this is. ten million people in the world the stake they have no nationality and are totally made up along and. that everyone has the right. to everyone has the right to say. this is d.w. news live from baghdad catatonia separatist leader calls for peaceful resistance to spain's central government just hour was off to be exact by the dritte khan is breached and all vowed to keep working for

a quote free country to get the latest from our correspondents in madrid and barcelona also coming up growing concerns that kenya could see another day of violence as well for he has postponed a presidential election rerun in opposition strongholds over fears for the safety of election officials. some had an arm free thanks for joining me we begin with breaking news from somalia police in the capital mogadishu say there has been a massive explosion close to the presidential palace the suspected car bomb reportedly went off near the gate of a hotel popular with politicians and government employees plumes of smoke all reported to be rising from the scene casualties offit one witness said gunfire could be heard from inside the building this comes to weeks often more than three

hundred fifty people were killed in a massive truck bombing in the city's worst ever attack. the sax catalan president has called for quote a democratic opposition to the takeover of catalonia by madrid in an address khan has preached all vowed to pursue his struggle for what he said to be a free country and he said the spanish government's decision to sack him was illegitimate. spoke just hours after madrid took control of the catalan government and removed some of its top officials went on the parliament on your i spoke to. in barcelona and journalist martin robots in madrid i started by asking how strong a statement khan has preached from all mate. this is the same that everybody here behind me has been waiting for all day there's been a great deal of uncertainty about exactly what it is that is happening here who is

in charge now. his statement was short was very clear he said he wants to carry on building this free and democratic nation that he says has been proclaimed as for how strong it was it was relatively restrained he could have come out in encourage people to take to the streets and defend council lonia instead he said that he wanted a peaceful and democratic resistance exactly what that means we're not quite sure of the moments now this really marks a very extraordinary situation because it essentially means that he is not recognizing any of the actions that madrid has taken and that's really reflected on the streets here as well when you talk to people depending on who you ask people respecting that madrid is now in charge they've imposed direct rule others say that they are still waiting to hear exactly what is next move is so some ambiguity directly off to that statement martin what reaction can we expect from madrid.

well first of all the fund approached him on presenting yourself as president of. the council and you know people suggest a very very lame to. our on top of challenges which apparently already. wrote books for a very interested ation know what. we're expecting those judges to girls and all the other hand it's too early for madrid to a major response become trust. him on speech was very very short on detail he did nothing to show that he's actually running the show were his on the other hand he might have this crisis partly because at least he has a plan it's very detail he's got a national and international consensus around him to try and make it work. and he doesn't it's very dated i don't. think it was

a book at least we know roughly once the how to get together mommy mommy has been very short on details. and potentially a serious situation unfolding for putsch to want charlotte back over to you then because this really has been an extraordinary twenty four hours in boston i know how people they're reacting same events. not just twenty four hours and i don't know it's been an extraordinary few weeks there's been so many ups and downs and twists and turns in this process last night as the declaration of independence drew thousands to this celebrating what they say was the birth of the new nation but of course there are many people who are against it not something that really has to be emphasized in this discussion that half of the people here according to polls are not in favor of independence and they really have not got what they want let's hold out of this process even if you're against independence it doesn't necessarily mean that you're probably madrid or for the autonomy of this

region being taken away is there a lot of frustrated people there a lot of very nervous people as well wondering about what's going to happen next whether this is going to lead to unrest on the streets i just want to let you take a listen to some of the people we've been talking to. things can't go on as they are here in catalonia the pro independence people want to throw in the towel a bunch of times it's been said until you go public. and they know the central government wants to put things back on track. your nya male someone just by no i love sustain it but we're different and we live together so i would like us to live peacefully side by side and our own wanes. there's a lot in them and in this one i don't know for independent or not i think everyone's feeling the. west scared of the consequences this might have. but we're waiting to see what will happen so as you know there's

