has more from istanbul military issues andrew symonds has more from istanbul. military issues are undoubtedly at the top of the agenda in tehran the turkish military chief of staff went two days ahead to meet his counterpart in iran and it's expected some form of corporation some extra corporation between iran and turkey will be announced however in long term it's unlikely they'll be an alliance between the two armies culturally they're quite some distance apart and also of course turkey is a nato member which is raising eyebrows no doubt in the united states however the turkish military is insistent that it needs to engage with iran it can't be isolated it is definitely very very relevant in terms of coming to some sort of settlement on the conflict in syria and also very relevant in sharing a similar problem to turkey it sees as a problem the kurdish response to the iraqi k.-r. g. the kurdish regional government having the referendum vote and so what we expect to see is this corporation further political dealings and some sort of move towards putting more pre

were being lodged at the supreme court because they still had parliamentary privilege we have andrew symonds i believe joining us now from barcelona andrea you heard the charges there you think those are going to surprise some people given the range of charges which were mentioned. most people are going to be quite taken aback by this. well. known to be considering. charges of rebellion but rebellion was ruled out by many lawyers. advising this government that they considered the sedition charge was more likely than the rebellion one. that has to be an observation here that there is no specifics as to who faces what charge that will probably become clear in the coming hours if not days in terms of who faces what charge but it has to be said that. no one is quite sure. actually he's certainly not in this building according to people we've spoken to local media the only thing that's emerged from this building is a still photograph. portrayed of color which still remains in place unlike other public buildings. is portrayed has been removed but coming back to the main issue with the prosecutor h

andrew symonds live for us. barcelona thanks andrew let's cross now to madrid where hoda abdel-hamid has been live for us throughout the day so it's understanding that the spanish prime minister on a real hallway is back in parliament they are in madrid what do you know about what's happening now. has been since this morning ten o'clock local time inside the senate building here he did leave us some point the chamber where the liberations were happening what we were told is that i actually was following very closely the events unfold in barcelona and just a few moments ago you. and as we understand the vote. if i could stop you for just a moment what we are looking at now is the vote that you were talking about so just stand close this is the vote that the senate and the parliament in madrid hasn't been debating all day this is basically giving the prime minister avoid the authority to enact article one fifty five which would allow him to basically sack carlos puts them on and the parliament in barcelona just vot

go to where these live pictures are they were saying now which is barcelona and that is where andrew symonds has been throughout the day you can see people really happy walking down the street happy about this decision that parliament has has taken to declare independence from spain so andrew what do we know about what the next steps are for the session is now that they have gotten what they wanted what do we know about what their plan is going forward. i've just come out of this parliament this eighteenth century parliament this salute the pact with supporters and with schools of civic from all over the region most of them. secessionist and really the atmosphere in there is quite extraordinary it's a mix of emotions some absolute celebration of the faces you see in the sort of gosh this is how it's almost shock but then. came in and he was obviously applauded by everybody like some sort of super hero he stood for a wall while a number. people gave speeches and then he started off i couldn't hear the first part of his speech because of all the cheering he did say though that this was an extr

of course is the prime minister mariano rajoy listening to this with us is our correspondent andrew symonds and andrew there we have a representative of the madrid government in barcelona basically talking up what is going to happen next talking about article one five five as being a resumption of the democratic path if you like and throwing ahead today's december twenty first elections. i think many people here might think that is wishful thinking that it will be a fairly straight forward path but yes you're right he did emphasize that as far as he was concerned roy took brave measures in sacking this entire government and indeed some civil servants as well and the police chief of the regional police here he went on to say that he regarded the independent test which is the pros secession movement as being over having finished off he said that this was the end for it and those who staged the coup he said have shown that they were wrong and they are now being replaced and the president has been replaced of course all of these measures happening in a whirlwind off through a slow motion sequen

into the unknown with risks on both sides and the lives of millions of people could be affected andrew symonds . pass alone or. well still ahead here on al-jazeera an exclusive report about alleged torture methods used in secret prisons in yemen by soldiers from the united arab emirates. also u.s. bound travelers face longer accusative as new security measures are imposed. how some rather when she whether in our forecast over the next couple of days a cold plunge into central parts of north america just coming out of the canadian prairies and pushing a little further south was behind this area of a white cloud that's we're going to see the live is for the weather as we go through the next hour to quite a temperature contrast you notice seattle calgary seventeen degrees celsius there is that color where i want to pay just to graze and all the wind coming in behind so just coming out of ontario down across the lakes some very cold some rather wet and wintry weather pushing it will make its way further east with this we go through saturday long a lot of cloud away pushing over towards the appalac

