Its nine g. M. T. Youre watching aljazeera live from doha im fully back to also ahead countdown to catalonia his big announcement the regional leader arrives at parliament to make an important speech on the future of the region plus reports that ten thousand range of muslims cross the border into bangladesh in a single day to escape violence in myanmar and with the wind driven event this fire change behavior very rapidly is moving throughout the areas ten dead one hundred people missing and twenty thousand evacuated as wildfires spread in the u. S. State of california. The polls have opened in liberia in an election to replace africas first elected female leader the polls opened just about an hour ago. A Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson sirleaf is to step down after two terms in office liberians will be choosing from a crowded field of twenty candidates live to r. G. S. An address who is in monrovia for his am at the polls have opened about an hour or so ago i see the lines are very long behind you house of all tingling so far. Everything is going on very worlds so far follies to my right as those voters whove been accredited from hundreds of voters who are killed outside this polling station and machinery convent here in monrovia and they have been cleared to come into the compound and then from here you find that these are able bodied men and women trying to vote on my left physically challenged people also easier to cast their vote but the problem here is getting access to moving here so they are virtually being helped to cross the test here in order to access the polling station. Doctors now let me take you to one of the actual voting is taking place now these people the voters who have been fully accredited and theyre killed out excuse me queued up to come inside this hall while this lady here is trying to certify that theyve been really accredited by the Polling Agency we have polling officials here and on the side these are the presiding officers and all. Commission staff who are looking cross checking the register to see that the those who come here really house the really card to actually cast their vote and over there at that table you have the ballot papers cost for the president ial election here and then of course for the representative candidates who are going for parliamentary elections and right over there actually observe. For the various Political Parties who are here to represent the parties to see what is actually going on in this in this polling station. Twenty candidates are competing to replace Ellen Johnson sirleaf the people who are voting today what issues are they most concerned about what would they like their future head a state to focus on. Well basically theyre looking at somebody who will come and take over from an injustice and if they are appreciative of the. Somehow more this developments recorded in the last twelve years especially the maintenance of peace and order in a country that just emerged from the civil war just fifteen sixteen years ago now we are looking for people to build on those infrastructures that are critical in National Development cost of course Road Construction electricity which is in short supply here they need our schools they need hospitals they need all these infrastructures that can help spur development in this country investment is not as much as people want and with the movement of the United Nations and other nongovernmental organizations from liberia the challenge is how to attract more investors to come into this country the Unemployment Rate here we hear its more than eighty percent and then the literacy level is just over thirty percent so these are Critical Issues for a long period voters who are coming to the elections today thank you very much for that armitage is live for us in liberias capital monrovia staying in africa at least two people have been killed in a vehicle ambush near a university in kenya two Staff Members were shot dead by gunmen in quali county in the south as they were traveling to Mombasa Technical University two Police Officers and a driver were injured in the attack the attackers are believed to be alshabaab fighters. A dramatic increase in the number of ranger refugees fleeing ongoing violence in myanmar calling to report seeing had been a law in recent days but reports say ten thousand people have crossed into bangladesh on monday more than half a Million People have left me and more since a military crackdown began six weeks ago in Rakhine StateMohammed John june has the latest from coxs bazar in bangladesh near the border with me and mark. A dramatic increase in the number of our hindu refugees crossing from me and more into bangladesh the u. N. H. C. R. Is said they are investigating reports that at least ten thousand more refugees have crossed from me and more into bangladesh in the past few days it is hard to confirm these numbers exactly but in local media reports since yesterday many local government officials have said that in different areas that thousands of refugees have come in and that there has definitely been a surge since last week when the numbers of ranger refugees that were crossing per day from me an hour into bangladesh had waned now in the camps that we have been visiting conditions are extremely dire today in this makeshift camp its the start of a Cholera Immunization Campaign the reason for that groups like the w. H. O. And unicef in coordination with the Bangladeshi Health ministry theyre trying to take these measures preventive didley to vaccinate the