Heightened tension in kenya as a repeat president ial election opens amid the oppositions calls for boy costa. Georgiadis their homes are raman also coming up in the next thirty minutes betting farewell to a revered monarch bangkok grinds to a halt for king. Five day funeral. Brazils president survives a key parliamentary vote to put him on trial for corruption. And classified documents into the assassination of president john f. Kennedy all set to be released more than fifty years after his killing. Welcome to the program polls for the controversial president ial run in kenya and now open Opposition Leader raul has withdrawn from the election and has asked supporters to boycott the vote it comes as protesters have been throwing stones at police in nairobi is there a district the Supreme Court had an old the elections held in august due to irregularities well how did we get there. On august the eleventh who are kenyatta was declared the winner of the initial president ial election held three days earlier but his rival rylan was quick to cry foul saying that the result was hacked and manipulated he took these allegations to the Supreme Court turned on the first of september the judges declared the elections invalid and ordered a rerun within sixty days more than a month later suddenly withdrew his candidacy from the rerun saying he still didnt believe the Election Commission could ensure a fair race well lets cross over to our reporters in kenya is in the capital nairobi and Catherine Sawyer is in the opposition stronghold of kissimmee lets go to me to first youre actually within a polling station just tell us whats been going on considering the tension has been rising in the capital. There was a fairly steady stream of voters coming into this polling station in the center of nairobi but just two hours into the polling day its now slowed to a trickle it has been raining so that of course would impact the number of people coming out but essentially its the spoiled cart that the opposition has told as well as security concerns now we did speak to the president thabo mbeki who is leading the African UnionObserver Mission in kenya he said about half an hour ago that its too early really to judge how the election has gone we had asked him if there was a concern around this boycott and how would would impact our credibility here he wouldnt really answer on that issue but of course this is an issue for many Observer Mission some of them even withdrawing now at this polling station we do know that in august the with the initial president ial election there were lines around the block leading into the main street in nairobi this time around it looks as if a number of voters are staying away. From either we can show our viewers now live pictures of disturbances happening. Across nairobi in the kabira camp just from viewers explain to us why i could bear would be a center point or a flashpoint for disturbances. So well keep our eye is a stronghold of the opposition the National Super alliance but specifically the Orange Democratic Party that forms part of that alliance we were in q bear earlier in the week speaking to people there and many had told us that they would prevent the election from taking place they would prevent people from voting in areas of kibera we do know that there are some areas today there that are very tense at least two polling stations have. And open to toll five others have there is some vote voting taking place but ultimately the concern there is security and people being prevented from going to the polling stations are one area of concern of course and what weve seen in kenya for a number of years is an issue of tribalism and people are forming alliances along these lines now given that a key player in is made up primarily by local people they would then. To they would want to support the Opposition Alliance and this is partly why were seeing some of the polls or some elect elections taking place in some of the areas in to vera of a member well leave it with you for me to cross over to your colleague in ours Catherine Sawyers in the stronghold of kissimmee sporadic small flashpoints in the capital catherine the scene is very different where you are there it is still an opposition stronghold. Absolutely let me just start by saying weve also had some incidents in some areas and protesters in some parts have been told already out on the streets saying that theres not theyre not going to come out and vote and just coming back to. Let me just paint a picture for you saw hill in august or in the last election this browns was full of people queues and queues of voters but today weve seen nobody polling materials have just arrived here but weve spoken to the returning officer thats the chief. Electoral commission official here in kisumu central its called and he said hes not been able to distribute voting materials to any of their one hundred and ninety nine palling stations in his area of of parisian he says another challenge shes facing is that his Staff Members are not coming to work theyre supposed to be about three hundred and ninety nine electoral official clocks and presiding offices and things like that were supposed to be working but he has only seen four reporting to work so he says thats a problem and it has been a struggle really so hell for us to just get a polling station that is open weve been to about four polling stations theyve been closed this is when we arrived at this polling station those a bit of panic because those were transporting the materials had gone missing they werent answering their