of individuals who are powerless to prevent conflicts like those in yemen because i was very of chatham house thank you very much indeed for your time thanks for having me before the u.n. announced its decision more deaths were reported in yemen's conflict this time five people were killed in a saudi led coalition's air strike inside a province six others were injured in the attack. thousands of supporters of catalonia as vote for secession from spain have held a final rally before sunday's referendum they're also occupying schools designated as polling stations to make sure the ballot goes ahead reports from barcelona. in the fields and into the political fray. farmers are vowing to turn their tractors into barricades if police try to crack down on the referendum. we have come to the fence the country and we are fighting for democratic rights on the right. as. you can see. with one hundred. rides. like. the night before in the hearth light of a small square neighbors gather. this is one of many defense committees grassroots groups controlled by any political party on a mission to defend the

alex vine is with me, head of the africa programme at chatham house. welcome to the programme.s is a remarkable moment of maturity for kenya isn't it, the dispute over the election being settled in the court rather than on the streets. yeah, nobody would have imagined the supreme court coming out today declaring the election result is null and void and they'd have to be held again within 60 days. this is important for kenya, really important, also really important for africa because this has never happened before on the african continent. the implications go beyond the borders of kenya itself? absolutely. increasingly elections are absolutely. increasingly elections a re close absolutely. increasingly elections are close and contested through the courts. this is a really important watershed moment for democracy in africa. we know the elections have to be rerun within 60 days, i suppose there may be security concerns around it. yes, there will be security concerns. the market have already shown they are nervous. the kenyan shilling has weakened and the stock exchange suspended t

drjacob parakilas is the deputy head of the us and the americas programme at chatham house.ng through some of the detail. it is extremely difficult to predict what the fallout will be? yes, the hurricane is still making its way up at florida and i would not want to venture a guess as to what the impact will be. but it will be really significant beyond the disruption to lives. but florida is well prepared in many ways, isn't it? since hurricane andrew in the early 1990s, new building regulations were put in. compared to some caribbean islands, fraud are no better position. they are ina fraud are no better position. they are in a better position in terms of building regulations. the problem is that there has been a massive spike in development in florida and andrew the last major hurricane. it has been hit by smaller hurricanes since 1992, but florida has been massively expanded in terms of population and development since then, so the scope of damage is much larger. and this isa of damage is much larger. and this is a 200 mile wide hurricane we are talking about. talk us thro

of international relations at regents university in london and a senior research fellow at the chatham house think tank thank you very much for coming in to doctors at al jazeera first of all on the question of why this is happening now is this really because things have got just so bad with the humanitarian situation that hamas has just gone we have to move forwards it is a combination between your money turning crisis that is ongoing your report actually said that by twenty twenty gaza will be unlivable so there is an ongoing to tell you ation in gaza but there's also the political side and when into the scoring side in this case between egypt and the hamas visit the security in the in the sinai so there are ongoing pushes on the humanitarian side from we film gaza from outside together with the political interests of those involved in the reaching this agreement i think it was twenty fourteen when when they last sort of agreed to form some sort of national consolidation administration and that obviously came unstuck what are the issues now that they are going to have to thrash out with po

he is a seniorfellow at the royal institute of international affairs, at chatham house, and joins usl london studio. at what point does posturing become dangerous? who knows, there has been plenty of posturing over the years. i noticed the bbc on its web page had put out a list of the most recent announcements by the north koreans they were at war because of something somebody else had done. it is worrying. i think the precedents are quite good in terms of being able to defuse such issues but it does require a certain willingness on both sides to do it. according to the united states, north koreans are being provocative when they say we will shoot down your aeroplanes. but to me it seems equally provocative to me it seems equally provocative to fly planes rather close to the north korean border, and admittedly the sea border, which is always uncertain. so we have the two sides engaging in this war of words and possibly being prepared to do something more dangerous. possibly being prepared to do something more dangerousm possibly being prepared to do something more dangerous. it is al