many refugees against cholera now in this first phase which begins today were told that it is expected that at least six hundred and fifty thousand refugees will be vaccinated after that phase ins next week then another phase will begin a bit later more will be vaccinated you know conditions in these camps are absolutely atrocious they are extremely unhygenic and thats one of the reasons aid workers and Health Workers have been concerned that there could be a full on Health Crisis and there could be epidemic spreading and the disease is spreading if they dont get this under control. The Turkish Military is continuing to serve a parser vaguely province in syria ahead of the establishment of a socalled deescalation zone there Turkish Forces have been deployed at the border since it was announced they would support Syrian Rebels in their battle against a former al qaeda affiliate in italy of the govt area controls most of the province and has rejected the proposed the escalation zone agreed on by Turkey Russia and iran further inland in iraq a us five syrian fighters say theyre preparing for a final push to retake neighborhoods still held by ice or officials from the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces believe the last phase will take between seven and ten days the operation to retake rocka with the backing of u. S. s support has been going on since june and both Syrian Government forces and as the air fighters are continuing to battle i saw in the arizona province this is the last major i saw stronghold in Eastern Syria russian backed syrian troops have been pushing along the western bank of the Euphrates River with s. T. s fighters on the eastern bank. At least ten people are dead and more than one hundred others are missing in fast moving wildfires across the u. S. State of california this was a scene just a few hours ago in the Southern Region where more than five thousand homes were evacuated as high i. Q. Is struggle to control the blaze many are still fleeing their homes after the governor of california declared a state of emergency in seven counties rob reynolds has more from the scientists much of kilo fornier is burning or at risk of going up in flames from north to south in the most populous us state more than twenty major fires are burning with nearly thirty thousand hectors already scorched thousands of homes and other buildings have been destroyed at least twenty thousand people have been evacuated including patients at two hospitals. The fires sprang up quickly fanned by winds gusting up to eighty Kilometers Per Hour and aided by extremely low you miltie i know these kind of conditions the rest is just a stream of new stars and thats what i mean what happened last night and this morning the plan thats going online to have these explosive visions in the famous napa and Sonoma County wine country home to some of californias finest vineyards residents were alerted near midnight and told they had only minutes to get out in Southern California smoke and flames were visible in a major fire in anaheim the location of disneyland with the wind driven event this fire changed behavior very rapidly and is moving throughout the area so thats why weve expanded evacuation orders and we did ask people to heed those warnings firefighters are spread thin but meteorologists say the winds should die down soon giving hope they can get the fires under control rob reynolds aljazeera los angeles. To spray now where the future of catalonia hangs in the balance says regional leader conor spurred him on to prepares to make what could be an historic statement he has just arrived at the parliament in boston always due to make a speech on the future of the region its believed he could make a declaration of independence from spain but spains deputy Prime Minister has warned that madrid will act on any attempt to divide the country sonia gago has the latest on. All eyes on catalyst for you jim on the castle and president as he gets ready to make his address to parliament will he come out right and make that declaration of independence as many from within his party and from the session this movement have been pressuring him to do especially in the last few days but at taking a look from outside of that situation spain has made no doubts about the fact that it would use the full force of the law to try and prevent such a situation from happening looking outside of spain and its south voices from within the European Union such as germany and france have said that what is really necessary right now is for there to be unity and that set the country and indeed the European Union cannot afford this instability it has clearly staked its side on the side of the Spanish Government to try and preserve that unity as well and also reminding the Catalan Government that not only would it be outside of the European Union but it would also not be part of the euro zone as well that group would prove to be a very difficult issue for the president himself now voices within his party say that perhaps these declaration of independence would be not would be a way of trying to get the Spanish Government to have some kind of dialogue on the future of catalonia there have been complaints that. They years the Spanish Government has not listened to them and perhaps with a declaration of independence all the parties can sit on the around the table and start to discuss exactly the way to go forward but this is something that the Spanish Government is not entertaining in the slightest and even there have been calls from within