And im joined on this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the un will investigate accusations of war crimes in yemen but its had to make a lot of compromises. If anybody out there is listening to us. We are dying. As puerto rico struggles with the off the mouth of Hurricane Maria a war of words between son fans mayor and the u. S. President. Here in coxs bazar with an update on the wrecking the crisis. Spains government is cracking down on the band secession vote in its catalonia region on sunday describing it as a mockery of democracy. Its warn volunteers at polling stations they could be fined more than three hundred fifty thousand Dollars Police of ready with gun deploying ahead of the ballots and sealed off more than half of the schools designated as Polling Centers offices say they will remove voters in madrid thousands of people in favor of united spain are holding a rally were holding rallies so far neither side is backing down. Lets bring in Tony Berkeley he is in madrid for us and im just wondering what sort of lines are you hearing from there and the fallout from that. City hall now jane and that rally was about five thousand people strong according to the organizers and thats quite something because up until now the spanish public has been rather muted its response to whats going on in catalonia but here people are very much in favor of catalonia staying with spain they are very much in favor of the measures the government is taking to try and ensure that referendum does not go ahead so you dont get any dissenters here if there was a mock referendum held in the center of madrid on friday and the overwhelming majority of people voted for remain strong support for this union to continue but people are concerned about whats going to happen i think theres lots of speculation about what happens if that referendum vote is a yes and what will happen in the future but the origins of the problems between catalonia the rest of spain the Spanish Government really wise in the civil war eighty years ago as ive been founding out. Explains most familiar to me but these are estonia has lost some of its meaning since catalonia started its drive for secession and its forthcoming referendum. On friday madrid held his own referendum purely symbolic but the people here equally important the question people were asked was do you want catalonia to remain part of spain because you want to remember to remind everybody that you know spanish sovereignty. You know should be there by all spaniards not just one part of spain which is catalonia you know these this year would affect holy spain we want to make sure that Everybody Knows that you know as our boys here. That you live in i came to vote because what theyre doing is an outrage again. Constitution against spain and against history those people deserve the worst adjectives even a lot of fun oh yeah if franco was alive we were just shoot them against the wall long live franco lives spain we dont want the communists. That thats an extreme view but there are still many in spain who think former military leader Francisco Franco was a hero and not a villain through the tranquil countryside north of madrid is the valley of the fall and a monument created to remember those killed in the civil war it was built by Political Prisoners and is where franco is buried if theres anything that symbolizes the divisions in Spanish Society this place is supposed to commemorate the dead on both sides of the civil war but for many its a monument to the fascist victory and the defeat of the republicans many of whom were cattle and so. Many on spains left believe that francos legacy lives on in every aspect of spanish life from the judiciary to politics and they support the catalans right for selfdetermination we have a lot of alto retiring frank and so the National Question is being treated in accompli the way we believe that catalonia referendum can be a democratic key and an example for all the nations that lives in it are now on the institution of this kind of state. In madrid vote people overwhelmingly wanted catalonia to stay part of spain but on sunday the question is will it still be a case of be the last spaniard or will it be farewell catalonia. The governors. Brother to kearney and threats against the election volunteers tell us more about what theyve said. Well theyre calling the. Government anti democratic they say a referendum is a weapon of dictatorship and its basically in the middle of a war of words on the moment and its going on and on i think the People Public now realize this is a serious situation its no messing around this is for certain that this is going ahead in some form the Spanish Government is trying everything in its power to stop that going ahead but at the end of the day the people are going to vote in some four weeks can still be counted by hand in the Old Fashioned way but i think the problem now facing everybody on this is what happens next irrespective of the outcome even if it so know what will happen to the relationship between catalonia and the rest of spain and thats the question that is worrying a lot of people where do we go from here all right tony betty thank you for that. The city of kirkuk in Northern Iraq has some of the biggest oil reserves in the country for decades they have been disagreements about who should control and place maybe units loyal to the Kurdish Regional government control the city and could coax inclusion in mondays secession vote has angered baghdad as traffic reports the Kurdish Peshmerga to control the fuel cook off to the