Carry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the president ial election is marred by violent protests and Opposition Strongholds at least one person has been killed. Protests against madrids plans to remove autonomy from catalonia but the next move of the regions leader as im clear postpones a key speech. Iraqs Prime Minister rejects the kurds offer to freeze the referendum on secession as he travels to iran to meet with leaders there. With the latest. Record is the. Level of baseballs world series body and i dont just. Violence has erupted in Opposition Strongholds. And kenya where people are heading back to the polls for the second time and in just over two months voting for a new president got underway earlier on thursday except for in consumer who were most polling stations are closed because of security concerns police there fired live rounds and tear gas to break up protests against the vote and at least one person has been killed twelve others injured the Opposition Leader raila odinga asked his supporters to boycott what he calls a sham election a claim rejected by his rival the president. But election observers are concerned some kenyans have been intended aided and may not vote out of fear president kenyatta he has appealed for calm the vote is a repeat of the first president ial poll that was an august but the Supreme Court they declared that invalid so shortly well get the latest from Katherine Sawyer in the opposition stronghold of kisumu first though lets go to mohammed who is in the capital nairobi this is been a really tense really dangerous situation with people being harmed in and tear gas whats the latest there were you are mohammed and nairobi. Keep being aware of the most obvious and all free loading go supporters in the cup you told me they have been trying all they come to issue of the voting takes place here. Why are charred streets and fall and electricity polls just to remind us of the violent pull out took place earlier here one of the streets of the protests have moved a little. Behind with about one hundred a few hundred meters away and police are still involved in clashes with protesters who have in a way succeeded in ensuring that no one vaulted out the Olympic Primary School one of the biggest polling stations here in kiev being the police are firing teargas and live minissha in the air to try and this past them but every time they succeed the group of young protesters keep on coming back all right mohamed we will check back in with you in the meantime lets cross now to Catherine Sawyer he joins us from consumer and western kenya and catherine as we said at the top of the newscast we know at least one person has been killed in all this today what do you know about the circumstances of that. At the hospital where this young man died he is nineteen years old he was shot on the thigh he was bleeding profusely so Health Workers couldnt contain that now since then we have seen a stately stream of ambulances coming in and out of this hospital this hospital is very close to some of the areas where confrontations between police and protesters are still going on so people are still brought being brought in with various injuries just before i came on air show theres a man who was brought in he had this injury right here on his head Health Workers still trying to contain that as an emergency several other people have been badly injured as well so theres been that going on and a lot of roads leading to some of these areas have been blocked young people saying who are mining those improvised road blocks saying that they do not want any poly materials getting to some of the polling stations and earlier we were at one polling station it was in fact very difficult to get an open polling station so we got to this one ballot materials where there had just arrived but then. The last Electoral Commission officials were there saying that its very difficult for them to dispute distribute distribute this polling materials to the various polling stations because of security reasons also because transport transporters and other people who were supposed to be taking this polling materials are just saying no we cant another problem they told us is that start of the Electoral Commission that clocks and people who are supposed to carry out this election have stayed away theyre saying that they are fearing for their security so richelle it seems very very unlikely from our observation that theres going to be an election here today recap and so alive for us. Catherine thank you. President has called off an expected announcement leaving the political situation unclear a report suggested that carlos approached the mob was going to announce plans for Regional Elections and december and drop a declaration of independence spain senate plans to debate the employment taishan article one fifty five of the constitution which allow suspension of catalonia political autonomy also thousands of University Students are protesting in barcelona demonstrating against spains plans to dissolve catalonia as the government is going down to Andrew Symonds who is live and barcelona so andrew what what we know about when and where we may actually hear from carlos poached them on there was a sentence a patient about the statement theres an announcement he was supposed to make and that its been suspended i believe its a language theyre using not cancel per se so what do we know about where and when we might hear from him. Well that is the big question thats the question what good you would cope with the camera there right away its a question that the students in the demonstrators all round this well what