Asked the senate in madrid for special powers to sack the catalan president and his government. Hello welcome to aljazeera live from doha also coming up. A low turnout in thursdays rerun president ial election in kenya. Becomes the first country to leave the International Criminal court. Im going to make sure that i dont be im going to get back to work and australian coat disqualifies the deputy Prime Minister of the citizenship laws meaning the government loses its one seat majority. Prime minister Mariano Rajoy has also said its image. For special powers to sack the catalan president and his government the senate is meeting to decide whether to trigger trigger article one five five and that would allow them to suspend catalonians political autonomy and it comes just a day after the catalonian president refused to hold early elections unless a Central Government agreed to certain conditions speaking in the senate Prime Minister has said he planned elections in catalonia quite soon but you mention of course you know if you. 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 of the president the Deputy President and the cabinet members of the Catalan Government we have two correspondents in spain we have holder abdulhamid shes there in the spanish capital madrid we have Andrew Simmons hes in the catalonian capital of barcelona first so to holder in madrid so holder my understanding is that they have the Spanish Parliament that the Spanish Government has of have already agreed to trigger one five five but they are now debating how to implement it which powers they are preparing to take away from the castle and government. Well there have already agreed. Doesnt happen. Now its clear that. Will gradually. Remove. President. On. The six month period but. The local media. Is. Early december. To gradually. Talking about. And if as we expect then the Spanish Parliament agrees to implement our school one five five how soon would that take effect. Well that could be very soon you have two more steps one of them is that this bill will have to be ratified by the cabinet and that could happen later today or tomorrow or saturday and then it has to appear in the official which is online these days so that also a very fairly quick procedure so many will tell you here around me that this. Could be in charge of catalonia as soon as tomorrow saturday all right thank you for that. In the spanish capital madrid now lets go to Andrew Symonds whos in. The capital of the castle and region and all people in barcelona and beyond bracing themselves and five five to be implemented because thats thats how it looks at the moment. They most certainly are and theyre expecting it to happen as hard as says what it does actually get passed things will happen very quickly indeed and no one is kidding themselves that this is very serious indeed the parliament by me is in session its been in session for several hours now and it started on friday night following a whole sequence of events involving speculation that the president would actually call snap elections that is still an option for this parliament they could vote in favor of snap elections one member was stating on thursday night that its not too late that they could go now with a possible deal to do that was brokered by a number of people including the basque president but the situation now is along these lines parliament could in theory vote in favor of declaring secession however it is a clear its a minority government that is technically mathematically a number that would form a majority for process session but would they actually vote that way there are some people who are wavering possibly because of the illegality as far as the spanish constitution is concerned in declaring secession and also many are wavering because theyre not sure i say many the number is unclear theyre not sure whether or not the right time for secession is now so youve got this situation going on then youve still also got the position whereby you could get the president once again making an announcement to the country and possibly declaring secession so it isnt clear right now no its not a tall clear is it but one thing that we do seem to be clear about now and we just listened to Mariano Rajoy talking in the senate and he says that one of his first jobs will be to sack Police Demand and his entire government. Thats right color speech demand is well aware of whats at stake is prepared to resist would could there be possible force involved again open questions this will be completely unknown ground when article one five five rolls into effect and the measures within it the measure of the measures the which way theyve been interpreted by the government could be very hard indeed that will be madrid not only having political control of catalonia but also control over its Security Forces all right andy thank you very much anderson is in barcelona and of course well be keeping you right across developments in both madrid and in barcelona throughout the day here on out is there. Now voting calendar the vote counting i should say is underway in kenya after thursdays president ial Election Rerun the turnout was rather low after the Opposition Leader rather a danger called for the vote to be boycotted the Election Commission says just over six and a half million kenyans actually cast their ballots although four of the forty seven counties are still to vote they will vote on saturday and the turnout represents about thirty five percent of registered voters compare that with the all the selection which was an hour by the Supreme Court where turnout was more than double that eighty percent with almost fifteen million kenyans casting their vote live now to free media miller our correspondent whos in the kenyan capital nairobi this is turning into a very ugly affair isnt it from either the election is still not over the rerun of the election is still not over. And martin so much of the focus now will lie on the Electoral Commission and whether or not it can carry out elections in these four counties that youve mentioned they also say it will go beyond the four counties places where they vote didnt take place because of weather conditions and that sort of thing but ultimately the priority is dealing with these places where there was a mass of a boycott by opposition supporters they stayed away from the polls they disrupted activities in those areas polling stations were kept close electoral officials were kept away from the polling stations in fact many say not reporting to work because they felt threatened the likelihood of the selection or this extension rather taking place on saturday it really is