Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20170928 : vimarsana.com

I know im right about this and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. After a landslide yes vote in a session referendum the government in iraqs kurdish region rejects baghdads demand to hand over control of airports. The u. S. President plans to cut the number of refugees entering the country to the lowest in nearly four decades plus. Im in the United States with a family of cambodian american felons fighting against a deportation. And our ride down Money Laundering lane a london bus tour of alleged marquee property deals by high profile nigerians. Hours after winning a landslide in the secession referendum the government of iraqs kurdish region says it wont hand over control of airports to baghdad the result has been announced despite a last minute appeal to council it by the iraqi Prime Minister Charles Trafford reports from their bill. So liberations on the streets of the bill up to ninety two percent of voters said yes to secession from the kurdish region of northern iraq. The referendum is very important it will for my future and i hope at least that baghdad will eventually to be independent. With the federal government in baghdad is called a referendum on constitutional and is refusing to even recognize the result that alone start negotiations with the Kurdish Regional government ok allergy of the future independence for iraq. Events of the last few days here can only be described as some of the most momentous in the regions history but the political ramifications of. The threats continue from the fact that governments and neighboring countries and theres a sense of great uncertainty as to what could happen next. The federal government has threatened to close the Regions International airspace it could heal thora g. s dont hand over control of the two main airports by a friday deadline. Turkey is threatening to cancel the kayleigh g. s oil pipeline and close the land border turkey is the biggest supplier of goods and food to the k r g we cant. Beat ourselves. We dont have that much power. That a party is making of the same as the damn regime and the kurds dont have a life if we stay with baghdad. Maybe determination among the people who have wanted a country of their own for generations but the celebrations here may not last long. But aljazeera has built five solicitor body is director of the center for the study of the middle east at Indiana University he says argent measures need to be taken to deescalate the standoff. The reaction and but it was entirely predictable that there would be. An Immediate Reaction as for turkey and iran also they warn of what what if the referendum occurred and yet the referendum went forward all of the region regional states including the arab states. By consensus the United States the United Kingdom again the European Union and the United Nations recommended against holding this referendum referendum proceeded so what i would say is that the escalation has been mutual the question we should be asking now is how to deescalate and how to get the parties sitting around the table going to start Iraqi Kurdistan as landlocked. And it is surrounded by neighbors who are not friendly to the independence project therefore. Some intermediate solution at least for the time being for the foreseeable future needs to be entered into the top u. S. Democrats has come out in support of an independent kurdish state Chuck Schumer leads the democrats in the senate hes calling on the u. S. Government to recognize what he called mondays historic vote he says it should back the creation of an independent kurdish state catalonia says it will go ahead with an independence referendum on sunday despite spain declaring it illegal the government in madrid is planning to Deploy Police at polling stations to prevent people from voting koppen hall reports from barcelona. Last thing at night activists stay up late campaigning for catalonia to break away. The first thing in the morning their adverse trees get up early calling for spain to stay. In. The Spanish Government has declared the secession ballot illegal but catalan interior minister forn explained why regional authorities were pressing ahead. I mean the. Government is not just trying to stop a referendum to stop. The citing its political future things have gone beyond the simple call for selfdetermination and what were also debating here is the defense of democracy and of the most fundamental freedoms. The dritte is stepping up efforts to stop the referendum many schools are going to be potential. Centers and. Into the area. Madrid has also said it will take command of the Capital Police force that is the boss of this. Cattle an authority is a resisting that order. From the most also the Security Force of catalonia and theyre responsible for law and order their role should be to permit people to vote in peace we dont want a confrontation but we will defend our rights and responsibilities as. The referendum is planned for this sunday. See. Thing would have been like in the Scottish Referendum to debate the alternatives thats been impossible in spain. On the streets of boston alone not this group is small loud and not in the mood to haul measures they would like to see spain remain united and for the cattle and government to be completely shut down. Pennoyer aljazeera boston logan spending. The u. S. Congress has been briefed on the president s plans to cut to refugee numbers donald trump wants to cap the number next year at an all time low of forty five thousand White House Correspondent Kimberly Hall could reports donald trump first announced he would seek to permanently reduce the number of refugees entering the United States as he addressed the United Nations we offer Financial Assistance to hosting countries that will seek to host refugees as close to their home countries as possible. This is the safe responsible and humanitarian approach now trumps secretary of state is meeting with lawmakers to formalize the goal of capping the number of refugees entering the u. S. To around forty five thousand this is an historic reduction in two thousand and seven more than forty eight thousand word mid under president bush under barack obama almost seventy thousand refugees settled in the United States but this year under donald trump the refugee cap is set to fall to around fifty four thousand and by twenty eight thousand the president hopes to reduce that number even further its fury ating activists the trumpet ministration says the lower cap on refugees is for National Security and safety its just based on fear and not facts and because of that were turning away people that could die if we dont let them in and the white house claims that even with the lower number of refugees being admitted to the United States it says it still takes in more refugees than any other nation kimberley hellcat aljazeera washington or the changes to immigration rules under President Donald Trump are threatening to separate families almost eight hundred thousand young combo de ins face on certain futures because a program to protect undocumented children is being reconsidered that have also been cases of people being deported for old criminal convictions a scottish were various were explains. Allison chang never imagined that should be a single mom. Last year she married cambodian refugees soon percy chang but just h. Months later he was deported from america. Were going to have a baby and ill buy a house like. Why would they do this to us. Back in one nine hundred ninety five when percy was just fourteen he was convicted of Second Degree murder in a robbery gone wrong despite completing his sentence sees ago that conviction made him a target for deportation because he was a permanent resident in the us and not a citizen. Some people change im not going to say all but the ones that do change and can make