mr push him on does not have any parliamentary immunity which could stop him being extradited apparently the belgian or thirty's how to be asking about that the prosecutor's office say that this latest request could take them weeks to reach a decision on so we have been here before it's actually the 3rd time that spain has sought to get colors put him on extradited he faces possible charges of sedition and the misuse of public funds but as of now he's never been sent back let him thank you nina baba joining us live there plenty more ahead on the news hour including living on the bombardment libya's air strike victims who are too frightened to protect. the online work force in bangladesh how some stay at home to

reach the world's biggest market. i didn't support the astros was going away while the world series of curiously. down to the protests in lebanon where large demonstrations are taking place for a 2nd day protesters set fires in the streets after trying to storm the government headquarters in beirut they're angry of a new tax plans and a weak economy which has left some citing they're struggling to meet basic needs the prime minister has canceled friday's cabinet meeting and is expected to deliver a speech addressing the protests alexi our brand reports. anger and frustration boiling over and lebanon's capital beirut. security forces fired tear gas and water cannon on crowds demanding the government

resign. cut these protesters say they can't take anymore that years of economic failure have left them struggling to survive. i said it was i'm sad let me tell you at the end of the day if i stay hidden behind social media and i don't go out into the streets how can i dare ask for my rights where do i start 1st of all i want to fight corruption i want to ask those in charge why do you have this you are living at this level and i'm running out of bread. the crowd marched on palm and angry over proposed taxes on tobacco and petrol the backlash has already forced the government to scrap plans to charge uses of the messaging service whatsapp all part of next year's budget as politicians look for ways to reduce its mess of debt the 3rd highest in the world and sakia $11000000000.00 in foreign aid. there we are

staying on the streets we will come out tomorrow and after that we are not here i will watch that we hear of a fuel food grid over everything. that was processed as blocked roads across the country including saddam tripoli and the bekaa valley where. we don't have enough to eat anymore why are you making us pay more while you sit in your positions not caring the people are dying we want our rights we won't leave the streets before we take our rights that's it. years of political turmoil an influx of syrian refugees and its crumbling infrastructure catching up with lebanon's government last month banks rationed far. currency and a state of economic emergency was declared. by the emirates leaving schools and universities closed on friday the government could now

be facing another kind of an agency altogether alexia brian al jazeera. to more go and it is a journalist and former editor of english she joins me from beirut it's nice to have you on the program tomorrow i want to get a sense from you just watching those images in clearly hearing the frustration that people are feeling with these austerity measures and that the downturn in the economy to get a sense from you how people have been feeling this and experiencing this downturn in their daily lives. well we've been seeing at the theory ration of government services for the past 30 years and people have been seeing gradual erosion of the state over these years gradually and and over this time they kept taxation kept increasing and the cost of paying for any services also increased over this period of time so this has been ongoing we wouldn't get here today because small tax here is more tech so this is

a path that we've been on for 30 years and this is and this was the final straw would you say 30 years but sometimes it takes something to trigger this and to get people out and clearly there's been a lot of discussion about the fee that's being imposed for using whatsapp for instance even though that's now they've now backtracked on that but does it take something like that a symbolic thing i suppose that really starts to hit a lot of people that that creates a unity around these protests that gets both middle class and lower class and others out together on the streets. well the timing of these measures and these new taxation methods that have been implemented couldn't have been at a worse time for the government and they were it was very audacious of them to bring this up the day after massive forest fires were destroying

big swaths of land in the country and the whole people were feeling that the government was negligent and led to this and then the next day they come and lay these taxes on them so it was. just this accumulation of things and and also we have to look back at the prime minister a couple of weeks ago having a big controversy with spending 16000000 dollars on this serious. model while he fired all his staff at his television station and he's not paying their salaries so it is a series of events that culminated with the new taxes that came into place jamal how is this going to play out politically just holding that coalition together as we're starting to see all this pressure building we're going to see more fracturing within the government how can the government hold its line against these protests. well if this government

has any chance of holding its ground and i don't think it's possible is if they completely reverse. their their philosophy of how to deal with the crisis lebanon is facing a serious economic crisis and it's because of. policy economic policies that have been in place that have favored the banking system over the development of any other sectors in the country over the past 30 years you cannot continue down that you cannot keep taxing people without giving them something in return and this is what they were doing this is just so unless they completely reverse their economic philosophy which i don't see it happening this government has no chance of surviving it's about thank you so much for giving us your time and your analysis to judge mark on the journalist drop joining us live from beirut where britain's prime minister is facing a break that showdown in parliament on saturday after clinching

