Taina this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes a political crisis thats only deepening spain says it will suspend catalonia is autonomy after its leaders failed to back down on their secession bad. Security in afghanistan and spotlight after more Taliban Attacks hundred twenty people have been killed in the space of a few days. Were live in Gainesville Florida where hundreds of police and big deployed ahead of a speech by an uninvited white supremacist. And he descended into a hall where the latest sports news is no ways womens Football Team become the First Female National team to receive the same pay deal as their male counterparts that and more later in the program. Spains government says it will press ahead with plans to suspend Catalonia Autonomy after leaders that ignored a final deadline to back down secession from minister Mariano Hoyer will hold a Cabinet Meeting on saturday and trigger article one five five of the constitution a measure thats never been used allowing madrid to impose direct rule over the region if barkers in barcelona. Spains political crisis is deepening after failing to comply with the Spanish Government catalonia will now be stripped of its autonomy and more to let the clock you for in the absence of a clear response we note that he has not answered our request and therefore we will continue procedure of triggering article one five five of the constitution to restore legality in catalonia the capsule president. Had been given until thursday morning to clarify and revoke any independence claim last week he unilaterally declared independence when. He suspended it to allow for talks but instead of clarifying his position sent a letter to madrid calling for an end to repression and for dialogue. Prime minister Mariano Rajoy has repeatedly refused to mediate with the secessionists were now in uncharted Territory Article one five five has never been invoked in mainland spain before they could see devolved powers over the raising of taxes Education Health care the police soon in madrid hands of the very worst you could see the suspension of the government and the arrest of its leaders its hard to imagine any of these scenarios unfolding without more massive protests or perhaps even a change of tactics i think theres no possibility of going like taking arms phrasing arms and or even like. Seeing the birth of a terrorist group i dont think that is a possibility at all but some kind of more aggressive i dont want to say violent but more stronger organized and search and see in terms of political insurgency and organization i think its its a problem. But madrid the show restraint Amnesty Internationals urged the Spanish Government to avoid a repeat of these scenes of the day of the cattle referendum theyve also asked for two independence leaders jailed by spanish judge to be released the Spanish Government expects it to finalize plans for direct rule at a Cabinet Meeting on saturday. In response the cattle and leadership say theyll now formalize independence with a vote of the Regional Parliament this tense standoff is entering a critical new phase the parker aljazeera barcelona. Taliban fighters have killed forty three Afghan Soldiers in an assault in the middle of the night at a military camp a group set off two suicide car bombs at a base in the my one district of kandahar followed by hours of gun fighting one hundred twenty people have been killed in a series of Taliban Attacks this week jennifer glass is following developments from kabul. The Taliban Attack the Afghan Army Base in southern afghanistan in my want near the helm on the border in the early hours of thursday morning killing forty three Afghan Soldiers there elsewhere in afghanistan at about the same time five soldiers killed five Police Killed the numers and six killed in northern province that of course coming after earlier this week two separate attacks in eastern afghanistan borders impacted and in gaza killed another eighty people as well most of them Afghan Security forces some of them civilians the gardez attack involving two suicide car bombs also wounded three hundred people Security Forces as well as civilians but the fact that these attacks have taken place in the north in the east in the south and the southwest show really the the breadth of. The taliban has across the country the fact that they are able to make launch these significant major attacks across the country and hold certain areas and also that theyre willing to attack military posts and inflict large amounts of casualties shows that they really can still fight now afghanistan i think thats the message theyre trying to send to the Afghan Government and to the International Community particularly perhaps the United States government which is starting to send a several thousand additional troops here to afghanistan to support the Afghan Security forces and the and the american secretary of state saying that the United States remain in afghanistan as long as the taliban dont come to the peace table that is the ultimate goal of the Afghan Government to make peace with the taliban or fight them so that theyre no longer relevant so far that the taliban have shown really no indicate indication that they plan to come to the peace table and the fighting becomes more intense. Well jennifer mentioned in her report theres been a string