questionable because we see this consistent in the uniformed demonstrations from opposition members they say if theres no electoral reforms are there no reforms to the Electoral Commission specifically and this is what theyve been saying for weeks now then they want to vote and this is the stance theyre maintaining and ultimately then the question faced by the. Electoral commission is whether or not theyll meet constitutional requirements if elections dont take place within a mandated period in all two hundred ninety constituencies around kenya so what we really expect despite the untidiness of this entire saga what we really expect is that president to who kenyatta will continue with his second term and then well have the situation where at least forty five percent of kenyans have voted for another party the opposition or havent voted at all. And thats a significant amount of people martin almost half the electorate not turning up at the polls and what does that mean in terms of their democratic rights this is what we heard from many of the opposition supporters in these weeks that what would this election really mean if they dont turn up to vote and what would it mean to the jet timoci of the selection and president Uhuru Kenyatta taking up the second term in office it really calls into question a number of issues around democracy in kenya if six Million People ultimately are disenfranchised this is what the opposition says and this issue with kenya at the moment goes far beyond just elections and whats happened in the last couple of weeks but also talks to a number of issues around independent institutions like the Electoral Commission as well the Supreme Court theyve been allegations of political interference and intimidation and so theres a larger question that the countrys dealing with in terms of Going Forward martine all right for me to thank you for me to me live in nairobi. Now burundi has become the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal court it takes effect today thats friday a year after it notified the United Nations of its intentions to leave now this follows accusations that the court focuses too much on africa the i. C. C. Says the withdrawal doesnt affect Court Proceedings. Or has the latest from good tega in burundi the bahraini government and the ruling hartley are very proud about who will probably live the International Criminal court the president will be in the countryside in the area few hours from now will be meeting to supporters telling them about the move a time that he will the president is willing to work for them the government main argument is that they feel that the political crisis started back in two hundred fifty and they say that the International Community that. Has been siding with activists and Opposition Party one official its become a case of big bully and it does look immediately. That we can nation even if you dont do it we would you just you know the government really partner they want in by relieving us what we have courts and that you can do whatever you want to be part of the organization and that is why the alien now causes of africa has sentenced to white men to long jail terms for kidnapping and assault after they forced a black man into a coffin and then threaten to set him on fire. Jets and have now been sentenced to eleven and fourteen years in jail respectively the case calls outrage in the country and an outpouring of support for the victim. After a mobile phone footage of the incident went viral deep seated racial inequality persists in south africa two decades after the end of white minority rule. Lots more to come here at aljazeera including a u. N. Panel blame the Syrian Government for a chemical attack that killed more than eighty people in april. We can be the generation that ends the Opioid Epidemic we can do it. President Opioid Crisis a Public Health emergency and vows away the comma diction in the United States. Hello daily showers are quite substantial this time the malaysia and indonesia you see from the satellite picture the bright white tops that pop up in no particularly well loaded fashion but if you get Something Like one hundred sixty minute pages i mean thats obviously flashflood territory even landslide territory its typical this time the it doesnt happen everywhere but it does happen now the green dots are the big shots it looks like the concentration may be heading toward sudden thailand at least the gulf of thailand and the far south of vietnam which means does it show us the south that all the way down to java where we seem particularly around jakarta some heavy rain recently so that will all be potentially repeated in australia its big temperature change once again we see in one active frontal system area of low pressure big whether its on the storms on its way across the tasman sea this is another line or effect a change in adelaide temperature forecast to dine thousand degrees probably a bright skies on saturday twenty one in melbourne the whole lot moving east scattering the showers i think in queensland behind it personal so at ninety degrees despite that southerly breeze not much different the following day whereas a warming trend once again for adelaide and melbourne the breeze is taking more out of the warm interior sun should be itemizing for sunday in melbourne could be a lovely day. It was an audacious bid to capture a city in the southern philippines and turn it into a province of myself. With the smoking room is asia the new battlefront twenty one east investigates at this time on aljazeera its impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis its not just about the billion trillion dollar debt its not just about the banks its not just about the government. Lets take a look at the top star is here at aljazeera the spanish Prime Minister has asked the senate to vote in favor of suspending catalonia as parliament his request comes a day after the catalan president refuse to hold early elections thereby deepening the crisis in spains autonomous region kenyas Election Commission says six and a half Million People voted in the countrys president ial Election Rerun the authorities president voting in several counties that until saturday because opposition. Supporters had been fighting with police four people were killed in the violence the india has become the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal court this comes a year after it notified the United Nations of its intention to leave the i. C. C. Says the withdrawal wont affect on going Court Proceedings concerning burundi. Now an australian code ruling on citizenship has now thrown the country into political