Alone welcome m p t w watching aljazeera live from doha also ahead iraqs Prime Minister rejects the kurds offer to freeze their referendum on secession as he travels to iran to meet leaders there. At least forty seven People Killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory in indonesia. And protests against madrids plans to seize control of catalonia as the Regional Parliament meets to discuss that issue. Violence has erupted in Opposition Strongholds in kenya where protesters are rallying against the president ial Election Rerun voting got underway early on thursday except for consumer. Stations remain closed over security concerns the police there fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse the crowds one person was killed the Opposition Leader ran a i saw his supporters to boycott what he calls a sham election the Supreme Court and all the first poll held in august because of irregularities. The. Requesting them humbly that they should turn out in large numbers thats their vote make their decision choose their leader. And. For our country to move on because i believe that we have. As a country of electioneering its time we move for those who are desirous to vote should be allowed. Those who do not wish to vote it is also their democratic right. But no right supersedes another and im appealing to kenyans to please allow each and every one of us to exercise our right. To want to end it there. Was no not. For the countries that. We have a my does that mean that we will be able to unite the country. Ive supported president a hurricane jaso so much because we want to avoid we want love in our country so that we can Work Together in building a nation well shortly well get the latest from Catherine Sawyer in the opposition stronghold of soon lets cross to for me to miller. County for me to i would describe the turnout so far today. Well as it gets later in the day we are seeing fewer people coming to this polling station in kiambu but they certainly has been significant activity here through the day however it really cant be compared to what we saw in the august eighth election where there was eighty percent turnout the the concern really is how people might have been prevented from getting to polling stations in different areas in the road we specifically a couple of polling stations we were at in that area of people there were trickling in slowly they did say that the process was going smoothly they were in and out far quicker than in august but in other areas like kibera which is an opposition stronghold weve seen people throwing stones weve seen of polling stations barricaded blocked with rocks and the police retaliating with tear gas and polling stations there least two of them havent opened making it impossible for some people to cast their vote today so its been a different scenario depending on where you go with in nairobi and in surrounding areas depending on whether or not opposition supporters have a significant presence in that area given that theyve boycotted these polls we can see people behind your shoulder. Queuing up it looks as if they feel safe enough it looks as if they feel it might be organized well enough particularly just in one location. Well certainly here people you know are confident of about the how the vote has gone today and they say theyve had to come out because they only have this opportunity every five years its been very orderly very peaceful here not a very high security presence specifically because it is a Jubilee Party the governing Party Stronghold but one other polling station we visited in nairobi we did see some difficulties with the technology thats been used in this election of course it was used for the first time in august and this is also where the Electoral Commission fell short if we look back to the Supreme Court ruling that came following that election which ultimately a null to the result there were issues around transmission of results but in this particular case in nairobi at this one polling station we did see that the the kits used for voters wasnt working properly they werent being identified and so voters names had to be taken down manually so you know it looks as if they would continue to be concerned around some of the conduct of the Electoral Commission the technology thats used in addition to potentially a low voter turnout given that at least potentially six Million People have boycotted this vote for media thanks very much Catherine Sawyer joins us live from kisumu in western kenya catherine one protester shot dead by the Security Forces what happened. Im actually right outside the hospital where this protester was brought up we saw a lot of ambulances going to this area very close to this hospital where confrontations between police and protesters have been happening police were firing tear gas at a group of young men young men were with hallyu thing or using things to throw stones at police we heard gunshots earlier on so this young man hes nineteen years old he was brought here with a gunshot wound to the i he was bleeding profusely doctors say they couldnt stop that the several other people that had been brought to this hospital twelve people have been brought here with different. Different injuries four of them others have gunshot wounds as well so the situation is very tricky roads. I have been blocked and we had a very hard time just trying to get around to some of this areas and the people that we talked to theyre saying that they are making sure they want to make sure that no polling materials get to the areas that theyre supposed to get to we were at one of the few polling stations that were actually open but there were no voters and we spoke to Electoral Commission officials there who were saying that a big problem is really just trying to get this material to the polling stations not just because of security but because service. Providers transporters nobody wants to transport this material and also Staff Members of the Electoral Commission including clocks are you know too afraid to come to work so in this area its called the central there are about three hundred ninety nine. Electoral Commission Workers and at that time they were only around four who had arrived we are told a little more have arrived but still a very small number so peter its very very unlikely that theres going to be an election in this area that was my next point. Were looking at pictures as youre talking to us of soldiers or Security Forces on the streets there is what looks like a mob further away in the camera shot the election itself in that area its not that its just happening slowly or its a low turnout just to be clear were not talking about the election not happening at all in that area the election is not happening at all in this area peter i can tell you that we even struggling this morning to get to a polling station that is open in this one polling station that weve got some which also doubles up as a tallying center the materials were there when we got there the materials had just arrived but then like i said officials of the Electoral Commission there were saying they just cannot get this materials to the Polling Centers that theyre supposed to be getting to people have blocked roads saying that they will not let any ballot materials get to those areas a lot of security concerns not just for the thats Electoral Commission official and stuff but also election observers who are here we saw some of them in hotels but we havent seen them out on the ground in polling stations or in areas where we are in where police are engaging with protesters so yes there is no election happening right now and i doubt its going to happen today catherine thank you very much. Iraqi forces have launched an assault to recapture and rawa from the tons on iraqs western border with syria two groups last strongholds their leaflets were dropped over the area in the northwestern Anbar Province on weapons day warning of the operation stephanie is following developments from northern iraq. Well theres a sense of course it is sort of the last territorial strongholds areas that i still still holds and one of those in