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Good to have you with us on the news hour we start in the middle east where negotiators from rival palestinian political movements fatah and hamas are in cairo for talks on reconciling their decade long split now it follows last weeks Palestinian AuthorityCabinet Meeting attended by both sides now the first to be held in gaza in the three years the split began in the aftermath of hamas as election victory in two thousand and six well in two thousand and seven defeated fattah in street battles taking full control of the gaza strip since then attempts at reconciliation of broken down within weeks or even months and talks in cairo are designed to implement steps agreed in a deal signed six years ago also in the egyptian capital but divisive issues remain to be resolved from finding employment for both groups personnel to the future of hamas is powerful military wing lots of issues to get through a force that joins me now from ramallah to try and clear that up of course ramallah in the occupied west bank and as we wait for detail of what agreements might be reached harry one really wonders how the public is reacting to this potential two day meeting. Well thats right in fact it could last three days until thursday were getting the sense from people here that there is some potential optimism that maybe this time even in spite of all the failures that have taken place over the last ten years maybe this time there is a bit more momentum i think thats for one thing because of the fact that hamas has dissolved its administered committee in gaza it has allowed the Palestinian Authority to come back in and start to take over power once again so there is already some momentum in that respect egypt of course is very much behind this and pushing this very hard so there is this external factor trying to get both of these sides on board and so we went out and spoke to a few people in the streets of ramallah a little bit earlier on and this is what they had to say. Was that the situation remains the same that the talks what was going to happen it cant get worse than it was. Since all our time on the field hopefully there will be reconciliation it would result in achievements for all palestinians. On the planet its better if theres reconciliation for fattah and hamas and all of us it would reflect on us and on the people in gaza economically and mentally. Now of course the ten years of division the ten years of israeli blockade have been a lot more consequential for the people inside gaza the Unemployment Rate for instance is more than forty percent there the economy has taken a massive hit and a lot of people have lost a lot of hope in the interim and so there is perhaps both a little bit more skepticism from people that our teams there spoken to today about the propensity of the likelihood of these two factions which are often criticized by by as a pair by people whove lost so much in gaza as well as the fact that people there are so desperate the situation is so bad that they really want to see this work this time around and of course hurry the whole issue of conversations that are going to happen between hamas and fatah have a much wider implications in the region a regional capitals whether it be televisa cairo riyadh will all be watching very carefully because they all have a vested interest in you might say either finding a solution to the palestinian problem if these two sides can find common ground. Well thats right there is i think obviously a regional aspect to all of this the egyptian involvement the fact that the americans have been pretty muted in what until recently was still extremely. Very strong condemnation of hamas donald trump calling it a terrorist group which needed to be driven out of the middle easts just a few months ago with this reconciliation effort going on his middle east envoy jason green again saying that hamas would needs to change its ways but in a fairly muted way so there is some i think Regional Support for this reconciliation attempt the question though is exactly what form it will take and how sustainable it could be if it is just a question of the facts are that the Palestinian Authority providing Services Running the day to Day Administration of the gaza strip and allowing hamas to retain its military wing in some relatively quiet way that could hold for a while but at some stage for there to be full palestinian unity a bus that was in president s been saying he doesnt want to see a lebanon style situation with a powerful alternative center of power in terms of military wing alongside a civilian administration we were speaking to a Senior Executive committee that the secretary general of the executive committee yesterday and he was saying that that wouldnt be acceptable as well that there has to be in the long run a unity of purpose a unity of strategy between these two long divided sides whatever happens in the shorter term to try and get momentum for this reconciliation at some stage those more difficult questions will have to be resolved as well or leave it there for now and of course come back to you as we get more news lines coming out of that meeting for the moment thank you. No it doesnt have the visit lecturer at the very City University told al jazeera earlier about what he believes are the three main hurdles in reaching any agreement one is security whether hemmers will give up its own security or not and i think that there will not and if the p. A. Will insist on that this is going to be a break the whole attempts will break the second is politics the two sides have big serious differences in politics so if they try to unify the two sides in the p. L. O. Structure then they will fail and the third one is election if they will try to go for election i have doubts that they will be able to agree and these are the major three challenges and i think this time they might avoid going into these difficult issues and make progress on the rest which is a step in the right direction and probably go slowly to check on the possibilities of other issues in the future lets move to europe now in spain where there has to be an announcement about the future of the countrys catalonia region and its leader who to morrow has arrived in the Regional Parliament in barcelona may be preparing to make a unilateral declaration of independence but the Spanish Government has warned it will act on any attempt to divide the country journal reports from barcelona. No matter which side of the independence debate one is on this is a sight a few in catalonia would welcome the National Police drafted in after a Supreme Court ruling to guard the high court ahead of tuesdays address to parliament by the regions president carlos preached a moment its a bit scary to see. It in the streets because i am used to see them. Used to see so many bodies we actually see yes and now theyre here. We have them on our doorstep and its like feeling under siege. These police. Have really hit us hard and its i think its very bad here at the moment a spokesman for the squadron catalonians police force said it had no choice but to accept the Supreme Court ruling. You know. We dont understand it at all we have been guarding the spear court of catalonia for the last twenty four years and theres never been any reason to doubt our service so we dont understand it and we dont like it but it is a judicial distraction so we accepted. The extremely unusual you might call it provocative site of spains National Police on guard outside this important building in central barcelona is a reminder of just what sensitive times these are as this region and the whole of spain await a possible unilateral declaration of independence by catalonia on monday madrid again made it clear that an independence