calls but finally the materials came here but like i said no one is voting. Many of the roads have been blocked as well well for them i will leave the course it is a very long Selection Process will continue coverage live from kenya throughout our bulletins for the moment catherine thank you. And the other global story that were following here on out is the. Cremation ceremony of the late king. Jr day from thailand now the creation is the main part of the five day Funeral Service is led by the late king son mother tenth the much loved time on it died just over a year ago after reigning full seven days as more from bangkok. The funeral ceremony lasts for five days but of course the main day his thursday when the late king jr day will be cremated there are actually two promotion ceremonies one a symbolic ceremony and then the main cremation which will take place later on thursday evening in a purpose built funeral site a purpose built crematorium on a site just outside the grand palace and before then its a very slow procession taking the boil and containing the body all of the late king from the grand palace where he has been lying for the past year eventually making its way just outside the gates to that funeral site but its a very slow procession will take around three hours before they arrive at that you know site as you can imagine its a very hot day in bangkok but that hasnt stopped thousands of people coming out onto the streets the palace says it was expecting some two hundred fifty thousand people to fill the streets around the funeral site to say a final goodbye to the late king want to do new day south america now where brazils a lower house of congress has voted to reject corruption charges against president michel tamer he was in hospital when the vote was taken hes accused of taking bribes which he denies the lower house has voted in his favor decided that they will lot or he will not face trial at the Supreme Court on charges of criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice has the latest from. President michel tamar has done it again he survived a vote in the lower house of congress which wanted to suspend them for up to one hundred eighty days so the Supremes Court could try him on corruption charges he did the same back in august by a similar vote although hes one of the most unpopular president s that brazil has ever seen with population and with popularity ratings of around four percent he one managed to win enough support in that congress so that the opposition could not get the two thirds two thirds of votes necessary one congressperson at a time came to the microphone they were given fifteen seconds to speak before the microphone was cut off to say yes or no vote as to whether they supported it michelle tam or not he is accused of taking bribes why the j. B. S. Massive meat packing for some of that conversation was recorded he all along has denied the charges he is part of a much larger criminal investigation known as lovers yard or the car wash scandal which is implicated hundreds of politicians and Business People across brazil some of them serving time in prison some of them waiting to be tried some of them plea bargaining saying theyre going to name names but michel tema has a skate he will serve out the last fourteen months of his time in office he says to push through vital measures to boost brazils ailing economy to get it back on track but he has survived but he is a much that we can the president the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations has been evacuated from a u. N. Camp for displaced people in south sudan after security guards fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against president sounds like youre nikki haley had earlier met the president to discuss ways to end the four years civil war that has displaced millions of people here morgan reports from juba. The United States back south sudan when it became independent after a friend of mine twenty eleven but for more than three years now south sudan has been locked in a civil war the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley hopes to convince president salva kiir to make peace i didnt come here to talk i came here to basically say the time for action is now were not waiting anymore we need to see a change and we need to see it right away and there is nothing that they can say at this point we have lost trust in the government and we now need to regain that trust and the only way to regain that trust is through the actions of taking care of all of the people present here is the president everyone not just one tribe not just one Group Fighting broke out in south sudan in twenty thirteen when president here accused his former Vice President riek machar of a coup a Peace Agreement supported by the us was signed in ten to fifteen but there was more violence less than a year later forcing my charge to flee the country in september this year the u. S. Sanction to government officials and the former military chief of staff put the reeling the Peace Process but south sudans government now says its ready to work for a deal. The president also assured her actual into the ambassador that the government would also be observing cessation of hostilities in order basically to create a conducive atmosphere for the dialogue and also to show the governments commitment that. All political disputes and conflicts a little probably go south so that as far as the government is concerned can only be resolved through dialogue but humanitarian situation has only gotten worse as the word dragged on more than