A session but pressure mounts from neighboring countries angered by the non binding referendum. Catalonia remains defiant on holding sundays independence referendum despite moves against it by spain which has declared the poll illegal. Over three quarters of a million cases of cholera and more than two thousand dead in yemen as a British Aid Agency declares the countrys outbreak as the worst ever on record. And a london bus to a taking in the sights of alleged nigerian Money Laundering property deal. Iraqs government is increasing pressure on Kurdish Regional leaders following mondays a session referendum official results say ninety two percent of those who voted said yes to say. Iraqs Central Government says the vote was Illegal Parliament has called on Prime Minister body to deploy troops to disputed areas including the oil rich city of kirkuk that area is managed by Kurdish Military units but officially governed by baghdad a body says the kurdish leadership must relinquish control of border crossings and oil revenues several International Airlines have agreed to baghdads request to stop flying into airports manage by the Regional Government from friday Turkeys Foreign Ministry has advised its citizens to leave the area before flights are suspended turkeys president rejected better one is warning against Ethnic Division in the region following the verdict. The issue in Northern Iraq is not related to any partys right to establish a state the main issue here is the support for the parties are willing to wait for endless clashes in the region by distorting the unity togetherness and solidarity of the regions peoples the region has already suffered a lot. And the ethnic conflicts will hurt more we have to calculate who will benefit from this situation. Joins us now to tell us more about the regional concerns and that. Coming from iran and turkey. They consider this referendum as a threat to their own National Security you have to bear in mind that they have a sizable kurdish. And those two countries and while the referendum was happening here they were sort of celebrations and they were even messages of support from those kurdish populations whether from iran from i was this referendum actually on the celebrations a night of the referendum itself we saw kurds who had crossed the border where to come here not to vote but to be part of that and many say that it was very symbolic even for them even if it had no direct week and all that they were hoping for it would be the way for them to also forge ahead with some sort of maybe autonomy or any kind of so that selfdetermination and what happens now politically. From here. Well thats the Million Dollar question i mean people are expecting that there is there will be. Problems when you take when you house them they tell you well we knew that we knew about the reaction of the new. Bring countries expect. The reaction from baghdad at the moment what were seeing is that it seems at least that baghdad. And ankara are coordinating together what their response will be the first step is obviously the suspension of all International Flights starting fifteen g. M. T. Friday there we saw the parliament in baghdad for the morning for iraqi forces to be redeployed to the disputed territories derridas it took part in the referendum and but also minorities live and its not really clear what the position of the different minorities to was that referendum is obviously the issue of. A lifeline for both baghdad and its a very complicated matters coming ahead and i think in the coming few days do this situation will be much clearer we do know that the. Regional government is meeting at the moment and from what we know theyre discussing. There was bones words baghdad but the official position is that they cannot they can no more and no longer be partners with the Central Government in baghdad on how to thank you. As wary is associate professor in contemporary history of the middle east at Qatar University he says iraq iran and turkey are coordinating their response to the referendum. We have to expect more pressure on kurdistan i think this is these are the first step of the pressure. Kurdistan and. They have to show good willingness. To the Central Government and they have not done this yet and i think and listen they do that unless they confirm that you know they are willing to cooperate and to coordinate further steps and actually the request of on the Central Government is actually to to. Announce that this referendum is illegal im not sure that the kurdistan will be able to do this after the ninety two percent of the you know voters said yes for and so could the stand and the severe pressure if the International Community would not intervene to do anything i think has to play with the regional players and to give a concession so they can go ahead on their steps or at least accept the fact of that and instead should be done with the coordination with the government and by that. A top u. S. Politician has come out in support of an independent kurdish state leads the democrats in the senate hes calling on the u. S. Government to recognize what he called mondays historic vote his comments come despite e. U. And u. N. Opposition to the holding of the vote of thousands of students in the spanish region of catalonia marching in support of a controversial independence referendum their regional leaders insist the vote will go ahead as planned on sunday thats despite spains Central Government and courts warning that the vote is Illegal Police chiefs of met to