never been big andrew symonds i would use of bosler. no us media are reporting that a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the investigation over russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the charges led by special counsel robert mueller are said to be still sealed and orders from a federal judge it isn't yet known what the accusations are but any one charge could be reportedly taken into custody as soon as monday alan fischer has more from washington d.c. . we know that robert mueller has been conducting his investigation over the past five months or so or if it's true and this grand jury has decided that and documents can be issued then that's a fairly speedy process if you look at two significant cases in the past from american political history bill clinton and richard nixon it took a grand jury almost a couple of years to come up with indictments they are now hold a grand jury's work well essentially people are impaneled they come along they are given evidence from the pros

andrew symonds is there for us and andrew there's already been some reaction from the catalonian government to. remarks. well more of. the baseline reaction was that this suspends democracy in catalonia that was from the spokesman for the president and then furthermore. his spokesman has announced that he will be making a statement tonight saturday nights around nine o'clock no indication of what he will say in that statement will it be a declaration of independence will it be just a declaration of defiance in terms of refusing to stand it could be one of a number of things there is no proof right now as to what he's going to say however . he will be appearing at a demonstration it's meant to be a really really large demonstration here in barcelona starts in a few hours time what he'll say at the demonstration whether he'll say anything at all is unclear there is really even though the run up to this article one five five being triggered has been known for a while there's still a sense of deep shock here in barcelona from all persuasions all people politicians because this is the known even

stopped his customer doesn't want to be faced with the bill until he's sure the border remains open andrew symonds al-jazeera on the turkey iraq. a truce between colombia's government and the country's last standing rebel group has begun the national liberation army or air land agreed to the terms after negotiations that failed several times it's hoped that the agreement will stand while talks for a longer term deal continue in ecuador. reports now from. it's the first ever ceasefire declared by the national liberation army or. the last active rebel group in colombia and the first concrete step after seven months of peace talks to end its five decade conflict with the state a historic truce but one temporary at least for now. the new this doesn't completely end the conflict with the e.l.o. this is temporary it is not a cease fire weapons are surrendered or where demilitarisation takes place the truce will run through january twelfth and may be extended if respected they. start kidnapping greek routine minors tacking on oil routes and pipelines in exchange the colombian military will avoid confront

crossed in the sense of action it would seem so very much a wait and see type of situation richelle andrew symonds live for us in istanbul andrew thank you turkish commanders are blaming the kurdish workers party or p k k for a bomb blast which killed at least four soldiers several others were injured in the colver district province near the border with iran procession m.p.'s in catalonia are meeting for the first time since sunday's disputed referendum they're discussing what's next in their move to break away from spain the regional parliament's governing body is also meeting to decide when to call a parliamentary session to discuss the results of the vote and rates of thousands of cattle lines went on strike in response to the national police's handling of the vote spain's king accuse catalans government ruling killing its government rather of running the referendum outside of the law and called for unity. lawrence lee is live in barcelona so what could actually come out of. legally legislatively are there still any options laurents what we're all waiting for is a day. when the council on parli

kurdistan in iraq will have a domino effect on its own fifteen million ethnic kurdish population andrew symonds has more from istanbul. military issues are undoubtedly at the top of the agenda in tehran the turkish military chief of staff went two days ahead to meet his counterpart in iran and it's expected some form of corporation some extra corporation between iran and turkey will be announced however in long term it's unlikely they'll be an alliance between the two armies culturally they're quite some distance apart and also of course turkey is a nato member which is raising eyebrows no doubt in the united states however the turkish military is insistent that it needs to engage with iran it can't be isolated it is definitely very very relevant in terms of coming to some sort of settlement on the conflict in syria and also very relevant in sharing a similar problem to turkey it sees as a problem the kurdish response to the iraqi k.-r. g. the kurdish regional government having the referendum vote and so what we expect to see is this corporation further political dealings and some sort of move

stopped his customer doesn't want to be faced with the bill until he's sure the border remains open andrew symonds al-jazeera on the turkey iraq. the u.s. president has called critics of his response to disaster hit puerto rico quote politically motivated ingrates. goods are running low and some families remain separated nearly two weeks after hurricane maria it. has followed two sisters on a journey to find their missing father. and have not heard from their father for more than ten days he lives in the central mountains in an area that was among the hardest hit by the hurricane i guess it's difficult to find these days that's why when neighbors gave them some they decided to go and find him . was not. their ways to get there. and now we are trying to. find them he lives in one of the most remote areas of puerto rico. there when i was a child but this is the strongest one that so far we headed to was in the center of the island there is no electricity no communications here nobody knows how bad the situation really is. normally you go in there. and everything. and. all these big trees are beautif