declaration would have immediate consequences. Not at the. Ready for any circumstances because we are already vaccinated against the fanaticism of most of them all and any hope that he will return to sanity and serenity therefore its necessary to consider all possible options worked on all of them one option is to use special constitutional powers to revoke. If that were to happen would be far more to worry about than the National Police. The high court during the whole aljazeera barcelona well lets cross over live. In barcelona there is a very tight should you choose the meeting speeches just talk us through the order of events and when we can expect to the real players to say what they have to say. Well in a sense there have been hints already coming from even within the government saying that perhaps what is going to be taken now all thats going to be possibly taken now is its perhaps more of a symbolic. Announcement of independence but the the governing body of parliament is already meeting to discuss the legality of the referendum results as well but as jonah but shouldnt in his report the Spanish Government representatives here in catalonia are very much ready for whatever it is that they are going to announce they they are preparing themselves for this and they are doing this they say in the name of protecting the democratic rights of people here of cattle and to do not want to secede and just a few moments ago i spoke with the Spanish Government to look at this is what he had to say. Look you know. Theres no point talking about mediation between the state itself and another part of the state has a legal judicial and democratic one that needs to be respected if someone steps outside of these legal boundaries they need to come back to them. Once thats taking place then we can establish dialogue but we cannot accept a path that generates conflict as a way to talk to each other the Spanish Government asks the catalan president to reflect on this and return to legality if not he would have to answer to the Judicial Team not to the Spanish Government it. Couldnt of escape the pro catalonia camp of the two main issues or two main events that have happened during the vote that we saw just a few weeks ago one was the huge crowds that came onto the streets of barcelona saying that they want a united spain and also the Economic Impact of that is pending or could pending and damage not just catalonia but the Spanish State itself. Well indeed and these are certainly issues that have caused a lot of debate but some people some procession to say this is just a way of bullying catalonia into not going ahead with a declaration of independence but as you as you rightly said at the impact has been already very real the spanish stock market has suffered due to the instability that this may have provoked youve had multinationals and banks already leaving their legal headquarters and transferring them to other cities in spain it would appear that the capital and president has put himself into a very risky situation and of course there are differing voices within the government you have those who particularly from the left wing side of the castle and government the couple in parliament who would like mr ricci want to just go ahead and do this even if its just as a strategy to get parties to talk to the table but the problem with that is that it really doesnt have a lot of traction with others who have more of a centrist or all right of the government to solve it even the the mayor of barcelona who herself shes actually from a platform of social justice left wing kind of platform and shes even saying that this is not the right time but what is absolutely necessary right now is dialogue and not to do something that could cause irreparable damage to her or for the member will be with the song of course come back to barcelona thats where we get more word from the Regional Parliament thank you. Plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including theres been yet another dramatic increase in the number of refugees fleeing violence and persecution in plus. Traps and bombs like. We take a look at whats being done to bring the former i still held town back to life. In sport icelands a viking chant is ringing out in reykjavik again find out why they took. The polls opened in liberia where voters will choose a new president after twelve years of africas first elected female leader Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson sirleaf is stepping down after two terms in office twenty candidates are taking part in the election including former football star george where. Joins me now live from the liberian capital monrovia in the day the voting stations were getting ready it does seem that everybody is now beginning to. Like that the moment. Well basically the previous station we were at things were going smoothly voting are started but we have moved now to painesville some thirty miles from where we were just an hour ago. There has been some confusion as to how and why. Right behind me a lot of crowd has been gathered says mourning and a lot of them my angry that when they queue up to move to the ballot box to vote they were told that they were not on their names are not on the register so its a little bit confusing but an election official here told me that things started looking up and in the next one or two hours theyll be. To clear everything and then voting will continue to progress as they wanted to be now here with me to discuss the level of activity what has been happening since boarding time is mr christopher. Senior associate for africa of the National Democratic institute and d i tell us about your own observations so far of the voting process across liberia youve been monitoring the selections this morning thats correct ive been monitoring the elections i was. At St Patricks High SchoolLutheran High School in singapore and then before coming here im also part of the n. T. Idol a geisha which has. About thirty four International Observers deployed in our fifteen countries of the country what did you see so far so far from what ive seen personally and what is been told to me by my colleagues in the counties voting started on time many of the police stations we also see in the enthusiasm. Of the liberian people whove come out because in many of the police is the lines are pretty long and as the big goes by all of these liberians who come out would have the opportunity to really vote for the candidate of their choice now weve seen a little problems here and there in some of the polling stations like people not finding their names on the register people queuing up and they were told that the this is not the right place for them to come and vote do you think what from what youre hearing from across the field you think this is something to be worried about will it impact on the outcome of elections eventually i think that especially in the main cities in the big towns where the. Polling sites in the same prison that an effort should be done to indicate who very early on which lines the need to stand so theyre not standing on the lawn on the wrong line but i also think that some of the issues that happen at the beginning when people couldnt find their names on the list the good news is that they were still allowed to vote and their names were then. Down on the provision least that was to be lifted by the neck by the Election Commission for that purpose hopefully this is going to be set up by the end of the day everybody who wanted to vote and who is regis that should be given the opportunity to. Thank you mr christopher farmer young senior associate for africa of the National Democratic institute now here is an area where some of the two top candidates are voting of course the vice president. Of course mr we are who expe