Down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha coming up spain says catalonia is deposed leader cant contest the december polls. Calls for opposition to. Cuba continues to deny involvement in the bizarre case of sonic attacks on the u. S. Embassy plus. Down there. You can feel the heat and smell the sulfur well take you up close to one of africas most active volcano. At least twenty three people have been killed in coordinated attacks in the somali capital mogadishu it began when two car bombs exploded and a gunman stormed a hotel where the president was due to hold a Meeting Police say thirty hostages have been rescued from the building so far but many remain trapped inside the dough reports from neighboring kenya. This is the target of the first explosion the two hotel a stones throw away from the president ial palace a car was driven up to the gates of the hotel before exploding causing a blast that was hot across the city at least three heavily armed fighters then stormed into the hotel shooting anyone in sight and im going to rely on you i was driving a took to the front of the hotel and i saw a car exploding at the gate of the hotel i dont know where two of my clients have gone i dont know if theyre dead or alive but i saw four dead bodies. And two hes popular with somali members of parliament and other government officials the hotel was also the venue of vomiting between the somali president mohammed of the life of the module and the leaders of somalias five regional states. The second car bomb exploded at a busy intersection in the heart of the city and near security. Few expected alshabaab fights us to cut out such brazen out talks in mogadishu so soon after the recent mustve talked the wost in somalia as history and evidence of the city are still coming to toms with the talk two weeks ago which left three hundred fifty eight people dead four hundred injured and another five to six. Was a victim from the couple in two thousand and eleven it has maintained its control in many rural areas of central and Southern Somalia since then the group has prevented resilient able to replace command doesnt fight is killed by u. S. Strikes and infighting with Somali Forces and African Union peacekeeping. Fighters recently gained control of several areas outside mogadishu including but even a strategic town forty five kilometers from the capital government Officials Say preventing attacks and look at issues proving the harder districts surrounding the cup itll fall to the flight as one of the another Mohammed Atta well just it will become. Well its been a number of attacks in the somali capital since the beginning of this year the biggest one happened on october fourteenth three hundred fifty eight people were killed and more than four hundred injured the Group Alshabaab has claimed responsibility for many of those incidents the group ascertained seven to nine thousand fighters partly control the capital mogadishu in two thousand and six before being forced out in an offensive led by the African Union in two thousand and eleven that has lost control of most towns its still dominates in many rural areas where mohammed sure is a Security Consultant in mogadishu he says the government needs to put more pressure on al shabab. Governments trying to be everything they can. Being. Called. Officials. After what happened before to talk to. The massive tragedy. Of the three hundred lives in the last. Five hundred. Yes for the last. Couple of months. Back to. The American Force and its the man forces had to fight. The founder of the country. Now the. Back and just showing that they are not feel are forced to be iraq. Catalonia is deposed leader put a month is calling for democratic and peaceful opposition to the spanish governments direct rule of the region madrid stripped catalonia of its autonomy and dissolve the Regional Parliament after barcelona declared independence on friday under simmons reports from barcelona. Their sinking long live spain this is the response to the breakaway declaration from barcelona on friday the demonstrators are unionists government supporters in madrid waving spanish flags. That i am cattle i am spanish and it is a moment in which we need to be more united be brave and to do something definitive. As the demonstrators in madrid called for the jailing of the catalan leader. He was freely Walking Around his home city of jerome no surrounded by supporters and media the prosecutor general is set to announce charges. Pushed him or made a t. V. Address to catalans calling for peaceful support. It is clear to us that the best way to defend what we have achieved so far is to have a democratic opposition to article one five five this is the response to the deliberate action against catalan who have for many centuries felt different we have to overcome any threats and to act in a civil and peaceful manner. For those watching in barcelona there seem to be as many doubters as supporters. And i dont agree with making unilateral declaration because in the end even if the people who participated in october first have moral legitimacy they dont have legal that say here at the seat of power the palace of the generalities that it was unclear who was really in control one secession activists said large numbers of students had contingency plans to guard the building it would have to to defend. The people. That the police