iraqi army fled in islip pensive in two thousand and fourteen. But theres never been agreement between the Kurdish Regional government ok argy and the federal government in baghdad about who should be in control here and benefit most from the areas vast oil wealth. Kirkuk at an eighty percent turnout in the referendum on kurdish the session the day after the vote the Iraqi Parliament asked Prime Minister hydrilla party to send troops into kurdish controlled disputed areas like kirkuk and take back control of the oil fields and the kurdish governor of kirkuk hopes l. A body doesnt heed to parliaments demand Prime Minister about he has made it clear that force is not how he will approach this thing. And i agree with him and we dont expect a force to be used but of course there are people may be not under his control who may try to do this Parliament Earlier this month voted to remove mr karim but he has refused to go and anything thats comes against me for my patriotic position its its a nonissue for me many kurds call kirkuk their jerusalem but there are also turkomans arabs and christians here too there are also hundreds of thousands of arabs that have arrived here in recent years fleeing i saw and they feel very let down by the baghdad government theres also considerable opposition amongst the arabs and the turkmen about any idea with respect to kirkuk being part of a future independent kurdish state the vast majority of turkmen and arabs who have lived in kirkuk for generations boycotted the referendum this if you were to the area and the borders of k r g is not the clear and the specially kid. Well be. Owned by that and maybe. A war about. The way to solve this a problem is not in the brain then. The way. The two thousand and five constitution stipulates that the federal government send seventeen percent of the federal budget to the k r g every year it stops sending the money in two thousand and fifteen. And back that has since accused the kayleigh g of not sharing the oil wealth but only fighting here could jeopardize the battle against eisel in how we shop around fifty kilometers southwest of kirkuk. Who controls kill cook. The referendum on kurdish independence because they will fight anyone who tries to take it from them John Strafford al jazeera. The United Nations has agreed to start an independent investigation into human rights abuses by all sides in the war in yemen the decision follows weeks of negotiations since two thousand and fifteen Yemeni Government forces backed by a Saudi Led Coalition have been fighting heathy rebels supported by iran cattle or pairs honey on reports. The decision has been described as a game changer the Uns Human Rights Council will send a delegation to investigate a possible war crimes in the yemen more than ten thousand civilians have died since the countrys devastating war started in two thousand and fifteen and that number could rise the International Community faces several urgent tasks in yemen including the protection safety and security of civilians the u. N. Delegation is expected to investigate attacks on schools markets and even hospitals fina between harvey rebels and a Saudi Led Coalition which sides with president. Condi has torn the country the commission will also investigate attacks carried out by the rebels i think that the point becomes one of does the International Community stand by the laws the courts. And all yemeni lives as valuable as any other lives the decision was met with resistance a last minute compromise between western powers and arab countries including saudi arabia eventually made it possible experts say blocking the investigation could have led to more unwanted attention where you see mounting pressure at the International Level for this to go ahead at a level that the u. S. The u. K. Saudi arabia whove been instrumental in the past really blocking this kind of investigation going ahead would struggle to justify their reasons for doing so right now along with the war an estimated twenty million yemenis continue to go hungry and a nationwide cholera epidemic is ravaging the country since april more than two thousand people have died from the illness the red cross believes there could be a million cases of suspected cholera by the end of the year but access to treatment is limited airport is completely sealed off on the three planes roughly are entering the i. C. R. C. Plane m. S. F. And un plane and no other plane is coming in. Even planes that could do some new money here and transfer of patients that want to get treatment abroad or Something Like that this is not possible so you dont have access to drugs and youre going to go out. Of the war in yemen is showing no signs of ending but the Uns Human Rights Council hopes the investigation will lead to a greater level of accountability on all sides. Now dizzier the mayor of puerto ricos capital san juan is accusing the trumpet ministration of killing people through inefficiency ten days after hurricane rita devastated the u. S. Territory aid is starting to reach communities and the white house has appointed a three star general to oversee relief operations but the mayor says its not happening quickly enough we are dying here. And now i cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out the logistics for in small island of one hundred miles of my thirty five miles i am begging begging anyone that can hear us to save us from dying. If anybody out there is listening to us we are dying and you are killing us with the in official. And the bureaucracy. The u. S. President has reacted strongly in an Early