Zira. Hello there im telling the donald this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. Of. Jubilation in barcelona as kaplan politicians vote overwhelmingly in favor of secession its a move thats raising more questions than answers. Kenyas repeats of president ial elections marred by more violence voting in four Opposition Strongholds is over fears the safety of election staff. Burned it becomes the first country to leave the International Criminal court calling it the great achievement. With all the days sports news this cuts a loony a votes to declare independence but we will leave. That and more coming up later this news hour. If theyre warm welcome to the news hour the Spanish Government held a special Cabinet Meeting in madrid to enforce direct rule over catalonia Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy called the meeting after kaplan politicians voted overwhelmingly to secede from spain. Well this was the same in catalonia as Regional Parliament just a few hours ago when the motion was passed with seventy votes in favor or against it and two ballot papers were left blank outside the Assembly BuildingPro Independence supporters erupted in jubilation on hearing the news after the vote Catalan Leader called hmong address the Parliament Chamber about the challenge ahead. In the coming hours we will have to montana our countrys polls. In the public spirit and our dignity as we have always done with no doubt it will continue to be that way. They were having that emergency Cabinet Meeting is it still going on. Just finished and actually in about fifteen minutes we should hear from Prime Minister himself who is going to be holding a press conference in this building right behind me this is actually the cabinet. Building here. We are expecting to hear from him what steps are going to be taken now that article one five five is triggered what will be the priorities. Of this conversation weve been hearing for example that one of the measures that could be Effective Immediately would be to. Embassies overseas about twelve or thirteen of them by that we havent heard that from the Prime Ministers we cannot confirm that but certainly what everybodys waiting. To hear now from the Prime Minister. Will happen in the next hour is in the next few days whats the mood more generally. Is there a feeling of apprehension about what might come next. Well certainly there is a bit of a feeling of apprehension in the sense that really this is the experience that this country has never been through before at least ever since one thousand nine hundred Seventy Eight this article was never triggered before it is no president to base yourself on it how to adopt the measures how to really have them develop on the ground. Thats causing a lot of apprehension there were people who were saying earlier in the day that it was a historic moment in the sense that its never happened before. Something quite difficult and quite scary if you look at. All of that happen now will. The. Government happen will. Be arrested all of that sort of questions hanging in the air and people are a bit worried about it and theyre also worried about the Ripple Effect happened in barcelona the liberation of independence on the rest of the country. There live from madrid well lets take a look now at pictures from barcelona what you watching is the scene right now so i was in the sea of independence supporters in the square rallying outside kaplan the Regional Parliament its been like that for some hours in fact earlier when we saw our correspondent we could see streams of people climbing into that area im joined now by popular martin and lecturer in spanish studies at Princeton University a warm welcome to the program so weve got scenes of celebration in barcelona and were going to hear from the spanish Prime Minister in ten or fifteen minutes time these two scenes seem to be good kind of juxtapose against one another weve got almost this slightly premature if i can put it that way celebration and then weve got a government on the other hand with no clear way forward or at least we dont know one yeah yeah i think both sides are playing the optics on a trying to influence opinion yes were seeing scenes of jubilation in barcelona but this is obviously we just dont know what percentage of barcelona wants in the pens that this is a real question. So that he might have a whole you expect for him to be you know quite serious. Tried to bring tranquility to the situation and try to get this is on there his control a little bit because the evidence is morning i think theyre really open it up and have gotten away from him a little bit so article one five five this morning it seemed quite simple didnt it was like well if this happens we invoke article one five five and then it was sort of a well hang on a minute nobody really knows what one five five means yeah that is true nobody really knows and i think its because it was designed to be an ambiguous article of the constitution itself is quite ambiguous but also i think its because it gives basically the sentence and he gives the Prime Minister to an extent the capacity to moral. Decide what is a grave threat to spain and despite his unity does not vary this sign in any way theres a very clearly set out it doesnt really set out what sort of the measures that can be taken and im not a constitutional professor constitutional law but im very sure the idea is that it was going to be decided as you go along and obviously opens itself up to many different their birthdays and so many different problems have we reached past the point of compromise i dont think so i think there really is no possible solution there has to be some sort of compromise the has to be some i mean this is so many things station of why