Time or shall carry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes catalonia ignores warnings from spains Prime Minister and was closer to declaring secession. A low voter turnout in kenyas second president ial election and three months so what does this expected victory for whoever can yatta mean for the country will have a live report. Bernie ops out of the International Criminal court raising questions about who the body targets for prosecution. We can be the generation that in the Opioid Epidemic we can do. Present donald trump declares the Opioid Crisis a Public Health emergency and to overcome addiction in the u. S. Process session parties in catalonia hybrid to. A motion with the Regional Parliament to proclaim independence from spain there have comes as the senate in madrid debates whether to grant the Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy special powers to sack the catalog president and has Regional Government catalunya as president refused to hold early elections unless the Central Government agree to certain conditions speaking in the senate royce said he planned elections in catalonia soon so we have made in madrid first lets go to Andrew Simmons and catalan use capital barcelona so andrew what more do we know about this development that it seems that barcelona is inching closer and closer to trying to break away. We know quite a bit now in the past ten minutes that the callus pushed him on has arrived at parliament a Plenary Session is starting soon the parliament has been in session since thursday evening debating the whole situation with the big gulf between the parties will produce a session and totally against it fairy beattie and passionate exchanges but now its going to be decision time in the coming hours and we have here a translation of a resolution thats going to be put by the Ruling Coalition of p. T. Cat and e r c p d cat which is center right see which is socialist that is a minority government so they dont have the power to actually get a resolution through without the support of the c u p which is a Left Wing Party and this is the resolution the main body of it to reconstitute the catalan republic as an independent sovereign state social and democratic rule of law to be instituted with this and to initiate the process which is democratic and citizen based thats the main extract it means really the parliament will she make a declaration of secession now. How will this play out it could well be that there could be a boycott from the opposition parties the socialists for example want to have elections there and some other parties who want independence also want to go ahead with that which was the plan that was put forward to two colace push them all and he rejected it based on a number of points he couldnt get agreement but anyway theres also a suggestion that from the p. P. Thats the ruling party that they should stop defying the state they should stop all actions that are illegal because this vote if it takes place and it looks as if it will do will be deemed illegal and that is a major piece of history whichever way it goes and as things stand as the mathematics go with this agreement as ive just explained it may well go ahead. Ok andrew thank you for that update from barcelona lets go to madrid now where hota is standing by live so the Prime Minister spains Prime Minister. Spoke earlier tell us more about what he had to say. The Prime Minister really was putting forward the reasoning behind. Article five and basically what he said there will be heard over and over again throughout his speech is that everything that has happened in catalonia has been. From the minute. Referendum to vote the referendum was announced to the when it did the creator of the referendum was signed when the vote was happened he also said that everything that happened was. Said from his point of view is that madrid had offered many times. To. Backtrack from his position he was actually invited. Yesterday there were deliberation around this article one five five and actually. All indications that he has no choice but to trigger this article that has never been it has never been done before in this country and when and then he sort of went on to explain what would happen once this article one five five is triggered. If the Senate Approves this the president of the Spanish Government will dissolve parliament and call elections within six months my aim is to call elections as soon as possible we also ask you to authorize the following decisions to remove from office the president the Deputy President and the cabinet members of the catalan government. So what if catalonia declares independence takes this final really drastic step where does that leave much for it. I think it wont change in madrid position in my heart in it you have to remember that article one five five is a very broad based article that doesnt go into specifics and it basically called on the government to protect. The country and to protect the country if some sort of region behaves out of the rule of law what this article could allow the Prime Minister to do even though so far no one has broken about that openly but that option still exists what would happen is that probably they would go ahead with. The government and. Now its a matter of seeing whether that government will actually go quietly or not certainly the president and the Vice President of catalonia would be removed now earlier when Prime Minister of speaking he said that the parliament would stay in place even though that parliament would not be allowed to deliberate on anything that has to do with the referendum or with the session but it would be good its own its usual business now if the parliament in catalonia is the one whos going to vote shortly as it seems to be calling for independence it might be that he will take this step further and parliament certainly i think. Does have the support of the lawmakers here inside the senate throughout his speech he had a lot of rocas even as he walked in before he even opened his mouth he was already being uploaded quite vigorously. If this really goes ahead. The positions here in madrid would already hard. To tell made life for us in madrid hota thank you. A low voter turnout and kenyas rerun president ial election election that is further divided the country while more voting is expected on saturday its a virtual given that the incumbent president who cannot or will remain in power Opposition Leader raila odinga not only boycotted the election but also said his party will be the voice of the resistance at least four people were shot dead after violence broke out between his supporters and police and kenyas Election Commission says more than one in ten polling stations failed to open due to what it called security challenges more than six and a half million kenyans cast their ballots on thursday thats just thirty five percent of registered voters now lets contrast that with the election and in august when eighty percent turned out nearly fifteen million voters thirty five thousand five hundred sixty four polling stations open five thousand three hundred one thousand polling stations did not and voting had to be postponed in four counties in western kenya elections will be held in home of a consuming quarry and say on saturday made a miller joins us live from nairobi so for me to how divided are kenyans over this vote and how its all played out. Well hearing what kenyans have said up to this point there certainly is concern around to what this election and the thirty five percent turnout might represent your which were basically looking at two camps those that voted for president to work in the art and those who stayed away from the polls opposition supporters who heeded the score by the Opposition Leader raila odinga to boycott the election very much the focus will be Going Forward will be on the elections that are outstanding in some of those places that you mentioned and also other areas where they werent able to open polling stations due to a number of reasons not just the protests or the clashes that we saw between protesters and police at various points in the country especially in the western part of