Hello im Maryam Namazie in london youre watching aljazeera also coming up kenyas Opposition Leader shocks the nation announcing hes withdrawing from the rerun of august election. Wildfires rage across california killing at least thirteen people and destroying entire neighborhoods. And greeks are given greater rights to choose their own gender identity a government vote has divided opinion. Spains Prime Ministers called an extraordinary Cabinet Meeting for wednesday morning off to catalonia as president signed a symbolic declaration of independence. As binged among told the Catalan Parliament the region had the right to become its own state but he did fall short of declaring actual secession saying he wanted talks with spain first john holl reports from boss alone. He arrived at the Parliament Building bristling with expectation a heavy Police Presence hinted at the weighty announcement to come but carlos president of catalonia is Regional Government stopped short of a full declaration of independence. As president its my responsibility to declare that catalonia should become an independent state in the shape of a republic. Should become the words greeted with rounding applause in the chamber before the independent state party was put on hold. We asked the parliament to suspend any effects of the declaration of independence so that we can have dialogue and so that we can find the necessary solution we need to lower tensions and show our will and commitment to meet the demands of the catalan people the reaction in madrid came swiftly and this course not kato your present day that the speech that the catalan president has made today is a speech by a person who doesnt know where he is where hes going or with whom he wants to go the government cannot accept that the catalan referendum be validated because its been suspended by the constitutional court. Having consistently refused to talk one centrist politician suggested the time may have come for the government to compromise i think the better way they can solve the problem is with that negotiation some kind as i said of mediation. A disappointment perhaps to some staunch secessionists tonight would be their night but sweet relief to many who fear the consequences of an upright declaration of independence after threats from madrid and the flight of Top Companies from catalonia since the referendum on october the first. Place that you dont regret was losing the faithful who gathered to watch the speech on the big screens left deflated but accepted that all was not lost im happy that hes given us time in order for people things we really dont understand whats the situation what does it mean what the president just said so a signed declaration but independence deferred which demands speech stipulated no timeline for talks with madrid the drama of catalonia is independence that has played out in this Parliament Building for nearly one hundred years isnt over yet jonah hill aljazeera barcelona. Kenyas president says the rerun of august president ial election will go ahead in just over two weeks time despite the Opposition Leader with a drawing from the race announcing the move. Would give the Electoral Commission enough time to introduce reforms to help deliver a more credible vote Catherine Sawyer reports from nairobi. Well into. The. Unprecedented times in kenya the only other kind of data expected to be on the ballot paper for the Election Rerun late in the month has pulled out. His not Opposition Coalition say they will not participate in a poll they feel is predetermined one where the same individuals and companies that oversaw the last election are still in place. For. Almost a foldable. Going to have to. Have a big liberal to help them. In this battle. Over themselves with the people ok. Weve got a new world of hurt. Believe that all reversed. But judging from the bench in front of the liberals did you. Talk. To. Opposition supporters have been staging demonstrations against the Electoral Commission. And calling for elektra forms commission official say some of the opposition demands are and reasonable and there is simply no time to implement them the political situation in the country is worrying many im afraid of what fellas i think have moved on i am a strong feeling that. Theyve accepted that peace is. This and that. In order to go in a conflict that. People would accept that and. Already. Everywhere that this tension everywhere. Kenya is in uncharted territory politically and constitutionally the law isnt clear on what happens in a situation like this the constitution does not envision an eventuality where no reelection is held within a sixty day legal timeline which expires at the end of the month lawyer save no election is held by the deadline there will be a constitutional crisis president who has been busy campaigning he says hes ready for an election with all without trial. Should he be declared the winner in induced anyway then the legitimacy of his presidency will inevitably be questioned many kenyans are fearful about what the political grandstanding between the two sides is doing to the country tensions are high the economy is struggling the country is very much in limbo catherine aljazeera Nairobi Kenya the death the death toll from wildfires raging around california has now risen to at least fifteen went up by high winds and dry conditions the flames of destroyed as many as two thousand houses businesses and wineries. And inferno in the California Wine country multiple blazes burning out of control in the northern part of the state we were. Just actually decent just basically if. I could put one of these people. More than twenty major fires are burning with nearly thirty thousand hectors already scorched its being called the worst