This is al jazeera live from doha also ahead iraqs government claims i saw has infiltrated the disputed province of kirkuk partly under the control of the Kurdish Regional government. And out to meet him to cuts in on years leaders the Spanish Government says they have until monday to declare their intentions on independence plus. Protests seen kenya have made a deepening political crisis after Opposition Leader right now dingo withdraws from the repeats president ial election. Thank you for joining us the palestinian faction hamas says its reach a deal on political week concierge and with fatah a move that. Could signal an end to a decade long divide between the two groups hamas and fatah have been meeting in egypt capital cairo to discuss the formation of a National Unity government negotiations brokered by egypt started on tuesday details of the outcome of the agreement reached overnight will be revealed at a News Conference later today lets go live to harry foster whos in ramallah forests in the occupied west bank News Conference later today harry to reveal the details but i believe you have some information already as to what has been agreed to in cairo. Thats right were waiting for the public acknowledgment of exactly what was in this agreement in cairo in a couple of hours time exactly two hours time from now but we have also been hearing from a member of the fatter Central Committee in garza a representative there and hes been saying that three things have been agreed Border Crossings exactly how they will be handled the Border Crossing with egypt and rafa most importantly who will be in charge there the issue of internal security whose personnel will be in charge of policing gaza there have been suggestions that we were hearing last week during the the Cabinet Meeting in the ministerial handovers that took place that there would be three thousand ph staff who would gradually be. Introduced and merged with the hamas operatives have been in charge of security up until now and also the issue of employees the tens of thousands of Public Servants who have been employed by hamas during the ten years split how will they be reintegrated under a p a regime saying that some will be a four month period where at least some of those will be brought in will be paid partially during that period and they will be merged after four months whether that includes the whole forty thousand or not remains to be seen what about the issues hairy of who will control the gaza strip and the issue of how math is weapons. Well the. Dominated p. A. Is saying that it wants nothing less than a proper enabling of full governmental control in the gaza strip and that is what is it is holding out for before it releases some of the funding and the Electricity Supply that its been withholding to try and pressure hamas into this situation over recent months theyre saying as well the fattah representative is saying that within a month if things are going according to plan the palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will go to gaza not as a visitor but as president and so that shows that the should be in the terms of this agreement full control now the issue of the military wing of hamas the alka some brigades most importantly that is something that hamas said was never on the table in terms of their disarmament or their being totally a substitute into a p a administration officially what theyre maybe what weve been having indications about is more tacit agreement whereby they would remain quiet they would remain out of sight and that if there were any decisions to be made on war making or peace making they wouldnt be taken unilaterally but they would be part of some kind of National Consensus whether that is enough for president abbas who has been making public statements saying that he doesnt want to hezbollah a situation within gaza that the kind of situation that you have in lebanon that is not yet clear although it could be that those statements were made largely for external consumption and that some sort of accommodation along these lines may be enough for this to hold and how will israel harry be reacting to this. Well no official reaction so far we did have a statement from the israeli Prime Minister last week which was critical of hamas as he has been of course so much in the past but the language was less fiery than hes been issuing such reconciliation agreements have been in the offering in the past for example in twenty eleven and twenty fourteen similarly relatively muted language before that coming from the americans the middle east envoy jason green that releasing a white house statement which again while saying that hamas would have to eventually recognize israel and and change its ways it was very different from the extremely critical language that we heard from donald trump during his visit to the region earlier this year so it does seem as if the the various pieces are aligning for this to work we wait to see exactly how long for whether the the very serious divisions which of which have kept these two sides apart for ten years whether they can be healed but it may be that the circumstances the humanitarian situation in gaza the political pressure from egypt the lack of any real alternative on both sides might be enough to keep to get things going probably this time how we thank you very much for that harry farsad life rice in ramallah in the occupied west bank. Not iraq where the government claims i saw fighters are encouraged coca disputed province partly under the control of the Kurdistan Regional government or the k r g Prime Minister hina body says he wants to send troops into the province to get rid of them but kurdish Officials Say that some excuse by iraq