crisis the High Court Ruled that five politicians in the eligible. To hold office because the countrys constitution prevents all nationals from entering parliament now four senators are affected but the real focus is on the deputy Prime MinisterBarnaby Joyce hes the only member of the lower house whos been affected now his expulsion means that Malcolm Turnbulls government has now lost its one seat majority Barnaby Joyce says hell recontest his seat in a by election in december but until then the deputy leadership position is open australia now faces weeks of political turmoil if joyce loses his seat in the Opposition Labor Party wins over the support of m. P. s from smaller parties there could be a change of government in australia without an election. You know i know no reason to believe our system of any other country those trails born just a just a and you know i grew up. And i served in the Nations Defense force is not my reason to leave i think im going to try to take the hits and take the sec for us but you know well buy the ticket we know the risks and ads and now im going to make sure that i dont promise b im going to get back to work while some in the country think that the law banning jule citizens from entering parliament is a little bit outdated the Prime Minister says the government will consider whether changes need to be made well closely evaluate the full implications implications of the courts decision which will now be carefully be carefully considered by strains and of course in particular bought the farm more now from our correspondent in sydney andrew thomas. The high courts decision was essential a n. E. M. P. Whod been born abroad even to australian parents or whose parents had been born abroad should have done some investigation as to whether they had citizenship of another country and if they didnt then they were ineligible for Australias Parliament when they stood and that applies to five of the seven m. P. s that they were considering crucially they have ruled that bobby joyce Australias DeputyPrime Minister is in eligible to sit in holland so that has to consequences first it means that australias governments which only had a majority of one in the lower house of representatives no longer has a majority a tall and if Barnaby Joyce does not win a by election now due in december in his area then the government in australia could fall because of this but second because australia is that the Prime Minister has also been a minister in the government making decisions when he wasnt eligible it throws into question all the decisions that he has been making and that opens up the possibility of lots of legal cases questioning some of the strain his governments Big Decisions over recent months and years. Now a un panel has blamed the Syrian Government for the lethal chemical attack on a rebel held village that took place in april in it more than eighty people including tens of children were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the town of canned chicken almost six hundred others were injured there two days after the attack you may remember President Trump ordered a missile strike on a Syrian Government airbase syria has repeatedly denied any responsibility for the attack russia a syrian ally has criticized this u. N. Report saying it contains many inconsistences and what it describes as there is side evidence mike hanna now has more from the United Nations. Well the joint Investigative Commission or jim as it is known has presented a thirty three page report to the u. N. Security council in a says that its received a number of allegations of the use of chemical weapons within the war in syria over the last few months it focuses though on two specific attacks the one that hunch a coup in it finds that the Syrian Government must be held responsible for that attack it admits that it did not send its Fact Finding Team to the actual scene of the attack however two satellite imagery interviews with witnesses cell phone footage and importantly it found that the precursor used in the explosive that disperse the siren was identical to the precursor that had been stored by the syrian army when it was tested before the civil civil war began so it found that the Syrian Government must be held accountable it looked into the syrian claim that aircraft had dropped bombs on a warehouse where rebels had stored a chemical weapon but found that that particular theory could not be upheld and found incontrovertibly it says that the Syrian Government was responsible for that sarin gas attack the other incident it looked at was in omaha in september last year where jim found that i saw had used mortars to disperse sulfur mustard at a village and at least two people were killed in that particular attack now the mandate for jerm is due to be renewed by mid november earlier this week the u. S. Brought a resolution asking that its mandate be renewed before its report russia vetoed that particular resolution what well be hearing over the next few days and weeks is discussion between russia and other members of the Security Council as to whether this report by jim can be seen as a fair unbiased and honest it will be. Russias reaction to this which will determine whether or not it withholds its veto when the mandate for jim comes up for renewal within the next few weeks now the u. S. Secretary of defense is in south korea hes meeting the countrys president as well as defense officials james mattis has been to the Demilitarized Zone between south and north korea hes in the country to lay the groundwork for the planned visit of President Donald Trump thats in about two weeks from now he says diplomatic efforts a needed to find a peaceful solution to the tensions on the Korean Peninsula and as the u. S. Secretary of state television is made clear our goal is not war but rather the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula well the secretary of state himself Rex Tillerson has spoken by phone to a Senior Army General emir ma about the atrocities committed against the ranger ereka in state that he was speaking to senior general min climbing and he urged and then to the violence as well as the safe return of the ranger who fled their homes there are now more than eight hundred thousand ranger who are refugees in camps in bangladesh after a military crackdown in miramar that started in august. Paris cooled has handed down a suspended jail term in the corruption trial of equitorial guinea is Vice President taylor doreen and gamma Obiang Obiang is the son of the long time leader daughter of a young and gamma whos been president of this oil rich west african nation for thirty eight she