there are problems and why the regions in spain theres no doubt about that but there has to be proper reform proper change this has been a situation has been simmering that the surface for many many years now i mean this to be resolved one way or another the only solution is in my view a proper legal referendum legal advice and then with proper campaigning and then just deal what this is whatever the result may be the rest of spain looking at catalonia right now and obviously i can ask you to speculate on the thoughts of you know an entire nation of people but i just wonder you know the makes feeling i mean weve had the situation here with banks it with Scottish Independence for a couple of years ago and for a lot of people i thought you know that these kind of photos are very divisive is is there that kind of feeling to it in parts of spain i think you know last time i was there was a couple of weeks ago and talking to people there i think the idea and the feeling is very divided as well between the people that say this is unacceptable this shouldnt happen you know they shouldnt be allowed any sort of the seizure of their spanish and thats it but i think the general mood is more about you know we should move on from this its away from this problem theres bigger issues of us the economy is just recovering unemployment is still high youth unemployment is still high and you know the lack of prospects for young people as well is of the real issues and i think somehow this is taken from that and. The people in the rest of spain they want to solution the obviously one thats going to remain with spain but they want to solution they dont want more conflict and the more you know they want more dialogue basically its interesting isnt it that you know declaring independence and becoming independent and all of the practicalities in the constitution stuff that you pointed to its such a complex picture isnt it its massive it would be a massive undertaking particular for for you know a proposed catalan state and would be so so difficult there are lacking so many of the institutions the infrastructure they would leave the European Union that would leave the euro i cant see spain accepting them back into the European Union there will have to be some sort of measures to an extent europe would want some sort of point of measures. I dont see beings economically successful weve already seen some some Economic Issues arising. Even superstar a military embassies representation all the different european states have come out into the United States as well say they dont recognize the cuts on states it would be such a huge undertaking and regardless of what our feelings may be about the actual issue there is no doubt of it would be a huge undertaking for cuts in public thank you very much well leave it there just watching those pictures we are going to be hearing from the spanish Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy we think in ten or fifteen minutes time and when we do well bring you. Now kenyan officials have called off forcing in four Opposition Strongholds as violence flares over thursdays president ial we one of the six people have been killed and witnesses say armed gangs are roaming the streets kenyas Election Commission has appealed for calm while the ballots are still being counted turnout its been low around 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 came this Election Commission said more than one in ten polling stations failed to open due to what it described as security challenges mohamed the door reports now from nairobi. Kenyas second president ial elections and three months what designed to bring along as political season two and. They are now doubts they may provide any closure after all 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. Victory is not in question but some are already questioning whether the low tunneled will give president kenyatta a reasonable monday to. The total voter turnout is a little over thirty percent kenyatta may have won there is no way he can be the leader of a few and form a government for old people voting on thursday was mobbed by skirmishes between police and stone throwing Opposition Supporters Police used tear gas and fired live ammunition and blanks into the air to disperse them but the protest this big 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 and 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 investments until after the elections many kenyans say they want these crisis. 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 they want to eight 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. For old election numerous cold bottles resulting in a controversial debate on which many stayed away from south is the story of this president ial race there is hope it will have a happy ending but the confidence is high mohammed at all just try it will become well catherine saw is in kisumu one of the four Opposition Strongholds where stacks of a shed chilcotin has now been cancelled. This comes as a huge relief for many people here who have been calling on the Electoral Commission to call off this election saying that the time is just not right its been very tense on thursday or all day we were covering running battles between police and processed us dozens of people were injured several had gunshot wounds several died as well and the biggest problem really has been Electoral Commission officials just getting ballot material safely to the various polling stations and also you know we saw groups of young men who had set up roadblocks in different parts of kisumu saying that they will not allow any ballot materials to get to their destination so back has been a problem another problem has just been the Electoral Commission getting the