Hello im Barbara Sarah this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes opposition protesters are back on the streets in kenya calling for political reform as confusion mounts over the b. P. President ial poll and who is running in it spains Prime Minister issues catalan leaders with a deadline to confirm whether theyve declared independence or not. The United Nations accuses me and mar Security Forces of a campaign of systemic torture rape and killings and by kind state. And are free to send in doha with oldest daughters form a free for secretarygeneral Jerome Valcke approaches the court of arbitration for sport to have used when youre banned from football the ft hood. Thank you for joining us lets begin the news hour in the kenya where confusion is mounting over the repeat president ial election slated for october twenty sixth now kenyas election board says all eight candidates who complete competed in the august poll which was nullified by the Supreme Court due to irregularities will be on the ballot now that means the main opposition candidate right name will be there this fight him announcing on tuesday that he was pulling out of the poll confusing Election Officials say he hasnt submitted the official form to withdrawal well supporters of rye loading have been back on the streets to protest in Nairobi Police fired tear gas to disperse them there demanding reforms to the Electoral Commission and we can miller was with some of the protesters in the capital. Raila odinga supporters a bally needed. Any prompting to return to the streets. They are demonstrating against kenyas Electoral Commission which they believe wont conduct a free and fair rerun of this election. But holding a supporters are divided on him dropping out of the race came the vote which he lost was great the Supreme Court laid to rule theyd been irregularities in how the vote was counted and incumbent and should stand in new elections you cannot go to an election has credibility. So i think of what i like the i think that is the best option for me but we are not but the group because of the pressure so we are out there mostly that we are not happy to police earlier fights here against the protesters and. Nairobi was a notch they. Are adamant they said any reforms to. Election. Kenyas constitution is not clear on what happens once a candidate with flows from everyone but parliament has now passed amendments to electoral laws that could allow can yatta to be named the winner of an election on the twenty sixth and the president s going about spades i miss being a very proud space then its very easy to say that we love a president remove command of the legitimacy and respect from all corners the Electoral Commission will decide what happens next but if any of its decisions can be contested in court kenya faces one of many possibilities including declaring incumbent president who are kenyatta as the only remaining candidates the winner of the rerun all Holding Elections and then declaring kenyatta the winner holding fresh elections within ninety days with new nominations for president. Says he should be declared president ordering guys pushing. For fresh elections in a pronouncement from a. B. C. Not to be believable on the conduct or a. B. C. But the conduct of the commission as its officials has got to be. Whether its a faltering economy or an ongoing political feud all kenyans are guaranteed at this point is uncertainty i meet them a lot ill just sirrah nairobi joining us now via skype from nairobi is writer and political analyst. Thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera now this has become an incredibly complicated story so basically rollo the gamble didnt he saw that if you with drew the courts would stop the election altogether for now and hed have more time in the future and also potentially have more parties nominate more candidates but as things stand now do you think that this gamble is going to pay off or do you think it could ultimately be a mistake on his part. I think its very hard to tell at this point what was clear was that before nine a. M. Today the law was on rayless side you dont just have to look at the constitution and elections are about kenyas elections actually governed by five different bodies of law and looking at all those things and together at least on paper by nine am this morning the law was on raila side what changed was the fact that we had another election petition filed by one of the candidates who conceded the august eighth election i could do a cart and in that decision of the high court basically said everybody gets to be a. The broward and we have again with the candidates that we had in june and august version of their actions or and that basically throws raynas gamble into disarray into disarray because its basically says. Instead of what the previous regime said which is what one candidate pulls out of a rerun we have to go back to nominations now theyre saying well well just do the same thing that we did in august all over again and its not clear how the commission is going to move forward because these two pieces of law dont exactly read well together so basically i mean apart from the tensions over the elections and unfortunately the possibility of violence repeating itself this could also push counted towards a constitutional crisis couldnt. I mean in all fairness kenyas been a constable courses for a while the two thousand and ten elections at a very high bar for public conduct that has been pushed in challenge to and many different ways since two thousand and ten since it was actually passed if it wasnt going to be this issue it was going to be the issue of gender