demonstrating against spain's plans to dissolve catalonia as the government is going down to andrew symonds who is live and barcelona so andrew what what we know about when and where we may actually hear from carlos poached them on there was a sentence a patient about the statement there's an announcement he was supposed to make and that it's been suspended i believe it's a language they're using not cancel per se so what do we know about where and when we might hear from him. well that is the big question that's the question what good you would cope with the camera there right away it's a question that the students in the demonstrators all round this well what should house is the policy of general the tax that is where the government is that is where the president should be making a statement to the world post volumes all through school where he was going to make mistakes with the whole country was awaiting its own local media was reporting that he was going to allow a snappy lecture and that the clooney goes would take the ladies out of the situation with the group that he's intending to

stopped his customer doesn't want to be faced with the bill until he's sure the border remains open andrew symonds al-jazeera on the turkey iraq. a truce between colombia's government and the country's last standing rebel group has begun the national liberation army or e l n agreed to the terms after negotiations that failed several times it's hoped that the agreement will stand while talks for a longer term deal continue in ecuador or some of m.p.'s he reports now from our. it's the first ever ceasefire declared by the national liberation army or then the last active rebel group in colombia and the first concrete step after seven months of peace starts to end its five.

andrew symonds i would use to bosler. continue with the day's news van marsh state media says the government will harvest rice from farmland abandoned by one hundred families who fled violence in northern rakhine state the paddy fields cover seventy one thousand acres and mandela the area worst affected in the crackdown by the me and more military a gets the raw hensher points louis has more from you. there are a couple of ways to look at this one is that this is simply a practical solution the rice crops are ripe for harvesting and if they were left to just stand in the fields they would go to waste so the myanmar government has put in place a plan to harvest the crops bringing in combine harvesters and neighbors to do the work and agricultural ministry spokesman has told us that the local government is in charge of the harvest and the eventual fail and the proceeds of the sale will go to the local government over there no details on how they plan to use it but the other issue is this raises ethical questions as the asia

thursday to finalize its response to madrid let's take you live out of barcelona al jazeera as andrew symonds is that andrew what are we to make of this decision then to appeal to council to spain's constitutional court is there any point. good good point you raise there it was really predictable the government is insisting it's trying every knee possible every legal mind possible to turn over article one five five they claim it's no legal act of desperation on the part of the government and then tend to do that but at the same time there's another twist to all of this brinkmanship we're seeing as time runs by and that is the senate in madrid has issued invitations to call us to more of the captain and president also to mariano rajoy the spanish prime minister to have direct talks now dialogue is being called for by the catalans all along so they're in a position here there's been no ruling it in or no ruling it out the latest we hear from the council of governments here in barcelona is that they're looking at so many aspects to the whole thing that they come to me it's any shadow right now w

and andrew symonds joins us now live from london andrew i think it's just gone nine am that let's start with the first question of who's showed up for work in some of those public administration government buildings. well that front door has seen no one go through it there are all rare entrances but one thing is for sure no ministers are inside right now either from madrid or indeed from barcelona so the question is will the government that actually tried this a session here and declared it through parliamentary vote will that government attempt to try to get ministers in place because we understand their orders for the not to be allowed in this building and others we're also hearing from activists right across barcelona that they intend if necessary to god public buildings and stop the police from any attempted arrests but will there be arrests will simply be summonses issued to anyone who the prosecutor general wishes to charge of course. is on that list at the top of that list whether he faces a charge of sedition or possibly rebellion is unclear right now he spent the weekend in jer

going on behind the scenes that really seems to cow with the start of talks and you thank you andrew symonds live in istanbul. our getting reports at least three turkish soldiers have been killed and several others injured in a bombing in the south east of the country local media reporting the blast took place in the yorks a covert district in her car the province near the border with iran turkish security officials are blaming the kurdish workers party or p.k. k. for the attack of the true cost of cholera has been revealed in a new report by the charity water a nearly one hundred thousand people are dying from the preventable illness every year cholera is present in more than forty countries and sickens an estimated three million people a year the biggest epidemic is in yemen cholera cases and jumped there from seventeen thousand in twenty fifteen to an estimated nine hundred thousand this year two thousand one hundred people have died in yemen since the outbreak began in april the most recent global estimates were in twenty fifteen and showed india as the worst affected country with more t

