Welcome to the news grid breaking news out of kenya the Opposition Leader while loading has Just Announced that hes withdrawing from the president ial Election Rerun he says officials have failed to make reforms through a broken system which he blames for augusts Election Results being an old that leaves his bitter rival president a hurrican as the sole candidate a make or break moment spain and they are European Union are waiting with bated breath to see if catalonia as a leader will declare independence mystery surrounds whether carlos put him on will honor the process and vote for a referendum that the National Government says was illegal flawed for life to barcelona and madrid as the clock ticks down and australia and syrias world cup dream in an extra truck time ruler in sydney the visitors though certainly far away until the end they want to hazard. Special sports segment with all the celebration heartbreak and reaction and its kind of lonely away to find out its fate will also look at how public broadcasters have been accused of fanning the flames of division i mean your questions and comments throughout the show using the hash tag. Youre the news get real live on air were streaming online as well through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com so kenyas fragile political situation has been dealt a significant blow thats just in the past hour where the Opposition Leader raul loading up pulling out from a rerun of the president ial election well he lost the election in august to president kenyatta but the result was later scrapped by the Supreme Court which found irregularities now says officials have failed to make the reforms necessary for a fair race listen. In the president ial election. When the in the notification of the president ial election and if its going to seventeen and this subsequent because it bent by the commission all genders signed as president ial candidates and running mates for the pleasure election the. Footprint is. Twenty seventeen. We need you. For more catherine sorries joining us from nairobi just talk us through what exactly happened over the past hour and the huge significance of this development. A hugely significant daryn and you mentioned in the introduction that this comes at a very fragile time and kennedys are very unprecedented times as well we. In that press conference think some of the reasons why he and his Opposition Coalition have decided to withdraw from the election is the fact that the Electoral Commission has not been a huge thing and listening to some of the demands that theyve been making for example the opposition one fattened individuals within. Their Electoral Commission who they say oversaw the last elections removed the head of the twenty sixth paul they also wanted some camp unease that were involved in the transmission of results as well as printing ballot papers replace the head of the election by the Electoral Commission say that this is not possible because the time is too short to make all this replacement or allowed into saying really that they already planned to read this election the opposition has been calling had been calling for weekly demonstrations the supporters have been coming to the streets calling for electoral reforms. You know Nasa Coalition at a press conference saying that these demonstrations are going to continue even going ahead to say that if the twenty sixth elections happen then theres going to be a disruption of what level of disruption there talking about we dont know but this is causing a lot of anxiety and a lot of fear with many people who are looking at are is that the coast campaigning and he say that hes going to continue campaigning and hes going to continue with the election anyway the Electoral Commission yesterday said theyre going to carry on with the election but this brings a new dime a dimension than a lot of kenyans ive been talking to there in have still trying to wrap their heads around what is going on the question their asking is now what happens next is there even going to be election on the twenty sixth that is no election on the twenty sixth and within this city. The day. And whats going to happen after that the constitution really very big about what happened after the fifty day. Ok catherine we thank you for giving us that update from nairobi we also have with us here mohammed though hes been covering kenyan politics for years with us here in the studio and you also covered this election in kenya let me just tell you what were hearing from the latest lines coming in on the news wires the kenyan opposition lawmaker saying that they are going to Boycott Parliament over proposed election law amendments how big is all of this well this is huge weve already been im on something grounds in kenya of to the Supreme Court monday five that is old school for august eighth election. To a whole new level come the elections be held with only one candidate now the three no didnt get. Withdrawn from that race the constitution as cousin said does not concede a situation where the elections on will tell within sixty days from the consideration of the results so why. Can that might be added to some sort of constitutional crisis and what do we expect the reaction to be from kenyans themselves because even at the time of the election in august the country was very divided a very polarized indeed this is a debate divided nation and basically on tribal basis the feelings of exclusion within many can and communities where loading to himself leads one of these communities the people whove been looking for the presidency of kenya for a very long time is father before he wanted to become the president of kenya this is the fourth election he had contest of the august eighth one and now he is also surrounded himself with tribal kingpins people who have a lot of say within their