Hello im adrian forget this is the news i live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. Thousands of people lined up to vote in catalonia is secession referendum is the police use force to shut down polling stations. Accusations and insults between President Trump at the scene the puerto rican official as the u. S. Caribbean territory struggles to recover from hurricane maria. A rare admission by secretary of state Rex Tillerson the u. S. Is in direct talks with north korea. And living in a climate of fear nigerians in the northeast mark Independence Day with subdued celebrations. Scuffles between Spanish Police and voters in catalonia as controversial session referendum paramedics have been treating people who were injured outside polling stations elsewhere catalans a custom that ballots in some polling stations referendum leaders of urged voters to use passive resistance if police try to interfere with the vote lets go straight now to our series john hendren whos in barcelona with us for the latest john thats pretty noisy way you are at the moment what whats happening there. Adrian im at a polling station that is just opened back up so the Spanish Police arent just using violence theyre also using technology theyre shutting down the website used to register. Voters nobody gets to vote here unless theyre checked against a National Census so what happens is the Spanish Police shut down the website and then the people who organizes election here in catalonia they set up a new web site theres a new web domain name and they give that information to the polling places and the polling places are back up again as you can see and we have a voter in here right now a family who speaks english let me ask what does it mean for you to be here today well todays a crucial day for people the first time offender is that we have the advantage if you did spend most out have democratic way before you way past a nobody and that really means something. And thank you very much focused on your these are the ballot boxes that those Spanish Police are confiscating. This is the ballot you can see its simply yes or no let me try to stay out of the way of democracy here but let me walk you down everybody is checked against the universal sensors normally when you vote that voting place only has the information for a limited number of people but the Spanish Government or the catalonian government knew that the Spanish Government was going to shut down a lot of these polling places and so what they did was they allowed people to vote at any polling place for their checked against the registry thats why they need the internet and were told that seventy three percent of the polling places are open thats according to the catalonian government the Spanish Government says its more like fifty percent let me walk down here. So we talk to International Observers who say that what theyre doing here. Really meets the standards of international legitimate voting but dont dont take my word for were going to talk to one right here this is karen klein thank you for joining us thank you she is an International Observer the catalonian government has arranged. For International Observers to be here shes from south korea lives in new york and let me ask you what you see here does this meet the standards for a legitimate election. I dont think people just exercise their right to go into a. Seat and especially the spanish or the member of the euro can you that this is a referendum a couple of people this is not in the context i reckon because its just going to let the candidate you know that the people here so shocking because theyre worried that there might be simply take late. To tell me about seeing the pictures of Police Violence weve seen the violence in the streets how is it affecting this election. Well. Just the fear that people worry about the Spanish Police but they are not careful about the fish all. Of them as a show and there will calm me but so people just want to continue even though the police is coming if you get inside try to organize groups to do that to protect those smaller. Case that the spanish this is getting. Help from what youve seen about the way they are conducting this election the way they check the ids the way they check each voter against the National Census is it reliable this is this vote. Yes i think so because you know if you think of that many of the sovereignty. Right that goes to the people you know and you see the whole process theyre doing it really seriously they track every number seven spanish id and they say i saw everything was. Useless liable to democracy and you know this spanish the spanish to freely and be curious about that they dont they dont even see. Yes that would not be possible so i think were seeing the director not miss any chance to be involved and. Thank you very much International Observer that is whats going on here at this polling place which is just gone back into motion after the Spanish Government shut it down germany thanks jon heder the live elsewhere in the city as. A whole. Two hours ago you find yourself in a very dramatic situation in the middle of scuffles between voters and police where you know whats happening. Who would been doing a join is following one of these National Police as they rove around trying to shut down some of these polling stations what weve seen is that each time they come to a school being used as a polling station they meet with resistance peaceful civil resistance scuffles break out the police are trying to take ballot boxes in any voting papers but as john was just saying that