Secession spains Prime Minister calls an emergency Cabinet Meeting which is taking place to snack. On there in chile with all of this is a live look from london also coming up the voter turnout raises questions about the legitimacy of kenyas repeat president ial election voting in four Opposition Strongholds us now been canceled but when he becomes the first country to leave the International Criminal court calling the move a great cheat. Thats the end of an era for Hong Kong Stock Exchange by traders at this once bustling home are packing up but that. The warm welcome to the program the Spanish Government is holding a special Cabinet Meeting right now in madrid to avoid direct rule over catalonia Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy called the meeting to kaplan politicians welchs overwhelmingly to secede from spain. Or this was the scene in catalonia regional condiment just a few hours ago when the motion was passed with seventy votes in favor ten were against it in two ballot papers were left blank and say this empty building Pro Independence supporters erupted in jubilation on hearing the news well this is what Mariano Rajoy said a short time ago before convening an emergency Cabinet Meeting in the trade and. I want to tell. Consolations to be kong the things will be fun and theyll be measures theyll be done with. Spain is a serious country and is a great nation we will not tolerate that a few people try to liquidate. Standards of living rules of play. Forty years ago spain has become one of the most democratic countries in the world. While this is the scene youre watching it right now in barcelona depends supporters rallying. Hanumant were hearing kaplan leader. May address the crowd. Joins us now from madrid crisis Cabinet Meetings still going on. Right here in the building next to me now what happened during that meeting is basically the bill that was passed. A few hours ago that basically paves the way to trigger article one five five should be ratified that we were expecting the article. Did the announcement the official to come after this meeting but actually it has already happened so as per. One. The article one five five is officially triggered now i am supposing that during that meeting going to talk about the events of the very quick pace today in barcelona. Independence by the leaders and what how to respond to that you just heard the words of Prime Minister he was just coming out of the chamber of the senate when he said those words it was just after the vote we know that. Going in and out of the chamber following on television very closely what was. Going on in barcelona he is due to hold a press conference in about an hour or so so probably we hear more from him and i think what most people are worried about most people are interested in knowing is what measures will he take and when is there a mood of apprehension if i can use that word what might come next and high one five five may be interpreted and applied. Certainly the and actually it was very telling this morning while the Prime Minister was giving his speech there was a few times where the chamber. Had even spanish journalists and media many comments people wondering why are you applauding this is such a. Serious a somber moment in the history of spain it is if it is a historic day. Leadership it all historic day for. This article an article that no one had heard about really until this crisis erupted being triggered for the first time. Basically the government will have to go ahead by testing the waters and really adapting to a day by day because there is no president ever to do this in the recent history. Is a bit of apprehension of that. Very clear warnings for example that came out from the commissioner he did say that he did not recognize. That at the moment as far as the e. U. Is concerned is the main. Here but he did have also some words pressing on the government here to use the. Argument. The force of argument rather the argument of force remember those images of Police Brutality in barcelona as a referendum was happening something that has surprised many here and also in europe. Is that. Similar scenes can happen again people are talking about the fact that now with article one five five the catalonian government. The president and the Vice President of catalonia should be removed how will that happen world. Their office. Doesnt see all indications say to the contrary this is all the mechanism of how all of this would be applied and how it will come about that is actually worrying people the most i mean there joining me live from madrid. Lets take an answer barcelona and see Andrew Simmons has been there following this story for us and for the past few days and a historic day for some we can hear the roar behind but for others they must feel about prevention. Well look first of all. To the Share Holders of faces because its like i can see down a street we call got a camera is on a street i can see you at least five thousand six thousand makes is totally packed with people it took me nearly half an hour with me to get across this fact to be a wrist thing in this crowd really for this show flush possibility to get through there on the move is extraordinary youve already seen many people here there for a day same really as if this is really new a new future for them. Could be possibly naive or perhaps too ambitious remains to be see but. Here is his story. Because. Carlos has done is effectively moved the whole concentration on the decision from the declaration was which was expected to a vote in parliament a vote by elected politicians who had a mandate to try to get secession whose will see. By fall of and on. By seventy votes to ten with two types of course. Being a boycott by the opposition to the opposition but by no means. Even though it will be. A small number of popular. And phase and socialist things that the result would have been so. Technically its illegal. Its. A whats happening here. Demonstrations like this broken up by the police in the coming days thats a serious question how will the beacon roll down of the situation. Well call us his ministers and possibly some Civil Servants whole besides these are questions that are already complicated. I think what telling the truth of one thing you can go and see the politicians have all of what exactly want to do and theyre not revealing it yes so we have a situation to me that yes youre right that is a lot of people are off to a poll interested in the sort of politics weve seen over the past few months and folks actively against having any form of secession choosing choosing their employees in the last elections and