discuss plans to block people entering voting centers. In barcelona and in the midst of a protest a demonstration thats been going on all day. Absolutely people five thousand. You know city students theyve just pulled off to close down their school to come out in support of catalonia took place. Sunday. See that many of these cases many of these people are just too young to vote but the issue of secession or independence is a passion point and its a reflection of become a battleground in the fight between the Central Government and catalonia Regional Government as to whether this referendum can go ahead told schools are going to be used as voting stations and what the Central Government has done has been to the police to type up those schools and to close them down like potential crime scenes if you like so that nobody. And what are you hearing about any potential political developments. Many. Brussels. If the. Result. Until now. For the spanish. In the flag and has he been mobbed. The verdict in the trial of a controversial sunni muslim cleric is expected later on thursday in lebanon alice is accused of meeting a shootout in two thousand and thirteen eighteen lebanese soldiers died along with forty of his supporters and two civilians well from his time in beirut. From the outset of all its years rusty prosecution has been pushing for the Death Penalty however the Death Penalty has not been carried out here in lebanon in two thousand and four and perhaps more importantly for such a sentence to be handed down and to be carried out it would require the signature of the president michel on to endorse this sentence seems so many believe that there is some suggestion that the courts could err on the side of caution and come down with a verdict or a sentencing if you will of life in prison whatever the case as weve been saying these people here who have come here in support of those who are being tried are saying that they have no faith in this force and that they dont believe that the trial has been fair. It was one of the earliest bloodiest spillovers into lebanon from the civil war in syria named after the town in southern lebanon where it happened the battle of signed on between the Lebanese Army and supporters of ahmed a seer lasted for two days described by the government as a sunni militant cleric a list here led the confrontations in which forty fighters loyal to him eighteen soldiers and two civilians were killed alessio was relatively unknown before the syrian war started six years ago he rose to prominence quickly pour his fiery speeches on t. V. Criticizing has below for its support of syrian president Bashar Al Assad and praising the opposition including what was then the group known as joe but on this or a link to al qaida i think unless. Connection to the syrian. Values in extremis minute to minute or militant groups is kind of is is a kind of banking he was kept on this on this rising over the two and investing on that in order to create his own his own supporting group or support base in london and he was successful to a certain extent in doing about after going into hiding here was arrested two years later at beirut airport while trying to board a flight to cairo then there was little doubt he faced serious charges but his trial in a military court along with thirty others has been repeated be delayed and human Rights Groups have questioned how some of the evidence was obtained despite that doubts all this year is expected to be sentenced to death for his role in the battle but whether hes hanged is unclear under lebanese law any execution order must be approved by the president but Capital Punishment hasnt been used here since two thousand and four and although ahmed al this year has very little obvious support across lebanon president michel own likely doesnt have the sort of political backing he needs in order to carry out such a punishment in aljazeera beirut. Heres what i had on the news on creating. A hole in the rift unit of the local hospital even coping with a new wave of refugees arrival was born with more terrible stories of the revenge exodus from me and. Also the u. S. Navy send ships to help with Recovery Efforts in puerto rico still struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. And its board p. S. G. Win the Champions League showdown against by munich with the help of one of europes hottest strikers. The cholera outbreak in yemen is now the worst on record the British Development agency oxfam says there will be a million cases by november and its taken just five months to overtake haitis cholera crisis which officially ended in two thousand and fifteen more than seven hundred fifty thousand cases were recorded in that epidemic and that was over a five year period so far more than two thousand people have died of cholera and yemen since the outbreak began in may the war destroyed more than half of yemens Health Facilities and has forced three Million People from their homes its making more difficult to control the spread chubbier montor is a spokeswoman for the uns Refugee Agency in yemen she joins us on skype from sana thank you for joining us what an awful milestone update us on the situation what it is that youre seeing there. Well the situation in yemen is getting worse day by day and we think saying its a crisis is balanced lives its not a standalone crisis were dealing with the worlds worst cholera outbreak the Worlds Largest humanitarian crisis where we have twenty Million People in need of assistance and also the Worlds LargestFood