to launch an attack on Kurdish Forces tensions have been growing between the k r g and the Central Government in baghdad after iraqi kurds voted overwhelmingly for secession in a referendum last month. Well you know what that so meusel fighters have been allowed to enter her cook they were fighters who are considered very dangerous and who pledged allegiance to or who have confessed to have fought with a group of women and we asked the kurdistan region and we ask her caucus which is on there to federal authority as well as we have asked the minister of interior to send officials took her coke to get these terrorists and investigate them and these are terrorists who have committed crimes against civilians in who region and other areas they have to be punished according to iraqi law and. Stratford has the latest from a bail in northern iraq. It was Late Wednesday evening when according to the Kurdish RegionalSecurity Council they said that they had received messages from the Iraqi Military and members of the shia militia groups that they were planning an attack in the area around the oil rich city of kirkuk and north of mosul a few minutes later a spokesperson for the baghdad government came out and refuted those claims saying that there were no plans for such actions in that area but the k r g taking no risks then announced that they were closing the main road from era bill to mosul and the main road from the hook to nineveh province also we understand that those roads are still closed whats important to stress is this area around kirkuk the oil rich city of Kirkuk Kirkuk participated in this very controversial referendum a referendum that the Iraqi Government says was illegal and unconstitutional and that area is in the socalled disputed areas there is no agreement as to who will eventually control that area the Kurdish Peshmerga took control of kirkuk in two thousand and fourteen off to baghdad till the Iraqi Military basically fled and i still a fence even they have controlled that area ever since and of according to analysts and officials here in the k r g and around the baghdad government they say that if there is going to be any kind of conflict in the aftermath of this referendum it could well be centered around that oil rich city of kirkuk meanwhile earlier yesterday one of the two main federal courts issued arrest warrants for members of the k r g Election Commission. Now for those arrest warrants to become a reality they have to be basically signed off by iraqs federal supremum court that hasnt happened yet but yet yet another indication of increasing pressure on the Kurdish Regional government in the wake of this very controversial referendum that happened more than two weeks ago. Spain is celebrating its national day as the political crisis over catalonia deepens the Central Government in madrid has given. Him on five days to say whether or not he has declared independence if catalonia does press on with secession the Spanish Government says it will take away the regions political autonomy lawrence lee has more from madrid madrid does not like being told what to do by the Council Lands for once parliament was united as the journalist speculated the cabinets agreed the spanish lion bit back against the catalan demands that their independence will happen the Prime Minister said you say it out loud and we will take back your powers no dice no deal and you have until monday. Youve held a Cabinet Meeting and weve decided the Catalan Government must confirm whether or not they have declared independence regardless of whether its going to take effect or not this is a requirement necessary before any other measures can be taken by the government including invoking article one if you do five. So back it goes to barcelona madrid no society there is split some separatist wants a session now others are nervous half the population hates the whole idea how long should they wait we know there are very important governments and people around the world who are ready to assist in mediation we got the group of the elders with coffee with a bank you move on with that one to two who are ready to exercise their mediation the only small detail which we are missing is that we have nobody on the other side of the table because just said he was not accepting mediation. All the while europe looks on surely not another country fracturing itself there is no support at all in brussels for the Catalan Independence movements madrid knows that it is the side with the powerful friends. Many people in madrid regard roys statements his demand the council only a clarify its position on independence as a shrewd one by putting the ball straight back in catalonia cause it potentially exposes divisions inside the independence movements that might by madrid some time take the pressure out of the immediate situation but also leave the crisis open ended. Where the protest is in barcelona go from here is a good question but it would like nothing more than for them to turn on each other destroy their own movements that would rule out the need for mediation which madrid insists there is no place for asli aljazeera put it. To another political crisis now this one in kenya where the Election Commission is due to decide on whether or not they will be a probably repeat president ial election later this month several people were injured in protests on wednesday after parliament passed electoral reforms and a court ruled all previous candidates to stand in the rerun on tuesday the main opposition candidate quit the race for the commission is yet to receive his official withdraw. Report from nairobi. Raila odinga supporters barely needed any prompting to return to the streets. Theyre demonstrating against Kenyas