secondly by. Voting no in the referendum which was declared illegal and. Kenya as. To the streets to protest against the repeat president ial election the countrys Election Commission has appealed for calm as ballot papers are still being counted to spend lower and six and a half million kenyans cast their ballots on thursday thats around thirty four and a half percent of registered voters by contrast turnout in the august election was eighty percent or nearly fifteen million voters kenyas Election Commission said more than one in ten polling stations failed to open to what it described as security challenges and plans to restage the vote in for strongholds on saturday have now been canceled because of that laces farland were not in just a second but first heres mohammed a dose report from Nairobi Kenya a second president ial election since three months what designed to bring along a community as political season two and then now doubts they may provide any clues off a little what we witnessed was a very low voter turnout into our climate of fear and intimidation and in that political environment is difficult for an election to be considered credible with nearly all followers of Opposition Leader raila odinga heeding his call for a boycott cannot his victory is not in question but some already question whether the more tunnel it would give president cannot or a reasonable monday to govern i didnt think that they did present it to the total voter turnout is a little over thirty percent can you also may have one there is no way he could be the leader of a few and form a government for all people. Voting on thursday was mobbed by skirmishes between police and stone throwing Opposition Supporters Police used tear gas and clad live ammunition and blanks into the air to disperse them but the protesters watered this grouping quickly how about the situation was calm elsewhere for voting in kimbo outside nairobi and other strongholds of president kenyatta. The election comes after weeks of political twists on tongues in the Central Business district of my rule be this through almost empty the kenyan economy slowed sharply they see as businesses have held back on investment until after the elections many kenyans say they want this crisis over so some even say the continued uncertainty is threatening their livelihoods down when is the does the weve been stuck at home since wednesday the children want to smoke they want to date and who else will provide for them yes we want a president if you wins if he is sworn in and its fine as long as we can continue to work and our children kind of food and an education a florida election numerous calls resulting in a controversial raid on which many stayed away from thought is the story of this president ial race there is hope it will have a happy ending but confidence is not high mohammed at all jessica i dont because youre watching out as they were still to come on the program range of families face starvation and violence in me in march as the government says it will finally allow them a deliveries plus. To yemeni prisoners he says hes been tortured in secret jails run by the. Now there was this mostly settled weather still in iran in the Arabian Peninsula back towards an event things are changing that cloud in the eastern med sports and significant chance to cyprus to turkey and thats going to be increasing in the case this is the forecast for saturday chances are will be rain cloud showers possibly thunder anywhere from beirut north was really out through Northern Syria and up towards the caucasus temperatures still in the middle twentys or take much of a hit ten to twenty two to aleppo but the chance of rain is much much higher so the twenty in jerusalem youll notice there is cooler air in here still thirty three in baghdad about the same time in kuwait city much today and same dancer the gulf countries as well in fact even saudi arabia dont quite hit the forty mark and his driver actually ever been on shore breeze in salalah twenty nine here slightly increased humidity there return to the how do you think its been very wet recently tropical africa but extending down from angola through botswana to south africa is that fairly familiar climatological area of rain this time of the year and theres been significant rain once more in cozumel in the tao forecast wise its drifting out through mozambique and towards zimbabwe and this i think of the next day or so the temperature could be quite significant rain. Took. On counting the cost to italys wealthy Northern Region so you see more autonomy but who are the forces reshaping european politics how might chinas new leadership line up the economy plus why trade is the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is saying bye bye to the back country the cost of this time on aljazeera. I remind in our top story. The Spanish Government is holding a special Cabinet Meeting in madrid to enforce directly over catalonia Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy called the meeting after kaplan politicians voted to secede from spain. In kenya voting in four Opposition Strongholds for saturdays been the spoiled islands. Katherine so is live for us in the opposition stronghold of there and so katherine those elections cancel some more what does that mean. And it really does come as a relief for many people here are religious leaders politicians and just residents of this areas have been calling on the Electoral Commission to call off this election saying then vironment is just not try to spin very tense all of thursday we saw running battles between police and protesters several in fact dozens of people were injured some with gunshot wounds several people died as well were killed in the hospital we went to three people died and the hospital also was very tense and people were calling on the Electoral Commission to call off this election in even this afternoon we went around a bit julie and we saw already young men had started setting up roadblocks in different areas and you know they were telling us that they will not allow a new voting materials to get to the polling stations are supposed to get to and this is the biggest challenge that the Electoral Commission has been facing just to get the voting materials to the polling stations safely and also another big challenge has been to get employees of the Electoral Commission these are the clocks and upper siding offices people who really are crucial in carrying out the election so getting them to come to work was a problem because of security reasons many of them come from this region and people know them so there was a lot of fear and like i