is the younger obiang is accused of spending more than a thousand times his official salary on a six story mansion in paris a fleet of luxury cars as well as Michael Jackson memorabilia the case was started by two anticorruption groups who say families of several African Leaders live in france on the proceeds of corruption david chase has more now from paris. Obiang has been sentenced to three years in prison hes been fined thirty Million Dollars or more and hes also been told that all the property thats already been seized will remain in the possession of the french government so this is a very important precedent its that under new legislation before the socalled tribunals of corrections behind me it sets the ill gotten gain legislation into an important facet of the french legal system it means that essentially those people charged with corruption charges embezzlement charged with Money Laundering essentially taking this money out of very poor states in africa taking the oil money taking the timber money as the as it was done in the case vectorial guinea they will no longer be able to spend those ill gotten gains here in france so its been welcomed by members of Transparency International who brought this case it means that in future and there are other cases pending that nobody inside africa or elsewhere can take money illegally from their people and from their countries through corruption through embezzlement through bribes and spend that money here buying large flats and mansions in paris Luxury Yachts private jets Michael Jacksons memorabilia they can no longer do that they cant spend that money here they will be open to legislation being taken against them by this court behind me president drums as declared ovulated expand a Public Health emergency in the United States the government will now have more power to address the issue and freedom to change legislation its thought the more than sixty four thousand americans died last year due to appeal at addiction and overdose. The Trading Floor of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is closing its doors at the end of the month giving way to Online Transactions the venue which will soon become a museum symbolizes the citys growth into an International Financial hub in the 1980s and ninetys bothas de vere gopalan explains hong kong fragile system is changing into one dominated by investors in mainland china. With a bang and much enthusiasm goal rise of china base Logistics Company debuts in hong kong stock market initial Public Offerings from chinese firms are becoming more frequent with more than a thousand companies from across the border trading their shares on the hang seng index you have only with hong kong within Greater China this large equity market place that basically is accessible as long as you are qualified company so without government interference you can usually come here with the size of chinas economy it just pushes more of these Quality Companies to the listing opportunity here chinese entities account for about half the number of companies on the Hong Kong Exchange compared with five percent in one thousand nine hundred seven and the territory transition from a british colony to a special Administrative Region of China Hong Kong has always been a Financial Hub but over the past two decades the nature of the citys markets have changed drastically along with chinas economy Chinese Companies and investors looking for International Exposure are now a huge part of the Financial System but there is a nother big change y. P. Taking place in the citys stock markets. The news that Hong Kong Stock Exchange is shutting down its Trading Floor by the end of the month has caught many by surprise despite the fact that its used by only a few brokers now Online Technology and trading by computer have made this place redundant before you. Get to so many friends and so made a connection is. Changed by now. The exchange has shrunk over the years but has always remained an important symbol. In the early ninetys a popular t. V. Series captured the excitement on the Exchange Floor and the lives of traders in the red vests you think youre cool and then i was proud. And the family said i dont doubt the saxophone and other classes like this little other era although there are those who are less sentimental i mean they dont close because after that theyre not working in there anymore because everyone is if the internet its the end of an era where you can have spent thirty years here but i can use the one of the well financed or center is. How. Treating home from next month the Trading Floor becomes a part of a Museum Dedicated to the stock Market Making it yet another piece of hong kongs unique identity relegated to history. Hong kong. Traverses take a look at the top stories here. Spains Prime Minister has also said if a special powers to fire catalonia is president his request comes a day after catalonia as leader. Refused to hold early elections in the differing Crisis Services session so here in the senate in madrid Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy said he planned elections in catalonia soon. You know if you will africa but. 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. Kenyas Election Commission says six and a half Million People voted in the countrys president ial Election Rerun the authorities postponed voting in several counties until saturday after supporters of the opposition fought with police four people were killed in the violence but wendy has become the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal court it comes a year after it notified the un of its intention to leave the i. C. C. Says that with the euro wont affect ongoing Court Proceedings concerning burundi a un panel has blamed syrias Assad Government for the lethal chemical attack on a rebel held village in april movement eighty people were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the town of holland shaken its one of the worst Chemical Attacks of the war and sparked International Outrage a court in paris has handed down a suspended jail term in the corruption trial a vet called tauriel guinea is Vice PresidentTaylor Doreen Obiang hes the son of the long time leader theodore b. Young gamma hes been president of the oil rich west african nation for thirty eight is the younger of the ng is accused of spending more than a thousand times his official salary on a six story mansion in paris a fleet of supercars as well as Michael Jackson memorabilia all right up to date those are the very latest headlines from us here at aljazeera Richelle Carey will be with you at the top of the hour but thats one of the nice. And