representation in the two thirds rule which hasnt been implemented at all and has locked women out of parliament and out of the legislature so the constitution has raised a lot of questions that in many ways especially the legislature hasnt really added surge properly and this is just one of them you are presented to mention the laws that were passed yesterday well at this particular point under the iggs constitution president kenyatta is an incumbent hes an acting president so he does not have the power to a said to you laws what does that mean when Parliament Passes laws that the person can assign assent to and cannot make have effect it means that those laws are basically a waste of time its not clear how this is going to play moving forward i mean i guess now were sort of looking at the details of the law but its obviously also a question about legitimacy i mean whoever wins is not going to please everybody but i mean most of the country should be behind them or at least see them as the legitimate leader i mean assuming that some kind of election still does go ahead because i think its until november first that the rerun from from the august election needs to happen i mean in the past few weeks you know a lot of time has been wasted over this and not a lot of campaigning how split are the people of kenya right now not so much on the legal issues but but just on the political you know if weve bored to consider this a normal election. I think the most important thing for people to remember is what happened after august eleventh which was that we had Police Officers going into Opposition Strongholds and using an indiscriminate amount of force just the day before yesterday the National Commission on human rights dropped a report that thirty seven people had died it entirely not position strongholds and that left a feeling of disenfranchisement and a feeling of frustration well this Legal Process has done is it has brought people back to the table and has said you can actually find some kind of restitution in the Legal Process if we move forward with an election that does not have that rejecting is it that stamp that says weve gone through the pursers it might actually take us back to the way the low point which i would say it was august twelfth where people really didnt feel like they were part of this country they felt like the police could come after them indiscriminately and not have any consequences to it so yes its absolutely important for the political process to be legitimized not just in law but in the Public Perception as well having a ballot in which one candidate in which a leading candidate has said this doesnt come up to standard risks diligence advising the entire election process all together which is obviously a massive risk near boulder you did actually write a great article for our website im looking at it now its called why did right loading to withdraw from the Election Rerun well you really explain that the Technical Details which are quite complicated to explain it really well i would i would point anyone to go and have a read of that if they want to find that more detail for the moment angela near boulder thank you. Thanks for having me. Now spains Prime Minister has asked catalan leaders to say whether they have declared independence giving them five days to reply on tuesday the catalan president as parliament to suspend its declaration of independence to allow for talks if catalonia does press on with secession the Spanish Government says it will take away the regions political ptolemy or in sleep has more now from madrid but read does not like being told what to do by the Council Lands for once parliament was united as the journalist speculated the cabinets agreed the spanish lion bit back against the catalan demands that their independence will happen the Prime Minister said you say it out loud and we will take back your powers no dice no deal and you have until monday. Youve held a Cabinet Meeting and weve decided the cuddling government must confirm whether or not they have declared independence regardless of whether its going to take effect or not this is a requirement necessary before any other measures can be taken by the government including invoking article one hundred fifty five. So back it goes to barcelona madrid no society there is split some separatist wants a session now others are nervous half the population hates the whole idea how long should they wait we know there are very important governments and people around the world who are ready to assist in mediation weve got the group of the elders with coffee and with a bang kimoon with desmond tutu who are ready to exercise their mediation the only small detail which we are missing is that we have nobody on the other side of the table because money just said he was not accepting mediation. All the while europe looks surely not another country fracturing itself there is no support at all in brussels for the Catalan Independence movements madrid knows that it is the side with the powerful friends many people in madrid regard roys statements his demand the council only a clarify its position on independence as a shrewd one by putting the ball straight back in catalonia courts potentially exposes divisions inside the independence movements that might buy madrid some time take the pressure out of the immediate situation but also leave the crisis open ended. Where the protesters in barcelona go from here is a good question but it would like nothing more than for them to turn on each other destroy their own movements thats what rule out the need for mediation which we treat insists there is no place for asli aljazeera