Youre watching the news hour live from our headquarters in doha im dead you navigate that coming up in the next sixty minutes protests in kenya as the Supreme Court fails to rule on a case that would have delayed thursdays president ial election. Iraqs Kurdish Regional government offers to freeze the results of its a session a referendum. With a promise of common prosperity chinese president xi jinping remains at the helm of the worlds second largest economy. With the latest sports news including the most expensive player in baseball Clayton Kushal pitches and to victory in game one of the world series. Hello we begin in kenya thats where the. President ial election will go ahead on thursday despite an Eleventh Hour legal challenge so that bid failed because the Supreme Court said that there werent enough judges to hear the case opposition activists want to the vote the phone saying it wont be credible it sparked protests in western kenya take a look that is the stronghold of the opposition candidates right loading and theyre angry about the election saying it wont be free nor fair so the poll itself is a rerun after the Supreme Court and no president or a kenyatta victory in the first election that took place in august they decided irregularities in the vote think of himself as boycotting thursdays poll is also asking his supporters to stay away so shortly well be getting the latest from Catherine Sawyer who is at the site of the protests as you can see right there but first well cross over to family there miller shes joining us from nairobi so that Supreme Court ruling on the elections did not happen five either as were reporting there werent enough judges i suppose the most obvious question is why werent there enough judges. Will of course of this petition that came before the Supreme Court only happened in the last day or two and thats why the voters would want to the Supreme Court to rule on whether or not they would be an election based on two major things one that the Opposition Leader raila odinga had withdrawn from the race and secondly that the Electoral Commission chairperson that just in the last week said he couldnt guarantee a free and say election given the Political Climate at this time the court the justice of the Supreme Court tomorrow god then said when addressing the court today they couldnt reach a quorum because not all the judges seven of them would not be present they were only able to bring together two and he cited illness and traveling commitments as the reason behind act so this has raised a lot of questions around how this would happen just hours before this election would take place ultimately giving the Supreme Court the opportunity. To rid itself of making that very important decision so late in the game allowing the elections to take place so there is a lot of speculation around why this has happened so late and the opposition are saying that they have an announcement on the way forward that announcement possibly expected today what do we expect there. Will throughout this period to really opposition to say that they Wont Take Part in the election and thats off to the Supreme Court initially will they should be a rerun based on its findings with regard to the petition taken to them by the Opposition Leader you have not looked not long after that rather the opposition said they were going because they dont feel that the election would be free and fair so this is been their position throughout we do expect the opposition to reiterate that today it would appear that they were banking very much on the election being postponed and now that wont happen they really dont have very much room to maneuver they do have a rally beginning in nairobi where they say they expect their supporters to come out support to the National Super alliance as well as protests possibly against the this will not a judgment this announcement by the Supreme Court so we do expect them to continue the stance especially saying that they would demonstrate even on election day ok if im with us thank you for that update from nairobi itself and speaking of the opposition lets now cross over to Catherine Sawyer shes joining us from an opposition stronghold itself can you just tell us what the reaction there has been. Testing all morning long road using stones and gold does they were. High is there very angry they say but secretly asked at the Supreme Court speech they say though they feel more emboldened theyre not going to vote tomorrow theyre not going to recognize a working out so we are you spread are you proud. They say theyre first straight ahead and theyre also angry with what this Police Brutality several people dozens have been killed here during protests protests since august human Rights Groups say that these people including children have mostly been killed by police or people who are very frustrated very angry but today theyre largely peaceful and weve seen a huge presence of police as well the police are pretty much keeping out of their way daryn you say that many people have been telling you that in fact they are not going to the poll on thursday but lets talk about some who may want to are they even able to do that if they want to. There is a lot of daryn this city is a cosmos this is a cosmopolitan city and there are people who perhaps who would want to go and vote but they are fearful so i dont expect a lot of people to go and vote most of the people here are saying we will not go to vote todays protests were pretty much being led by the governor. Has told them to stay home so they