kenya speaking to kenyans in recent weeks many of them want to move forward they are they are tired of being in this eternal election cycle and they wanted to come to an end now looking at this process been extended because of outstanding polling stations there certainly of frustration and that will add to the sort of polarized country that were seeing when we look at people supporting the opposition and the incumbent president raila odinga so lets talk about the the opposition what else are we hearing about. His plans for his supporters Going Forward. Well the the medias focus are these outstanding elections that are due to take place on saturday thats according to the Electoral Commission regarding that raila odinga has said that people should continue boycotting the polls and the poor turnout is also representative of the lack of confidence kenya has in a president who are kenyatta that may not necessarily be the case certainly there were more than eight Million People who voted for kenyatta in the now an old august election but beyond these elections we dont know if theyre loading the will take legal action a few weeks ago in september he had said that he wouldnt take legal action with regard to the election there took place in august he later turned around and that he did. He did proceed to the Supreme Court so we dont know what his stance might be Going Forward he certainly has made mention of this Resistance Movement but what form that will actually take can be said raila odinga said he would spell out what that would include if its possibly economic boycotts or or anything along that line but a lot of very very when it comes to what he may do next i mean a miller live in nairobi for me to thank you a court of south africa has sentenced to white men to long jail terms for kidnapping and assault after they forced a black man into a coffin and threaten to set him on fire will almost thousand in the old jackson have been sentenced to eleven and fourteen years in person respectively the case caused outrage in the country and an outpouring of support for the victim victor and watch were after a mobile phone footage of this went viral. Australias Prime Minister has been forced to delay a trip to israel as he deals with a constitutional crisis that has cost his government its parliamentary majority the deputy Prime Minister part of a choice as one of five people the high court expelled on friday because they were in breach of laws preventing door citizens from entering Parliament Andrew thomas reports. Barnaby joyce like to crack a cattle within parliament to burnish his old image but on friday Australias High Court decided when he was elected he wasnt australian enough to be an m. P. Let alone Australias DeputyPrime Minister joyce his father was born in new zealand and though he says he didnt know it joyce was entitle to new zealand citizenship to know no reason to believe that any other country but israel is born just justly and you know i grew up. And i served in Nations Defense forces not reasonably well thinking but its rather a straight is constitution says no one its hard to the rights of a citizen of a foreign power can stand for parliament on friday the high court decided ignorance of joule citizenship was no excuse five m. P. s have been thrown out of parliament in all but most a senate says it will be replaced by others from their partys Barnaby Joyce his case was different he was an m. P. In the house of representatives where the government of Prime MinisterMalcolm Turnbull had until friday a majority of just one without joyce the government is at risk the decision of the court today is clearly not the outcome we were hoping for but the business of government goes on it can for now. Time with its most famous for its annual Country Music festival but under some of the second will be a byelection here in which joyce is now were announcing his news even citizenship will try to win back his own. Seat but even if he does there are other problems if joyce wasnt properly elected as an m. P. He wasnt politically a minister only the decisions he made as one could now be challenged in cool when it came to the point where he realised that he might not be a minister when it was referred to the high court when there were doubts about it it might well be that those decisions of vulnerable the house already being a more immediate consequence australias Prime Minister was supposed to be travelling to israel on saturday leaving Barnaby Joyce in charge here at home Malcolm Turnbull has now been laid back trim indefinitely under thomas aljazeera sitting. Here secretary of state Rex Tillerson has made a phone call to one of Myanmar Senior army chiefs to express his concern over reported atrocities against the revenge in Rakhine State speaking to senior general feeling he urged Security Forces to support the government and in the violence tillerson also wants them to allow the safe return of ethnic rancher who have fled the area now more than eight hundred thousand refugees in camps in bangladesh following this military kamila terry crackdown and man mark. Has more from him gone. The u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson in his telephone conversation with me on mon military chief men on playing also touched on other issues in northern va kind state he talked about the distribution of aid which has been affected not only because of the ongoing violence but because of the hostility displayed by local rakhine population towards aid workers he also urged to myanmar authorities to grant unrestricted access to journalists to the area to report on whats going on there and the media the u. S. State department is said to be considering formally declaring whats happening to whats the will hinge or in the kind state as ethnic cleansing the u. S. And the u. K. Have already suspended defense cooperation with myanmar because of the ongoing violence now the telephone conversation between telus and men on playing comes just votes the un human rights and boy to myanmar young he leaves spoke to the Un General Assembly in new york and said it was time for the Un Security Council to issue a strongly worded resolution because what was happening the violence happening in Rakhine State could fuel extremism and create a bigger problem for the region now the myanmar government has denied the allegations leveled against it and says the crisis is being distorted by a campaign of mis information the government spokesman told our jazeera on friday that there is no such thing as ethnic cleansing taking place in myanmar but written your refugees continue to stream into bangladesh or bringing with them consistent accounts of persecution and abuse. And they. First country to withdraw from the International Criminal court takes effect on friday after it notified the United Nations of its intention to leave. Focuses too much on africa. Doesnt affect Ongoing Court proceedings. This was an unexpected move but still why why this move. As i mentioned some african nations have accused the i. C. C. Of targeting in the continent which is why countries like gambia and south africa had also threatened to leave the i. C. C. Was created in part because of their wanton genocide in one thousand nine hundred four one hundred ten thousands of people were killed thirty four african nations are among the one hundred twenty four countries who joined the body of the us russia and china are not part of the International Court and neither are many arab nations have the prosecutors ten current investigations all except one in georgia and volved african politicians and warlords body is they spokesman for the i. C. C. And joins us from the hague on skype and we appreciate your time very much so i guess my first question is your reaction to this move something that we knew was coming but still your reaction to it i think that the meeting important thing here is to highlight two points one is that we respect the sofa and each state interstate is going to decide to join or to withdraw from one national t. V. So i didnt part of that is that the consequences of this withdrawal are covered by the article of that you keep it so and according to the statute