a real fear that this could start to get very out of hand on the streets of boston as perhaps both sides start to respond to what's happened here over the last couple of days people here haven't forgotten the events of the first that was the date of the referendum when police from spain were arguably quite heavy handed in trying to stop people going to the polls and people here on the streets that we spoken to really fear that they could be repeated over the coming days that was you know when you shot a child in barcelona and journalist in madrid speaking to me. now kenya is a country in political limbo officials have again postponed a rerun of the presidential elections scheduled in several areas considered strongholds as the opposition the cost of the divisive vote is becoming ever apparent at least nine people have been killed in clashes between protesters and police since thursday. an uneasy calm is holding in most of kenya's

opposition areas after the election commission perspire own voting in four counties a heavy police presence aims to disperse the crowds but many of those poor carting the election remain on the streets rival gangs from different ethnic groups clashed here in nairobi scouring guarin neighborhood at least one person was killed this woman managed to escape from a burning building but her ordeal still wasn't over. when we fled we measure our group the demanded we show them our hands they wanted to see if we had our fingers from voting to decide whether to beat oculus. some shopkeepers have been moving their goods to safer locations for fear the rioting will flare again it's not yet clear whether the polls in the four western counties will ever actually open with august's presidential campaign originally an old due to irregularities that could mean the current rerun also being declared invalid if you want to see yet another

election. season is this. election. lost a lot of things and. structural. destruction and more violence the kenyan authorities seem unable to conduct a presidential election acceptable to all parties and the chaos is far from over. let's go over to z.w. correspondent catherine i wonder in the kenyan capital nairobi now good to see there catherine and give us a sense of the atmosphere there what people across the country is saying about the fact that this electoral limbo is still dragging on. well there's an air of uncertainty but there's also something good to report this conversation around what is causing this particular issue that's going on in the country so you're

seeing kenyans now having conversations not talking about credible elections talking about political processes talking about laws which is good we're also seeing kenyans coming up and picking up pieces from from destruction from last night there was violence in various pockets or various perceived nasa strongholds and we're seeing an emergence of outlawed sex known as. he was also a vest sleeve mentioned in the two thousand and seven election they have propped up the head again today and you have people saying that they came in and they were attacking people checking if they had voted or not in these allegations from the people who would experiencing these incidences last night so right now the country is kind of all waiting for. chairman wolf to make an announcement we expected the vote counting to end at six point five million votes but so far we're at seven

million votes and a lot of kenyans are questioning where that number came from given that the voter turnout that we watched live on t.v. every citizen was quite low so that's that's basically where we are at this point all right dialogue so still some uncertainty at the moment and legally the country has until tuesday to conduct the postponed rerun in the four counties where voting did not take place how likely is it that that will actually happen catherine. it's highly unlikely highly unlikely in the fact that phone now a lot of kenyans feel that this election was a sham. truth be told and the they feel that it needs to be discussed and it needs to be corrected. the people in the various counties where the elections were postponed say that they will not vote and less main opposition leader raul odinga makes an announcement and he's expected to make an announcement on monday so right now it's just basically limbo but it you can see that there's

some kind of calm which which is a good sign. catherine i wonder reporting from nairobi thank you for that update let's get you up to date now with some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. defense secretary jim isis is warning that north korea would face a quote massive military response if pyongyang ever used its nuclear weapons tensions have been running high on the korean peninsula the north conducted its sick nuclear test last month and tested missiles the regime claims are capable of reaching the u.s. mainland. thailand's new it kingma cohen has led a royal ceremony for the relics of his late father king on the king was joined by other members of the royal family i'm good asst monks in the throne hall of bangkok's grand palace the ceremony marks the fourth day of an elaborate five day funeral capping

a year of mourning that the late king. arthur mahler's former president auto put as money in and his vice president will stand trial for corruption charges prosecutors say ring involving government officials customs agents and businesspeople to forwarded the state of millions of dollars in a alleged scheme to avoid a customs duty but you have denied the charges. saturday is when does the action cease to have gemini's best teams meet for the second time in four days is fine host leipsic now by were victorious in the midweek cup clash and haven't lost in leipsic in any of their three match ups but. i will go to munich but eating is only a matter of time before that changes. three hundred twenty minutes three household in brussels now they're preparing to do it all over again might see came the closest i've ever come to beating by and rejuvenated and that has been safe the

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