say thats what theyre going to do in the last few weeks daryn weve also seen groups of people disrupting training sessions of Electoral Commission officials who are supposed to oversee the elections its very difficult also to see how things like a ballot materials are going to get to the various polling stations here in this region daryn ok Catherine Story thank you catherine giving us the update from western kenya from an authorization stronghold well speak to a little later on. The Kurdish Regional government in iraq has suggested freezing the results of its assessment referendum which triggered a confrontation with the Central Government so the kurds say theyre ready for talks with baghdad and they want a cease fire Kurdish Peshmerga forces have been fighting Government Troops near a key or oil pipeline Stephanie Decker joining us from near iraqs border with turkey so it seems that what the kurds have done is that theyve thrown the ball into the Prime Minister had that in the court has there been any reaction to their offer thats been put forward. Absolutely weve had no reaction yet the Prime Minister is in turkeys meeting with the turkish president right now turkeys literally just behind us theres a little river that flows divides the two countries and syria is just a few call which is that ways of this is also a Crucial Point where fighting was yesterday coming back to the politics nothing yet theres been a statement from the minister for. Turkey saying that this is nothing but a tactical move thats turkey talking about whats happening here inside iraq of course turkey has a lot of interests when it comes to the kurds and that referendum also did not go down well at all when it came to the turkish presidency now were going to have to wait and see what the kurds are saying as you mentioned that they will freeze and i think that word is important because baghdad wanted the total and nominate the referendum results. Saying we will freeze it we will then they want to immediately cease fire because theres been quite a few skirmishes here over the last couple of days and then we want dialogue with baghdad all sides have been calling for this dialogue going back to the constitution along the parameters of the iraqi constitution was to make it simpler means trying to read the the disputed territories which should have been resolved ten years ago under the iraqi constitution but anyway what were seeing at the moment is a message were going to have to wait and see what kind of reaction the government in baghdad is going to take to that stephanie stand by for a second because lets just look at the latest offensive thats taking place so Iraqi Government forces there launching an offensive to recapture the last part of iraqi territory still in eiffels hands i saw her suffered two major defeats in iraq in recent months after fierce fighting in both as well as how we saw obviously suffered the the focus very much over the past few months has been on mosul and how weve done more recently in in syria as we know so how do we expect this battle coming up to unfold. While there has been an ongoing battle by the iraqi force. Says and the shabbier shia militias in this area in unbar province to push back it hasnt gotten the same kind of Media Attention if you will the significant part of this is because they mention today that they dropped leaflets on a climb is the border town if you will bordering iraq with syria and i saw still holds that Border Crossing it is significant because it lies on the main highway to baghdad and also its the last Border Crossing that i still hold and i think certainly symbolically when i. Came through talking about you know breaking down borders establishing their socalled state Islamic State this will be the last moment of dismantling all of that but again having said that it hasnt actually militarily started yet we do expect it to start quite soon but the message is out there that theyre going to carry this out so again its part of just mopping up finishing off the last areas of eisel control got it ok Stephanie Tucker thank you. Chinas communist party has revealed its new Leadership Team headed by president xi jinping premier the quick change was the only one to retain his spot in the seven man lineup but as adrian brown explains there is no clear successor to see. The guessing game over who will be chinas new top Decision Makers is finally over. The line up includes five new faces all over sixty the men theyve replaced to reach retirement age as expected president xi jinping and premier league a chunk retain their posts though but once again no woman was selected for the past week president she has been stamping his authority on the party a party he still warns is threatened by the virus of corruption. You know you have a young its the Worlds LargestPolitical Party the c. P. C. Must behave in a way commensurate with the status this is as close as thoren journalists get to chinese leaders the president said he welcomed objective reporting but not apparently from some of the worlds biggest news organizations who were not invited to witness the leadership stab you in theory one of these new leaders will replace huge in paying as president in five years time but the presidency is not the most powerful political position in chinese Politics Party secretary is xi jinping holds that title and is expected to keep it for many years to come analysts say that she can manage that because hes surrounded himself with yes men. So this is a dangerous phenomenon because. China is a closed system