Secretary of state has criticized the full countries imposing a blockade on gaza Rex Tillerson says the solving the group is on willing to negotiate despite katha bigging ready to engage. Has more from washington d. C. Florences comments in an interview with Bloomberg News marked significant change in tone gone was the optimism we heard three months ago when tillerson last visited the region instead he expressed his frustration saying there appear to be a real will unwillingness on the part of the quartet of blockading countries in personal progressing with these talks in contrast saying qatar has been very clear that theyre ready to engage now the fact that tillerson is returning to the region this following week and to push further these talks is a long ways from where the u. S. Policy on the gulf crisis started back in june if you remember thats when u. S. President donald trump was quick to come to the aid of saudi arabia praising its leadership and in a shooting this blockade and
President has accused spain of attacking its democracy after spence Prime Minister announced moves to impose direct rule over catalonia it was pretty small and said it was the worst part the government has taken since the dictatorship of Francisco Franco during his address on catalan t. V. He said the people of catalonia cannot accept the measures and said his parliament will be meeting to discuss madrids actions. But i think of this year the cup no Spanish Government going to raise the cattle and the will that will that has enabled us to restore our institutions what we have we have earned it with the power of people and democracy the catalan people cannot accept this attack or these measures the Spanish Government is trying to own all life in catalonia and this is outside the rule of law earlier spains Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy confirmed his government invoked article one five five of the constitution. Ive been you dont get to go but the government has had to trigger article one f
Other get adrian figure here in doha the top stories on aljazeera exit polls suggest the Prime Minister shinzo has won the japanese election people across japan braved a typhoon to vote in the poll which they called a year earlier than expected life out of tokyo aljazeera sarah clarke is that has managed to gather enough votes to get this supermajority that was being predicted for. Well were basing all of these predicted results on the exit polls which released traditionally since polls close here in japan and historically theyve been extraordinarily accurate they havent yet declared whether or not has returned with a super majority that is the two thirds majority but theyve definitely said i have maintained a majority in the lower house theyve suggested that they Coalition Partner may have lost some seats but its not enough for the Coalition Partner and the liberal Democratic Party led by a to lose government obviously so were set to see a return to become to be leader and to become t
A blockade for nearly five months looks like it will continue u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is in the region but he says the Saudi Arabian live bloc is not ready to negotiate tell us ans held high level talks in qatar and saudi arabia to call him reports from doha. He talked tough on his way over blaming the Saudi Led Coalition for the impasse but in the region the tough talk stopped meetings with the crown Prince Mohammed bin samana asked him to please engage the police and gauge and dialogue. There is not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. And so we cannot force talks on people who are not ready to talk. Still u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson took great pains to compliment the qatari significant progress has been made in a number of important efforts in our counterterrorism joint efforts including sharing of terrorist. List terrorist financing weve participated in a number of counterterrorism technical sessions and training and significant steps ha
Soldiers and earlier this month a Senate Investigation is looking into how the men died meanwhile the chairman of the joint chiefs says the u. S. Will stay in the shed despite the deaths. It is an isis affiliated group and i think what youre bringing up is what were dealing with in many places is isis and Al Qaeda Isis in this case they try to leverage local insurgencies. And connect those local insurgencies globally this is the challenge that were dealing with and so our initial assessment is these or local tribal fighters that are associated with isis earlier the widow of one of the men who died criticized President Trump for being insensitive johnson says trump struggled to remember her husbands name during a condolence call trump denies the allegation. The political philosophy of chinas president will be written into the constitution the edition was approved in the final day of the communist partys congress in beijing shes expected to be confirmed as leader for another five years a