half of the population here rely on aid to survive and the United States is the largest donor providing more than seven hundred Million Dollars per year them back to seem concerned at how bad it gets to those in need and how aid workers are protected eighty two have been killed in the conflict so far. A quarter of the twelve million population has been displaced there have been reports of atrocities committed by all worrying part from sexual abuses to killings based on ethnicity many children have no access to proper education analysts say those committed to peace must work harder the parties to the Peace Agreement who are strongly convinced that the Peace Agreement need. To ensure that. There is. Some trust in their state and that people dont have to flee across the border just a few hours in south sudan may not solve the countrys problems or end the war but u. N. Ambassador healy hopes its at least the start morgan aljazeera. Still ahead here on aljazeera mass protests in catalonia spains government prepares to impose a direct rule. Also looking for a solution in yemen why its being called a dire humanitarian situation all that coming up after the break. Hello the weather is going all stormy now in the Eastern Mediterranean produce very heavy showers over turkey to spread sallys was to the caucasus is bringing wind up from the south across egypt from the fray thats not particularly where weve seen a bout twenty seven in beirut and twenty four in jerusalem as the writing on the shelves well they really do very much the coax is not. Still got ninety degrees was tearing up at twenty seven the day after little change either so that big fluster in the eastern med hasnt had very much effect to be honest in levant and beyond thirty three in baghdad thirty four in kuwait the wind is not particularly prominent weve noticed humidity fluctuating around the gulf recently thirty four could be. Fairly humid thirty four because theres no prevailing breeze at the moment and this is true down to abu dhabi its still near forty in mecca and the breeze here indicates its coming from the south as a result could be a little dusty so lousy twenty nine hameed when i was here and it was of course the last three months in Southern Africa were seeing proper rain develop once more and more specifically in south africa this line its just like but now in cloud on thursday come friday looks like a fairly stormy potential over joburg and crossing. As we embrace new technologies rarely do we start to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was he was started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the kind of job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices deadly environmental and health we think ok well send our you waste to china but we have to remember therefore you should travel around death by design at this time on aljazeera. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera im so robin a reminder of our top stories polls for the controversial president ial rerun in kenya and now underway Opposition Leader has withdrawn from the election and has asked his supporters to boycott the vote. Also the elaborate information ceremony of the late tike king nepali palmer dounia day has begun its considered the main part of the five day Funeral Service and is led by the kings son grandmother ten the much loved modoc died just over a year ago after reigning for seven decades. Brazils president michel tamer will not face trial on corruption charges up to congress voted in his favor he was accused of taking bribes which is always tonight. Argentinas former president Cristina Kirchner as you know ordered to testify in an investigation of a terror cover up its looking into her ministrations role in hiding irans involvement in the one nine hundred ninety four bombing in a point as i raise that killed eighty five people has already been charged three times since leaving. Office trees about. It was a death that shocked argentina ill bet a county man was found with a shot in the head in january two thousand and fifteen he was a prosecutor investigating the bombing of a Jewish Community center in the capital one of scientists more than eighty five people were killed he was found a day before he was scheduled to testify before congress against former president Cristina Fernandez and her alleged ties with iran. While the world says that this is the right time to seek justice and. The Previous Administration controlled the Justice System and had managed to block the investigation now theres an investigation that will hopefully let us know what happened christine has already attended this courthouse several by that time just to be questioned about the accusations made by prosecutors. Her administration had a secret deal with iran that guaranteed iranian officials that were. Jewish Community Center in one thousand nine hundred forty. Four years ago argentina signed a memorandum with the iranian government that would allow argentina authorities to interrogate suspects nice man said that the administrations real motive was to do business with tehran. Says that the investigation against kirschner is politically motivated. The riddle its from interpol when they were lifted says that we wanted the iranians to walk around freely we want to the solution because an urgent tina you cannot be judged if you not present we want an argentine judge questioning the suspects last sunday Christina Kirshner was elected a senator or she has become a staunch critic of the Current Administration since leaving office businessmen and politicians close to