Hello im watching aljazeera live from london also coming up iraqi tomei protesters baghdad stops International Flights into the region in retaliation for monday secession vote. Barcelona to show their support for sundays vote on its secession from spain. And dozens have been killed and injured in a rush hour stamp aid in indias commercial capital by. The United States government has ordered sixty percent of its staff in cuba to leave its embassy in havana its said to be because of quote specific attacks on u. S. Diplomats some of which have taken place in cuban hotels also used by american tourists the embassy is now expected to stop processing visas and issue a new travel warning lets get more from our u. S. State Department Correspondent patty call hane in washington d. C. Whats happened to these u. S. Diplomats. Well it is the strangest thing some of them reported that they would lay in their bed in this one hotel and they would hear this annoying hum when you stepped away just a few feet it went away went back to the bed he heard it again some of these diplomats said they didnt hear anything all of a sudden they just all started having these different kinds of symptoms took the state department quite awhile to piece together that it could be related were talking about things like hearing loss dizziness loss of balance able to sleep cognitive dysfunction some of actually been diagnosed we believe with traumatic brain injury so fishel started looking at what they called a sonic weapon and whether or not that could be directed at their diplomats in their homes at these hotels. Tell you ive been talking to scientists in this field they dont think its possible but yet the obama. Administration says theyve been investigating they still are investigating dont know what caused it but as a precaution they say as of today theyve ordered all nonEmergency Personnel nonessential personnel out of cuba along with all of their families this is as you mentioned sixty percent that means no more visas for cubans they couldnt tell us exactly how many visas they were in fact giving out every month in cuba still trying to track that down but at the same time they say the investigation is continuing they havent ruled out that this could be from a third country someone else trying to muddy the relationship so the state Department Taking these steps they say to protect americans not to punish the cubans and how might this affect the relationship between the u. S. And cuba and of course those efforts for reconciliation. You know its maintaining the course for the most part you know obviously these are two countries that hadnt really had any relations for decades for fifty plus years then president barack obama in that historic visit to have and he reopened a lot of ties didnt lift the embargo only congress can do that president came into office saying that he was going to rip up the deal make big changes he made a big speech about it in south florida to some of the republican big donors down there who are very much anti castro presidency he said he was going to make changes but really those of proven to be pretty much just cosmetic now the travel industry could be impacted by this and the only thing the state department is doing is theyre putting out a travel warning to american citizens saying they didnt know what happened in their diplomats but they were in hotels americans and you know tells because they dont know whats happening they cant tell them how to protect themselves so that could have a direct hit on the Tourism Industry in cuba coming from at least from the american side thanks very much patty calling in washington d. C. International flights to iraqs kurdish region have been halted as the government ramps up pressure for the results of mondays session to be cancelled shortly before the ban came into effect. International news carrying messages of pace the Central Government of baghdad has ordered Foreign Airlines to stop services to the region but domestic flights will go on as normal monday secession referendum received a ninety two percent yes moat. From arbella International Airport. There are no more International Flights to and from both. Airports now this should last for a period of three months according to the director of this airport she said that she has been trying to reach out to authorities in baghdad to try to solve the situation but received no response the Prime Minister said that this was not a move intended to quote. People it was simply a move to extend the federal authority to the entire territory of iraq including the kurdish region but many of the people i spoke to today didnt agree with that and many were from the kurdish jasper who had actually come here to take part in this referendum and they said that they felt bittersweet happy and one sided to have a voted but they. Were leaving now many ahead of schedule simply because they didnt trust what was going to happen next they also said that as people who actually went to the polling stations they didnt feel safe to transit through baghdad to catch an International Flight from there well to spain where farmers have converted. In barcelona on their tractors to show support for catalonia secession referendum protests have been taking place across the region against measures taken by the Spanish Government to stop sundays vote which it says is unconstitutional in order to keep polling stations closed but the farmers say they will block authorities from the police with that tract is cast led me to say more than two thousand stations have now been set up. Lets go to john hendren whos in basilan a force it seems as the result of many people there is only strengthening for this to take place whats happening now. Well you can see behind me miriam theres a crowd of people gathered to celebrate what they believe is going to be a referendum vote on sunday theres a concert out here this is sponsored of course by the Vote Yes Campaign there is no official vote no campaign but we have had some news the last couple of hours and one thing that has happened is that the local mosque those police have been criticized by the Spanish National police for going to easy on the protesters but they have been ordered to clear the schools here the schools double as polling booths so that is an Important Development because at the schools they had scheduled all kinds of events in order to keep those schools open this weekend as an excuse to let people vote well now the police have been closing those schools and there have been some video posted on twitter showing police clearing those schools out so heres the problem no nobody knows in the public anyway exactly where they are going to be able to vote and. There may be voting in private places there may be other places where they can vote but the normal places they would go are going to be shut down thats going to be a challenge for the government of catalonia which insists that this vote will go forward the president of catalonia has also said that regardless of what the threshold is how many people end up voting that this will be a legitimate referendum and therefore he is determined to declare independence within forty eight hours that is on tuesday of the vote if people vote yes so theres a lot going on you also have sixteen thousand or so Spanish National police and Defense Forces who have come here from other places