andrew symonds algis of bustling. us media is reporting that a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the investigation over russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the charges are led by special counsel robert mueller are said to be still sealed and orders from a federal judge it isn't yet known what the accusations are but any one charged could reportedly be taken into custody as soon as monday bruce fein is a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general and constitutional lawyer in washington d.c. he says even though little is known right now he believes that the focus and maybe on trump's former campaign manager paul manifold. we know that the charges are very serious they must be a felony if it's an indictment the alternate way of charging an individual the crime isn't information but that is for punishment for wrongdoing punishable by one year or less it's also very likely given the public knowledge that search warrants were directed and executed agains

secession my own a royal will announce measures on saturday to impose direct rule on catalonia andrew symonds has more now from barcelona. what you really sense here in barcelona right now is a fear of the unknown and that's shared by both sides in this crisis politicians and public alike people on friday were going out to protest in a very different way going to banks and withdrawing one hundred five fifty five euro as a protest of protest against two of five banks which have actually moved their main administrative registrations out of catalonia because of the fear of independence or what that might mean as far as article one five five goes it's never been used before it's from the constitution of one nine hundred seventy eight and it will mean direct rule from madrid this is what the spanish prime minister had to say. they have broken the rule of law a basic principle of the european union they have deprived the representatives of the opposition of their right to exercise control in government if you imagine if i decided to close parliament so nobody could question me it would be a scandal

risk it could mean calls for peaceful direct action could turn into something more dangerous andrew symonds al-jazeera. to somalia now a government officials say the number of people killed in the country's worst attack has risen to three hundred and fifty eight the president says al-shabaab is behind last weekend's twenty bombings but hasn't claimed responsibility that is prompting fears about al-shabaab future tactics mohamad the reports from market issue. some of the seriously wounded in saturday's bombing in mogadishu are being airlifted abroad for treatment somalia hospitals have received much needed medical supplies patients turned away but one place patrols in the hours and days after the talk are finally getting attention. but talks become more lethal medical workers say they are forced to improvise their treatment plans for the maimed and wounded. there were many. is the time when you can see. how extended is. the. blast a yet to be published u.n. report says al shabab has introduced new ways of constructing improvised bombs and increase. their destructive falls it says the wait ti

thirty first of december and there he can exercise this democratic opposition our correspondent andrew symonds is in barcelona with more. color's was speaking from his home city of jerome calling for calm here in barcelona square the seat of government where his ministers would normally be well no one is sure who is pulling the strings of power this. flies above the building here everyone is asking who is calling the shots now madrid says it's firmly in control it's taking over the situation here and one of the head will be. wards of the rest on the ministers of the government for their declaration of secession parliament and also himself will be taken away in handcuffs well no one really knows but students are certainly prepared to try occupying this building if necessary so. sure what is going to happen in terms of any potential conflict between the security forces and the government or indeed protesters in the dritte pro-union is demonstrated in a very large demonstration calling for basically exactly what the whole is doing for putting down this process session movement here with other par

not hold a new regional election and less the central government agree to certain conditions andrew symonds explains. demonstrators defiant towards the actions of the spanish government are calling on their regional leaders to declassify session but before their march begins their hearing catalan media reports saying their regional president was planning to announce snap elections in a deal with a dread that would go one five five and avoid the imposition of direct rule. i mean is and we are completely opposed we didn't conceive of any other scenario apart from the declaration of independence we cannot conceive of any other elections the demonstrators change their plans marching to the building where president carlos was due to speak others went to his party's headquarters. we were protesting today against article one hundred five and all of a sudden we hear that pushed him on wants to call for elections we are totally against it we feel this is treason to the castle and. eventually announce that no decision had been made. here. you know that i am willing to call an election so long as ther

night goggles between those who want to be in spain where you don't hear it's never been taken andrew symonds i would use a possible. that's being reported that a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the probe over alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election now the charge is led by special counsel robert mueller said to be still sealed under orders from a federal judge it isn't yet known what specifically the accusations are but anybody who is charged could be taken into custody as soon as monday an official has more from washington d.c. . we know now that robert mueller has been conducting his investigation over the past five months or so or if it's true and this grand jury has decided that and they can be issued then that's a fairly speedy process if you look at two significant cases in the past from american political history bill clinton and richard nixon it took a grand jury almost a couple of years to come up with indictments there know how to grand juries work well essentially people and empaneled they come along they ar