not be able to arrest the president right now the Spanish National flag still flies here unlike the city of jerome where push to mourn is spending the weekend it was unceremoniously lowered it pleased a lot of people. Are not afraid of independence because this is what we wanted and were behaving according to our politicians are leading us down the right path. In my opinion ive never felt spanish ive always had a catalan identity so i felt very excited and at the same time worried what events may come next which may be complicated and hard. Back here in barcelona the Government Palace is guarded by mosses the Regional Police force its commander. Trip arrow who is already on a charge of this addition has now been sacked along with a director above him officers have been warned they have to be neutral were hearing now that some ministers have had their Police Protection withdrawn and pushed him on his her its security reduced should he returned to his office here its possible he could be arrested and its very likely that his supporters will come to his defense and do some of those al jazeera barcelona unofficial results from kenyas repeat elections suggest a president to hold a kenyatta has won more than ninety seven percent of the vote but his mandate appears to be weak with a low turnout and opposition supporters boycotting the vote for me to report from nairobi. This is all thats left of these businesses and homes in current west of nairobi they were burnt down by protesters throwing petrol bombs. In phantasm one he says they knew the attack was coming but they couldnt stop it he says the attacks based on ethnicity often targeting people who have voted on friday one man was beaten to death. Demonstrations have followed thursdays president ial rerun which was boycotted by the opposition and the areas which are Opposition Strongholds are bearing the brunt of it. Mary oma a mother of two says it was peaceful until now she spent the night out on the street scared she and her children would be burnt in their home. While mom had to go on what we as women are so angry because we slept outside our kids were scared they were even storms being thrown one just missed my sons i you can imagine tear gas being thrown and i have children we heard more of the same from other People Living here. Talk quickly turned to the political tensions they say they dont want president to. To stay in office while just a third of voters turned out results of the president ial rerun so far indicates that can yatta has more than a seven million votes and many in this area are angry its not easy moving around this area groups of protesters are blocking roads ready to stop anyone they dont want to round stops are closed some boarded up their owners will be looted there are Many Police Officers patrolling the area but many here say they dont feel protected police are accused of using Excessive Force when dispersing protesters human Rights Groups say theyve killed between fifty and sixty people following the election sometimes theyre fired tear gas canisters but there are also goes to die because police are cutting out operations investors are adults house to house opposition sometimes getting divorced. Women people out but again the man im getting them. The police say theyre trying to stop the violent protests and criminals. The reality for many here though is trying to survive a political battle being fought on the streets. Aljazeera wire in nairobi cuban officials have denied any involvement in the alleged sonic attacks that led to more than twenty u. S. Embassy staff recently being recalled from havana the u. S. Says the staff were injured at their office and residences cooper says theres no evidence the attacks have taken place or mike hanna has more from washington d. C. Relations between the u. S. And cuba continue to deteriorate in the wake of what u. S. Officials described as a covert sonic attack last month the u. S. Withdrew all nonessential personnel from the embassy in havana following what they said was a series of staff falling ill because of some kind of sonic attack now the u. S. Did not provide any evidence and said that it could not establish exactly what the socalled attack was but now cuba is fighting back the foreign minister is visiting d. C. At the moment and this is what he had to say a lot of that is showing the socalled attacks are on just whatever the type of attack whatever the incident it is completely false. The foreign minister also described the whole incident as and i quote political manipulation aint dead damaging bilateral relations now important to note that the u. S. Has never directly accused cuba of being responsible for the illness of its diplomats however it did say that cuba has not done enough to investigate the causes of those cubas position very clearly there is no such attacks underway there have been no attacks and even if there were certainly cuba has got nothing to do with it but all of this is got to be seen as well in the context of the trumpet ministration relations with cuba were reestablished under a bomb or under the trumpet ministration things have changed substantially from the very beginning a president making very clear hes not that happy with these increasingly warm relations with cuba now weve seen a continual deterioration emerging from these claims of some kind of covert sonic attack. Lots more still