her have been detained accused of corruption on wednesday form. Planning minister who was detained and stripped from immunity i mean that is. The same justice used by the Previous Administration is being used by some sectors of this one the truth is most argentinians do not trust the Justice System because the real structural problems are never discussed. The circumstances surrounding the murder of man remain a mystery in the meantime the families of the victims of the Community Center bombing continue to await answers and justice. And deceit i want to. Iraqi forces have launched an assault to recapture the last towns held by eisel in iraqs northern border with syria both and came and our are considered isis last stronghold in the country the towns are strategically important as they are on the main highway between baghdad and. The uns emergency relief coordinator has arrived in yemens capital sanaa to see for himself the deteriorating humanitarian crisis the war torn country is facing a severe food shortage and a cholera outbreak thats caused more than two thousand deaths victoria b. Has more. The conflict in yemen has been going on for more than two and a half years the u. N. Says more than ten thousand yemenis have been killed and almost forty thousand injured since twenty fifteen eighty percent of the population is in need of humanitarian aid many is it paid for on the verge of famine. The worlds worst cholera epidemic as well as the. Major problems with other basic Services Like water and Health Education a saudi Like Coalition of countries has been bombing the capital sanaa and other parts of yemen to try to restore the internationally recognized government ousted by his rebels human Rights Groups accuse both sides of committing atrocities millions are on the brink of famine and the economy has collapsed. People are struggling not only because of the siege and on paid salaries but because prices have increased in an insane way its causing a terrible amount of suffering. Analysts say the depreciation of the yemeni reale means basic goods are out of reach for many yemenis. The. War has caused yemens currency reserves to decrease and as halted oil and gas exports as well as donor support dollars in the market have dried up amid an increase in foreign currency demand yemen imports all of its goods this is led to a price increase. To add to the prices the color outbreak has killed more than two thousand people and infected more than a million the u. N. Is edging all sides to negotiate a. Political deal to bring the fighting to an end. In a joint move with the u. S. Council has imposed sanctions targeting allegedly finances and facilitators of eisel in iraq syria and yemen and the al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula eleven yemeni nationals a Charitable Organization and a supermarket make up the list of thirteen the sanctions against them include asset freezes and travel bans the two countries say the new strengthens the joint commitment to combat terrorism and Terrorism Financing mostly in jordan possible from washington d. C. A number of yemeni citizens into yemeni organizations are now in the sights of the Us Government and of several governments in the gulf thats because theyve been accused of providing Financial Support to al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula based inside yemen as well as i sold in yemen these two groups have been accused of carrying out deadly attacks on yemeni citizens and institutions for several years now and as the u. S. Treasury secretary steven the nugent said on wednesday these two groups pose a National Security threat to the United States and to its allies what is significant about this new round of sanctions its that its being done through something called the terrorist Financing Targeting Center this is an organization that was set up by the u. S. And by the gulf countries back in late may of course it goes without saying that just a couple of weeks after this organization was set up the blockade against the government of qatar was launched into question whether that country itself was doing enough to fight terrorist financing even though the government in doha has argued strenuously that it is doing its part and even signed a new memorandum of understanding with washington to prove its commitment there are still been questions from other gulf countries namely saudi arabia. About whether doha is doing enough to crack down on terrorist groups now with the joint announcement coming from washington doha riyadh and other regional capitals there might be no question that this work is actually taking effect the real question is whether the people listed on this new list of sanctions on wednesday will actually see their assets being frozen and find it impossible to travel anywhere around the world as the u. S. And other governments is found in other sanctions regimes the way that these will be successful will be if in fact money is cut off not just from the people accused of doing this financing but of course whether al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and i saw in yemen actually are starved out and lose their capability of launching new and deadly attacks and its the enforcement not just the announcement that matters in these situations. Will implement a range of labor law reforms including the introduction of a minimum wage details are yet to be revealed on how much the minimum wage will be and when it will come into effect but i just reforms will also ensure that employers will long be able to stop employees from leaving cattle cars being under International Scrutiny of a Migrant Worker rights in the lead up to the twenty twenty two football world cup there are an estimated one point five million expansion at work is in qatar. Moving to europe now where there have been more protests in barcelona as the Spanish Government seems poised to take control of catalonia on friday madrids parliament is due to vote on article one five five reimposing direct rule on the semi autonomous region under symonds a small. This demonstration. Of two groupings. 