communities is running mate kalonzo most yorkers one of them sunny im a devotee one of the principals of most is another one and many others so youre talking about almost a huff of the contrary. Siding with or you know do you know when it comes to these feelings of exclusivity and the Supreme Courts decision really saved much as when it comes to the political tensions that have been building up ever since that is also what declared and once that is also a big concern and fresh elections held people aside a sigh of relief now with this this takes it to a different level altogether and heres what one of our viewers is telling us on facebook jim are sending in a comment saying rhyolite demanded some changes within the reform of the Electoral Commission but they werent doing any changes why is that well in terms of the commission us which she wasnt keen on in the past few days in the last days. Very little time between the time the election was cancelled and the time the election was supposed to be held any changes to the mid within the commission itself however you know was very keen on the targets of the commission the people who were dealing with ease. Tendering the printing of the bottle peepers the ballot boxes people who are dealing with the companies the companies that were dealing with the Electronic System and particularly he wanted the chief executive officer of the Electoral Commission was part of the area to go now although it has been rejected because the believe which is present who does but he wanted people to state now hes a game and ease how can i have in a trust in elections being organized and presided over by the same people that have been castigated for causing all this massive fraud was found by the locals found by the Supreme Court and not the first time that weve had problems when it comes to elections in kenya so this must be for worrying for obviously youve spoken about kenyans but also for a lot of people from the outside looking in. You know as picky as a kenyan we really have been wondering the incompetence of successive can and governments in Holding Elections and free and fair ones two thousand and two was the last election thats not been contested in kenya the two thousand and seven elections so the postelection andras that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people two thousand and thirteen elections were disputed and ended up being decided by the Supreme Court the same pup and this is. This just shows you that the massive corruption in the country has also spilled over to the electoral process of the country and it would be a very difficult one to salt ok how much is all we leave it there we thank you for that analysis our social media producer anderson power has been looking at their reaction online and or to the developing story what are people saying well people in kenya immediately started reacting online throwing riot loading his name into the worldwide trends now this announcement isnt a complete surprise to some have. Been using a hash tag no reforms no elections this week and he told his supporters on monday that his rivals in the juice in jubilee stole the election in august and in free and fair contests julie would lose again now that the announcement is official and supporters are praising his decision to drop outs of what they call a rigged election process most kenyans seem to be asking what many of us are asking what will happen next now donald cory kip corey are here for one says that withdrawal puts kenya the withdrawal puts kenya into unchartered constitutional and legal waters well all over nothing gay who is a journalist says he thought that the demand for fresh nominations might be calculated to give nasa a new president ial candidate who is not right other people are asking about Campaign Money in particular and what might happen to the millions of kenyan shillings or hundreds of thousands of dollars that has been donated by odinga supporters so well keep monitoring the reaction to the announcement online and we also hear from you we always have viewers on Facebook Live from kenya so share your thoughts and on twitter you can share thoughts me directly im at enter chapelle or just use the has tag it in is good andrew thank you will spains worst political crisis in a generation is about to come to a head thats as the nation waits to see if the catalonia leader this man right there thats carla sputum all will declare independence spain and indeed the rest of the European Union have a little over forty five minutes to wait until puja is supposed to address catalonia as a Regional Parliament ninety percent of catalans who cast ballots in a referendum on october the first voted in favor of secession thats despite a court ban that ruled the whole thing unconstitutional the poll also had low turnout as police blocked access to many voting places and many catalans who oppose the session simply stayed at home madrid as warning not to do anything quote irreversible so at stake in. The future of a region thats home to seven and a half Million People and generates twenty percent of spains economic output word a country the size of catalonia economy would rank somewhere between denmark and finland so were covering this from both sides of this highly divisive debate we have lawrence lee there he is hes standing by in madrid thats the home of the National Government as you know but well begin with jonah hall in barcelona thats catalonia as a regional capital output to your comments coming into us here at the news grid jonah saying that he would be referring to he would be insane uncut unconstitutional and irrational that if he declares independence he needs to open dialogue with the madrid government the truth is do we know what hes going to say in about forty five minutes time. We really dont the Regional Government has