Electoral Commission which they believe wont conduct a free and fair rerun of election. But the supporters are divided on him dropping out of the race. Which he lost was. The Supreme Court laid to rule theyd been irregularities in how the vote was counted and incumbent and should stand in new elections you cannot go to an election. I think that is the best option but we are not but. Because of the pressure so you are out. Police fired tear gas at protesters and then. Kenyas constitution is not clear on what happens once a candidate with flows from iran but parliament has now passed amendments to electoral laws that could allow kenyatta to be named the winner. Twenty six and president has about spades i mean. That its very easy to say that well have a president of the legitimacy and respect from will. Be Electoral Commission will decide what happens next but if any of these decisions can be contested in court kenya faces one of many possibilities including declaring incumbent president. The only remaining candidates the winner of the rerun all Holding Elections and then declaring kenyatta the winner or holding fresh elections within ninety days with new nominations for president while kanada says he should be declared president ordering guys pushing for fresh elections in a pronouncement from b. C. Will not be believable and the conduct of. Both the conduct of the commission. Itself has not been inspiring. Whether its a faltering economy or an ongoing political feud all kenyans are guaranteed at this point is uncertainty for me to aljazeera nairobi. Still ahead on aljazeera. And the wind was just howling and so i knew this is going to get out he was one of the lucky ones the death toll in the California Wildfires rises to more than twenty. Find out why more than a. Hundred former professional i saw key players who want to sue them. From the clear blue sky. To the fresh breeze in the city. Hello its back to get pretty warm in europe its coming out from the west now at the moment you can see those clouds streaming in from the atlantic and its digging its way through central eventually Eastern Europe and has already dropped temperatures so in the immediate future were still looking at what is fairly autumnal weather lows at the top here are supposed to white lines relatively tight sets fairly windy weather has been quite windy held and about fifteen in berlin warmer the further south you get obviously twenty still in bucharest having had that colder air pushed by bankers in the seventeen two but if you look down to iberia twenty eight in madrid that war is going to over the next five days probably work slowly northward so the immediate future is not obvious any ninety in paris probably bright and sunny but just a day beyond that russia twenty two in the sun is in the sky full sun thats going to keep moving up in that general direction so this picture will change now its coming up really from a deep low developing near the azores but currently the feature in the atlantic means cloud in morocco thats given a few showers recently it might want to see more but look at the same direction if we got thirty two degrees which is pretty hot for october for about. There with sponsored by cats on. My provocative oh is it a listen when theyre on line we were in hurricane winds full almost like thirty six hours these are the things that has to address or if you join us on sect. But. It will give basis is a dialogue tweet us with hostile a. J. Stream and one of your pitches might make the next show join the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. Welcome back our top stories on aljazeera the palestinian faction hamas says its reach a deal on political reconstitution with fatah the two have been meeting in egypt and capital cairo to discuss the formation of a National Unity government the Iraqi Government has denied claims by kurdish officials that its forces are preparing a major attack on kurdish troops in care coke iraqi Prime Minister hyderabadi insists an operation in the province would only target i saw fighters and spain is celebrating its national day i made a deepening political crisis over the future of the catalonia region the Central Government in madrid has given. Him on five days to say whether or not he has declared independence. More now on our top story and the hamas fatah agreement a bit of background for you on what led to the divisions between the two palestinian groups for us in two thousand and six hamas won parliamentary elections but they couldnt reach an agreement on how to share power with fatah so a year later hamas took control of gaza after five days. Of gun battles with fatah the conflicts weaken the Palestinian Authority leaving it only in charge of palestinian territories in the west bank which is occupied by israel since march last year how mas had been running gaza under an Administrative Committee which was seen as a rival government to the fact dominated Palestinian Authority in the west bank but last month a mosque agreed to hand over administrative powers in gaza to a five backed government lets bring in more calm air i will solder now is a professor of Political Science at university he joins us live from gaza city thank you so much for being with us so we have this deal thats been announced by hamas which is quite significant i believe but weve been here before do you think its different this time around that this could actually hold that they could actually be reconstitution between these two palestinian groups. That is a very good question yes i do agree with you that we have been here before our the palestinian spirit has been has taken place more than ten years ago since the summer of two thousand and seven and so many agreements