first did you declare independence or not spain's prime minister. even the cast. carlos put still on until monday clarify the meaning of today stay. catalan parliament. in that address perched upon said he would proceed to with independence but with the delay to allow for tools with madrid's marianna hoy. is now threatening to suspend some of catalonia's independence he says the referendum of oktoberfest was illegal. and does not give pushed him on a mandate to break away from spain. he via ever put up a readiness to. fuel the first thing to say is that this illegal referendum creates a. and harms the unity of spain now. we that a corruption is not

legitimate. consequently double dish have to fit into what you got he from the rental in. a a is supposed to. result of this illegal river you can use as an argument to give legitimacy to a political decision. or for that matter a to the. independence of catalonia. well for that let's go to madrid and correspondent ceremonious and sarah as we just had a. a pretty robust response from our and a report today tennis a bit more about the government's position. he was a real* response in a bubble he attacks said carlos could to monde. afin seeking that not referendum was a good mandate a to push ahead with independence he said that are the people who promoted it also ran the county. he said that terribly are people were allowed to vote as many times as they liked when

they liked and he said that was because the resulults. f was already decided upon in advance he said that dish. oak two but the first referendum and being about a declaring independence whatever cost he said only a few people. a support independence in catalonia i'm dead many people would be affected be affected by it and he that. are touristd recent president actions would down any said they would down. even morore than after the t terrorist attacs over the summer in catalonia and he called on of color pushed amman. to come back to legality to clarify whether he had actually declared independence and said to him

are that the dialogue in a democracy takes place within the constitution. and that that he in the parliament of spot of spain there was always room for people to discuss different ideas and sarah how ninety is eight said that marianna hoyt will activate that. article as ao do that he will have to a clarify what went on in the parliament today. economist push one to quit and ambiguous position because he was trying to keep her cool that next mean pro independence quality happy. and it may be that he has to come out and say that there was. and independence

declaration was signed on the sidelines of the catalan parliament and that would mean that. the prime minister has given him on to on monday to clarify that and debt he if. he's is told that independence has been declared you will then give him that would be. a good lu don't you know regional election and that would. get a fresh economy depressed a government in barcelona parliament. sarah thank you very much indeed ceremonies that in madrid's. now several people have been injured in. in kenya as a political crisis that worsens parliament has voted to press ahead with a re run of the presidential electio. the results of which were annulled by the supreme

court's the electoral board says the vote will go ahead with all eight candidates on the ballot. despite the fact opposition leader rioting that will not run he says the problems which led to the result being and knelt still. remain. tear gas school the streets of nairobi has kenya's sinks deeper into a political crisis. police dispersed hundreds of protesters who had come to also elect school reforms. and show support for opposition leader vying uploading via. next week we out of lying to god from monday to landing. yeah and there's these deed. that do things down out of there if. only not. nuclear seems and a president he would not him cause him sad 1920. took to the streets a deal to run a zynga announced he was withdrawing

from the rerun of the presidential election scheduled for the twenty sixth ofof october. the first vote carried out in august gavave incncumbent president uhuru kenyatta a second presidential term. but it was nullified by t te supreme court of the concerns of procedural failures. in the aftermath e expected. is that the companies did issue. could be divided by a fundamental tenet of democracy. neman it free and fair elections. adding to the confusion and uncertainty the country's parliament cost to election law amendments. one stating that if a candidate with jules the remaining contender would automatically wind. and the second amendment preventing the supreme court from overturning an election in the absence of irregularities. the fallout could have damaging consequences for kenya which has a history of disputed elections and violence triggered by political unrest.

well meanwhile the vote count continues following presidential elections in liberia. state media believing that the vote is likely to go to a run off with twenty candidates. the vote debate pick as xslt the nobel peace laureate ellen johnson. fast democrats rendition of power. small west african state has seen in decades. the islamic state group has claimed responsibility for three suicide bombings in syria's capital city at least two people were killed and several injured. when the bombers tried to storm the police headquarters in central damascus is the second such attack that this month. police forces chased one of the attackers who them blew himself up. at the nearby market. the regional government of kurdistan claims that it's iraqi government troops and iranian trained iraqi paramilitary forces are preparing a major attack on kurdish forces. in the area of cook cook baghdad had threatened to send troops to