so if the official now being promoted to congress do not have a track record of efficient governance a track record of reform and everybody is just telling seeing. What he wants to hear than this becomes just one big echo chamber one small the president spoke of his dream to make china great again and for the party to align itself more with the people people like wang wei wa who until a few years ago was a farmer but now sells fruit and vegetables in a beijing market she earns around twelve hundred dollars a month much more than she did working the land and says shes already achieved one of her dreams. When i was a kid my dream was to be able to have a steamed bun with every meal but today i can eat whatever i want. It has been a defining few days for chinese politics giving xi jinping the authority to push his vision of what china should look like by the middle of this century adrian brown al jazeera major well lets just take a closer look at some of the key figures and she is Leadership Team so as we said there is premier league chang was the only one to retain his spot alongside she has mainly responsible for overseeing the economy and leaving the cabinets the next and seniority is legion and show who have actively serves as she is confidant and chief of staff has been by she sighed during state visits and other important occasions there is also joe logie whos been overseeing promotions in the party for the past five years so that makes him a key figure and shes campaign to promote supporters and control the political hierarchy will speak to jeannemarie yes sure shes a senior fellow at the university of London School of african and or oriental and African Studies that so as excuse me joining us from london good to have you with us al jazeera so how significant is it that we saw him unveil sort of the leadership but how significant is it that hes broken with tradition and hes not included clear a successor. Its extremely significant i think there are two is very significant takeaways from the last week the first is the speech that she gave of course that was very long it was three and a half hours most of it was a summary of whats been going on for the last five years and most people havent really been following it because they thought it was a bit too boring they were looking for economic reform and there wasnt much sign of it what she included in that speech is as you know this reference and indeed the layout of a new era of socialism with chinese characteristics that is extremely significant and to understand the lineup of the Standing Committee the politburo its important to see it in that context she is looking at a significantly strengthened socialist country by twenty forty nine hes laid down another marker which is a very strong state by twenty thirty five we already have you know the close up market which is twenty twenty twenty twenty one moderate prosperity what she has done with this lineup has been to show that he has not put in anybody under sixty anybody who will be able to be a successor to him in the in in the next the next Party Congress exactly so what does the absence of. Tell us about how long he actually intends to rule. Well i said so first im not sure that you can assume that there isnt that there is an absolute absence of an heir what were looking at is an absence of an obvious heir now that is unusual but its unusual simply in the last two terms under under just a minute hu jintao. Didnt appoint an heir done shopping appointed many years and lost many of them before he finally came up with gentlemen ok this is what he said recently as well he said about guiding the International Community towards a more just and rational new world order when it comes to International Issues on the global stage sort of issues do you expect him to be top tackling. I think he will take a very different approach because he comes at it from very Different Reasons she jumping is not looking at creating a voice a chant on a world stage just for the sake of it she jumping is looking at global issues because he needs to tame Global Voices in order to manage domestic change at home were looking at a at a socialism which is predicated on the idea of seeking truth from fact its a bit of a long story to go through so i wont go into the details now but essentially its about objective thinking its about saying ok we want to get to this goal were going to get to that goal if everybody believes were going to get there and to get there the kind of truth were looking at is the truth were going to create on the ground for that you cant have lots of foreigners coming out with inconvenient voices you cant have inconvenient voices at home either so i think has done has been to come up with an idea. I beg your pardon story a lot of unity of common. A community of common destiny which is a very different idea about how the world should work or i want to leave it there thank you very much i apologize for interrupting you but well have to leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from london thank you youre welcome once more ahead on the aljazeera news hour including were live in istanbul thats where eleven human rights activists are going on trial plus. Two point soldiers grabbed me they forced themselves inside of me i screamed they strangled me and covered my mouth the u. N. Was criticized for not prosecuting peacekeepers accused of sex abuse and Central African republic and its the late late show when this all origin time semifinal and so for americas top Club Competition dont have the detail