have been reached between hamas and fatah over the past ten years but none of them has worked but i believe this time the chances of success are much better than the previous times for a number of reasons i first of all that i have a new leadership and the leader of yes and one who is the head of hamas in the gaza strip and who is much more serious about palestinian reconciliation and second we do have a much more serious. By the Egyptian Government who is trying to regain its regional in the middle east region by engaging in the palestinian reconciliation efforts and i believe reason would be an International Push for palestinian reconciliation led by the u. S. Who is much more interested in the socalled big deal between the palestinian and israelis and without palestinian reconciliation this deal might not go forward for for all of these three reason i believe that palestinian reconciliation has a much better chance. Than the previous times bigger chance a bigger chance of success you say but Mahmoud Abbas it seemed had been reluctant before going to the these negotiations in cairo any support saying that any you need my sleep the assuming full control of the gaza strip would they have agreed on that how could they have reached a middle ground on that specific issue of who is going to govern gaza. That is definitely a very complicated issue palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas indicated about ten days ago that the government must. Have full responsibility and for full control over the gaza that we turned at the said one no thought of the one on one gun which would mean there has to be some kind of a compromise to deal with the socalled Palestinian Resistance in the gaza strip we have tens of fighters. Brigades the military wing of hamas and other palestinian factions i believe i believe this this issue has not been finalized yet but as long as Palestinian Resistance fighters are dedicated to fighting these radio occupation i dont think this is going to be a big problem but the problem is when this when this weapons were used for chaos and lawlessness in the gaza strip ten years ago but that it created for fighting the Israeli Occupation i think this issue can be handled without any complications me ask you one last question mr what would this deal mean for palestinians especially those in the gaza strip. The palestinians or the two million palestinians in the gaza strip have been looking forward for for this they are the person you have been catastrophic to the palestinians unemployment and the gaza strip forty three percent seventy percent of the palestinians in gaza are under the poverty line and the past six months. Has taken harsh measures against gaza with producing electricity and it. Is have been catastrophic so the palestinians are waiting for this day and they hope that the signing of this deal will put an end to their. Long suffering and will be able to open between gaza and egypt and will allow them access of movement with the outside world thank you so much for speaking to us and sharing your views. Science lecture at University Joining us there from gaza city thank you for your time we appreciate it now to the u. S. And to more people have been confirmed dead from wildfires in california bringing the total number of People Killed to twenty three but hundreds of people are still missing and with high winds its harder to contain the fire and rob reynolds has more from los angeles. High winds low humidity and dry brush the ingredients of californias fire disaster are simple all they need is a spark get that ignition and you dont get that if you dont get that ignition put out right away then those in the conditions that allow a wildfire to spread really uncontrollably hot winds from the desert blow eastward every october just as the forest and brush is at its trius many wildfires are almost impossible to contain with winds of up to one hundred sixty Kilometers Per Hour propelling the flames along fire experts say while brush fires are inevitable the destruction they cause is not its going to be far easier cheaper and effective to reengineer our homes and communities than the try to reengineer the forest if you just do one thing. Replace rooftops with nonflammable materials like a metal roof that alone can increase the probability of a home surviving a wildfire by ninety to ninety five percent for more than a century the conventional wisdom was to fight forest fires at almost all costs the consequence it has allowed the underbrush and dry fuel to build up making fires burn with even greater intensity what we need to be doing is working with wildfires not fighting against them. The whole war on wildfire paradigm is complete distortion and were just throwing lots of blood and treasure into absolute folly making war on nature is essentially what its about firefighters are doing their best there are several thousand firefighters on the line right now we have firefighters from throughout california san diego to the northern border but Scientists Say those who have built their homes and businesses in harms way cant count on firefighters to save them theres always a lag time in these fires between the time that the fire starts and the time that they can get people out of the way getting resources to start to protect against it its in that lag time that people in that lag time that a lot of the bad things happen a new approach in how people should deal with nature along with changes in planning and Building Design could help keep things from going from bad to worse rob zero los angeles more than one hundred former professional i saw key players after paying to sue the National Hockey league in the u. S. And canada theyre accusing the