should house is the policy of general the tax that is where the government is that is where the president should be making a statement to the world post volumes all through school where he was going to make mistakes with the whole country was awaiting its own local media was reporting that he was going to allow a snappy lecture and that the clooney goes would take the ladies out of the situation with the group that hes intending to impose direct rule in the coming hours tomorrow possibly friday all to one five five being imposed on the comfort zone look at the people some of them with the shouts and rachel in response to that because we will we will see who was. Just to the president to call us who was going to actually affect to move around the whole issue of secession and just go for election. Post duration with politicians ministers many people what is going to happen is where does this mean that hes going to change his mind is it just a procedural thing is there a deal. With madrid no one knows who is to those questions not even some of the politicians that was supposed to be recession starting soon which would have involved in the fight and some decisions three options in the end we were aware of one was Holding Elections without any moves towards declaring secession. Was just declaring secession. Then going for elections on the food one was to declare us a session without any elections now the party would talk about the ruling party. Has seen demonstrations. But also outside forces and there is no government the scene which is the center left party and the Vice President of the faulty head of that announced. Twenty four hours ago that there could be decision out of something. Secession and of course was to show a very fluid situation. Will look through Mariano Rajoy as. Some sort of when do whole piece sticking with his mind that even if they could elections they still roll forward to imposing direct rule because of the. Well the referendum the closer you get that could have declared independence. Quite confusing but also confusing themselves absolutely its so fluid and thank you for keeping us up on it we will check back in with you Andrew Symonds live in barcelona and plenty more ahead in the news hour including a former argentinian president as accused of trying to derail an investigation to benefit iran. Congress votes to prevent a corruption trial against president michel tomorrow. And while italian footballers send a message on antisemitism on the pitch some fans fail to receive it details coming up with cho in sport. Brazil scandal hit president has survived a Second Parliament vote on whether he should be tried on corruption charges seventy seven year old timber was in a hospital when this vote was held in al voids trial of the Supreme Court on charges of obstruction of justice and leading a criminal investigation earlier in august congress voted against trying him on separate bribery charges to our has record low ratings with only three percent rating his government positively and more has more from. President michel tema has done it again he survived a vote in the lower house of congress which wanted to suspend them for up to one hundred eighty days so the Supremes Court could try him on corruption charges he did the same back in august by a similar vote although hes one of the most unpopular president s that brazil has ever seen with popular with popularity ratings of around four percent he won managed to win enough support in that congress so that the opposition could not get the two thirds two thirds of votes necessary one congressperson at a time came to the microphone they were given fifteen seconds to speak before the microphones cut off to say yes or no vote as to whether they supported michelle tam or not he is accused of taking bribes by j. B. S. Massive meat packing for some of that conversation was recorded he all along has denied the charges he is part of a much larger criminal investigation known as a lover shot or the car was a scandal which is implicated hundreds of politicians and Business People across brazil some of them serving time in prison some of them waiting to be tried some of them plea bargaining saying theyre going to name names but michel tema has a skate he will serve out the last fourteen months of his time in office he says to push through vital measures to boost brazils ailing economy to get it back on track but he has survived but he has a much that we can the president. Iraqi forces have launched an assault to recapture. The towns on iraqs western border with syria or two of the armed groups last strongholds in the country Stephanie Decker reports some are more than iraq. Ready for the final phase the iraqi Prime Minister has given the go ahead now the tosk of these men is to push out of the last areas of western anbar specifically which is the border town with syria the group still holds. We have been encountering some sporadic attacks but they are weak especially since the last defeat the most holiday and. The enemy is in a desperate situation right now and hopefully will retake all the remaining areas from. Iraqs army and Police Together with progovernment sunni tribal fighters and the hash shadley or shia militias are part of the offensive. We are now engaging in the offensive to retake. We have received full military support from the iraqi army to participate in this offensive the tribal fighters have now become a supporting force in this offensive we aim to help that and after we retake these areas we will take control of security with the help of the iraqi forces. The campaign will also be backed by Coalition Air support and ground advice the