the ruling. Coalition saying that perhaps this is not the right time to pursue such a measure and thats what is needed now is a third way perhaps a mediation from the European Union to go forward and begin a proper dialogue to head on aljazeera seeking a unified government to be conservation talks take place in cairo between rival palestinian factions fatah and hamas cross a diplomatic dispute exposes the deteriorating relations between turkey and the United States. With. Hello and welcome back well start by looking at weather conditions across southeastern parts of asia weve seen some pretty heavy rain affecting brunei of the last twenty four hours thats coming in from the airport also works out to see some rainfall accumulations in parts of java just getting into the rainy season couple of months away from the really heavy rain but showers now becoming more widespread so looking at the forecast again from the lazy in borneo brunei look so that we pretty well they will see some heavy downpours some showers likely effect at least partly probably dry and then up through the night weve got showers to singapore and kuala lumpur further north some heavy rain across southern parts of thailand the bangkok is likely to see some showers to vittie lets head down into a stray da here weve got low pressure developing and some trough of low pressure as well so looking a bit more unsettled here at the moment certainly still enjoying some fine weather conditions so twenty four degrees and sunny on wednesday but this frontal system is like you pushing further towards the east as we head through thursday so im able see some rain pushing through the city during the course of the day out across Western Australia generally looking fine with highs of twenty three in perth across into new zealand weve got still some heavy rain across many parts on wednesday but this should be a temporary rest by as we head through thursday. In the heart of the amazon the libyan families put their lives in peril to harvest presume. That its getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. To. Risk a new tool to believe you know. At this time on al jazeera. Youre watching aljazeera reminder our top stories this hour polls have opened in liberia to elect a new leader after twelve years president Johnson Sirleaf africas first elected female president is stepping down after two terms in office twenty candidates competing to replace it. Thats a no news regionally to qantas put him on ties arrived on a mint in boston oh no way is due to make a speech on the future of the region its believed he could make a declaration of independence about spains deputy Prime Minister has warned that madrid will act on any attempt to divide the country and the number of refugees fleeing ongoing violence in myanmar may have increased again following a law in recent days reports say ten thousand have crossed into bangladesh since monday more than half a Million People have left me and mark since the crackdown began six weeks ago in Rakhine States. And you go shaders from rival palestinian factions for time and hamas i in cairo for talks on ending their decade long split the recantation deal brokered by egypt follows a Cabinet Meeting in gaza last week marking the return to work of the unity government but as Harry Fossett reports from the occupied west Bank Divisions remain even over the parameters for the upcoming talks on their way out of gaza hamas officials not for the first time in recent weeks griggs you didnt optimism the architecture of a deal had been brokered by egypt now it was for hamas and fatah to start work on the details in cairo face to face. We are going to cairo to discuss the mechanism of implementing the two thousand and eleven color agreements we already signed with plaster which includes the p. L. O. Preparing for elections and forming a unity government. But before the hamas negotiators even left it was clear the other side had different expectations senior thought of. Telling our jazeera nothing had come of the twenty eleven agreement instead that i would present a vision for a unified National Strategy for hamas to sign up to the most of this do they want to have. It for ever and their work to bring us to. Deliver services or they want to par. Delivery of services would certainly be welcomed by garzon suffering daily deprivation the divide which began with gun battles ten years ago has combined with the israeli blockade scene gars a slide into economic and humanitarian calamity a situation worsened by three conflicts with israel in which thousands of palestinians died this year palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas imposed restrictions on salaries and electricity supplies increasing the pressure on hamas to seek a deal now hes insisting that any agreement prevents hamas is military wing from remaining an external alternative center of power. The buses position is that he refuses the equation whereby the Palestinian Authority governs overground and hamas governs underground so it seems the issue of arms is on the table even though it wasnt in previous agreements. For all the smiles on the show in gaza last week when the Palestinian AuthorityPrime Minister assembled his cabinet for a formal handover of power this reconciliation remains at a fragile early stage previous attempts to understood have ended in failure there is early momentum this time not least as a result of egypts intervention but now comes the harder test of thrashing out longstanding divisions in direct negotiations are a force that ramallah