a living and give him back her sorry. They did a mistake. Posi has never met his son he was sent to cambodia five months ago a country he has never been to before because he was born in a time refugee camp since two thousand and two the us has deported more than eight hundred ethnic cambodians to this country these men and women can never go back to america not even as tourists. The us has been paying the government here nine hundred fifty dollars for every deportivo cambodia has recently refused to accept any more convicted criminals until they paid more we need more more and more. Money in there to make those people that live. Like the other people in the country. The Us Government refused our request for an interview but as the deportations hang in limbo so does the face of hundreds of families like allison and post sees corish aljazeera from penn and her correction is a charisma versus full program cambodia deport ations watch one or one east on thursday at twenty two thirty g. M. T. Here on aljazeera. Plenty more ahead on the news. Out of many marking fifty years of israels occupation of the west bank and Golan Heights. The growing support for ukraines Opposition Leader that makes him feel his party is close to power. When a Champions League showdown against munich with the help of one of europes hottest strikers. The un has met to discuss the humanitarian crisis in syria its alleged that russian led airstrikes have destroyed hospitals and killed dozens of civilians both hama provinces have come under heavy bombardment this week but russia says it only struck. A diplomatic editor james bates has more. After more than six years of bloodshed the Un Security Council has heard about so many atrocities in syria the latest attacks bombardment of civilians including the targeting of hospitals acts of escalation by the Syrian Government and its russian allies in whats supposed to be a deescalation zone british and french diplomats have described it as an acceptable and the palling yet the words of the uns own special envoy were markedly less harsh critic first time things april some areas today some allegedly hitting three million and theory than infrastructure including Health Facilities human Rights Groups say theres nothing allegedly about it i think there should always be talk about what happens after the conflict ends but its not ending right now what we saw last week as i said was direct hits on hospitals as the start of intensive but apartments are civilian areas so what that tells us is that this looks like a strategy to punish the civilian population and take out the hospitals first so that health care is impossible the un is trying to reconvene talks in geneva the man who many believe torpedoed previous rounds of negotiation by refusing to discuss political transition was in the Council Chamber Syrian Ambassador bashar al jeffrey is his countrys chief negotiator mr de mistura put pressure on him but his toughest words were reserved for the opposition no one is asking the opposition to thunderous dubbing the. But we are urging their belligerent to realize that it is most credible and effective when its down together and show the radian is to negotiate which with give and take the High Negotiations Committee position is that they are the only legitimate representative of the opposition and its definitely true that some of the other groups that call themselves opposition. Have in the past had close contacts with the assad regime in a famous quotation Winston Churchill once said history is written by the victors and it may just be thats whats now happening in syria the Russian Military help the Syrian Regime turn things around militarily and it seems there are some who now want to give them the are perhaps in the diplomacy to end the war james his era of the United Nations israel has hosted a lavish ceremony marking fifty years of jewish settlements in the occupied west bank and Golan Heights Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that the settlements will never be reversed their illegal hunder International Law although thats disputed by israel sorry for such reports. It was branded a state a vent produced as a t. V. Special a celebration of fifty years since israel in his governments language liberated the west bank in the Golan Heights territories it is occupied ever since and a celebration of settlement construction in that land staged inside the illegal settlement block of goo shits yun its a project that israels Prime Minister for the second time in a month vowed would never be reversed last year your work you go to the issue of. Im saying this very clearly we will never operates settlements in the land of israel its not only a matter of connection to the homeland its not the way to make peace. For the palestinians its a vital part of any future deal and a fading hope for farmers like even him. He turns his crops in the fields around. But his familys land has steadily shrunk he says he lost more than a this year alone and struggles to access land now behind settlement walls. When we are prevented from entering our lands or to fix the harvest i prepared to lend it cost me around ten thousand dollars but they didnt allow me to plant the saplings. Ibrahims town of our harder is part of a wider picture nearly six hundred thousand Israeli Settlers live in the occupied west Bank Including East Jerusalem in a meeting with a Representative Council earlier on wednesday the Prime Minister reportedly promised another three thousand three hundred new units would be approved next month which would make more than seven thousand this year the residents of all how to talk not just of having lost their land but of continuing to lose it the israeli Prime Minister recently promised that not a single israeli settlement will ever be uprooted any time in the future the reality is they continue to expand. This and thats what makes this is densely historical commemoration a charged and divisive one Israel Supreme Court declined to send a representative to what its president called a political event israels pro settler right remains at the center of power its Prime Minister doubling down on his commitment to the settlement project sorry force it aljazeera in the occupied west bank south koreas marking its sixty ninth armed forces to show of military might some of its strategic weapons are being put on display including Ballistic Missiles these are live pictures of some of those displays tensions have been high on the Korean Peninsula for months as north korea ramps up tests of missiles and Nuclear Weapons Catherine Novak is joining us from seoul kathy understand the president has been speaking whats he had to say. Well of course this Armed Forces Day falls at a time of incredibly high tensions as you mentioned robin he says that the security crisis on the peninsula is more tense than ever but that requires South Koreans to be ever more patient of course in the lead up to this we heard the speeches at the United Nations from the president of the United States donald trump indeed and also the foreign minister of north korea so when you have the United States talking about fire and fury when you have north korea talking about the u. S. Allegedly declaring war on north korea president moon seems to strike a figure in the middle of all that trying to be a bit more of a balancing tone if you like saying that there must be this continued push for peace here on the Korean Peninsula weve often heard from him before that there will not be another war on the Korean Peninsula and his message today seemed to be that there must be a deterrence of north korea that north korea must be required to stop its provocations must be required to ultimately give up its Nuclear Weapons and that the ultimate goal is peace but that that is played today shows that south korea does indeed have the capability to Deter North Korea together with the alliance it has with