said people very relieved this four counties were talking about have a little over three thousand polling stations collectively have one point eight million voters the Electoral Commission itself has not announced a new date for the election but i really doubt its going to happen anywhere between now and wednesday which is the final day to declare the we know who very likely. As were seeing is going to be king after julie and katherine voter turnout will be incredibly low i will this affect the legitimacy of whatever eventually result comes out. And this is what a lot of people are talking about you go to on t. V. And just debate around kenya is you know this voter turnout extremely low in the thirtys i think its thirty four percent stock difference from what we sow in the last election in which was well over seventy percent and people saying that this could affect the legitimacy of all who are looking at is when we had. Today in an interview saying that this really is an indication that a majority of kenyans do not support or do not support who are looking at or do not and goes his presidency but then again supporters of king arthur coming out to say that there are various reasons why people may not have turned up security reasons which this was a big problem security was a big problem people were feeling perhaps intimidate had the weather was bad in several areas it was raining quite heavily in fact and just fatigue people are tired this country has been on election mode for most of the year so its also some of the reasons but whatever reasons people are giving i mean it is clear that you know the legitimacy of this win is going to be put into question and i think Going Forward a president who can unite is going to have a very difficult five years Julie Catherine story of their life from kissimmee katherine thank you. Brindisi become the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal court takes effect on friday a year after it notified the United Nations of its intention to leave follows accusations that the court focuses too much on africa the i. C. C. Says the withdrawal doesnt affect Ongoing Court proceedings. To have the latest now from a bar in the second largest city. The bahraini government is celebrating the drawing. They say that made deals and its a global crisis. That the court has been siding with activists and opposition parties and on the side on the government and the courts. By the. Two. Nations and thats why the country says it is now pulling out. When you talk to some of the opposition parties they say theyre concerned not because they want to know how certain individuals be held accountable they say that theyve been rights abuses and they feel that the system is within the country may not be adequate not to mention the people who need justice actually get it to the government says they have in the country that. We can deal with human rights abuses that it may have been brought out into the public imagination that we are still concerned about possible intimidation harassment happening in the country. More than four hundred thousand people have fled bring your knowledge be as refugees some people have to start returning back to the country because it is not stable and peaceful were not seeing the protests. And the government is saying they are more than capable of running their own country and they dont interference from the International Community on how to try the opposition rights and how to make decisions and other countries. To want South African men have been sentenced to twenty five years in prison after they were trying to guilty of trying to force a black man into a coffin and then threatening to burn him alive. Martens jackson and william his and were convicted of attempted murder assault and kidnapping had pleaded not guilty claiming they only intended to stick to scare victims in last years incident jackson was jailed for nineteen years and who says in for sixteen will have five years suspended from their terms. Government will allow food aid into a kind state access to aid agencies for two whole months Uns World Food Program says malnutrition rates in the state are already above emergency level for access was blocked the agency had been providing aid to about one hundred ten thousand range of lose limbs in the region. Meanwhile un investigators say theyve heard testimonies from range of refugees a point to a methodical pattern of killings torture rape and arson by me in march Security Forces floors louis has more now from the angle. The u. N. Fact finding mission led by three investigative spent about six days in bangladesh interviewing some of the six hundred ten year refugees who fled into bangladesh in the last two months from northern Rakhine State now one u. N. Investigator said the accounts she had heard from women who said they had been raped by myanmar troops left her shaken and angry another un investigator said that the stories he had heard from Rohingya Refugees pointed to a consistent and methodical pattern of killings torture rape and arson and of course these are very strong words coming out from the un investigators last month the un human rights chief said what was happening to the rohingya in northern Rakhine State was a textbook example of ethnic cleansing now un investigators have still not been allowed into myanmar myanmar has denied them entry to the vet no choice but to interview refugees in bangladesh instead and this u. N. Fact finding mission its findings are coming out just a day after the un special rapporteur on human rights young he speaking to the Un General Assembly in new york said it was time for the United NationsSecurity Council to issue a strongly worded resolution on what was happening in northern Rakhine State adding that the violence there could fuel extremism and become an even greater problem for the region now the myanmar government has denied these allegations and says that the crisis is being distorted by a campaign of misinformation yet Rohingya Refugees continue to stream into bangladesh bringing with them accounts of persecution and abuse a prisoner in yemen has spoken exclusively to al jazeera about alleged torture methods used in secret jails run by the United Arab Emirates and its allies dozens of detainees have gone Hunger Strike in the city of aden saying theyre being abused to engage in the reports. Human rights watch says there are at least eighteen secret prisons run by you a forces in southern yemen they include bear akhmed prison in Aden Al Jazeera has obtained a voice recording of one detainee he says prisoners are regularly to watch it. There are various methods such as the use