n. H. L. Of concealing Scientific Evidence of long term damage caused by head injuries to play is done iraq has a story. Fast furious and intricate ice hockey mixes speed intense physical contact its also a sport thats hard on those who play it fans love them but frequent body checks even fist fights cause dangerous injuries especially to the head and you put a harness around your back former player Scott Thornton is retired but after at least sixteen concussions hes worried about long term brain trauma he says hes feeling some effects i can be looking at a photo of teammates i played with ten years ago and cant remember some of their names in the photo and i played five years with these guys you know a lot of guys are way worse than me so i can kind of live with the say that i mean dozens of former players are taking part in a study looking for links between the concussions they suffered and degenerative brain function some n. H. L. Players who died in recent years were found to have physical brain deterioration similar to all simers disease many of their former teammates are worried they could be next its an issue its a real issue but it needs to be put in perspective in terms of the the general incidence which is unknown the general incidence of dementia in our genitives sees it were only beginning to learn. The current lawsuit claims the n. H. L. Knew about the potential for brain damage from concussions but concealed it players were encouraged to return to the game too soon after head injuries the league denies this and says it has rigorous concussion protocols but the settlement in two thousand and thirteen of a similar suit by National FootballLeague Players in the u. S. Has set a precedent legal experts are warning that the n. H. L. Is taking a risk by refusing to settle if we look to the n. F. L. And their settlement that was a billion dollars and the n. F. L. Can afford a billion dollars and they have the n. H. L. Cannot you know in the grand scheme of things that could be a serious hit to the league it could even you know in some cases destroy what the league is facing now is a Class Action Lawsuit thousands of ex players could be. For compensation should their legal arguments prevail the judge in the case wants it settled or decided later this year if possible at arenas across north america new n. H. L. Season has begun but amid the excitement and anticipation of fans the possibility that a court ruling could have a devastating impact on the game daniel acknowledges era toronto. Had ok now in the southwest of japan has erupted for the first time in six years she more docky volcano has been spewing ash and smoke almost two kilometers into the sky ashes fallen in at least four cities and towns in me is actually pretty prefecture School Students have been told to wear helmets and masks in villages near the volcano. And again im fully back to go with the headlines on aljazeera the palestinian faction hamas says its reach a deal on political reconciliation with fatah the two groups have been meeting in egypts capital cairo to discuss the formation of a National Unity government. The Iraqi Government has denied claims by kurdish officials that its forces are preparing a major attack on kurdish troops in cook Prime Minister hyderabadi in says an operation in the province would only target eisel fighting us well you dont know what that im going to so meusel fighters have been allowed to enter her cook they were fighters who are considered very dangerous and who pledged allegiance to or who have confessed to have fought with the group of which we asked the kurdistan region and we ask her caucus which is on there to federal authority as well as we have asked the minister of interior to send officials took her coke to get these terrorists and investigate them and these are terrorists who have committed crimes against civilians in who region and other areas they have to be punished according to iraqi law and spain is celebrating its national day amid a deepening political crisis over the future of the catalonia region independence and parole unity rallies are expected across the country the madrid government has given Catalan Leader a kind of split among five days to say whether or not he has declared independence two more people confirmed dead from wildfires in the u. S. State of california bringing the total number of People Killed to twenty three hundreds of fire engines and crews are being rushed to the state from other areas to try and contain the flames more than three thousand homes and businesses have been destroyed many of them in the wine country. Several severe flooding in vietnam has killed at least thirty seven people and left forty others missing rain has lashed several provinces in central and northern vietnam. And the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has expressed his her found concern over the detention of american diplomatic staff in turkey to listeners called on the turkish government to provide evidence for claims u. S. Embassy employees were linked to the twenty sixteen failed school the American Embassy in turkey has suspended most Visas Services causing turkey to retaliate and those are the headlines the stream is next on are just there. The nature of news as it breaks for the recoil headed and way out of our what they destroyed during the hurricane with detailed coverage this is what remains of an eager to finally read by the Nigerian Army hundreds like these have been used for in the past few months from around the world there are also hundreds of thousands of arabs that have arrived here in recent years fleeing i saw and i feel very let down by the baghdad government. And im only here in the stream live on you tube today a stir