to come here on aljazeera including under pressure after a controversial referendum iraqs kurdish leaders are called to leave not seeking to extend his term. And a mother and daughter reunited in the philippines despite a deadly conflict that has torn hundreds of families apart. Hello it looked like a winter storm and it must die feel like it would still misting went through the upper midwest is expanding throwing the cold air eastward on that line cold front has left behind it this maximum temperature cargo plus six winnipeg plus one that was double figures twenty four hours before even denvers down to forty its still hot in l. A. Thirty here that is going back down to normal just give it another day or two the same time given the slight easing of the cold dropped about plus eight in chicago plus for winnipeg had the east coast is good take a bit of a hammering not just was briefly feeling quite cold fronts tonight were still keeping the team to new york but were also feeling a lot of moisture in here this looks particularly wet even potentially stormy sometime in the next few days and wet to start off with and here is the picture then for monday suns out chicago plus nine i think you can say your city into early winter by this stage then it stops us here weve got very active but Tropical Weather this massive white cloud hides two tropical spinners one is south of san salvador overland is just disappearing in a mass of rain the next one not well represented here is potentially a development through Cayman Islands cuba and bahamas. On counting the cost to italys wealthy lower than region state seeds of more autonomy but who are the forces reshaping european politics how might chinas new leadership lineup affect the economy plus why trade is that Hong Kong Stock Exchange is saying bye bye to the back capital cost at this time on aljazeera. Welcome back to other top stories here on aljazeera at least twenty three people have been killed in coordinated attacks in the somali capital mogadishu it began when two car bombs exploded and gunmen stormed the hotel where the president was due to hold a meeting. Still being held by. Government would be allowed to run in Regional Elections in december. Calling for democratic and peaceful opposition to the spanish government. And in kenya president who are the ninety seven percent of the vote thats according to unofficial results from the repeat president ial election voting was suspended in some Opposition Strongholds and has been marred by violence. Now the leader of iraqs kurdish region is reportedly not planning to extend his president ial term past november parliaments due to meet on sunday to redistribute the powers held by Massoud Barzani hes being facing mounting pressure to quit following septembers controversial secession referendum Stephanie Decker has more from ever built. There hasnt been an official announcement but certainly according to sources in kurdish media it seems that president asad by design he has sent a letter to parliament where he says he will be seeking an extension of his president ial term and this is expected to be debated in parliament on sunday what it means basically his term would have ended november the first technically legally his term as president expired in two thousand and fifteen now elections are supposed to been held november first president karzai has said he would not have run in these elections have now been postponed for another eight months time its complicated but the Bigger Picture is certainly significant once we hear an announcement that he will not be extending his term he will no longer be president he was behind this controversial referendum against the advice even of his allies and the backlash that we have seen here too that has been incredibly unexpected people here absolutely shocked about what has gone on and what continues to go on so certainly it will be a significant announcement it is what we expect but again we havent had the official announcement as of yet egypt has launched a major shakeup of its Security Services a week after an attack in giza province that left at least sixteen Police Officers dead Mohamed Ghazi has been named the new chief of staff of the armed forces he replaces mahmoud had ghazi the two men are not related the head of National Security has also been sent along with several generals and other Senior Leaders for several years the military has been dealing with a campaign of attacks in the northeastern part of the Sinai Peninsula well the Philippine Government has declared victory of a pro isolate fighters in much of the city many residents are struggling to get back to the lives they had before the war the search for missing loved ones continues as more bodies are collected from the front lines. As a story of one woman who received good news about her daughter whod been kidnapped. We met josie upin is a few months ago back then she was trying to retrieve her husbands body in a morgue leonardo it panders died tomorrow in the southern philippines he was working there as a waiter when a pro i saw a group called them out to control of several parts of the city last may their daughter just so was missing too jossy asked for help from the police and the military looking for signs that may lead to her daughter the days dragged into months and she was already losing hope. Months later we traveled to josss hometown