of attacks across afghanistan in recent days a fight has also attacked a Police Headquarters in the southeastern province of thursday a Second Attack on it this week the group was also responsible for an ambush in the northern province which killed Six Police Officers on wednesday and on tuesday to unleash a wave of attacks targeting police compounds and government facilities the suicide bombers and at least seventy four people were killed when the set said talk to david seventy from the center for strategic teaching and International Studies in washington hes also the former acting president of the American University of afghanistan thank you very much indeed for being with us i mean why do you think were seeing this surge in the numbers of it and intensity of attacks by the taliban i think your correspondent had it right the taliban are struggling to prove that they are still relevant at the beginning of the fighting season this year in the spring the talibans objective was to seize more territory particularly district in provincial capitals that has by and large failed unlike last year in the year before when they were able to seize several provincial capitals for periods of time this year theyve not been able to seize any significant Population Centers so the taliban needed to send a message before the fighting season ends in the next few weeks that they are still relevant theyre able to carry out these attacks but at the same time this kind of lashing out with a large number of casualties including civilians builds opposition to the taliban among the vast majority of afghans so the taliban are actually in a difficult position but they still remain retain the ability to carry out these large attacks by bombs but theyre theyve not been able to make the kind of progress in the rest of the country that they had hoped to at the beginning of this year what about the u. S. Strategy at the moment i mean theres an increase in gas trikes on the country i suppose with that you do also get some civilian casualties dont you what why do you think theyre increasing those theres a strikes. Well the progress the taliban made in the previous two to three years after president obama pulled the majority of u. S. Forces out twenty fourteen was due to the fact that they were able to amass larger and larger amounts of troops this year a dramatic escalation of air support the u. S. Air strikes coupled with an increasing ability of the Afghan Air Force to attack has meant the taliban cannot carry out large scale movements to threaten Population Centers the number of civilian casualties inflicted by the taliban is of course much greater than any incidental casualties caused by those air attacks but the decision by the Trump Administration to both increase air attacks to increase intelligence support and add some key troops to the forces in afghanistan are sending a clear message to the taliban and their supporters in pakistan that as secretary killers and said the other day the u. S. Will be there until the taliban decide to choose peace over war you mentioned supporters in pakistan what about the reports of support from russia for the taliban there was it and if you sort of piece in the london times a couple of days ago suggesting that they were the russians were a few were sending fuel across free to the taliban who then selling it at to generate income is that something you think is happening on a grand scale road and you think the russians are funding the taliban in a significant way. The russian activities over the last two years really have been very disturbing their outreach to the taliban their support of the taliban which includes the fuel you mention and other support including Political Support has been very concerning to the Afghan People and to the nato forces there i think you have to see the russian moves in the context of their broader agenda versus made overtures the United States and theyre trying theyve been trying to use use afghanistan as a way to try and we can both nato and United States. So far thats not happening but the russians have a lot of capability and certainly bears watching david said we thank you very much indeed to if you are not to thank you thank you but leda of an offshoot of the taliban in pakistan has been killed in a u. S. Drone strike and Lahoud Horizonte and at least nine others were killed in two u. S. Drone strikes on monday he was the head of to iraq which has carried out some of deadliest attacks in pakistan including a suicide bombing in a whole park that killed seventy five people last year a spokesperson from the group confirmed his death kids in syria celebrating the capture of a city of record from us so the great influence of syrias kurdish factions is creating consensus in neighboring turkey question how are reports. On the syria turkey border. Fighters from the Popular Protection units or why fiji celebrating the capture of iraq. They are the most powerful Kurdish Group in syria the wife fijis part of a coalition of kurdish factions known as the Syrian Democratic forces yeah i know that that is that the operation to leave right rocco was a strategic and ideological battle for our forces we participated in a in a commanding role side by side with our comrades in the Syrian Democratic forces and the peoples Protection Units behind the job didnt fight stands a huge poster