a last minute agreement with the european union but there are doubts now about where the boris johnson will get enough votes from him please then he said it's worse than the deal they've already rejected 3 times the latest agreement avoids the need for a hot border in our london allows all of the u.k. to leave the customs union british foreign minister dominic rob says he's confident that the brits a deal will be approved in parliament. with a message that the u.p.a. is grandstanding concerns but we argue that dealt with the u.k. know the law and stays within the u.k. customs territory they also get seamless frictionless access to the single market in the e.u. it's a great deal from the irish business there's no any interest no infrastructure at the border and there is a command consent mechanism which allows by majority in the northern ireland assembly for the people right across one of the communities to consent to staying in and a limited number of rules and regulations and that grow food industrialized products

that are required for that scene this access to the market. let's go live now to rich allen's in london and rory while dominic robb may be confident while bars johnson is presenting this is a take it or leave it option effectively how do the numbers sit right now given the opposition that we've seen thus far to this deal. while assuming that we have a full house in parliament on saturday it is going to be a very tough task for boris johnson to achieve to get this over the line to get bracks it done as he says incessantly he has to get $320.00 m.p.'s votes for this deal so you push it over the line now the do you pay the northern r.'s policy has ruled themselves out say saying they can't vote for this so. boris johnson asked now to rely on the votes

of the sparts in socal sponsons these hardline brecht's to conservatives who voted against it's a reason may's deal repeatedly he has to rely on the support so of the independent m.p.'s and those m.p.'s who he has thrown out of the parliamentary conservative party for defying downing streets in recent weeks and months and crucially he has to reply rely on the support of at least some rebel labor m.p.'s who would be defying their own party if they came on side with the governments and went for this deal the numbers look like he is still probably between 5 and 16 votes short of getting that number and of course if he doesn't get the numbers in a situation then where you are asking for another extension we know that the leadership of already said that that's not necessarily going to happen is there

a prospect did then of a 2nd referendum on this deal and then potentially ultimately an election after that what's the what does the ground look like if this fails on saturday. well this is the big question basically. yes said that he didn't think there should be an extension to the breaks it deadline of the 31st of october whether or not boris johnson was forced by parliament to asta won but that's not his gift to give and certainly comments that are being reported by british media coming from angela merkel suggest that she thinks that yes if boris johnson applies for an extension then e.u. leaders would give him one what happens next in terms of referendums again or elections is basically for the opposition parties to try to work out

what their priority is at the moment it seems their priority is getting this bill defeated getting this deal defeated in parliament then they're going to work out what happens with regard to going back to the people and having another referendum or going back to the people for an election but boris johnson presumably can think that this is a win win for him if he gets this deal through then great if he doesn't get his deal through then we were in an election territory pretty quickly and he i think is quite confident that any election where he is campaigning on a bricks it take it is one that he will win roy thank you roy hallums live for us there from london now to the united states with white house acknowledge the president trump held up military id you crying partly to push kiev to hold investigations into connections with the 2016 presidential campaign but acting chief of staff mick mulvaney soon backtracked on his statement and donald trump's

lawyer distanced the president from the remarks democrats say this is further evidence of wrongdoing also in the case for impeachment auditor castro has more from washington d.c. . the white house has a message for anyone who criticizes using american aid as leverage over a foreign nation get over it there's going to be a political influence in foreign policy the white house chief of staff offered no apologies for the july phone call between president trump and the leader of ukraine in which trump pressed for ukrainian investigation into claims that a hacked computer server that played a role in russia's 2016 election meddling campaign had been moved to ukraine trump was withholding u.s. military assistance to ukraine when he made the request that he also mentioned to me in the past that the corruption related to the d.n.c. server absolutely no question about that but that's it that's why we held up the money now there was a report of the man for an investigation into the democrats was part of the reason

that he was on the to withhold funding to for a look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation and that is absolutely appropriate for the justice department has been examining the origins of the russian vest a geisha which the president calls a hoax but in the july phone call with ukraine trump also asked for an investigation into his political rival joe biden the white house claims that part of the call had nothing to do with withholding aid he while gordon sunlit the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gave closed door testimony before congress on thursday sunland was central in trump's efforts to pressure ukraine to open the investigations but said he was unaware the president was after dirt on biden in his prepared remarks sunland testifies inviting a foreign government to undertake investigations for the purpose of influencing an

upcoming us election would be wrong with holding foreign aid in order to pressure a foreign government to take such steps would be wrong i did not and would not ever participate. late in such undertakings still more witnesses are scheduled to speak with congressional investigators in the coming days as democrats charge forward with their quest to kill back this onion of the trump administration's dealings with ukraine the house will likely vote on impeachment before the end of november with the senate preparing to put the president on trial i do joe castro al-jazeera washington well later on thursday mulvaney tried to backtrack as we said before his comments in a written statement to journalists saying there was absolutely no quid pro quo between ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff has responded

