Im come out santa maria welcome to the news grid calls for National Spanish unity in barcelona yes catalonia voted for independence and the threat to break away as soon as this week is still there but this sunday we see a reminder there are still plenty of people in the province who say that madrids will also on the grid of the Free Syrian Army advances on it les abend turkey waits and support the rebels are promising a fierce battle against anyone entering their territory but the rebels have also lost a lot of ground this year we can show you just how much and what chance they have of holding on and the end of an era approaches in liberia africas first female leader Ellen Johnson sirleaf has been president for twelve years now and so twenty candidates are campaigning to replace her in tuesdays election hell be looking at just what matters to those liberian versus. A giant fireball bills that live in for five dollars capital. After an explosion africa station and its not the first time
Them fully back to boyer watching aljazeera live from doha also ahead kenya in political limbo the palm and is expected to debate the upcoming president ial Election Rerun after opposition candidate right loading up pulled out at least fifteen people a day after three days of wildfires in the u. S. State of California Well tell you the story of one familys narrow escape and with National Honor on the line argentina qualifies for the world cup in the final moments of their parlor fi against ecuador. An extraordinary Cabinet Meeting is underway in spains capital madrid it comes just hours after a constant news leader called for talks to resolve the countrys worst bullet. Crisis in decades late tuesday guys put them on put Catalonian Independence bit on hold but spy suspending the decoration from boston and i join a home reports. He arrived to the Parliament Building bristling with expectation a heavy Police Presence into the weighty announcement to come but carlos demobbed president of c
Everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance and im Francine Lacqua in london. We will be speaking to jack straw, one of the three people serving in the candidate from 1997 to 2010. We talk brexit and trade. Youre meantime, this is market. Equities seem to be on a tear. Stocks in europe are a little bit mixed, but the euro holding onto gains. We saw catalonias president stepping down from the immediate declaration of independence in spain. The dollar, drifting down a little bit. Oil rising above 51 a barrel, as opec pretty good. The nikkei 225 rising to the highest in almost 21 years, following the Dow Jones Industrial average, that touched a fresh record high yesterday. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Plans to donald trump make changes to his tax plan within the next few weeks without giving any details. At the same time, he dismissed concerns that his public spat would dismiss an overhaul. Independent analysts suggest it would raise taxes for 30 of people, making betw
Prime minister vowing catalonia will remain part of the country. Also coming up allegations against disgraced Film Producer Harvey Weinstein widen and now Hillary Clinton says shell be giving contributions from the Longtime Democratic Party donor to charity. Plus our weeklong series on being gay in todays russia we meet a video blogger using his platform to challenge anti gay businesses and doing so with a sense of you. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us spain has set the clock ticking for catalonia Prime Minister mario has given the Regional Government until monday to say whether it has in fact the clarity independence from the rest of spain and hes promised to do Everything Possible to prevent the break up even threatening to suspend Catalonia Autonomy and impose direct rule from madrid. Locked in a standoff spains Prime Minister is determined to not give an inch speaking to parliament in madrid Mariano Rajoy again insisted that catalonia his independence referendum was il
Im Richelle Carey and these are the top stories on aljazeera spains deputy Prime Minister Soraya Santa Maria is taking over the running of catalonia government and barcelona madrid has fired the kettle on governments and leaders and its chief of police all in the aftermath of fridays independence declaration sessions of porters have warned will resist any takeover and its not clear if the sacked rachel leadership will willingly step aside myanmar state media says the government will harvest rice from farmland abandoned by families who fled violence and or the Rakhine State that paddy fields covered more than twenty eight thousand seven hundred hectares and the area worst affected in the crackdown by the military against the red. 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 harve