now andrew thank you very much andrew symonds there in barcelona let's go live to madrid now to the spanish capital. for us and harder senate meeting now seems to have wrapped up at least for now how did it end where did it take us forward in this in this whole debate now december third. you what's happening now is the prime minister of oil left the chamber but the members of the senate are still there the baiting and well actually probably a significant development over the last hour or so is that the party that was proposing an amendment article one five five in case the government had called for elections it was putting that forward as maybe a way for both the government here in madrid and the government to get out of this . article one five five well it seems that it has now backtracked on the saying that the deal was there was no other option but really to implement this article one five five in full it has to be said that the socialist party has been calling for a gradual implementation of this article once it's triggered now it could be a reaction really vote events unfolding in barc

autonomy and dissolve the regional parliament after barcelona declared independence on friday andrew symonds reports from barcelona. their sinking long live spain this the response to the breakaway declaration from barcelona on friday the demonstrators are unionists government supporters in madrid waving spanish flags. that i am cattle i am spanish and it is the moment in which we need to be more united be brave and to do something definitive. as the demonstrators in madrid called for the jailing of the catalan leader. he was freely walking around his home city of jerome surrounded by supporters and media the prosecutor general is set to announce charges. pushed him or made a t.v. address to catalans calling for peaceful support. it is clear to us that the best way to defend what we have achieved so far is to have a democratic opposition to article one five five this is the response to the deliberate action against catalan who have for many centuries felt different we have to overcome any threats and to act in a civil and peaceful manner. for those watching in barcelona there seem to be as m

mess problem we'll leave it there for now but thank you well let's take you to barcelona now andrew symonds is there for us for some people the stay where you are it must be like a dream but then for others in other parts of spain and in catalonia itself it's a nightmare was. it was so can you repeat that question the breaker of course and you the noise behind you i could hear as rorik i'm saying for some people what's happened today is a dream in catalonia but for other people it with presents the opposite is a nightmare what's not. that's right that's right there these images you're seeing right across the loonier particularly barcelona i still represent the full picture that's absolutely true that's been the case for the past months but what they do show is the support that the extraordinary support for what's happened. in the eighteenth century part of a building only a few hours ago a folk seventy and pains against ten with two blank papers in a secret tunnel this basic declaration all taking secession now what's playing out right now is really the release of all not just excitement an

a direct role catalan political parties are going to meet on monday to decide what to do next andrew symonds reports from barcelona. this is the center of regional government in barcelona in less than a week it's set to lose its powers president and his ministers. in spain's capital madrid the mood seem to be hardening both politically and on the streets the government has responded very well but they should have been had article one five five should have been applied much sooner all eyes are on catalonia as president carlos pushed him on now he gave little away after the government announced its action on saturday at the mass protests followed in barcelona. parliament is expected to meet soon a declaration of independence is still an option along with the possibility of calling elections one thing is guaranteed there will be more protest action we are not going to. the one point five articles. we have a right. and we are sure. just on our side in this one of the most decentralized countries in the world the spanish state and the regional government in barcelona i'm now more entrenched than

amount has travelled to brussels seeking the seeking support for the bid to split from spain andrew symonds reports from barcelona. the police may be guarding it's put the seeds of regional government here no longer has a president as its head the spanish state is in charge its flag didn't get removed when says session was declared by parliament last friday only sign of carlos. is his portrayed his name is among twenty others on the charge sheet filed by spain's chief prosecutor. in the studio the prosecution has filed several charges for rebellion addition and embezzlement against the main political leaders of the cattle and regional government in their actions and decisions over the past two years have caused an institutional crisis that resulted in the unilateral declaration of independence this was carried out without observing and ignoring our constitution. these charges are the worst case scenario for the sat catalan leaders sedition carries a maximum of fifteen years in jail and rebellion a maximum of thirty years. some ministers braved it out by appearing folk were then being asked

all right thanks so much for now andrew symonds there. now the seventh round of talks aimed at ending syria six year war is getting underway in the kazakh capital the meeting is expected to call for a cease fire between government forces and rebel groups for at least six months the clearance of mines prisoner swaps and the release of hostages are also on the agenda the talks are sponsored by iran and russia which support the syrian government and turkey which backs the rebels. cutter's amir is reiterating the importance of safeguarding his country's sovereignty but also its commitment to dialogue to resolve the gulf diplomatic crisis shake to mean been hammered and fanny was speaking to the us television program sixty minutes culture is being under a blockade for almost five months after saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind in egypt cut diplomatic and trade ties my calorie ports in washington d.c. . there was no sign of friction among gulf leaders when they met president trump on his first foreign trip it was all smiles and a common pledge to c