to mulvane his comments things have just gone from very very bad to much much worse . the idea that vital military assistance would be withheld for such a patently political reason for the reason of serving the president's reelection campaign. is. a phenomenal breach of the president's duty to defend our national security and i hope that every member democrat and republican will speak out and condemn this illicit action by the president and his chief of staff the u.s. energy secretary rick perry has announced his resignation just as he faces questions from that impeachment inquiry into president dropped he's been ordered to provide documents related to a ukrainian state energy company as well as explain his pot in

a call between trump and ukraine's president the former texas governor has been in the role since march 27th jane trump said perry quote has done a fantastic job but it was time for him to leave. if you will have the weather with jenny but still ahead on al-jazeera as the u.s. imposes new tariffs on european goods we asked is the white house opening a new front line in the strike war and england out for revenge in the rugby world cup water port a fire has more in sport. hello there this massive chatting you see behind me in the gulf of mexico has the possibility of developing into a new tropical storm that is a huge amount of pad as you can see and this is the ascends are all this area all

weather now to some very heavy amounts of rain coming in with this even if it doesn't develop into a tropical storm with winds sustained of 65 kilometers an hour we're looking at some very heavy amounts right now but also tropical storm warnings in place along this south coast around the gulf of mexico and we could actually see up to one and a half me to so that is one of the concerns of very low lying areas here on the stall whether or not it does develop it'll bring this rain with it and it will work its way as you can see across much of the southeast and down across florida so we could well see some very heavy flooding rain with this storm system now in terms of amounts of rain that's actually going to full over the next couple of days well the bulk of it really will stay out. in the gulf of mexico but in actual fact these areas here in red just fine that could be about 100 millimeters of rain and set you cross into georgia and possibly even down into south carolina we could see as much

as 50 millimeters of rain elsewhere in united states to see the end of the nor'easter but that rain is a say pushing into the southeast as we go through friday into saturday. sponsored town. when the news breaks. when people need to be and the story to be told the police are out on the paparazzi with exclusive interviews using that was a mystery and in-depth report taking on the environmental climate crisis it's a battle on many fronts not leaks but at the edge al-jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more really good reading documentaries and the life. environment doesn't know any boundaries what goes out into the environment goes around the world. and trans that it's a very modern made to do for. me for instance the measure of progress. in the

domestic population has come to. the mountain active enough to believe that your. ideas of good will kill people are more vulnerable to suckle of poison on al-jazeera. they're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder of how top stories this hour. a temporary halt in turkey's offensive against kurdish fighters in northeast syria is largely holding out there were some unverified reports of sporadic gunfire in the region plumes of smoke they're seen rising in the flashpoint syrian border town of russell and on friday morning

thousands of protesters are marching towards boss alone from all over the catalonia region that's as part of their time paying for independence unions have called for a general strike of the jiving of 9 catalog separatist leaders. protesters in lebanon have set fires on the streets of beirut and tried to storm the government headquarters they're angry over the new tax plans and the weak economy the prime minister is expected to deliver a speech addressing those protests. new u.s. tariffs affecting 7 and a half $1000000000.00 of european products have just come into effect it's in response to what washington calls illegal a uni use subsidies for aircraft manufacturer airbus but the repercussions of being felt beyond the ideation industry including in spain with thousands of families depend on all of oil exports for their livelihoods as more.

harvest time in spain should be a time for celebration of all of this it's a time of anxiety as they shake down the trees the u.s. is imposing a new 25 percent import tax on that tax that could decimate this 5th generation family business unable to compete with cheap imports. getting enough. the vessels that are carrying spanish olive oil to the states haven't even reached their destination so what's going to happen they were sold before these tariffs were a threat so pushing a 25 percent margin on top of this will kill our competitiveness. spain is the world's largest producer of olive oil exports to the us a worth $440000000.00 but those working in the fields have know how easy lately last year's record harvest caused all of oils purchase price to plummet by 34 percent and more and more countries are planting their own other things joining them are. piling the tariffs on top of this could lead to collapse

i know last week thousands of out of workers took to the streets of madrid demanding the e.u. push back on the new terrace and prop up the industry and say they don't understand why an agreement the politicians had with us should penalize their products. we think it's very unfair because the agricultural sector acts like a monetary exchange for other industries that have nothing to do with the sector in this case is the aeronautical industry which has nothing to do with us what other producers are already feeling the squeeze around $845000000.00 worth of spain's agricultural exports will face us tariffs the e.u. warns it will retaliate with its own import taxes if they win that parallel case against the u.s. next year it will have the makings of a texas trade war. how does it. let's discuss this further now with henry