Security emergency when seventy Million People dont have enough so its a triple whammy in yemen of of cholera of hunger and also of a humanitarian catastrophe the situation is getting worse day by day and not enough is yemen and thats most of what you mentioned response as well as the peace conditions are really getting worse people are really struggling and weve been seeing people struggling to survive and now we reached another very grim milestone. But its getting worse and to add to the frustration the fact that its relatively easy to cure isnt it if you can get there if you can get to them it is something that you can deal with well thats right color is a very easily treatable disease that its very difficult in yemen with an active more thats happening its difficult for people to Access Health care we have about fifty Million People in yemen who dont have enough access to basic health get and we also have a situation where basic infrastructure and essential services collapsing because of the so that means the Health Sector for instance is only forty five percent functional and its very difficult for people to Access Health care and to receive treatment otherwise easily treatable disease and the problem is it doesnt look as a its going to get any better or any easier does it. You know were now entering the third year complex and we still have people who are just all across the Country Living in dire conditions that are deteriorating and reading people who are more vulnerable we can is there hungry so theyre more susceptible to the disease theyre also lacking adequate. Ran out of savings so the conditions in yemen also billions are getting really desperate and really dangerous and we are calling for more support and until that happens were just going to see the situation in the fire. All right thank you very much for talking to us. Help is needed on the caribbean island of dominica where Hurricane Maria killed at least twenty seven people dozens remain missing feared dead ninety five percent of homes are either destroyed or damaged and most of the island remains without food water and electricity Gabrielle Elizondo is in the dominican capital. Im here in a side street in the capitol of a road so you can get a sense of how bad this hurricane was there just destruction here everywhere now look at this vehicle that im about to show you again it shows you how strong the winds were and how ferocious this storm was you can see a helicopter about to land here this is near the stadium and we see a helicopter there is. Any minute when we flew into the country what we saw was absolutely devastating this is normally a very lush green island but it was all brown the force of the hurricane winds just ripped all of the trees and vegetation completely out of the ground it was absolutely astonishing when we got to one of the main airports we saw aid convoys that were arriving from various Different Countries helicopters also large military planes as well aid is finally starting to get into the country and its needed desperately on the drive we saw more of the extreme devastation thats been hitting this country at one point there were people with gathering water from a precious water stream because thats the only access to water that they had very very bad way up to the like this is believed like just the nothing. The steroid the the whats. In the room and. We came here to speak to the countrys Prime MinisterRoosevelt Skerritt this is what he had to tell us complete devastation in every street and every village in the country. It is it is very painful to see the suffering and on which people well aid is starting to come into the country its very clear the recovery of dominique is going to take weeks months know its going to take years. Fleet of u. S. Navy ships has been sent to hurricane here to puerto rico theyre bringing thousands of extra military personnel to distribute aid more than a week after Hurricane Maria head island is still without electricity and food and clean water are scarce president has been criticized for not responding quickly enough to the crisis and the u. S. Territory today as a boy joins us now live from san juan what is the situation there not. Everywhere you know. Well im here in the city of course where communications are nonexistent here so weve been transmitting of your satellite and thats why theres a difference between what you are where you can hear us but if that communications are completely. Ok well thats an example of what shes saying about the communications are but the reason i went out to assess the situation and this is what she saw. Hes still trying to recover her belongings from the damages caused by hurricane. She lives in san juan puerto ricos capital because. I didnt want to leave my house when the hurricane came i stayed inside with my two sons and tried to protect the little we had. Just like in the rest of the capital in this neighborhood there is still no water or electricity and this is one of ones poorest neighborhoods as you can see many of the houses here have been completely destroyed mostly because they were built with mattresses and wood those who are living here had to seek refuge in a shelter and thats where they remain days after the category four hurricane hit this u. S. Territory in the caribbean. The United States government says aid is on the way to address the growing humanitarian crisis in some parts of the island the federal Emergency Management agency has said badly damaged airports and seaports are making it difficult to get a