those voting stations they bring out new ballot box layers and layers of contingency plans are in place now this is one of those mobile spanish National Police squads that is roaming around in a right now there are fifteen trucks fifteen trucks here they seem to be resupplying from an underground car park in a residential area. It looks right now that the police are starting to load back up get back in their trucks and if you look across the road there are civilians who have gathered people on the streets in general terms very towards the arrival of the spanish National Police. You can hear that group there right now charging we will borrow a defiant tone to say that they still have the intention of keeping this referendum going you have to remember that some of these span. National police have come from many other areas. In total were told around ten thousand Additional Police and paramilitary civil guard have come here with specific orders from the Spanish Government to crack down on the vote to stop this referendum happening. Weve got pictures of what happened two hours ago just talk us through what you saw of what it is the police are actually doing when they when they show up to what to these polling stations. Yeah absolutely the location of those pictures youre looking at now was the cats. Ministry which was also. Polling. Large groups of Spanish Police arrived. On some of them are carrying what appeared to be weapons. Requests. By the Education Ministry they were met with a human for the on that human cord on then just simply sat down and the. Police waited in and what dragging them away physically dragging them away from the front of the School People were still chanting we will there will have no pass out on that means they will not. They came from the civil war days that is how deep some of the wounds are running here and. That is the memories that some of this crackdown on the referendum is stirring back up right now as you can see. These people. Get out get out. To malaysia. Raising that. Is. Doing this morning trying. To get. Somebody trying it on the long. Run were going to get in there. All right many thanks. Live in buffalo and well have more on the situation in boston and. A little later in this. Now to the rest of the days news the man. Accused the u. S. Government of killing Puerto Ricans through what she calls inefficiency large parts of the u. S. Territory have been without electricity or Drinking Water since her made landfall two weeks ago today as a bow reports. The generator went down in this hospital in some one who more than one hundred patients had to be urgently transferred to other locations a lot of a rush his mother is still inside hes worried about where theyre going to take her he. Just several complications in the its oxygen she is old and im not sure where we will go but she is not alone inside there are others who are recovering from surgery among other things who were not allowed inside but we were told that most of the patients were transferred on time. Because penitent on a general way because of how one which was completely destroyed during the hurricane is just an example of how the situation for the police really deteriorate if immediate action is not taken this forward is playing a crucial role this days as it is where much needed aid has arrived. Says there are more than ten thousand containers here with goods even though the products belong to private companies they could easily help to restore the supply chain here right now in in all of our terminals there are merge and see supplies they are emergency goods medicine water food Construction Materials commercial materials so the terminal is full of goods its a matter of how we restore this. Part of the supply chain on the island distribution has been one of the biggest issues so far in getting aid out ten days after the hurricane people are still lining up for hours for fuel many are still in need of water and other goods some are desperate to get help to most commonly see only we want my mother to live in a house was destroyed she hasnt many years left and we want to live decently is that too much to ask what i mean joining groups is the mayor of san juan. She has been pleading for more help from the United States government on saturday President Donald Trump accuse her and other Puerto Ricans of not doing enough to get out of the Current Crisis i think we havent been treated with the same sense of emergency. Other disasters have been treated and again you know. Five hundred twenty pounds mayor. In the caribbean three star general. Said. We dont have enough we need to get more in order to be able to listen to. General isnt. Right for most people here this fight is not a political one but one of survival and they hope those in charge well leave their differences aside and sort things out. Some point. The secretary of state has tried to ease tension on the Korean Peninsula by saying that the trumpet ministration has no plans to force regime change in pyongyang Rex Tillerson made the comments during a visit to china where he also revealed his country is in direct communication with north korea. Has more for us from washington. This is the first public of knowledge meant by the trumpet ministration that it has been in direct contact with north korea the secretary of state saying that there are two if not three avenues that it is using for communication he also made clear that it is not through china in other words the u. S. Is using avenues of communication unilaterally separate from china this is very significant because it indicates that the secretary