economics editor at the economist and he joins us from london by skype interest nice to have you on the program it hardly seems fair does that you know all of exporters or exporters of whiskey or exporters of suits or whatever it might be that have nothing to do with boeing or airbus should be caught in the crossfire. well yes i can understand why people in both might might see it that way the strange thing about these terrorists is that they have gone through the w 2 you know can save us the ws here green on to a truck and ministration to impose them having made a judgment on the case about the subsidies to add us so i can see how the rebuttal might rightly think they're unrelated to that case but they have gone through a system external to the us no way some of the other terrorists that been embraced by washington haven't well after the ruling of course there was a lot of discussion even coming from the united states that said look we draw the

find a negotiated settlement here and that those to those subsidies should be withdrawn from from europe when it comes to weigh a bus but why didn't the negotiated process succeed and wise it be necessary to wrap this up now. well it's a very long running dispute and of course it varies both ways so it's all right well for us to say that they'd be happy the subsidies that have us wound up but of course the european union wants america to provide that support to boeing and there's no doubt really that both sides are subsidizing these domestic industries and it's entirely possible that it will grow that you use allow to impose tariffs on american goods to. the only thing that might hold that up is that america is holding up nominations the w.t.f. appeals board say because it's coming up that up and show that that might get in

the way but why not for that most people expect that the top to ever make an equivalent judgment in the opposite direction so the idea that this is a sort of small disputes that could be negotiated away easily is wrong it's very long running and it has multiple parts and henry if that happens if the w t o and it did rule in favor of as you said ruled in favor of the of the u.s. tires if the w.t. has said i tell you now europe can impose their own where into a tit for tat trade war up with them one of the the consequences of that more broadly. well we yes we would be of course perhaps the procedures is to try and constrain to trade wars to try to make sure that all terrorists responses are proportionate to the complaints that the rule i think the bigger concern here is that we're operating at a time now where the trapping ministration is perfectly willing to circumvent it so low in this case it has you know proved there's still this outstanding matter of

whether america might empires tariffs on european cause for instance in the name of national security that's still basically an option available to trying to ministration and the president has on multiple occasions attacked european trade policy he's annoyed with the european central bank for its loose monetary policy which he sees as keeping that your right to read and so on so again the question is whether this fails he owns the matter of aircraft making and into a broader trade dispute that's not constrained within the deputy a procedure and all of this of course of the time of slowing growth in the ongoing trade war with china as well henry thank you so much for giving us your time thank you thank you henry kerr there economist economics editor at the economist well china has announced its slowest economic growth in the 30 years and that says the trade war he said with the united states by its 3rd quarter g.d.p. increased less than expected by 6 percent compared to 6.2 percent previously the

news caused share prices to fall in asian and european stock markets victims of air strikes in libya say they're too frightened to return to their homes because of the threat of further attacks the 6 month battle for tripoli has killed or wounded hundreds of civilians warlord khalifa haftar and he's forces are accused of committing war crimes in their attempt to seize the capital from the un recognized government mahmoud reports from tripoli. neighbors of victims trying to fix what on airth is trying destroyed in the el for nash district of the libyan capital many people here are reluctant to return home because of the threat of further attacks and it is strike by a half to his forces on october the 15th killed the mother and her 3 daughters many fled feeling that their homes need a military camp would be also targeted the family were among the injured in the

move to a relative's house so i sister was wanted and her father remains traumatised by the except closure and. the explosion shattered windows and parts of the ceiling and our hosts before the attack happened we've been worried that her area could be targeted because there's a military camp nearby military camps have been in the residential areas for decades and are a long way from the front lines in southern tripoli have to his forces are blamed for killing and injuring hundreds of civilians since launching an offensive to seize tripoli in april. view in the government in tripoli and its forces have resisted the attempted takeover so far residents of this area live in constant fear of attacks by have those warplanes they say as long as there is no action against

those conducting the airstrikes such attacks will go on the commander of tripoli military region under the u.n. recognize the governments as have those forces are committing war crimes by attacking civilian areas. military camps located near residential areas should not be a target most of those camps are old and active and not operational but after his aim is to intimidate opponents whatever it takes. over the past 6 months fighting has forces nearly 150000 people to flee their homes in southern tripoli have to says he wants to rid the capital of armored groups his opponents say he wants to impose military rule and he has been recruiting mercenaries and loyalists of the former regime over my money to get duffy so i left until there is political instability and i count ability to stop the case and lois.