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 thats not the case many of them protesting are in fact against the session then theres 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. The real john kerry last 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 were seeing at the moment is the future of the Regional Police force because a lot of people fear that theyre going to be under pressure when article one five five goes into effect on friday. Secret documents about the assassination of u. S. President john f. Kennedy to be released on thursday President Donald Trump has also rise the release of the records findings of a government investigation into kennedys killing in one nine hundred sixty three were controversial Castro Hazell from dallas. Fifty four years after president john f. Kennedy was assassinated on a dallas street most Americans Still do not believe the findings of the official investigation that alone of the gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was soley responsible radically deny the strike the publics doubt born of these seconds captured by news cameras in one nine hundred sixty three when oswald was killed moments after his arrest. And apparently outraged dallas businessman had taken the law into his own hands shooting oswald before he could ever be tried the combination of a dead president and a silenced suspect before a backdrop of cold war paranoia then what became an industry which relied on conspiracy theories to generate millions of dollars in sales of books and magazines its much more fun to believe in conspiracy Hugh Aynesworth is the only journalist who witnessed both kennedys assassination and oswalds killing he rejects the conspiracy theories that russia or cuba helped to kill the president or that the Us Government itself had wanted kennedy dead aynesworth says the release of the investigation records is unlikely to satisfy those claiming to search for the truth as it isnt known and anything the opportunities were still shell will magazines and t. V. And you know they used up to have the declassified records are expected to center around oswald history including a cia personality study and information about his visit to the cuban and russian embassies in mexico in the weeks before the assassination the records may also include information about covert cold war operations potentially an embarrassment to the u. S. Government but as for the kennedy assassination itself the records are expected to reveal any bombshells and x. Still marks the spot where j. F. K. Was slain the psychedelic tourist attraction drives a daily crowd people intrigued by whats likely to be the for ever mystery of kennedys death heidi joe castro aljazeera dallas. Youre watching aljazeera im still robin these are our top stories polls for the controversial president ial run in kenya and now open Opposition Leader raul oding guy has withdrawn from the election and is our supporters to boycott the vote it comes as protest as have been throwing stones at police in nairobis kabira district the Supreme Court had to know all the elections held in august juta irregularities the crim a sion ceremony of the late king king pull me home a donia day has begun the cremation is the main part of the five day Funeral Service and led by his son looking at our mother tents the much loved one that died just over a year ago after reigning for seven decades brazils president michel tamer will not face trial on corruption charges after congress voted in his favor he was accused of taking bribes which hes also denied. Iraqi forces of launch an assault to recapture the last towns held by eisel on iraqs northern border with syria both of our are considered eyesores last stronghold in the country the towns are strategically important as they are on the main highway between baghdad and there is the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations has been evacuated from the u. N. Camp for displaced people in south sudan after security guards fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against president Salva Kiir Nikki Haley is calling for greater International Efforts to support a resolution to the nearly four year conflict thats displaced millions of people cattle will implement a range of labor law reforms including the introduction of a minimum wage details are yet to be revealed on how much the minimum wage will be and when it will come into effect the latest reforms will also ensure that employers will no longer be able to stop employees from leaving cattle there are an estimated one point five million expatriate workers in cattle let alone use parliament will meet on thursday to discuss its response to madrids plans to take control of the region politicians will discuss what to do if the Central Government imposes direct rule by triggering article one five five on friday Catalan Leader colors who has turned down an invitation to speak to senators in madrid ill be back with more news in thirty minutes next aljazeera its witness. 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