Morning tweet trump said the mayor of san juan had been very complimentary only a few days ago but has now been told by the democrats that you must be nasty to trump. He followed up with such poor leadership ability by the mayor of san juan and others in puerto rico who are not able to get their workers to help they want everything to be done for them when it should be a Community Effort ten thousand federal workers now on island doing a fantastic job the military and First Responders despite no electric roads phones etc have done an amazing job puerto rico was totally destroyed. There is about as more from san juan. This is a Convention Center left and turned into an Emergency Coordination Center between federal authorities and local authorities to try to get this island out of the crisis disc people that you see behind me lining up there here to ask for help some of them are offering themselves as volunteers in order to go and help out around this island that has been devastated in many many areas and the mayor of San Juan Academy has been very vocal about what this island needs in order to recover she see that much more government help federal help is needed in order to come out of the Current Crisis but her pleas were answered by President Donald Trump in a series of tweets on saturday morning where he said that the mayor had been convinced by democrats that she has to attack trump shes also saying that puerto rican speak to start working as a community theres over ten thousand federal agents on this island trying to help out so obviously those comments were not taken well among people here who are still trying to recover from the shock that the hurricane left in many areas around the country there is no water theres still no electricity all around the island it is completely relying on generators and thats why fuel is extremely needed at this point puerto rican scene general are saying that theyre being discriminated by the federal government theyre saying that theyre not receiving the same treatment that people in florida or texas that were also hit by hurricanes received and many of them here are demanding more help thats all coming up the u. S. Health secretary resigns after a scandal over his use of taxpayer money for private flights class. I mean our beloved especially Hunter Valley today Congress Center of everything to have a plan to curb the countrys out its called five house they from. However seymour pretty lively downpours across central parts of china recently in a long line of cloud and rain pushing right out into the East China Sea the i was sea pushing up towards the japan over the next couple days it will sink its way further southward shanghai had a pretty wet week last week im afraid this further heavy downpours in the forecast over the next few days and i think we are likely to see some localized flooding if you show as to just pushing up towards the south China Hong Kong all the edge of those so humid it thirty three degrees celsius the showers they continue to stretch their way across indochina target particular seeing some really nasty weather recently heavy showers too into the eastern side of india that into central and southern parts of the kountry and those heavy showers do look set to persist the Western Ghats still pretty disturbed long line of one soon all rain is coming in here the monsoon is retreating of course but that means retreating across the eastern side of the country through bangladesh into the northeastern parts of india and on into me and further north it will be largely dry there you can see for new delhi and also for a good part of pakistan that dry weather stretches right across the Arabian Peninsula pleasant sunshine coming through here a little humid once again by evening but sunshine here in doha with a top temperature of thirty eight. In the house era when News Coverage consists of a punchy had like a five second sound bite not an easy solution. To delve deep and. Challenge the status quo expose double standards and debate the contradictions. Join me. For a new season of the show the frank. From. This time well just. Like it is take a look at the top stories now spains government is threatening to pose a three hundred fifty thousand dollars fine on volunteers at sundays secession vote in the catalonia Region Police say theyll remove people from polling stations the United Nations has agreed to start an independent investigation into human rights abuses by all sides in the war in yemen it comes as another Saudi Led Coalition air strike killed five and injured six others inside up province. U. S. President John Chambers blamed what he calls fake news for claims that hes not doing enough to help put it we can recover from Hurricane Maria the mayor of the islands capital san juan is accused the white house of killing people through delays and bureaucracy. Hundreds of rango refugees have crossed into bangladesh are lining up to receive aid at the could to prolong camp bangladeshis of mobilized to help some of the hof Million People it was scared the violence in myanmar the u. N. Refugee agency and the government have been providing food and other relief sandra chartres more from a rehab and trauma sense of a chill. And in coxs bazaar in bangladesh. Close to how many are going to refuse it up crossed over to bangladesh for the matter of one month out of time two hundred eight it isnt our children according to aid agencies im going to the government and among them one hundred thousand children one of. This is something called child friendly space this was set up by bangladesh roc