to tell her the good news. What you. Just saw was held hostage by the multigroup but after months in captivity she was able to escape we brought her tomorrow were hoping that the military could help facilitate the reunion but it is not easy a bureaucratic process has to play out still they are lucky enough to talk to each other on the phone. Im so happy you are. No longer. When the mall to seize parts of matter we city hoping to set up an Islamic State its fighters took several thousand civilians hostage in the course of the month long battle many civilians have either been released or escaped government records show less than eighty families have registered their missing human rights experts say that number may be higher that is because many feared the stigma that if they come forward registering their missing loved ones their relatives may be accused of collaborating with them out. The Philippine Military has declared morale we liberated from the pro ice a group after months of fighting most of my doubt we is now left in ruins over a thousand people have died and hundreds of thousands more displaced youre going to remain here you know the ones you really have to reunite. Another set of bodies a retreat from the front line in this small bag are bones of five people like so many others here they will be buried in a mass grave nameless victims of a brutal conflict. We see at the southern philippines mean mass state media says the government will harvest rice from farmland abandoned by range of families who fled violence in northern Rakhine State the party fields covered more than twenty eight thousand hectares known door the area worst affected in the crackdown by the me and my military against the Ranger Community florence really has more now from younger. There are a couple of ways to look at this one is that this is simply a practical solution the rice crops are ripe for harvesting and if they were left to just stand in the fields they would go to waste so the myanmar government has put in place a plan to harvest the crops bringing in combine harvesters and laborers to do the work and Agricultural Ministry spokesman has told us that the local government is in charge of the harvest and the eventual fail and the proceeds of the sale will go to the local government over there no details on how they plan to use it but the other issue is this raises ethical questions as the asia director of Human Rights Watch puts it you really cant call a crop ownerless when youve used a campaign of arson and violence to drive the owners from their land and this is what the Myanmar Military has been accused of doing and the other issue pertains to future use is this harbors perhaps the first step of the myanmar government to appropriate the land from revenge or refugees whove been driven to bangladesh now if it is it will raise other questions what about repacked ration and resettlement of the refugees now granted we are a long way from that bangladesh and myanmar officials havent yet worked out details of how they plan to repatriate range of refugees but they will have to be other questions that that need to be asked such as where will they return to and what will they return to their farms and villages are no longer there the bodies of thirty six unidentified people have been found in a village near the Eastern Libyan city of benghazi locals made the grim discovery they say the victims were critics of general honey for have to up some of the bodies were found with signs of torture and gunshot wounds to the head the area is under have to ask control. The u. N. Emergency relief coordinator says hes shocked by the humanitarian conditions in yemen he made the comments at the end of a five day visit called on all sides to do more to respect International Law bittorrent reports. Shocking and horrendous thats how the u. N. Emergency relief coordinator describes the suffering hes seen in yemen during his five day visit to severely malnourished Children Hospitals with barely any electricity and met Health Workers who have not been paid for months its been shocking to say the terrible impact of this manmade conflict all parties in yemen and those outside who support and have influence over them must do much more to ensure they respect International Humanitarian law and protect civilians. Saudi arabia and its allies launched a military campaign in march twenty fifteen against toothy rebels and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh the Saudi Led Coalition has been bombing the capital sanaa and other parts of yemen to try to restore the internationally recognized government of president abbott rebbie man so heidi heidi based temporarily in aden says the he these must disband but they insist they yemens legitimate authority and accuse him of being a saudi puppet that. We already to work towards a solution we say to all yemeni groups lets find a solution the foreign powers involved are im here to fight for you they are here for their interests were ready to walk towards a solution but that should be at least a response from the other side instead of waiting for decisions to come from abu dhabi or saudi arabia. Well the the say theyre ready to talk theyre also threatening to intensify their retaliation against saudi arabia and strike military targets in the u. A. E. More than ten thousand yemenis have been killed and almost forty thousand injured