in our westminster studio now is drjim hoare, associate fellow in the asia programme at chatham house the british embassy in north korea. who is controlling this game, and uses were because someone who is controlling this game, and uses were because someone is trying to play one team against itself? —— andi to play one team against itself? —— and i use this word. ie referring to north korea or the president of the united states? —— are you referring. one of the difficulties is not so much north korea, they have been on this trajectory to deliver nuclear weapons and warheads now for some yea rs. weapons and warheads now for some years. 7 ”2” £2,222, 1l; 7 fi;;,.; 13:7flf t if t t out use out. use of force, not ou they use of force, not ou they as: $555 not ' ou they as: f§€= "23; needs because they think north korea needs to be saved from itself, but because of the possible consequences for the united states allies south korea and japan. the current president of the united states, no doubt, is aware of past history, but makes these state m e nts past history, but makes these statements

leslie, where is chatham house running into november 6 2018, this is going to be subsumed the election are even republicans that seem to think they can get tax reform through before the end of this calendar year, that seems extremely unlikely, but there is a strong desire to get tax reform through. nevermind that the relationship isn't good between trump and his own party, there is momentum behind this. there is still the question of the affordable care act and many other things that are going to be going on for this nevermind the, russian investigation. think tax reform will move slowly, we have not seen details. it is very difficult for people in congress to talk about where they stand, because they don't know the details on the proposal. can the president of the united states have a cordial dinner at the white house with two competing sets of republicans? i don't even think they get along. when itall bets are off comes to the current president in the people who turn up. when its one thing, but comes to actually legislating, actually trying to get something through congress, that is

with me now is dr bayza unal, a nuclear weapons expert from chatham house.t to start by asking you, south korea says it as seen indications that the north is preparing more missile launches, does that sound plausible? yes. north korea has been conducting several tests for the last year. they might be more coming up. but the last hydrogen bomb test was a successful one and the yield of the test was huge as well so with the new test is coming up they will be testing a new part of the nuclear weapons system. south korea was also responding with drills and showing off its capabilities as well. you mention a hydrogen bomb which is believed to have been set off over the weekend. you are convinced it was a hydrogen bomb are you? yes. there are two types of explosions that can happen with uranium ore and tony. one is the atomic bomb as the other one is the hydrogen bomb. the hydrogen bomb is more powerful. the earthquake magnitude we saw which was 6.3 has shown that north korea has conducted a hydrogen bomb with an estimated hundred kilohertz on yield which is far b

joining us now is chatham house research fellow, john nelson right.ast couple of months? john: it is the characteristic north korean playbook yard i would characterize it as psychological and strategic intimidation. on the back of kim jong un thatical successes to show president trump -- to show president trump that he won't be intimidated here to i think this tryn attempt i pyongyang to to decouple america with its allies. -- not only with korea.to north francine: our china and russia going to take notice? we sell rex tillerson putting out a statement right away and it was clearly directed at them and not north korea. john: what we need from the chinese and russians is tougher sanctions. u.n. security council voted in a new set of sanctions, but effectively what are considerably from the american proposal going after north korea's textile exports position on labor your none of it will delay north korea from continuing these sorts of provocations. tom: you have a phrase, the heavy history of japan, what is the heavy history of america president trump,

a nuclear physicist and head of international security at the foreign affairs research centre, chatham houseat the us has declared war. who is going to blink first? the north koreans think they have been at war since 1953. so that's one avenue that's been explored on countless owe cautions and presumably being explored at the un. if it's not a diplomatic solution, it's a really dreadful situation. what about north korea's capabilities at the moment? so that's what is difference about today. in the past, where we have had the types of crisis such as in the mid—90s with bill clinton when we had a helicopter downed and two airmen, one killed and one captured. then there were calm heads, diplomacy won out, the pilot who survived was returned. now, we are seeing the ratcheting up of this rhetoric on the us side as well as the north koreans. in the last half an hourorso, the the north koreans. in the last half an hour or so, the us defence secretary has said america wants to resolve this diplomatically. "we maintain the capability to deter north korea's most dangerous threats, but to back up our d