particular is a town on the border with syria so border crossings are of course always incredibly significant to this border in particular lies on the highway between that is the which is an area that isis controls actually surrounds a small pocket of Syrian Government territory all the way to baghdad and i think symbolically as well everyone remembers sort of the Propaganda Machine the video they showed of bulldozers bulldozing through the iraq syria border in two thousand and fourteen you know sort of playing down the idea of nation states and stablish in their socalled caliph it so i think you know taking all that together this is sort of the last push by the iraqi forces together of course with the Coalition Support to push out of iraq but again as anyone will tell you just because the group has lost territory doesnt mean it no longer poses a threat because it still has the potential to carry out large scale and deadly attacks sleeper cells these kinds of concerns of course still remain very real. The iraqi Prime Minister says his government wont accept anything but the cancellation of the session bit about he is in tehran for talks there ronnie and leaders both countries have big kurdish populations and oppose any talk of separation iraqs Kurdistan Regional government had offered to freeze its secession bit but iraq says that does not go far enough. At least forty seven people have been killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory in indonesia the incident happened at an Industrial Complex in the city of tang arrangers twenty five kilometers west of the capital jakarta a local official says all the victims were factory workers the course is now being investigated well for more on this lets talk now to saudi elect whos in jakarta for us sorry what else do we know. Well the latest development by the local authorities yes there is they have identified more body has been killed is over forty in numbers and forty six has been taken into hospital in a very critical conditions right now the police are inviting families to come forward to identify the bodies as its very difficult for the police right now or the hospital to identify what it as because of the cause of the burnt on their face some were charged and therefore the police are now calling our families also to identify the body three of the managers of the of the employees of the factory are in question we still havent find out yet just yet on an official statement why or how the explosions started and i witnessed this morning who is an ex employee by the factory worker express has sadness and also witnessed the panic as you know many of the workers are trying to escape from the explosion and the local residents were also helping in assisting and she also expressed our explain that many of these workers were actually women that were victims of the explosion sorry thank you. Still ahead here on aljazeera a former argentinean president is accused of trying to derail an investigation to benefit iran. And the legal battle that could challenge a Northern Island strict abortion law. How the weather is relatively quiet in japan for the time being as virtually no cloud to see what cloud there is further north running to the yellow sea and north korea have not seen much rain forecast to come out of it and is just cloud here as it money runs into the finals of honshu to her car to still leaving tokyo in the sunshine at twenty degrees beijing still at twenty as well no significant breach on the edges Just Sunshine now there is rain returning to the side of honshu in q shoes well theres significant circulation but a bit further south off your screen there is still that tropical cycle spinning around heading study towards japan but beyond that its now gone quiet the northeast monsoons tucked into china weve got dry. 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Youre watching aljazeera remind us of our top stories for you today kenyas president ial Election Rerun has been marred by protests and opposition boycotts one person was shot and died later in hospital in the opposition stronghold of his son with Security Forces using live ammunition and tear gas to disperse the crowds. The iraqi Prime Minister says his government wont accept anything but the cancellation of the kurdish secession bid hes in tehran for talks with iranian leaders both countries have big kurdish populations and oppose any talk of separation. At least forty seven people have been killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory in indonesia incident happened at an Industrial Complex and tang around twenty five kilometers west of the capital jakarta. The Spanish Senate is meeting to debate the implementation of article one five five to remove catalonia as political or ptolemy the Catalan LeaderCollege Speech amount is also holding a meeting in barcelona to discuss the Regional Response hes turned down an invitation to speak to senators in madrid article why. Five five is approved and implemented its expected to come into effect on saturday thousands of University Students in barcelona are demonstrating against spains plans to dissolve the cattle and government under simmons joins us live from barcelona so andrew the latest on the protest has it shaping up. Well the protest is shaping up in the sense that its now march and its heading here to the palace of generally. The seat of government in barcelona right now and it is set to be sacked wholesale well it could be less than forty eight hours time but nothing is. Predictable about this crisis because in the last hour there have been reports that. In fact reports that are now actually multiplying reports that the president is actually intent on calling. December the twentieth he has actually said that as far as he is concerned we understand that this could be the only option available now well be hearing more from him in the coming half an hour possibly less and hell be speaking from this building now. Has been. Dress the senate which is going to set in place the rollout of article one five five in the coming hours and day on friday it is due to come into place that will take a power from this Regional Government it will also impose the rule of law effectively from madrid. And a whole raft of other measures could it be. Is trying to call the bluff of money on the oil in the sense that hes taking his control of announcing elections himself rather than article one hundred five doing it because thats one of the main aspects of this article one five five Mariano Rajoy direct role and cools elections presses the button for calling elections through the senate from madrid and gets control of that situation imposing ministers to can. This government instead of it happening naturally as it is now unnaturally madrid would make out because he says all of the actions in calling this referendum october the first which was declared illegal and wrong in every aspect but adrian stocks were going to be hearing we think from the president is that none of the moves taken with article one five five was strictly constitutionally legal and the government has been going through every line of the constitution with teams of lawyers to challenge it its already said that it intends to appeal against the article one five five being triggered and its also picking out a number of issues such as one in which article one five two directly contradicts one five one and actually imposes the need to have autonomous rule here along with a president and a parliament julie elected by the people now the lawyers will be arguing that article one five one takes a lot of way and therefore it is not the true implementation is the wrong use of one hundred five should i say rather one flight on. The situation now is adrian that this is not by any way if its true going to guarantee a smooth run with the voters here because catalans many of them dont want to see this not only that there are rumors that many ministers within the Coalition Government here are unhappy as well of the p. T. Cat party which pushed him on his president also is known to be conservative but not your wrist in terms of secession whereas the Coali