employees to come to work these are people who live here and theyve been citing security concerns people know them so that has been another problem the Electoral Commission itself has not set a new date for the election but i think its unlikely to happen between now and wednesday which is the final day to declare are we know who very clearly is going to be who are looking at oh theres much more to come here on the al jazeera news hour the son of africas longest serving leader a sentence for embezzling millions of public funds. Celebrations in south africa after two white then a sentence over an attack that exposed racial divisions it was felt as i was saying that some progress will be made that at least some football is played in the region and in sport fifa take no action against israeli football clubs an Illegal West Bank settlements peter has more later in the news hour. For indys become the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal court the pullout takes effect on friday a year after. 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 harmatz also has the latest from brindisi second largest city. The bahraini government is deliberating withdrawing. From. That because the court has been siding with activists and opposition parties and aside from the government and the courts. And thats why the country says it is now pulling out. When you talk to some of the. Not because they want to. Be held accountable they say that theyve been rights and they feel that the system is within the country may not be adequate enough to people who need justice actually get it to the government says they have a country that. Can deal with human rights abuses that may have been brought out into the public. Concerns about possible intimidation harassment happening in the country. More than four hundred thousand people have fled to bring your knowledge. 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 every dot interference from the International Community on how to try the opposition rights and how to make decisions another country. Well earlier response a fundy ellabella whos the spokesman for the i. C. C. He said withdrawal will not affect an investigation thats already being carried out in the country. According to the ice your statute the withdrawal will not affect the jurisdiction of the i. C. C. Or crimes that they have been committed prior to the date where with all due respect its not that there is a print examination into the. Case that has been ongoing since april two thousand and sixteen and i see a prosecutor with as that is alt of this presently was a mission to whites have 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 coffin and then threatening to burn him alive the case triggered why youd swear i would trade in the country and tasha going to reports. There were tears on both sides of the court room in the socalled coffin case it was a case that laid bare the ongoing racial divide in post apartheid south africa on friday a judge sentenced tayo jackson to fourteen years and villa. To eleven years in prison the most appalling and what. Was to live in. Again. Video shot by the men on a mobile phone led to nationwide condemnation and eventually their arrests victor millo she was says he was taking a short cut on the mens farm when they kidnapped him drove him to another location forced him into a coffin and threaten to kill him in their defense the farmer say was trespassing they caught him stealing copper cables and said he threatened to kill their families and burn their crops but the judge pointed out this was not the first time the men had force someone into a coffin and their behavior had quote fueled racial tensions in los say this case spotlights the haves and the have nots in south africa which is largely split along racial lines well heaven to come to terms with exactly who we are as a country where a country that. On success. In sentencing the two men the judge said they showed no remorse their prison sentences should send a message to others that this kind of behavior will be punished and punished severely. The son of equitorial guineas president s been found guilty of investing money to buy property in luxury cars joe and obie ng who is also the countrys second Vice President was found guilty in absentia by a french court have a change to has more from paris. The Vice President of equitorial guinea embezzled more than one hundred seventy five Million Dollars from his countrys public funds to finance his playboy lifestyle in france the verdict on dont usually introduced legislation to deal with socalled ill gotten gains was hailed by his opponents and described by prosecuting lawyers as an historic decision. Is an unprecedented and global message to court is sending to kleptocrats it is to beginning of the end for this rule of impunity and immunity is kleptocrats imagine it was eternal and universal unity of beings father has been president of equitorial guinea for nearly four decades a country made rich by its oil reserves but where nearly two thirds of the population live in squalor and poverty is suns multimillion dollar mansion in an exclusive suburb of paris has now being confiscated as well as many of the luxuries artworks and antiques inside the former butler of the Vice President alleges that live behind his mansion the walls with one full of whores alcohol and cocaine those days are definitely now over but at the paris courthouse a reminder of what life can be like for opponents who challenge the familys grip on their country or to live meanies through our stacia may the minister or the minister himself was giving orders saying do it is do that it happened at the Ministry Building in equatorial guinea. Mr touchett. Here the spanish Prime Minister these are live shots from