a few people still think there could be a solution but they're getting thinner on the ground andrew symonds al jazeera bosler. the u.s. has renewed efforts to resolve the gulf diplomatic crisis but there's little hope of any big breakthrough the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in saudi arabia for talks aimed at ending the blockade against cata he's met saudi king solomon it's now been four months in saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain suspended ties with cata a fall from the gulf dispute mr tillotson will also discuss measures to counter iran's influence in the middle east iraq's also on the agenda with the secretary attend in the first meeting of a council aimed at boosting ties between saudi arabia and baghdad and after visiting doha later today he'll travel to delhi for talks and then on to pakistan. u.s. backed syrian democratic forces have captured syria's largest oil field from ice on the kurdish s.t.'s are in a race against russian backed syrian troops to seize parts of the oil rich to resort region against yes i've already pushed myself from the areas ma

in the spanish capital madrid now let's go to andrew symonds who's in. the capital of the castle and region and all people in barcelona and beyond bracing themselves and five five to be implemented because that's that's how it looks at the moment. they most certainly are and they're expecting it to happen as hard as says what it does actually get passed things will happen very quickly indeed and no one is kidding themselves that this is very serious indeed the parliament by me is in session it's been in session for several hours now and it started on friday night following a whole sequence of events involving speculation that the president would actually call snap elections that is still an option for this parliament they could vote in favor of snap elections one member was stating on thursday night that it's not too late that they could go now with a possible deal to do that was brokered by a number of people including the basque president but the situation now is along these lines parliament could in theory vote in favor of declaring secession however

is due to vote on article one five five reimposing direct rule on the semi autonomous region andrew symonds is following events in the catalan capital barcelona. this demonstration. of two groupings school teachers and parents protesting what they say are false allegations from the spanish government of indoctrination in the education system in terms of gross secession they say that's not the case many of them protesting are in fact against the session then there's another group inc which is the defense committee for the referendum and they are intending to march to parliament with their message the steam is rising here in the sense that there is more and more suggestion that there is now a path towards a declaration of secession from. the real john kerry last who is the vice president of catherine yeah has in fact told associated press that quote there is no option but to proclaim a new republic one of the big issues we're seeing at the moment is the future of the regional police force because a lot of people fear that they're going to be under pressure when article one five five goes into

reimposing day which will mean it's all a mystery chip andrew symonds has more now from the catalan capital. this demonstration is of two groupings school teachers and parents protesting what they say are false allegations from the spanish government of indoctrination in the education system here in terms of closed session and they say that's not the case many of them protesting are in fact against the session then there's another grouping which is the defense committee for the referendum and they are intending to march to parliament with their message the steam is rising here in the sense that there is more and more suggestion that there is now a path towards a declaration of secession from spain and in fact the real john kerry who is the vice president. has in fact told associated press that quote there is no option but to proclaim a new republic one of the big issues we're seeing at the moment is the future of the regional police force because a lot of people fear that they're going to be under pressure when article one five five goes into effect on friday the u.s. government has confirm

suspending its parliament meanwhile catalan separatists are now calling for a new kind of protest andrew symonds now reports from barcelona. and online message from a pro independence campaign group saying peaceful direct action shows the power of the people. the core was to take some money out of banks that are moving their registration out of catalonia in case of independence withdrawals of one hundred fifty five euro the number of an article in the constitution being triggered to impose direct rule on catalonia by madrid why because this spanish dictatorship is unbearable. i think putting pressure on is a good move with thousands of people doing the same thing as if there were. some ed symbolic the government still has no mood for any compromise. in catalonia there are movements that want revolution so they want civil disobedience today there was a call to withdraw money from banks. then came a message from the prime minister himself saying the crisis was at a critical point and his party in the main opposition were agreed on action. they have broken the rule of law a basic principle of the e

a few people still think there could be a solution but they're getting thinner on the ground andrew symonds al-jazeera. there's been another suicide bombing in the afghan capital the taliban says it targeted a minivan carrying military academy cadets in western kabul killing fifteen soldiers it's been a deadly week for afghanistan and least eighty nine people are now known to have died in two separate mosque attacks on friday jennifer has more from kabul. it's extra security guards started work at the mosque last month but they weren't enough to stop friday's attack the bomber entered the mosque before guards started their security searches and. is a regular volunteer who helps clean the mosque he was knocked down by the blast then ran inside he says there was smoke and blood everywhere he helped the wounded and move the dead. they do this to divide as they won't be able mow their foreign hands behind such attacks and they do it for later benefits to their slaves why they come to attack this mosque of course they want to divide us and that's like you said. i saw fighters in afghanistan said