the area following an independence referendum in kurdistan last month. the vote wasas fiercely opposedy baghdad but also by iran and tacky. an iraqi court today ordered the arrest of senior kurdish officials responsible for organizing that vote which to deliver an overwhelming yes results. and today marks the united nations international day of the girl the one key initiative is to promote girls education in many countries goes a bought from going to school. in pakistan one projects in particular is designed to bring free schooling to the poorest goes in the city of karachi. i just twelve years old shift enough fees was forced to drop out of school. with eight other mouths to feed her family couldn't afford to finance their education. but should gift is being given a lifeline. this roadside klosterman known as the foot park school provides free basic education the thousands of children of living in the streets. and there's from

low income families. yeah i really like studying art and science in science class the teacher different things about wild and it slows. i love scienc. for the schools founders says its aim is to help the children escape poverty and crime. according to recent government statistics nearly hoff of all pakistani children aged between five and sixteen a* in education. that's nearly twenty three million boys and girls. and parents a particularly reluctant to send their daughters to school. abandons applying with sending their goes was. pre pubescent school. but the minute they hit puberty. a. they're less ego pretend that goes out because it's unsafe because they have to walk long distances or the school doesn't have a boundary was we didn't have a toilet. thanks to make shift schools like these sugar fta and other pockets on the gulf like a compass you the basic rights denied to so manyy around the world. and education.

thousands of people continue to flee venison rakhine's states amid reports of persecution by the burmese army. muslim to hang is are arriving at over crowded refugee camps in bangladesh france twenty fourth clubs kasauli was part of the team of journalists invited to refine state by the burmese government. here's his report. scscenes of devastation in northern rakhine's states. with her hand give villages reduced to ashes. the army preventss anyone from entering the area. we joioined iraq government trip and met with those ready to risk their lives in a paris. johnny to. bangladesh is only five kilometers away according to the rohingya we spake two but the curry seems much further than that and you can see. dozens of times hundreds of row hanga many children many women rivulets soul food no h humanitarian aid has r reached. at this part of thehe burma for w w.

they all come from iraq on state this day the has been torn up by violence. at fierce fighting that leadss hundredsds of thousands of w hang gets a free. to neighbouring bangladesh still all the people w we spoke t to here still dreamf heading to bangladesh. bees rohingya say they live in feaear of being attackedy buddhist mobs. and ask for help from the spaniards mininisters who struruggledh it. did food again nobody. we can't live in burma we're afraid. we don't even have the right to leave our homes and go to our fields two world. besides rakan people common steel castle. there up not only out of the way our. but the response is not what they hoped for. that soul to return to their villages. but a lot of educational committee difficult in. on top of that that we have. started talking to me a month. so that we can bring the people back from bangladesh.

but your neighbors seem to be working together to to will this humanitarian crisis. described d is that. and by the you know. but it's hard to imagine the in gotot at the rich earnings of violence toward right coming to. an end. at least you want people how killed and dozens of missing amid wildfires in northern california as many as three and a half thousand. it's is have now been destroyed in some of the deadliest fires in the state's history. rid of office has the story. towering inferno in northern california reached into the night. leaving anti neighborhoods completely raised. the thousands who were evacuated from their homes have become returning to take stock of the shattered lives. the biggegest and most devastating fire decimated the city of santa rosa which lieses too seventy two kilometers north of san francisco. for many a painstaking tiles sifting through the rubble of thther burned homes. was the first step

two it's piecing then lives back together. storm. all the kids memories and. all gone. love you can do it. so start over again. i don't have anything leleft anymore so. on. that's all. i feel preemptive. the devastating floods that swept across the state's famed wine country since late sunday nights. string thousands of homes and businesses. on kyi's day president donald trump approved a major disaster declaration for the damage caused to the region. hundred year old charles repeal and his ninety eight year old wife sararah. are just two of the victims. thee couple hadad recentltly celebrated thehe seventy fih wedding anniversary for met whenen they're in grarade s. fourth grade s six grade. and have been together ever since and. . those of us the family always wouldn't.

