Thailands beloved king from upon tens of thousands of mourners attend a five day long ceremony in bangkok for the monarch. And emotional release in turkey a german human rights organizer is freed from prison on bal does this signal german turkish relations could be on the mend. Welcome to the show im brian Thomas Police in western kenya have reportedly been shooting live ammunition and tear gas to break up protests as kenya goes to the polls for a rerun of his president ial election the Opposition Leaders of called for voters to boycott the ballot and in nairobi supporters of Opposition Leader rollo dana were throwing stones to stop people. From getting into polling stations are doing us says todays vote is quote a sham in areas where president hu rukun yaba has support voting has proceeded but in smaller numbers compared to the vote in august the Kenyan Supreme Court nala five that election because of irregularities in the voting process. Did abuse catherine o. Mando joins us now from
Other kurdish areas iraqs kurds have been under sanctions from baghdad and are internationally isolated funny fosh are has the very latest from the region also coming up. Support for spanish unity spills onto the streets of catalonia now madrid must decide whether to arrest the cattle on leaders who proclaimed independence last week. And the United Nations warns of a new humanitarian crisis in syria that has images of starving children emerged from a rebel held area east of the capital this mass chaos. Plus a powerful storm leaves a trail of destruction across europe fierce winds heavy rains lashing Central Europe leaving six people dead poland and the Czech Republic are hard hit germany battered overnight as well. Our brian thomas welcome to the show iraqs autonomous kurdish region defied the Central Government and held a referendum on independence a month ago kurds overwhelmingly backed a separate state but the move triggered a quick retaliation with troops from baghdad seizing key k