goes on it will be coming back to you later to get some more details on them for now let's thank andrew symonds he's been giving us up to date on how the situation looks there in barcelona let's just update our viewers on the news that's coming. in the last half hour also things have moved in this story the situation with the attempt to break away in catalonia we've had an announcement by spain's director of public prosecutions you can see in there moments ago he announced that several charges would be brought against catalonia leaders at the national court and i didn't mention by name who those national leader who those regional leaders are but he did mention that those charges include rebellion sedition and embarrass them and how it didn't end there he went on to say that charges would also be brought against members of the regional parliament the catalonia parliament for their role in facilitating the independence vote that prompted that announcement of independence on behalf of catalonia he said the charges will be brought against m.p.'s but at the supreme court because of course they still

ministers appointed by the spanish government during this extraordinary period al-jazeera as andrew symonds has the latest now from barcelona. this is. in barcelona it's the seat of the regional government you'll see a poster which belonged to the referendum run up on october first when all of this started now the message about voting relates to an entirely different thing elections and they're going to be imposed on catalonia by the government via the senate if we look over here we'll see an assembly of media and a few people the biggest assembly will be of protesters nearby in a big demonstration and we're expecting. to address that demonstration will certainly be there apparently and we can see also some a few demonstrators the message from the spokesman for this government you see that's the government building right there the message has been that this is really a coup d'etat effectively that's what they're saying and that democracy has been suspended that's the message there the question now is will push them all actually impose declare independence or will he announce elections of hi

meant that they're really flexing it's more of a your regime approach than a western woman ok andrew symondslive in istanbul andrew thank you. a court in turkey has begun to issue verdicts in a major trial linked to the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen so far a judge has found thirty four or thirty of forty seven defendants guilty sentencing them to life in prison the group including many military officers are accused of trying to assassinate president ratchet type are won on the night of the coup two police officers were killed in a hotel were withstanding. turkish commanders are blaming the kurdistan workers party or p.k. k. for a bomb blast which killed at least four soldiers several others were injured in the district of a car a province near the border with iran. new details have emerged that show the los vegas mash shooting was thoroughly planned u.s. police say sixty four year old stephen paddick set up cameras outside his hotel room to watch for approaching police had a friend who is a person of interest in the investigation has returned from the philippines and she's being qu

is due to vote on article one five five reimposing direct rule on the semi autonomous region andrew symonds has more. this demonstration. of two groupings school teachers and parents protesting what they say are false allegations from the spanish government of indoctrination in the education system here in terms of gross secession they say that's not the case many of them protesting are in fact against the session then there's another grouping which is the defense committee for the referendum and they are intending to march to parliament with their message. is rising here in the sense that there is more and more suggestion that there is now a path towards a declaration of secession from spain and in fact the real john kerry last who is the vice president of catherine yeah has in fact told associated press that quote there is no option but to proclaim a new republic one of the big issues we're seeing at the moment is the future of the regional police force because a lot of people fear that they're going to be under pressure when article one five five goes into effect on friday iraqi forces o

has threatened a regional parliament vote on independence if madrid goes ahead well andrew symonds our correspondent for us in barcelona what does this actually mean andrew. well hidden forty years of democracy this is the biggest political crisis spain has faced and we're now seeing a situation whereby it's going to escalate further we've heard from a socialist politician a senior one on t.v. that's the public t.v. station she's been saying there is a deal between. the ruling party and the b.s.o. we socialist party to have regional elections in catalonia in january now what this is all about is article one five five being invoked that is likely to happen almost certain to happen start the process that is in a cabinet meeting on saturday morning then the senate will pass it it's almost a guarantee because the ruling party and its allies will definitely vote for other passage of that article by ward of all means is quite complicated because it's a very wide ranging article one five five it means that the powers here in catalonia will be pulled back to madrid so there will be direct. par