of state is Still Believes that there is a diplomatic resolution possible to this ongoing crisis the despite the hostile words that have been exchanged by the president of the u. S. And of the leader of north korea in recent months its also an indication of the growing warmth in the relationship between china and the u. S. In the past china had a deal of houston not fully implementing the sanctions that had been passed against north korea and the u. N. Security council and indeed these sanctions that have been unilaterally imposed by the United States but in recent months there has been a significant policy shift china has been implementing these sanctions as shown by the fact that its instructed its banks to no longer do business with north korea it is restricting the import of oil into north korea so this is something very significant in terms of the u. S. Stated policy of getting china to bring greater pressure to bear on north korea in an attempt to resolve this crisis but also what is happening as that it does not only pertain to north korea the relationship between the u. S. And china is growing stronger through this ongoing crisis in wider areas such as trade here with the news hour from aljazeera still to come on the Program Hundreds of people rally in hong kong against Chinese NationalDay Celebrations will take you there. Hundreds of thousands of refugees facing a humanitarian crisis lets speak to the head of the World Food Program about his visit to camps. Dramatic pictures. Beriah collapses injuring several fans the details coming up a. Little later. Prodemocracy campaigners of relitigate hong kongs Chinese NationalDay Celebrations police blocked a small group of protesters who marched in a flag raising ceremony hong kong has been under chinese rule for twenty years the selfgoverning territory has extra rights of the child as one country two systems policy hong kong crowds gathered for five kilometer long march against what organizers say is political persecution in the selfgoverning territory. Is that. Meaning and people are joining at. Forty forty five kilometer mark from the end of the. People to. Get to the end of the thing against what they call political persecution. And the worst. Been told several people have been. Protesting for least to leaders was. Spearheaded the umbrella. Many people. Turning our people. Were carrying are taking their turn and for security war like the rest of the people cannot express themselves freely they say their. March on national. T. V. The rest of the china particularly. Thats never been like the. Slowly growing over the freedom speaker. The head of the World Food Program has visited ranger refugee camps in bangladesh aid agencies are trying to help the more than half a million who fled the military crackdown in manaus Rakhine State the u. N. Has warned of a humanitarian nightmare in the camps theres limited access to clean water toilets Health Workers fear that an outbreak of disease could be imminent and. Iraq has sent thousands of troops to the city of karbala ahead of a religious events the assured a commemoration is particularly important for shia muslims but now its the anniversary of the seventh century battle of karbala made ritual evolves mourning the death of the same in the past some have used the occasion to attack the shia community. The leader of the iranian backed Group Hezbollah is warning that the kurdish secession vote in Northern Iraq will lead to division in the region. Says that it threatens iraq turkey so. Area and iran all of which have large kurdish minorities. Now. There is a new phase that the region is facing and it is a very dangerous one it is the phase of partition. This is an issue not about the right to decide the fate or about rights or about a group that wants to separate it has a completely different aim which is to partition the region based on ethnic and religious grounds Independence Day celebrations in nigerias northeastern borno state subdued this year because of fears of attacks by boko her around the armed group has increased its raids in the region in recent months as ahmed addressed reports. Would be a member of a militia helping the army in the fight against boko haram is now facing its own battle for his life iraq it tore through the patrol car he was in as he helped provide cover for workers two months ago but was also part of that convoy that included soldiers who will be as if they be i. D. D. As it was an ambush the surprise is that we were sitting there was safe we spent days working there that attack happened in our last day there was a bloodiest so far this year in nigeria as in all the east i few kilometers away from here. Fighters a convoy of Oil Exploration workers being escorted by the military and vigilantes more than fifty people died in that attack that attack coincided with an increase in the rate of suicide bombings and abductions in the northeast the militarys response was an and ground offensive that lasted for weeks. The Army Deployed more personnel and equipment and top commanders were ordered back to the region. Where a climate of fear has returned the latest wave of violence represents a change in strategy by boko haram which suicide bombings and hostage taking being stepped up. Security experts say this was to be expected after the group lost control of territory. Because if you hold the ground its ms you know the opposing force has something substantive to heat but when you. You know you you you you kind of dilutes all that advantage. Advantage advantage in training retired Group Captain said as an end to the fight is not