no wonder what would happe. if one of them died in the other one was still left. because we know that. there's no way. but you know they would be happy whoever was the last one. and so they went together. firefighters are still battling to contain the blazes which i being found by high winds and hot dry conditions. california's local governor has declared a a statate off emergency and so no matter napa and five of the counties. the father among the deadliest in the state's history. the british film academy has suspended hollywood film like a harvey one state i've a multiple claims of sexual assaults on sexual harassment. a string of actresses have come forward to make allegations in recent days including three women who accuse him of rape. a charge he denies brian quinn has the story. a flood of accusations as more women come forward with stories of sexexual abuse at the hands of harvey weinstein. on tuesday the

new yorker magazine published an article detailing allegations of rape by three women. including italian film star id argento. american actresses rosanna arquette and mira sorvino described aggressive unwanted physical advances by wind steam. the same day in new york times article featured revelations by actresses including gwyneth paltrow and angelina jolie. that the producer made inappropriate sexual advances on them early in their careers. wednesday was fired by his own production company sunday following a times investigation last week. detailing decades of alleged sexual harassment and enforced silence through payoffs or career threats. when scenes behavior is believed to have been widely known within his companies and hollywood at large i think there's a definite possibility that this will be a watershed moment and hollywood i think. probably there aren't a lot of people who who don't have some story of so of witnessing art and knowing about or. experiencing some kind of. the sexual harassmentt in te movie industry. in a statement the producer

unequivocally denied any allegations of non can jewel sex or retaliation for refusing his advances. reports emerged wednesday that his wife georgina chapman have left him over the scandal. the stories the latest in a series of revelations about sexual harassment and abuse by powerful men in the public sphere. from former fox news heavyweights bill o'reilly and roger ailes the megastar comedian bill cosby and donald trump. once dean had been a prominent donor to democratic politicians over the years on tuesday both hillary clinton and house democratic leader nancy pelosi really statements condemning weinstein's alleged actions. here in front seven people have been sentenced to jail over an attack on police during last year's riots hooded youths smashed the windows of a police car before throwing a petrol bomb inside. the image of the car on fire. on old cut story. supporters of the defendants chanted everyone hates the police. this and.

down. very quickly they will push from the courthouse by around fifty police officers. two of the suspects something released twelve seven of those who hundred prison terms. rangnging from one year. to seven years for the demonstrator who set fire to the police car. meanwhile five years each for the protest a who kicked out the driver'side window. the one he threw a road to barrier at the windscreen. i'm to the masked man who hits the police officer kevin filipino the metal ro. but i think that mister phillippi had never been a motivated by seeking reveng. however he will is waiting to see that those responsible a convicted. rightly convicted wednesday but some of the defense lawyers say the sentences handed down a to severe. and the defendant continent but none of she was convicted of a striking can infinity say's he is innocent. yeah well i to be gave on the after having explained for a long time. doubts that anyways during the heavy.

the judge ruled that there was a perfect match between the attacker planted and bananas and that seems a little contradicts until. to do some. gift approval credit two on. the lawyers have ten days to appeal the decision. now its been called the holy grail of arts the lost privately and painting by an innovative in she is expected to sell for around a hundred million dollars at auction next month. putting it firmly in the league of the world's most valuable paintings is cool the sao tome on t.. will savior of the world and is a portrait of jesus christ which dates back to about the a fifteen hundred. it had been painted over several times before being painstakingly restored why it's lost i know and yes if you're getting a sense of deja vu it is also called. the mamail mona lisa. does look a little bit like. his other famous pain. see him parsley fried that's because abuses vacate mediscare this insidious could see kate are at least not in the u. s. at trades is top of the agenda today it is indeed because the us

mexico and canada. are kicking off the fourth round of talks to revamp the north american free trade deal or nafta. ninety despite deep agreement disagreements on all sides president donald trump says he believes a new deal is indeed possible. that statement came on his meeting with canada's prime mr justin trudeau for separate talks at the white house. but trump also said that he would consider a bilateral deal with canada if mexico were to pull out as its foreign minister threatened earlier. i week. so just what's at stake in these discussions practically every sector of the three connie's including agriculture. mexico for example imports almost all of its corn from the united states. but tensions with its northern neighbor have centered looking elsewhere. this report marker spots in mexico. in mexico if you get lucky you can savour and year of local court at a roadside food stand. the conenes very deleliciou. the corn tastes juiuicy and sweet b buthe trade of coco

has s turned bitterr. since nineteen ninety four with the signing of nafta u. s. corners arrived in mexico in huge quantities altera free. hey zeus one of two million small producers decided to stop growing at. in the past all of this was corn. impossible to compete with american corn subsidize it opens of transgenic varieties. the member for we don't have subsidies are technicians who come to advise us so how can we compete. this local corps not resistant to the forces of nature can only be found in local markets. nicholas an anthropologist specializing in grains has seen the bio diversity collapse. decade. here we have a talk of rule flower the is used a lot in making a corn based drink at solar. he we have a blue corn flour under red one. mexico is the birthplace of corn with more than sixty four endemic varieties but today the country has to import a large part of what it consumes.