of electric shock waterboarding as well as forcing detainees to strip naked this is how they torture us and different prisons they use different methods Human Rights Watch says other detainees at the prison have begun a Hunger Strike in response to mistreatment it wants the u. A. E. And its allies to take action to stop the alleged abuse in a statement it said detainees should not have to refuse food to be treated humanely and free from abuse the u. A. E. And a yemeni proxy should stop denying responsibility for mistreatment and investigate and act on the complaints. The u. A. E. Is part of a Saudi Led Coalition helping the Yemeni Government might hit the rebels have taken control of northern and central yemen including the capital sanaa more than ten thousand yemenis have been killed and almost forty thousand injured since twenty fifty. Eighty percent of the population is in need of humanitarian aid Human Rights Watch says the u. A. E. Has been arming and training Yemeni Special forces to fight local branches of al qaida and eisel its documented dozens of cases of people including children who were detained by those who says a may have been subjected to torture the u. A. E. Denies the allegations. Lawyers though say nearly two thousand men have disappeared in southern yemen family members have been demonstrating for the release of their relatives for months Victoria Gate and be al jazeera. Stop focusing yelling at one another on the Trading Floor closer to becoming a thing of the past the at another Trading Floor shutting up shop. Change closed its Trading Floor and friday medicine shift towards electronic trading in recent years hong kong joins other stock market giants london tokyo and singapore and the move to Newer Technology to vehicle paula reports. With a bang and much enthusiasm goal rise of china base Logistics Company debuts in hong kong stock market initial Public Offerings from chinese firms are becoming more frequent with more than a thousand companies from across the border trading their shares on the hang seng index you have only with hong kong within Greater China this large equity market place that basically is accessible as long as you are qualified company so without government interference you can easily come here with the size of chinas economy it just pushes more of these Quality Companies to the listing opportunity here chinese entities account for about half the number of companies on the Hong Kong Exchange compared with five percent in one thousand nine hundred seven and the territory transition from a british colony to a special Administrative Region of China Hong Kong has always been a Financial Hub but over the past two decades the nature of the citys markets have changed drastically along with chinas economy Chinese Companies and investors looking for International Exposure are now in huge part of the Financial System but there is a nother big change white be taking place in the city stock markets. The news that Hong Kong Stock Exchange is shutting down its Trading Floor by the end of the month has caught many by surprise despite the fact that its used by only a few brokers now Online Technology and trading by computer have made this place redundant before you. Get to so many friends and so many the connection is. Changed. The exchange has shrunk over the years. But has always remained an important symbol. In the early ninetys a popular t. V. Series captured the excitement on the Exchange Floor and the lives of traders in the red vests you think youre cool and i was proud. And resigned i dont doubt this article and other places like this in another era although there are those who are less sentimental to close because they know working in there anymore because everyone is people internet its the end of an era when current who has spent thirty years here but i call it the wonder of well Financial Center is. How. Financial trading home from next month the Trading Floor becomes a part of a Museum Dedicated to the stock Market Making it yet another piece of hong kongs unique identity fellah gated to history and hong kong. Now to see right here is a reminder of our current top stories the Spanish Government is holding a special Cabinet Meeting in madrid to invoice direct rule over catalonia Prime Minister mariano ho called the meeting after kaplan politicians voted to secede from spain the motion passed with seventy votes in favor of the move ten were against it to ballot papers were left blank side the Assembly BuildingPro Independence supporters erupted in jubilation and hearing the. I want to tell spaniards and all consolations to be kong the things will be fine they will be measures theyll be done with. Spain is a serious country and is a great nation but we will not tolerate that if you people close to liquidate. Our standards of living rules of play a Little Service look forty years ago spain has become one of the most democratic and most prosperous countries in the world five people have been killed in kenya as opposition supporters took to the streets to protest against the repeat president ial election voting in four Opposition Strongholds shed tool for saturdays been counseled amid the violence countrys Election Commission has appealed for calm as ballot papers are still being counted two White South African men have been sentenced to talk of twenty five years in prison after they were found guilty of trying to force a black man into a cough and threatening to burn him alive here Martins Jackson and william has been convicted of attempted murder assault and kidnapping over pleaded not guilty claiming they only intended to scare a victim a little short in last years incident. Brindisi become the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal court takes effect on friday a year after it notified the United Nations of its intention to leave follows accusations that the court focuses too much on africa the i. C. C. Says the withdrawal doesnt affect Ongoing Court proceedings. Me and mars government one alive food aid into a kind state after denying access to aid agencies for two months us World Food Program says malnutrition rates in the state are already above emergency level for access was blocked the agency had been providing aid to about one hundred ten thousand range of muslims in the region it was a hard headline to date so ill be back in about twenty five minutes time with a full hour of news stay with aljazeera though in the meantime its inside story as always thanks for your company. Emotions are high in barcelona very. Intense Political Drama as probable your pushes for independence but in the region afford to go it alone what all