been given any into a clue as to what might be in the address that was depleted is due to give that line of thinking though is part of a huge amount of pressure that is built up on him to step back from the brink you may remember that last week it was very clear which seemed very clear that he was going to declare independence he planned to do it on monday at a parliamentary session that was promptly banned by the Constitutional Court in madrid so this session on tuesday was called merely for him to give a report back on the referendum but of course he may take the opportunity to go much further than that and declare independence there is a referendum law passed by this parliament in september at the behest of mr prejudgment and his coalition that says in the event of a positive result in the referendum a declaration of independence must follow and certainly the two million plus people who voted for it will want him to do that will be very disappointed if he doesnt but as i say a lot of pressure has built up in the past week in the past few days the flight of companies from catalonia threats from madrid. The huge protests that took place here on sunday or people to be who came out and said dont do it lets remain united with spain will he bowed to that pressure or not but as you rightly said there were about forty or so minutes away from finding out ok joe now well leave it there for now we thank you over to lawrence joining us from madrid madrid obviously looking at this with concern whether there are options if he does announce independence. Well there are a lot but none of them are any good a lot of worried faces in this in the Spanish Parliament here lets go straight to tony roll than from the unionists opposition and youre in touch with the Government Party here first of all whats your best bet is going to say in forty five minutes from now do you think is going to go or not. I believe there is a bit of a misunderstanding of what actually happening here in spain that there is an ongoing that is happening now in catalonia by a nationalist not give east that without. A legal basis or any. Board that they are imposing on the rest of see the break up of a country within europe within the ribena in the twenty First Century right so you think hes going to announce independence does it show yeah i mean thats what its actually written in the last that they have approved and thats what he said yesterday show i think hes going to ahead with independence but just to be clear im just trying to you know. Forty five minutes away you dont know the government doesnt know spain doesnt know the catalans dont know the European Union doesnt know the outside world doesnt know what hes going to say and you think that means hes suitable to be the leader of an independent country theyve been extremely responsible we had an election they didnt get the majority of the vote at the end of twenty fifteen and they can decided to continue with their stride as you to break up the country to bring this. Outside of the European Union and now they just need to continue with this game. And that of these weve heard in other places in the universe throughout the crises before the crises report from the bench was below fifteen percent now it seems that all the problems are going to be solved if we break up the country and quite the opposite is happening what are moderates options something that can send the tanks in it its inconceivable if they arrest him he becomes a martyr doesnt he they try to take back control what do you think is the best thing they can do i think things are going to get worse before they get better and the options are not are not are not really good we are all very worried. She didnt make the. Fracturing extremely vicious id people are in the streets there has been violence what the government is doing that could be more violence if there is legal is more violence they are pushing they are pushing it they know what the options of the government are not many they just need my opinion is that they need to get out this government is not valid these are not a valid interlocutor to solve these negotiation and we need to talk to somebody else and call an election where everybody Regional Election where everybody can actually vote with a democratic government these with an electrode board where all the views can be actually heard not only the views of the nationalists. And thats the only way forward the people of it are not giving another option thank you very much for the time weve been talking we didnt have time to get so before this this is supposed to be a good year for the European Union the populists lost in the netherlands and france and michaela merkels and back in power in germany in this with the Political Center has been holding on to the last thing the European Union want right at the end of this year is is is a complete crisis in spain but its looking like people think is going to announce secession and that is what well wait to hear about forty five minutes time for the time being lawrence lee we thank you for that back to andrew youve been looking at some of the language being used online and in the media when it comes to the spanish story what have you found well there is a couple of words catalonia as you would expect the two other words of dominated much of the discussion on twitter in spain for weeks now and they are fascist and dictatorship now as you can imagine many people online are still talking about and sharing videos like the violent clashes between police and protesters lots of commentators who share these sorts of videos accuse the spanish authorities of acting like a dictatorship now these images are from a demonstration in the last week the government you may remember put out a statement condemning that violence. 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