madrid where we expect some reaction from the earlier vote today. The most. Impression that some of you to. Explain what we have to. Have seen today are starting your day with. Has prevailed over the law if you has the modern. Criticizing it without respect. Or. Without any concerns about any harm that may be caused. From this government. Measures to respond. Through. An unacceptable kidnapping. For the majority of the land and also for the first of spain. And its important to be cautious and come. To trust in the government because all the necessary mechanisms with the law and another. We can lead. People to put an end to this chaos. In the Cabinet Meeting. But. We. I create several measures of the emergency. Which focused on the first measures that will be implemented pursuant to article one five five four the constitution. As you know has been adopted by the senate today. The first measures that have been tossed after the senate. Supported what we suggest as im tired today are the following to the president of the government the position of the Deputy President and all the other members of the catalan cabinet. Of our minister to. Put in practice the measures stablished by the senate. This would be for each department. Suspension appellation of the offices of of Prime Minister and deputy Prime Minister. Of the delegations abroad those. Embassies except for the. I mean the secretary general of the farm and of interior and the general the secretary general of the police will also be suspended and. Some of the measures that will be adopted so that. You leaders can continue with their project that is affecting the coexistence world got a little distance the decisions that we have taken here today to restore our government that has been a related by a series of. Random decisions taken by the officials in the government and these are the necessary steps to restore democratic. Legality. To this country you are not going to add to any further information just to say that in the cut and government today prevailed those that which for the worst happened those who have put an end to catalan tradition that fostered agreement and the driving force in spain in the past. It is an anxious time and this is what all catalans that dont support independence are feeling even many democrat independent. People. Are feeling this because they cannot share this project based on lies and fraud that is destroying the cuttle and society. It is a matter of fighting fire to any fire damage. And to help. People to turn to normality thats why the government has adopted the measures mentioned. It is not a matter of suspending selfgovernment. Or intervening it are taking its powers its a matter of returning it to normality. The norm i think should start following little. Story institutional equality under turning the voice to cattle and thats why im informing you that today i have this solved the Catalan Parliament on december twenty first there are going to be regional elections. In catalonia. Yesterday the president of the government had a chance to return to legality and to call elections. Thats what the majority of the cut and society demanded but he did not want to do so therefore the Spanish Government has taken the necessary measures to return to legality so we have decided to call the election think that only. We think its our job to return the voice to all catalan to send us. To provide the necessary democratic conditions so that they can decide about the future so that no one can and. This respect the law in their name we are talking about a real ballot boxes and those that have all the checks and balances only those that can lay the basis for. Existence between capital and catalonia has to reconcile with the law through that is the truth and itself you and the complement. Not wish to prolong this any farther that i have decided to call these elections are soon as possible these are free clean and legal elections that could restore democracy in that region. We never wanted to reach the situation we dont think this emergency situation should. Continue as i said we are not suspending the autonomy we are returning the legalities to that region. Today. Is also where we should remain calm and where the spanish people should be hopeful. Because we have seen the. The rule of law prevails we have seen the rule of law where we live. The necessary instruments to defend the law to defend our constitution to the fore and the norms of course existence but we all agreed on to defend the law and to go into the right of all to buy this it isnt and to conclude i would like to thank the socialist party and. Through them aspire to their leaders that are scientists on the riviera. The. Many of these measures some of them were put forward by them id like to thank also other lives on the floor for us thirty years and the added bonus party they have supported a very difficult time in spain thank you to the representatives of quality. And those who have supported us in the senate this morning when they supported the proposal by the government and the purse passed in the cabinet last saturday many thanks for your patient thank you well if youre just joining us here on around his ear we have been listening in to the spanish Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy talking about what was decided in that emergency Cabinet Meeting he said the Spanish Governments put in place measures to protect catalonia and the rest of the spain well to find out exactly what that means thats also hold up until he is joining us from it so hard he told us a bit more about what that emergency meeting focused on. Yes certainly focused basically that will be taken by this. Government now that article one five five triggered started actually by saying that every single