towns of time of the last few territories isis still controls in iraq many here feel that it wont be a long protracted battle but ridding eisel of its territory in iraq does not mean the groups threat has been eliminated it is still capable of carrying out large scale attacks the announcement of the all comes at a time when iraqi forces together with shia militia are involved on another front sporadic fighting with the Kurdish Peshmerga in the aftermath of that controversial secession referendum is putting huge pressure on air beale and the leadership many kurds believe that. Offensive is an attempt to divert attention from. The border with iraq and. To reassert federal control over the border crossings that the Kurdistan Regional government currently controls. Every. Iraqi Prime Minister says government wont accept anything but the cancellation of the kurds a session bed. For talks with iranian leaders both countries have large kurdish populations that oppose any talk of separation iraqs Kurdistan Regional government had offered to freeze at secession but iraq says that does not go far enough. Following developments from tehran. Iran for talks with iranian leaders the main topic of the kurdish referendum. For living in the north of the country no doubt that he was feeling like he was politically supportive environment here into a very strong message for rockys back home nothing short of a complete. Referendum. Freezer suspension of his iranian stronger message irans first Vice President hungary say that the vote was an act of sedition. To push a political model similar to encouraging its Kurdish People to pursue rights and representation within a National Framework to keep their country whole. Also reached out a hand of friendship Northern Iraq is still a part of iraq so two very clear signs from leaders of both iran and iraq here in iran today that theyre both on the same page and that neither country will tolerate any compromise to iraqs territorial integrity. Argentinas former president Cristina Kirchner has been ordered to testify in the investigation into the bombing of a Jewish Center in one thousand nine hundred four. Conspiring to derail an earlier inquiry to benefit iraq government members from tehran allegedly carried out that attack that killed eighty five people traceable reports and. It was a death that shocked argentina ill bet the only man was found with a shot in the head in january two thousand and fifteen he was a prosecutor investigating the bombing of a Jewish Community center in the capital when a scientist more than eighty five people were killed he was found a day before he was scheduled to testify before congress against former president Cristina Fernandez and her alleged ties with iran. While the world says that this is the right time to seek justice and. The Previous Administration controlled the Justice System and had managed to block the investigation now there is an investigation that will hopefully let us know what happened christina has already attended this courthouse several of my time is to be questioned about the accusations made by prosecutors. Her administration had a secret deal with iran that guaranteed iranian officials that were allegedly involved in the attack against the Jewish Community center for. Four years ago argentina signed a memorandum with the iranian government that would allow argentina authorities to interrogate suspects nice man said but the administrations real motive was to do business with tehran. Says that the investigation against kirschner is politically motivated. The riddle its from interpol when they were lifted says that we wanted the iranians to walk around freely we want to the solution because you cannot be judged if you not present we want an argentine judge questioning the suspects last sunday Christina Kirshner was elected a senator or she has become a staunch critic of the Current Administration. Since leaving office businessmen and politicians close to her have been detained accused of corruption on wednesday former planning minister who was detained and stripped from immunity i mean that is. The same justice used by the Previous Administration is being used by some sectors of this one the truth is most argentinians do not trust the Justice System because the real structural problems are never discussed. The circumstances surrounding the murder. Remain a mystery in the meantime the families of the victims of the Community Center continue to await answers and justice. Joins us live now from atlanta so. What are prosecutors saying what are they alleging is is the deal the deal that was in place with iran. Well Cristina Kirchner has just to enter this courthouse where she supposedly going to hand them a paper which is her testimony and then shes going to be that person has already been targeting we were going to. Hear in argentina for corruption and manipulating the countrys currency for example but this time shes being investigated for treason and apparently its one of the accusations against her that worried her the most prosecutors want to know whether there was a much more in that memorandum that was signed between argentina and iran they want to know whether the government the Current Administration kish or administration tried to do that deal in order to get cheap oil and gas and exchange and in exchange of grain argentina would be selling grain to iran also theres lots of questioning and the judge wants to know about a meeting that happened between argentinas foreign minister at the time the madam and with iranian officials in syria we have spoken to several experts on this specific case and what theyre basically tellin