which it. Yes President Donald Trump is holding talks with his canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau at the white house the pair are discussing the nafta trade deal which trump has threatened to pull out of but during the photo op he went off topic Kimberly Halkett is at the white house for us so just explain to us exactly how he went off topic from what i understand theres a major news outlet thats true supported the president wanted the Nuclear Arsenal increased by ten times and trump wasnt too happy about this no really pushing back hard barbara against those reports blaming the media blaming that news outlet n. B. C. Here in the United States for what he called false reporting but it wasnt just the president doing that it was also his secretary of state james mattis who just before this photo op with the canadian Prime Minister sent out a statement calling the reporting absolutely false and eroni yes donald trump had to add on to that continuing his claims that he and his presidency are we were being reported in terms they can only refer to as fake news. No i never discuss i think somebody said i want ten times the Nuclear Weapons that we have right now right now we have so many Nuclear Weapons i want them in perfect condition perfect shape thats the only thing ive ever discussed general matters put out a statement was putting out a statement saying that that was fake news that it was just mentioned that way and its frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. And kimberly speaking of Nuclear Weapons it seems that trump is on the verge of announcing at the says you know whether to recertify the iran deal i mean what impact is that going to have well it all comes at a particularly difficult time and when it comes to that state in the present day just a moment ago about the press be able to write whatever it wants to write well you have to remember that the right to free speech and also freedom of the press is a protected right in the United States still thats something that the president has repeatedly taken issue with and all of this tension that has been exposed not just the claims that the president denies but also to keep policy differences when it comes to north korea within his cabinet with Top Republicans including the chair of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee bob corker a member of the president s own party has really made a lot of people in washington and outside of washington nervous you can see the canadian Prime Minister looking particularly uncomfortable as the president was answering questions and particularly when he made the statements that he acknowledged that he had different opinions than his top diplomat Rex Tillerson the secretary of state when it comes to north korea he said in fact that there are different attitudes on north korea but ultimately he said my attitude is the only one that matters can really halkett with the latest from the white house kimberly thank you. Much more to come here on the news hour an uneasy peace fifteen years after conflict ended in liberia victims of violence say that the visions still remain fact and getting fatter a new report paints a grim picture of the health of children and adolescents worldwide plus the United States is missing out on the two thousand and eighteen world cup in russia more with that with peter later in sport. With. The United Nations is accusing me of mars Security Forces of torture killings and the rape of children as part of what it says where well organized coordinated and systematic get systematic attacks against muslims more than half a million have fled to bangladesh since august and many more are on the way yet a limb has more now from the young girl. An away service in a sea of misery. This school is teaching english to a hindu refugees who fled mean mass military campaign before eleven year old so you know the conflict is ever present. In our village reckoned people came to our house to kill people and they burned houses so we cant stay there they were torturing you know what United Nations investigators are prevented from going to main mosque conflict zone so they came here to bangladesh in what is now the Worlds Largest refugee camp more than half a million or hinge or have fled across the border from main mar to bangladesh since late august it was from them that the un heard testimonies of a military campaign of indiscriminate killing mass rape and the burning down of homes in yemen our Security Forces purposely to strides the property of the range of population scorched earth gatherings and entire villages in the penn state media only to drive the population out in droves but also to prevent the free range of victims from returning to their homes not only will hinge and not be allowed back to their homes but it wont belong to them anymore mean mars government announced last month that all birds land will become the property of the state aljazeera has yet to hear back from authorities about their response to the un report theyve previously denied u. N. Claims that the military campaign against the right amount to ethnic cleansing slightly that ignore and dismiss this report to the arab mohammad al jazeera. I source says its behind the attack on the Police Headquarters in the syrian capital damascus which the government says killed two people and injured six others at least three suicide bombers are said to have tried to storm the building two of the attackers were killed on the spot while the other detonated a suicide vest eisel said in a statement that its fighters carried out the attack. Russia has more now from attack here at the turkey syria border the atta