measure will be applied within the rule of law and it was actually aimed at extending the rule of law. I think. It was actually just to the spanish people and tell them that this is all going to be done peacefully that the government actually in madrid has the mechanism to resolve this situation in a. Very sad day now the steps. That will be taken in the immediate future. Removing the president of and the Vice President of. The cabinet he also said that all the regional ministries will be brought under the authority of the ministries here in madrid the chief of police would be replaced by someone sent from the Central Government and then he said that all the. Elections. Are twenty four hours certainly much shorter than the six month that was. That was. Feeling really. Trying to get out of this situation as quick as possible now those that are going to be applied in the future as we understand it. See how the Regional Government in catalonia will respond. With reaction from madrid one join now in the should you buy power. At Aston University so that was the reaction that we were waiting for and in fact they decided on quite a lot in that me to. Tell us your reaction. And i was shocked to be on. So i was very surprised about that zone of the of royce words i think he tried to be a bit soothing and calming and saying everything was going to be thrown through legal means and returning to the law i find this idea that theyre not suspending out sodomy by suspending else wanted me to return to normality sedative confusing concept i was the key issue for me there was there was this sort of doubt that there were going to be able to dissolve the Catalan Parliament and that was a key question because in that sense the law is said to be clearer that its only the president of the lunar who can dissolve the council on parliament so it is a little bit complicated that b. Would to talk about and that sort of confusion around article one five five of the constitution and i think the challenge is going to come perhaps from there he didnt say anything about the legal situation of the council on government there is strong rumors going around that they will be have to be prosecuted for for different crimes for violating the law. But overall it was quite an overarching. Rissa lucian the tone was kind of ive ticked off a few boxes everything will be fine you know theres no nothing to see. It making it seem a lot more straightforward than im guessing its going to be yes and i think that was his key objective to make it seem like there was not going to be any problems at the legs they were going to be cold and that was going to be it i dont think thats going to be what is in a home and sort of those elections being called whats to say who can stand in those elections and then we might not end up in a kind of repeat situation because the underlying issues presumably if this kind of heavy handed approach is taken will presumably still be there yes and i think to be honest that is a problem that spain has had probably for centuries is not a recent you tried to give these new negotiations new negotiations but it always sends a pretty much being the same because this is so. Fissures and and cleavages are still there is very hard to see a different outcome i think the key point here is if we just want disallowed to participate in the election which i dont think he will he will have to have some sort of bigger process against him because if he did we would expect the outcome of the election to be decembers last time around lo and behold were going to be in the same situation in a few months time so there has to be some sort of agreement and somethings got to give i was a little bit surprised about the tone in general i think i sense a little bit of not necessarily anger but the sort of firmness in his voice it was particularly telling as well that towards the end he sort of tried to spread the blame and things the socialist party and to the owners which is more but he tried to sort of say this is some sort of consensus are all locked in together but i think there was a lot of discussion within the senate and within the Political Parties about what exactly was going to happen with article five one five five lets see what happens public thanks very much for joining us thanks. Syria has rejected the findings of a un Investigative Panel that blamed Bashar Al Assads government for a lethal chemical attack on a rebel held town in april more than eighty people including several children were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on a card and she couldnt the Syrian Government has condemned that case ations that it was he on the attack behind the attack and says the country no longer has any toxic chemicals banned under International Law uns top human rights official has described the situation in besieged suburbs of syrias capital as wage they had dried out hussein says People Living in eastern damascus are facing a humanitarian emergency and its one of the world one that the world is ignoring eastern go to is the only major rebel held on klav near the syrian capital and its been under siege by the government since twenty thirteen around three hundred and fifty thousand people live in. Area and for years they face severe Food Shortages but the situations deteriorated further in the last two months because tunnels used to smuggle in food have been cut off horrific images like this show the extent of the problem u. N. Says at least twelve hundred children are suffering from malnutrition with another fifteen hundred at risk. Syria researcher for Human Rights Watch and she joins me now via skype from amman and sara very warm welcome to the program how has the situation in eastern guta got to this stage. I mean thats really the question