Aljazeera. Hello and welcome to this aljazeera news hour live from doha im on team denis coming up in the next sixty minutes the uns human rights she says crimes are being committed against the rangers and those responsible must be punished. A senior kenyan official flees the country in fear of her life and the man in charge of next weeks Election Rerun admits it may not be free and fair. Pressure mounts on catalonia as leaders as the deadline to give up their secession bit lives. Plus the canadian province of quebec bans face coverings for those seeking Public Services. But first the un human rights chief says crimes have been committed against me and miles for him to muslims is a drug al hussein is threatening to seek the u. N. Security councils intervention if the perpetrators are not punished now this comes as Amnesty International accuse me of Security Forces of the systematic rape or murder of hundreds of range of villages which constitute crimes against humanity u. S. Actions sa
This is al jazeera live from london also coming up. Saudi arabia says it will reopen some of yemens ports allowing in not needed aid but the main is still closed. The presence in turkey and russia need to discuss serious war whether the solution is political or military. And the philippine president serenades his u. S. Counterpart outside the atmosphere is less us. At least four hundred people have been killed and more than six thousand injured by a powerful earthquake the. Struck iran and iraq the u. S. Geological survey puts the epicenter on the border between iran and iraq semi autonomous kurdish region most of the deaths reported so far are irans mountainous come in sharp province west to tell appears to be sol pulls a hard on the iraqi side there are reports of extensive damage in the nearby town of bomb the car a man can report from baghdad. First responders quickly deal with the wounded in western iran a seven point three magnitude earthquake bringing scores of the injured throu
Chechnya against the french satirical publication Charlie Hebdo. Plus a movement against the Pegida Movement. We begin in yemen according to a government spokesman the president ial palace is surrounded. After hours of fighting in the capital between houthi fighters and government forces. Earlier the houthis seized a arm base killing 9 people. Fired on a convie convoy carrying the Prime Minister. The shia rebels took over the capital in september making them yemens de facto top power and raising tensions across the political spectrum. Reporting now from a aden. Battling near the president ial palace near sanaa since early on monday. The symbol of who wields power in yemen something hard to know at the moment. The information minister describes the seem as an utter chaos. To be honest, i dont think any particularly party is in control of sanaa. Places where the government is in control where the heutle hughts houthis are in control. Defense and interior were there in this committee but
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