fire event in twenty five years thousands of homes and other buildings have been destroyed including a hilton hotel that burned for hours in the famous napa valley wine country carefully tended vineyards have been reduced to ash at the senior allo winery even the wine bottles were blackened and melted by the heat at least twenty thousand people have been evacuated from nearby communities including patients at two hospitals california Highway Patrol helicopters searched for people trapped on roads with no way to safety making more than forty rescues the fires sprang up quickly fanned by winds gusting up to eighty Kilometers Per Hour and aided by extremely low humid he knew these kind of conditions the rest is just a stream of new stars and thats what happened last night and this morning the plan thats going online to have these explosive missions in Southern California a major blazer erupted in the hills above anaheim home to the disneyland Amusement Park and winds are very unpredictable the fire can create its own environment its own weather pattern so it it it varies so what we do is is weve been doing a fire dance or fall or fire following throughout the day as the fire moves forward we move with it meteorologists say the winds have begun to die down giving hope that thousands of firefighters can get the situation under control rob reynolds aljazeera los angeles. Well lets go live now to jake award whos in santa rosa in california and quite incredible scene surrounding you seems to be uttered devastation just shows a bit more of that neighborhood yes sure merriment it is a devil suit community here in santa rosa this is really a tourist mecca people come from all over the world to. Enjoy. This to this is a fair. And. I would use for that but were trying to establish a line there with jacob ward he is in the city of santa rosa this is a northwest california and actually quite remarkable images that weve been seeing on google imagery just showing the extent of the devastation there near a local park and a school and actually the neighborhood was one of the areas where a forced evacuation had to take place but when you just take a look at this before and after shot you can see theres just barely anything left this is a neighborhood thats been reduced to rubble and that we can get back to jake award is in santa rosa for us jacob sorry about that we did get cut off but please tell us more of what youre seeing what youre witnessing there sure. Positivity here is really one of the great problems of a fire like this that the local systems shut down very quickly and so as a result the not only was this place just devastated by wildfire and the fire was incredibly intense people were taped. You can see here people are had to not only abandon their homes but in some cases their vehicles because cell towers came apart and as a result of the Text Messages the people rely on to give each other warnings give each other information were gone the air here approach fifteen hundred degrees celcius the point steel and as a result to sixty. Devastation almost everywhere you go not just homes and cars were destroyed but fundamental infrastructure sewage lines the fundamentals of traffic lights all of that seems to be destroyed sort of from block to block so as you go from one place its a very normal scene of sort of suburban covered california life and then another scene it is absolutely raised and so this really a its just a very surreal scene of devastation here in northern california. All right jake thank you very much just giving us a sense of the devastation and the damage as a result of wildfires there in santa rosa and northwest california. One of the worlds biggest cholera and United Nations campaigns is underway in bangladesh in response to the range of crisis nine hundred thousand doses of the vaccine and been prepared to protect new arrived refugees and local communities mama june reports now from sheffield cuts a refugee camp in cox is bizarre. For these or hinder refugees whove been exposed to so much violence and who still dont feel safe this is an attempt to at least keep them healthy. A massive Cholera Vaccination Campaign led by bangladesh is a ministry of health and supported by groups like the World Health Organization and unicef the goal is to vaccinate six hundred fifty thousand people during the first phase many in this makeshift camp are happy its happening but say far more needs to be done. Funny little water is too far away thats a problem and people are suffering there are just too many people here and thats why its so do everyone is getting seen. More than half a million refugees have fled from me and more to bangladesh in just six weeks at the sheffield like cut to camp the signs of overcrowding are everywhere. Aid workers worry that extremely and hygenic conditions in camps like this one could make an already awful situation even worse which in turn could lead to a full blown Health Crisis among the many causes of concern are thousands of diarrhea cases reported and treated just in the past week and when you see like thousands of people are suffering from the idea that actually gives you an indication that the locked us up life situation as well as lessening titian situation is not in good shape and if we dont react if we dont think the preventive measures things may go really wrong. Shortages of food water and shelter all indicate how dire things have become recently and we have just talked with a number of people and among nineteen out of them ninety percent have said that theyre leaving on a one man party so the situation is really bad but everybody here down here is working really hard to make that humans. With very little clean water at their disposal life which is already hard