because eastern water has been under siege for the past four years rights watch had started documenting the siege back in two thousand and thirteen four years later what were seeing is an escalation of a shameful humanitarian crisis theres still a lack of humanitarian aid going in what does go in there is insufficient for the population as the Syrian Government has closed in on the rebel held on clear theyve theyve destroyed smuggling tunnels and closed and severely restricted checkpoints but were essential for the passage of food stuffs and this is and all of these factors are will exceed two three infants dying over the past week because of money and dehydration and why Eastern Ghouta is it a strategic decision if i can put it like that by the government. Thats. Thats a good question its eastern will do is one of the last. Unclear was near damascus where were the opposition is Holding Strong but the issue i think is a bit bigger than this because regardless of whether the conflict is ongoing they should they shouldnt be starving civilians to death to in the war i mean watching these pictures. And it reminds us very much i think of the pictures that we saw lots of other parts of syria particularly aleppo is this a situation in some way like what happened in aleppo. It certainly seems that way but this is i think this is this is crucial because we do not want there are a lot on our hands we do not want another medina on our hands we do not want another during or. There are a lot of examples of the use of starvation as a as a warfare tactic in syria over the past six years and its its time that it stops. Why do you think it is syria that more hasnt been done to try to stop the situation to put pressure on the Syrian Government i mean we certainly had plenty of pictures coming out of aleppo for a long time before things change there but why in this case do you think that its remained to some extent hidden. I mean i think i think thats the question that actually needs to be asked and this is what Human Rights Watch is is basically demanding that humanitarian aid be looked at and its its a very simple equation or its supposed to be and the fact that this hasnt happened yet is its shameful. Here and theyre joining me live from a man from scott thank you you. Thank. Iraqi Prime Minister haidar all the bodies ordered a twenty four hour suspension to military operations against Kurdish Forces in Northern Iraq he said its still alive the deployment of iraq to troops at the border crossings with the kurdistan region kurdish officials said the two sides have reached an agreement to stop the fighting which broke on october the sixteen through aki forces seized the oil city of cook dekker has more now from erbil so these twenty four hours are for a joint committee with both iraqis and the kurds to figure out the details of areas of redeployment in the words of the iraqi Prime Minister to save iraqi lives because we have seen violent military confrontations at some of these flashpoints now the intention here is for the Iraqi Federal forces to take back all of the disputed territories and also significantly to take control of the border crossings that the k r g still holds with syria out with turkey and with iran theyve been holding those borders since two thousand and three so says this is certainly a huge reversal of fortune for the kurds i dont think anyone would have predicted that these were the consequences of that controversial referendum theres been violence between police and protesters in indian administered kashmir the muslim majority region disputed by pakistan and by india has been the scene of tensions between the two countries for decades fridays fighting comes on the seventieth anniversary of Indian Forces arriving in the region the fokker before. Indian police fired tear gas and stun grenades into crowds of stone throwing protesters. Violence broke out after friday prayers plunging srinagar of the regional capital of indian administered kashmir into chaos. The region seen a string of demonstrations in recent months in solidarity with rebels whove been fighting against indian rule for thirty years and october the twenty seventh the day indian troops arrived there seventy years ago frequently ends in violence. Weve been tolerating this tyranny conserve and two years until we get our freedom the stone throwing will continue we dont care even if it cost us our lives hundreds of security personnel were deployed to keep control of the city separatist leaders called on kashmiris to observe the anniversary as a black day in the last seventy years people of kashmir helped peacefully is resisted in their not keeping and advance people of kashmir exhausted all avenues of finding a peaceful solution they were forced to take up. The former independent states been disputed by india and pakistan since they gained independence from britain in one nine hundred forty seven both claim the territory as their own and afford two wars over it its feared the upsurge in violence could further heighten tensions between the two nuclear arms neighbors. Park and al jazeera qatars emir said hes worried about chaos in the middle east of the gulf crisis continues to escalate speaking to the Us TelevisionProgram Sixty minutes shake time and then home and funny said the us president told in washington could not let the crisis continue saudi arabia the u. A. E. Egypt and bahrain cut ties of qatar in june and imposed a land sea and air. Im fearful that if anything happens. Any military act happens this region will be in chaos i met with the president when i was in new york few weeks ago for the United Nations the United Nation and the president showed that he is committed to find an end to this crisis yes it is true here he suggested that we