they're just market they just right cone on the back they don't know if it's imported or transgenic it could be locally produced seven percent of the yellow corn can. there is. that means more than ninety percent is imported from the u. s. or canada. yellow corn exists in a variety of forms in hundreds of process products but in order to take advantage of the excess production. the u. s. transforms it into corn syrup in such form american corn is present in almost all mexican dishes. the japanese government is asking for more details after kobe steel admitted that quality control checks had been falsified o on some of its shipments. around two hundred customers had been affected including some makers of defense equipment cars and even trains although none of the. affected people have yet been able to come forward but to say that their products may be in danger. commissioners dropped eighteen percent this wednesday. that was the exception to the broader trend in tokyo which saw the

niniei's s surge to its strongest level since. six. i was due to a combination of factors i iluding opipinn polls. ministerer shinznzo abbas rg party had of next week's electitions. as welell as bumper profits fromom a nber menu. meeting baback a verery goodd perfoe by the corporarations. whichh been helped greatly y the weakening of the yen. so obviously are that i isa plpl. butt as you canan see from scandals of k kobe stel there it still is a quite a lot of internal problems. and a lot of mines that could posossibly jeopapardie this trend so. are endining also we haveve to look at te el. labor shortrtages of all ts will hinder thehe goodn our overall trerend of the revil that you're seseeing a amone japanesese comompany s so. e are lots of modelels out the i think that you have to be very careful about. in most asian in disease followed that positive trend but it's been a different story here in europe both to get counts in paris and the city one hundred london slipped slightly. madrid's

ibex thirty five rallied its catalonia's leaders held back from outright declaration of independence. wallstreet trending upwards minutes from the us federal reserve confirming that the central bank is all but certain. to raise interest rates come december. despite a cycle of low inflation. two engine fifty million pounds over two hundred seventy five million euros. that's how much money the british government to setting aside to help its departments deal with brexi. but as negotiations dragged on with brussels divisions continue to emerge within theresa may's government about its priorities. own games for has the details. because britain's divorce negotiations with the eu drag on with little sign of progress. the uk is preparing for the worst. a possible breakdown in talks yeah we are repairing for every eventuality out we are committing up money to prepare for brexit including a no deals. narita but while the british finance ministers making contingency plans in case talks fail. he

said he's putting money aside but won't release any funds into at least early twenty eighteen. if there's still no agreement. it we will be ready we will spend the money in a timely fashion to ensure that we are ready. but we will not spend it earlier than necessary just to make some. demonstration point. hammond has acknowledged that the uncertainty is bad for the economy. many british businesses are concerned about a cliff edge the uk crashing out of the eu without proper preparations on either side. a no deal situation on trade could mean. new tariffs on goods at the uk sends to the e. u. and vice versa. britain would have to create dozens of new regulatory bodies. including for the aviation and pharmaceutical industries financial services could lose that paul sporting rights. which allow them to operate in the eu without obtaining licenses in individual countries. deal bono deal the clock is ticking towards brexit.

the uk is due to leave the eu in march twenty nineteen. with or without an agreemen. moving on some the days of the business headlines now the british government is considering asking internet giants to pay to combat cyber bullying. culture secretary said companies like facebook twititter and google could face an industry wide let the. proceeds of which would help fight against almighty of cemex trolling. delta airlines so i hundred forty million dollar loss from cancelled flights linked to two major hurricanes. but still beat expectations with nearly one point two billion dollars in net income for the third quarter. us carrier also said it still plans to buy a number of jets from the canadian firm belief rj. but that it unwilling to pay the nearly three hundred percent import tariffs. the american commerce department wants to impose on the margin. and the right showing up ally has raised over a billion dollars in fresh funding. india's answers it over hopes too continue expanding its home markeket and investing artificial

intelligence research. could put it ahead of its rivals on busy roads. that's all the dismissed miller kate thank you very much in dates and we're gonna take a short break here france. footage tha

10/11/17 10/11/17 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> president trump has approved a major disaster declaration for the state of california to assist in the respononse to wildfires that are impacting across the state. amy: 17 people dead, emirates destroyed, 20,000 people forced to evacuatate their homes in california. we will talk took e university climate scientists whose work shows global warming is responsible for nearly half the forest area