ok hoda abdel-hamid standing by for us and madrid thank you let's let's cross back over now to andrew symonds who is live in barcelona where that voting is taking place and cattle on parliament so andrew when you hear things like we're bell again unconstitutional catastrophe those are the types of words that we have been hearing for quite some time in the language seems to be elevating when you have a vote a vote on whether or not you you want to secede is is there any sense that the people that are procession anticipated that it would go this far and in fact were prepared for what their plan would be at this moment came. well to some people this is a living nightmare especially those who fear economic effects and fear social dissent but to a very large number of people millions in fact this is a dream what we're seeing here is history unfolding a dream unfolding what follows is holder was pointing out is the unknown and that is in the control of both madrid and the powers that be here but people people well how much say if they hadn't this well they voted for the m.p.'s who are in parliament

never been big andrew symonds. well let's get more on this now or george as and one professor of history at the university of florida he specializes in spain and has russian several books on spanish history and he's joining us via skype from gainesville florida mr as and while it's great to have you with us on al-jazeera as our correspondent mentioned there are so many questions let's try to address some of them just how quickly and how forcefully do you think the central government will try to impose direct role here. that's a difficult question to answer with any accuracy because i think that there's supposed to be a series of deliberations that goes on in this vote which is. which steps are measures will be taken precisely by the government and this is something again that if you knew too quickly and this very volatile atmosphere it could really produce a much worse outcome and one might so i think it's it's it's really up to this fantasy government to step back a little bit and to get better a greater sense of

expect to see a role of more and more political moves taking power from this region to madrid ok andrew symonds live for us in barcelona andrew thank you so let's take a look back at the events over the past month that got us all to this point so on october first caroline leaders defied a spanish supreme court ruling and held a referendum on suspected secession is andrew reference down despite violence from spanish police order to stop the polling a turnout of just over forty two percent saw a landslide vote for independence a week later about fifty thousand people rallied in madrid to oppose catalonia the drive to secede the prime minister mariano rajoy also demanded the regional leader clarify whether he had actually declared independence well ignored the deadline said on friday his parliamentary as part parliament rather voted to proclaim its independence immediately after spain senate voted in favor of article one fifty five of the constitution to let the spanish government dissolve catalonia administration and impose direct rule from madrid so james collins he is a professor of politics an

risk it could mean cause for peaceful direct action could turn into something more dangerous andrew symonds al-jazeera. french president to many more macro and says talks on the u.k. so-called divorce bill for leaving the european union aren't even halfway through the e.u. summit in brussels britain's prime minister to resume a call for more cooperation from e.u. leaders in the slow moving brics it talks jonah how has this report. to resume a new in advance there'd be no major breakthrough fellow e.u. leaders made clear that insufficient progress had been made to move talk beyond the current deadlocked difficulties over money and to begin talking about future trade she instead issued what sounded like an appeal for help by a politically weakened prime minister who's come as far as she can and desperately needs something in return if we are going to take a step forward together it must be on the basis of joint effort and endeavor we must work together to get to an outcome that we can stand behind that works for or people what she got in return wasn't much they were encouraging words from som

president pushed amount as travel to brussels seeking support for the bid to split from spain as andrew symonds reports from. the police may be guarding it but the seeds of regional government here no longer has a president as its head the spanish state is in charge its flag didn't get removed when says session was declared by parliament last friday the only sign of carlos. is his portrayed his name is among twenty others on the charge sheet filed by spain's chief prosecutor. the prosecution has filed several charges for rebellion addition and embezzlement against the main political leaders of the catalan regional government with their actions and decisions over the past two years have caused an institutional crisis that resulted in the unilateral declaration of independence this was carried out without observing and ignoring our constitution these charges are the worst case for the sat catalan leaders sedition carries a maximum of fifteen years in jail and rebellion a maximum of thirty years. some ministers braved it out by appearing folk were then being asked by police to leave one was defian

madrid is moving to curb catalonia as autonomy following a vote on to session earlier this month andrew symonds reports now from a town on catalonia has border with the rest of spain where people are nervously following events. easygoing charm of san rafael del rio is under threat one side of the town is in valencia the other in catalonia while there may be hints of a political divide those who voted yes to secession are in a minority the catalan flag is looking as jaded as any appetite for conflict with madrid hundreds of farmers living on one side own land on the other jose beltran there's one of them he's been enzian his wife his stellar is cattle and they're all of grown. visit in catalonia they both feel secession will be costly and unnecessary. if you. get what benefits really bring how badly really the thick pain in the. the subsidies for our lives will day be affected. the lives of kaplan's and valenciennes have always been intertwined on this bridge doesn't just represent the border between two regions for years it's been a symbol of unity. the unity bridge theme is being promoted by t