come and i told him straight away mr president we are very ready ive been asking for dialogue from day one and what did the other countries say it was supposed to be very soon this meeting but i dont have any response or was jordan is following developments for us from washington d. C. The interview with the u. S. Produced Program Sixty minutes took place in doha at the beginning of october just after the emir shake down mean bin hammad visited the United States to take part in the opening of the seventy second Un General Assembly during that trip the emir met with the u. S. President donald trump where mr trump talked about the fact that he and the emir were longtime friends and that the u. S. Had a vested interest in seeing the dispute between qatar and its neighbors and it sooner rather than later in the sixty minutes interview the emir told the interviewer charlie rose that the president had offered to mediate the dispute with a meeting of the regional leaders at camp david the emir said that so far he has not gotten a response on when this meeting is supposed to take place but he notes during the interview that he is very much concerned about his countrys ongoing security and that he really would very much like to extend a hand to negotiate with the other countries notably with saudi arabia egypt behind it and the United Arab Emirates of course this is a situation where on the u. S. Is intentions and impartiality have been brought into question since the blockade against qatar started back on june fifth but it does seem as if in light of the recent visit by the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson to doha that it is much more interested in trying to resolve the dispute than have it extend into a six month. That was jordan reporting there aljazeera is demanding the release of its journalist would hussein whos now been in an egyptian prison for more than three hundred days hes accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos claims he and aljazeera strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested in december while his family well you with the news are here aljazeera sports still to come. Under an intern in detroit gathering to turn the energy from the womens january into an Ongoing InternationalWomens Movement. In january two point six Million People across the u. S. Took part in the womens much the Biggest National protest in the countrys history and if there was follow the election of u. S. President donald trump sparked system protests around the world at work and i says a meeting again in detroit for the Womens Convention john hendren is there. A day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump they marched. In washington chicago San Francisco into round the world. Now theyre turning a womens march into a growing Womens Movement. Thousands of women from the movement are descending upon detroit for the first ever Womens Convention the group called the womens march now has a permanent staff in a Political Action committee that raises money to elect women it is officially nonpartisan but it was no accident the womens march came the day after the man who said this i did join she was married he was inaugurated as president of the worlds most powerful country there was a spark and were trying to feed into that spark i think americans we tend to react to something that is painful and for many of us the election of President Trump was very painful all of those things impacted us and we reacted and thats what you saw in washington d. C. After he was sworn in the organizers of the Womens Convention want to transform the role of women in government in the workplace and in society and what better place to do that than here in detroit a city thats transformed itself since emerging from bankruptcy two years ago. Coming as a. Allegations of Sexual Harassment against producer Harvey Weinstein have rocked hollywood some see this global strategy session is the perfect opportunity to talk about the issue in the same way that its going to take white people changing to change racism its going to take men changing to change sexism and the issues of Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence what we really need is for men to get involved detroit civil rights attorney john follow agrees the effort to enhance the rules of women need help from men too often as males right we may see something occur you know that. And say its not right we didnt do it. We dont speak out we dont. Force change and i think what the Womens Movement really is doing is forcing the change needed thats right. And enough is enough the road towards january twenty first brought us together with great sister the women behind the Womens Convention hope the gathering this weekend is enough to launch this is jane movement. John hendren al jazeera detroit lets get all the days sports news now i would. Really thank you so much. Facing perhaps the most uncertain moment in the history on friday the council and Regional Parliament voted to declare independence from spain the Spanish Constitutional Court is likely to declare this illegal and catalonia does not have the support of the International Community including Key Countries like germany the u. S. As well as the European Union well the future of spain as a unified country is uncertain so too is the way forward for cats and sporting clubs like barcelona and espanyol who would likely be expelled from the league and instead to play in the new catalonia league. Ben heyward is a spanish football journalist for gold dot com and he joins me live from madrid to talk more about this a ban thank you for your time lets say Catalan Independence goes ahead when they will learn to play. And yes its a strange situation and you know a big talking point here