in the two and a half years of fighting human Rights Groups accuse both sides of committing atrocities the u. N. Is edging all sides to negotiate a political deal until they do the worlds number one humanitarian crisis may only get worse victoria. Vote counting is underway in iceland for the second parliamentary election in two years early tallies suggest the ruling Independence Party is ahead followed by the left green grouping the leader says the outcome remains unclear but shes not ruled out working with smaller left and centrist parties to form a coalition the final results are expected to trigger complex negotiations to build a coalition government. Now tourists with a taste for adventure the democratic republic of congo are in for a treat not only is mount one of the most active volcanoes on the continent its home to one of the Worlds Largest lava Lakes Malcolm where went along with a group of tourists to the summit. Its julio kembers job to take tourists up an active volcano near gone theres lava lake in a crater at the top of its forested slopes in the democratic republic of congo goes up every day and never gets boring when i arrive there i see i can see the lake you like a new feeling because its very beautiful nearly one hundred fifty people were killed in the nearby city of goma when it lost erupted in two thousand and two. And this is where it started. Inside. And then when they arrived here its. Right dont be afraid its not happen today. It takes about five hours to climb much of the way following an old larger stream. Of plates of molten rock blasted out long ago form the part. Written directions of come from split side ranges say from here its better to go up and down if it happens again from here at the summit and you can just about see hills in the distance which are in neighboring rwanda the borders between here and there and here is a crater for my previous eruption lake just about visible and on it sure is congos eastern city of goma and here is the rim of the crater of mount. And down there is a lava lake and from where were standing you can feel the heat and smell the sulfur it was the noxious gases that killed many in two thousand and two and whose plumes attract tourists today congos conflicts have affected access in the past but its been open to visitors since twenty fourteen us just amazing mindblowing. So beautiful the walk up here and then you can see the spectacle its just amazing the visitors cant get up here without the help of the porters from the villages below the volcano tourism is growing and it was my that much needed income for about eighty families. Would this work as a lot it does space school fees for children build our houses buy you seeds for farming and also to cattle other needs. Put it when the sun sets and the smoke cloud clear but it glows brightest it across constantly cracks the liquid rocks him as below and reveals the beauty of it lethal lover malcolm webb aljazeera mt you are going go in the democratic republic of congo. And you can catch up on all the news on our web site there it is on your screens the address. Of the top stories here at least twenty three people have been killed in coordinated attacks in the somali capital mogadishu it began when two car bombs exploded and gunmen stormed a hotel where the president was due to hold a meeting hostages are still being held by fighters spain says the deposed leader of the catalan Regional Government will be allowed to run in reason elections in december just calling for democratic and peaceful opposition to the spanish governments derek rule of catalonia. The best way to defend what we have conquered so far is to have a democratic opposition to article one five five this is the conclusion of the deliberate attempt against cattle who have for many centuries felt different we have to overcome any threat and to act in a civic and peaceful manner. In kenya president kenyatta has won more than ninety seven percent of the vote thats according to unofficial results from the repeat president ial election but turnouts estimated to be less than thirty five percent voting was suspended in some Opposition Strongholds and the election has been mobbed by violence. Officials have denied any involvement in alleged attacks that led to more than twenty u. S. Embassy staff recently being recalled from havana the u. S. Says the staff were injured at the office and residences says there is no evidence that the attacks have taken place. The leader of iraqs kurdish region is reportedly not planning to extend his president ial term past november parliaments due to meet on sunday to redistribute the powers held by muscled barzani hes been facing mounting pressure to quit following septembers controversial referendum iraqs government opposed the vote calling it unconstitutional. The bodies of thirty six unidentified people have been found in a village near the Eastern Libyan city of benghazi locals made the grim discovery they say the victims were critics of general holly for hafter some of the bodies were found with signs of torture and gunshot wounds to the head areas and have to ask control well those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after counting the cost of. His native am increasingly struggling to survive in todays world. And theyre trying to protect them at this time. Of business. This week out of pocket and out of patience