only gets harder especially in such severe heat good obama made sure she and her children were vaccinated but that has done little to lessen her worries. Now that after home there are very few toilets here in a period of three to five days it becomes full and unusable it stinks and not there are too many people here we can live without eating once or twice a day but we cant live without being able to use the toilets struggling to survive is nothing new for these refugees and its likely their struggle wont end any time soon im a gentleman dizzy into at the shop you like qatar refugee camp and coxs bazaar on the dish. Still to come for you this half hour voting has wrapped up in liberias president ial election where the choices included a former rebel leader a warlords exwife and a football star. Also why deep seated inequality still exist in u. K. Society today. With. With. Hello there weve got a lot of showers over australia at the moment and actually a fair amount of thunder and lightning mixed in with those showers as well the whole system is gradually edging its way towards the east and its bringing us some heavy downpours as it does so so so expect to see some damn pours in Alice Springs and for adelaide there on wednesday and then if the system sweeps its way east with its going to turn a fair amount cooler behind it so one thursday then adelaide will only be getting to seventy matching the temperature were expecting in melbourne at least here its dry that rain will be working its way through parts of New South Wales and just about making its way into bryza been there for the west generally a lot quieter hipper twenty two degrees as we head across towards new zealand a thing fairly miserable so far this week but things will improve lots of cloud lots of rain already thats trying to clear away and behind it things are beginning to clear up its still going to be quite windy during the day on wednesday but even the winds will ease as we head into thursday and then most of us will have a following day on thursday there should be a good deal of sunshine around as well now further north there is a lot of rain here and some of it very very heavy is galloping its way away from the Korean Peninsula edging its way eastwards heavy downpours expected in the northern parts of japan there on thursday but still lots of clouds still expected to follow it. With. Oh east the rain forest of the sea we continue on our current way we wont have whole race within twenty thirty forty years from now so youre essentially trying to recreate the ecosystem but under controlled conditions the nice girl is so isabella still has a chance for the decline of the Great Barrier reef is still sizeable but were going to start mail and we need to get everyone behind the solution ted no this time on hold as iraq. Welcome back a quick look at the stories making headlines this hour catalonia as president has signed a symbolic document declaring independence spains Prime Minister has called an extraordinary Cabinet Meeting on wednesday to discuss the response. Of kenyas Opposition Leader raul or dangerous shock the country by withdrawing from an upcoming rerun of the president ial election set to take place later this month and wildfires in the u. S. State of california have left at least fifteen people dead and more than one hundred injured. Well now polls have closed in liberias president ial election which is expected to be the countrys first democratic transfer of power in more than seven decades twenty candidates seeking to replace Ellen Johnson sirleaf it became africas first female president in two thousand and five after a brutal fourteen year conflict from monrovia might address reports want to know it africas first female president Ellen Johnson sirleaf just spoke to tuesday. The Nobel Prize Winner is standing down after sending two terms. At this polling station the process was largely orderly. But another centrist tempus flap as the process began the situation in this polling scenting painesville delayed the casting of ballots for hours. And he queued up for two hours but says she was turned back at the ballot box. They said i cannot vote so i was here for hours i went to one place where i was redirected to another they dont want me to vote i will go home. Johnston gave a man living with disability cast his vote but was not impressed with the arrangements and one of the genes i want to see change in public Buildings School buildings the disabled people to enter easily we should have access and be part of decision making. The Election Commission said it has worked hard to address most of the complaints the result today i think i should have my all preparation though we have i want to two. Problems but the successes of a women and i think we are heading for success hundreds of those of us also deployed for the vote. Liberians are passionate about this election to choose a new president and seventy three legislators people queued up for hours before polling stations open. These elections are not only about who will succeed Ellen Johnson sirleaf after years in power now also about things like. Roads Health Care Education and building upon the existing plans but whoever wins this election will also have to work very hard to unite liberia still divided by the war and by the politics of the last one year. President ial candidates will need more than fifty percent of the vote to weed outright some of the of a say a runoff may be required. Monrovia the u. S. State department is offering a seven Million Dollars reward for the capture of to hezbollah officials in an effort to crank down on the group the Lebanese Group has been designated a terrorist organization by the us in their award is being offered for the head of hezbollah