of. The jailed leader of turkeys main kurdish rebel group the kurdistan workers party. And. Its a terrorist organization next to a post is a picture of. A prominent command in the old female kurdish militia. That with solid intentions and a will that hasnt been broken we have achieved our goal which was to pound the strongholds of terrorism in the city we have restored on a to use eighty women by liberating dozens of slaves who were taken from single and weve also frayed a similar number of children. Name roundabout is where i said fighters paraded in two thousand and fourteen when they took over iraq. It was also what opponents were murdered with isis gone these kurds operating on the same spot to a sense of a growing influence their territorial gains stretch from in the north east all the way to near the y. P. G. s show of force in iraq is likely to further stoke regional tension turkey considers the kurds rising roloson. As a threat to its National Security and turkish leaders accuse the y. P. Jihad being an extension of the p. K. K. And war force may be used against kurdish factions to stop their advances the turkeys border. Gaziantep. Much more to come here on aljazeera news hour. Protests in pakistan after ousted pakistani Prime Minister nawaz sharif is formally charged with corruption. For his Prime Minister to resign may tries to jump start stalled breaks it talks will live to brussels with the latest. And support coming world series baseball champions save themselves from elimination peter will be here with a story. One person has been killed and six others wounded after iraqi forces opened fire on kurdish protestors in kentucky in the kurdish demonstrators were protesting against the takeover of the city by iraqi forces and i think it is claimed by both the Kurdistan Regional government and the central authorities in baghdad. That one hundred thousand kurds have fled the kirkuk region since it was retaken by iraqi forces the u. N. Says its worried by reports that civilians are being forcibly displaced and their houses and businesses looted and destroyed Stephanie Decker reports from abil in northern iraq. In a dusty abandoned Housing Project on the outskirts of reveal these are unexpected occupants. Second kurdish families who fled their homes in kirkuk and surrounding areas just a couple of days ago now scrambling for basic supplies. Abdul karim says she left because she was scared of shia militia fighters called her who arrived alongside the iraqi army. They werent good with kurds they didnt trade as well they used to take and imprison them even hit women my husband is dead all i could do is take my four children and run away we came to a build it is ours to get here the bride with. Iraqi Prime Minister hi there has ordered all armed groups out of kirkuk with only the iraqi army and federal police remaining he insists is safe and calls for the protection of civilians but many here tell us they wont return. Just like one Rashid Mohammad and his family he was a policeman in kirkuk until he fled two days ago. People are saying is safe now but it is propaganda and i they came out and beat the youth they have burned houses thats why we got scared because of our families thats why we left a Political Party sold us out not all kurds are refugees this is all political. Hinting at the internal divisions among the main two kurdish Political Parties the ruling accuse the p u k of colluding with the Iraqi Government leaders iran and turkey in orchestrating the takeover for a cook a complex web of age old kurdish rivalries and geopolitical interests. Through her six to seven years. Ago the whole money a lot happened to us we dont own our own house now we dont even know if we have a house or out things every year there is a war this war then leads to this fight that leads to this war now they came to our homes and wish should we go now. What is life in iraq she asks since i was a child ive never seen happiness its we were off to war she tells us. Many warned that regaining territory captured by eisel would mean little in solving iraqs complicated territorial ethnic and sectarian tensions it seems they may have been right Stephanie Decker or jazeera. Police in the u. S. Are bracing for protests when a white supremacist gives a speech at the university of florida a state of emergency has been declared around the gainesville campus ahead of Richard Spencers talk which is due to start this hour it will be his first public appearance since he was involved in a white supremacist rally in charlottesville in august which turned violent leaving one person dead. And it kind of has a life lesson in gainesville so ending with all the security in place have there been many protesters in the end. Well i think you can see or protest of the rock right behind me this is an intense security operation here something the likes of which ive never seen before even a president ial visit doesnt really get this kind of security you can hear the Police Helicopters hovering above as there are barriers all over the place things like Water Bottles and lighters have been banned masks of being banned but this is a post charlottesville world the university of florida is taking no chances here this entire security operation is costing about half a Million Dollars but lets bring in dr draw up and david who is the head of the faculty he