explain of course what will happen to barcelona if careful and independence goes ahead because theres a long long way to go before that can be considered a reality i was just going to of course cancel our elections for december twenty first this is our parliament so this story will run and run but in sporting terms in focal terms talking about the possibility of going and playing out so in our league i still think its far very much. Needs barcelona and once and for me it needs to that he got as well are you sure who put the possibility of the council and. The clubs that they would be up against i was just going to be only slightly down as she missed the can i run i. Would lose so much interest plus i would lose a lot of money in Television Rights and i. Planned to carry on with it was one of but as the road stand right now no team from outside spain can compete in the early years of the winter gear group change so what are the chances and obviously we are speaking hypothetically here but what are the chances that you could have an arrangement like they have in england where they were actually welsh clubs that participate within the English League structures and by the same token you could then have a barcelona or a espanol partaking within lega. Thats right and you know i think thats going to be the way to go in future as ive said at the moment grows do not an hour for that to happen at least not in thought will we have so in basketball in spain with teams from andorra competing in spanish competitions but in football its only spanish to start out so you can be in spain and if theres the lego professional Football League president have you had to ask has said the buzz winner would not be allowed. But i could said straight out of the league only competition loses so so much in person i dont even consider meanwhile has been so close the possibility or perhaps sponsoring a plane in uganda in france perhaps even playing in the premier league and then of course theres the possibility down the line of you know barcelona breaking away perhaps with ground and a load of other top european teams to form a European Super League that has to be a possibility as well but i think the most likely scenario is the bus letting go and not staying in libya already one more question for you been then again its all hypothetical but how difficult would it be for a Catalan League to attract a big name players compared to league for example. But i think it would be extremely difficult wouldnt it because you would only have one super club in barcelona and you know its been you know ill repeat out. Of forty thousand stadium which they dont feel very often times they never stop just you know legal but not right at the top theyre not competing in european competitions so it would lose so much interest you know barcelona you know perhaps you could compare it to the scar tissue league in the sense you know celtic and rangers are huge huge clubs and i think if so its going really just played in the premier league in england you know they were trying to a lot more money than they would be able to bring in top top players but i think if you take it wasnt out of my league and put them into a council i really you know there is still going. Going to lose so much money you. Would not create. Legal dance all around the world because theres a real classic go it was done about six hundred fifty Million People why are. You not much interest and im sure there are many that would agree with that sentiment ben he would thank you so much for its an absolute pleasure having you with us thank you for pauls governing body fares decided not to take any action against six israeli football clubs based in illegal settlements in the west bank the Palestinian Football Association have been asking for if its a force the club to relocate or to suspend the Israeli Federation but after two years of delays a fever Council Meeting decided to close the matter without resolution saying they must remain neutral in regards to political matters its not about being fined or not find that there are clubs playing or not playing in. Territories which. Can see that. By the Un Resolution is occupied territory thats on the question. Council has taken a decision is not delayed the decision is taken a decision and the decision is to close the matter. Because it was felt as i was saying that some progress had been made that at least some football is played in that region. Meanwhile an israeli judoka who won a gold medal at a tournament in abu dhabi on thursday was forced to celebrate in muted fashion tell flicka who won the under sixty six kilogram category received these medal but the organizers refused to play the Israeli National anthem or raise the flag they claim that it was not allowed because of security reasons the flag of the International Judo federation was raised and stayed but still saying the Israeli National anthem from the top of the podium. Australia are up and running at the Rugby League World cup thanks to an eighteen for opening match victory over england in melbourne on friday the aussies did not start the way they would have liked as England School the first try but matt gillet and the billy slater crossed the line to ensure a half time advantage for the Home Team Just again the wins over late in the match to wrap it up for the defending champions and thats all the sport for me another update coming up again for now back to you in london julie peter thank you well you can find out much more on our website loads of video on demand and input from our correspondents all across the globe at. Aljazeera dot com thats a premium the news our team here and sitter will be here in just a second with much more the days news. 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