and their man. We should just stop that vote so the concern is that though those police will be considerably more determined and rougher than the local marshes police nevertheless a new poll suggests that people are more likely to vote perhaps because of those spanish actions judy thirds of catalans in a recent poll said they will vote in this upcoming referendum as are people of voting age and thats ten percent more than he said so in a poll about june weeks ago. Even though people have been told that this is illegal even though theyve been told that their ballots will be confiscated they are still determined to vote and this is what its all about the Spanish Police have confiscated ten million of these Spanish National police nevertheless you can find them pretty much anywhere you go here and people here say they are determined to devote to high thank you very much john hendren with the next from boston i know where rallies continue ahead of that crucial vote on sunday. United nations is going to set up a group to examine all Human Rights Violations committed in the war in yemen the Un Human Rights Council said i was to identify those responsible for possible war crimes the yemeni delegation said it accepted that the rise of the resolution that was passed in a compromise between western powers and the arab countries lets go live now to u. N. Correspondent rosen in jordan in new york and of course the allegations of war crimes in the yemen conflict have been long running what has the United Nations decided to do now. Well the Human Rights Council has decided to set up a panel of Eminent International legal experts to look at these allegations of Human Rights Violations and other violations of International Law inside yemen since the civil war started more than two years ago this is a compromise as you noted mario between what the chairperson of the council. Saying wanted which would be a formal commission of inquiry which is the Gold Standard level of investigation carried out by a u. N. Body into allegations of possible crimes against humanity or or alleged war crimes but. The saudis who have been leading the air war against the who these inside yemen wanted was simply a statement of support for the internal Yemeni Government investigation into these allegations and of course many critics said that would be problematic because the saudis have been supporting the Yemeni Government and that because of that support it could not be assumed that anything that would be uncovered by the president s investigation would be considered fair free and impartial so the compromise is to get this panel to go into yemen as soon as possible try to do the work in cooperation with the Yemeni Government and then report to the Human Rights Council a year from now what are the challenges facing that in the investigation of war crimes in yemen. Well the first is going to be getting complete access to all parts of the country where these are allegations that in particular the Saudi Led Coalition may have been indiscriminately or deliberately killing civilians in an effort to try to go after the who these as well as there are supporters of people who support the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh that that question of access is key because thats the only way to really determine whether or not there were enemy targets that the coalition for example was going after or whether it was simply engaging in a kind of Terror Campaign in order to get people to not side with the who these or with those who support the former president theres also the question of how much how seriously their work is going to be taken because this isnt a normally carried out process and so it may not have the legal weight that would be necessary if for example there were a decision in the Human Rights Council to try to set up some sort of formal or make a reference or make a referral for a formal Court Process in order to try to hold people who violate those International Laws accountable for their behavior so those are two real problems and then of course there is the assumption that there will be cooperation with the Yemeni Government but of course that remains to be seen what people promised to do isnt always what they turned out to do in these sorts of situations weve seen it multiple times as an example in syria thank you very much charles in jordan with all the latest on that from the United Nations was watching also in tell you about this half hour field of dreams the pioneering scheme allying Syrian Refugees in greece to grow and sell food. 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I come back to watching aljazeera the top stories United States government has ordered sixty percent of its staff in cuba to leave its embassy in the capital of ana protesters outside Erbil International airport have really been loons carrying messages of peace just before iraq halted International Flights to the kurdish region in the United Nations is going to set up a group to examine all Human Rights Violations committed in the war in yemen or china and russia have both thrown their support behind the myanmar governments handling of the range of crisis russia blame many of the attacks on civilians in the burning down a village is on groups while china the International Community to back the myanmar government in solving the crisis china condemns the recent Violent Attacks in myanmar or all kinds state. Support effort to keep his domestic situations legal it behooves the International Community to view the difficulties and challenges confronting the government of myanmar through. Optics exercise patience and provide support and help. In recent days we have received illustration of the fact that the. Me was involved with the killing of civilians what was also found were caches of improvised explosive devices there is information that the extremists force members of the Hindu Community in border villages to leave their homes and to migrate to neighboring bangladesh together with the muslims. Well as many as sixty ranger refugee dead after that capsized in waters off bangladesh. But hundreds will continue to make a perilous journey for me because theyve been warned of an imminent tell me crackdown in central iraq and stay. Has more now from coxs brazil in bangladesh. You can see the beach behind me this is where the boat wreckage tragedy took place on thursday evening we spoke to some of the survivors in this boat wreckage that told us there were at least two hundred people in that boat. By the bangladesh. Hit something hard on the sea and capsized near the beach my mother sister brother in law. Lost family members this boat i meant for only barely twenty five to fifty people you can see the boat on my left side part of the wreckers the other wreckage all spread across the bridge now most of this people. The people in northern part came to their villages and told that you need to flee because the army is going to crack down in the central part of the village at least within the last two days theres been thousands of people have crossed into the exodus isnt over the pace is slow but hundreds of people are crossing into bangladesh every day we spoke to. Two thousand five hundred people on. The twenty five thousand people between when. The camps the temporary shelter just im able to cope with the sheer number of refugees coming into banger. At leas