Uncertainty as madrid retaliates by dismissing the Regional Government and ordering snap elections in december. And welcome to aljazeera live for my headquarters in doha me and as a purana im also ahead bridging the divide syrias three main rebel factions to unite against president bashar asad as Government Forces make gains and kenyans in some Opposition Strongholds were meant to watch on saturday but now the Election Commission suspended the polls and definitely. It is a night that will long be remembered in spain the countrys Prime Minister is calling for calm after he ordered direct rule of a cotton or nya an hour after the regional parliaments declared independence well thousands gathered in barcelona chanted liberty and singing traditional castellan songs where regional politicians voted to split from spain it is a Major Development in the countrys worst political crisis and decades on the first of october castellan leaders defied a Spanish Supreme Court ruling by holding a referendum on secession madrid sent thousands of police to prevent the vote from happening sparking confrontation with caution lines attempting to cast their ballot and since then madrid has rejected calls for talks and has now with. Regional autonomy a snap election to choose a new Regional Government will be held on the twenty first of December Anderson lets has more from buffalo in. The moment catalonia declared secession from spain a wave of euphoria across barcelona a mix of intense emotion elation and danger because of the uncertainty of what comes next they cheered they hugged one another they cried and they toasted what they see as a new nation it all started unfolding hours earlier at the Catalan Parliament passionate sometimes angry debates a sense of anticipation on one side dread on the other dozens of mayors had been invited ceremonial sticks by their sides turns to. The story since. It wasnt long before his wish came true a secret ballot slowly but surely moving as parliament into the history books most opposition members walked out in disgust leaving the Spanish National flag and the catalan flag draped over their benches then came the count again slow with reaction to every yes. Seventy votes for ten against and two abstentions and the Catalan National anthem this time striking a different goal. Before long another vote in madrid this time the Senate Making a decision on article one five five direct rule moving to the Spanish Government a large majority. Two hundred fourteen for forty seven against approval for Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy to sack the Regional Government and impose sweeping powers back in barcelona these politicians and supporters hardly look like people about to go into the background president colors push them all call for calm. Citizens of catalonia in the coming hours we will have to maintain our countrys polls a most of all to montane that peace public spirit and our dignity thats we have always done with no doubt it will continue to be that way this is an extraordinary moment but its historic to find the right way across this eighteenth Century Building the mix mood was sure it was the right the sticks to say often the more it was across the way to express the. You. Dont see the look of what a thought was one of the total. Independence. Independence is heartbreaking sad and distressing that is how all the cats who are not Pro Independence feel including very democratic and Pro Independence supporters that cannot shed this destructive operation based on lies fraud and impositions it is causing on the social fiber of catalonia looking to madrid for the next move catalans who are angered or saddened or also fearful of what will happen if Mariano Rajoy is already using his new powers dissolving parliament calling elections in december and listing those hes sacking. Friday night in the center of barcelona a city known more for its football its beaches and sunshine than any resistance to state power and its a policy time for a large number of people packed. Into a square in front of the seat of government how long will the smiles last night so many questions remember the model so bring the story. Goes between those who want to be inspiring but you dont hear its never been big under simmons i would use to bosler. Well lets get more on this now were joined by federal federica big a senior fellow at the center for Transatlantic Relations at the school of International AdvancedInternational Studies hes joining us live from washington d. C. Very good to have you with us on aljazeera just so many on loans at this point how do you expect spanish authorities to proceed with imposing direct will how quick or forceful do you think theyll be here. Well. I am for surely expect them to be harsh in doing it and. They are question is whether theyre going to prevent people from entering the spanish. Parliament and the Catalan Government and whether theyre going to arrest people i do hope these two things will not have been especially the last because that would spark emotion something that we dont want to really see and the other question is how the catalans would react if there is still gone being peaceful or not how much resistance do you expect leaders the separatist leaders to put up here. Can you please repeat it how much resistance do you think that do you think the other soldiers a leader who got it. So it know theyre going to put all the resistance we may expect i wonder theres been talk of the spanish. Civil servant going on a strike so not not presenting the work of since they are supposed to report to the spanish and the series oh theyre going to resist all the way the question is will the government arrest them for sedition and i hope not because that could lead to violence which we havent seen so far and the bomb and the violence of stars you never know where it and we have already seen at least one arrest for sedition havent we i mean the Regional Election has been announced for the twenty first of december can an election take place in these sorts of conditions do you think what the Spanish Government going in imposing direct role in the separatist leaders putting up resistance is that atmosphere conducive to elections. Well certainly they want to be elections but i do think they will they will have they will go on the ground practically and in the end they will be afterwards spent at the people at this point to vote for parties that either one independents or dont want independence musta been the mist in the its a quick to get your thoughts on the federica been there joining us live from washington d. C. Thank you thank you very much for having me. Right lets move on to other news now kenyas Election Commission is calling for calm as it counts votes cast in thursdays repayed president ial election low voter turnout has further divided the country with just one in three people casting their ballots the home of the reports from nairobi. Kenyas second president ial elections in three months what designed to bring along a coup money as political season two and. Then now doubts they may provide any closure off to them what we witnessed was a very low voter turnout into a climate of fear and intimidation and in that political environment is difficult for an election to be considered credible with nearly all photos of Opposition Leader raila odinga heeding his call for a boycott. Victory is not in question but some are already questioning whether the lol tunnel to give president kenyatta a reasonable monday took up a major defeat. The total voter turnout is a little over thirty percent who can yet i may have won but theres no way you can see a leader of you and form a government for all people. Voting on thursday was mobbed by skirmishes between police and stone throwing the position supporters police used teargas and fired live ammunition and blanks into the air to disperse them but the protesters were trying to this big grouping quickly how about the situation was calm elsewhere for voting in kimbo outside nairobi and other strongholds of president kenyatta. The election comes after weeks of political twists and tongues in the Central Business district of nairobi this through almost empty the kenyan economy slowed sharply the city as businesses have held back on investments until after the elections many kenyans say they want this crisis. Some even say the continued uncertainty is threatening their livelihoods when is the weve been stuck at home since wednesday when the children went milk they want to eat and who else will provide for them yes we want a president if he wins and if youre sworn in its fine as long as we can continue to work and our children can have food and an education. A fraud election numerous resulting in a controversial route which many stayed away from thought is the story of this president ial race these hope it will have a happy ending but confidence is not high mohammed at all jessica i dont because. His Electoral Commission has called off the president ial repaint election and for Opposition Strongholds violent confrontations between police and protesters have made it impossible for voting materials to get to a number of polling stations catherine so reports from the opposition stronghold of concern. At an informally set up road block in this man are using an electricity pole to make sure no vehicle carrying ballot boxes passes through. The hole all the while theyre saying no election no who and calling themselves the National Resistance movement the new wing of the Opposition Coalition led by. Our father. So we dont know why people are bringing the. Box in. Voting has been called off in four counties here in western kenya threats and violence have made it difficult for electrical mission officials to get stuff ballot boxes and voting slips to polling stations about one point eight million registered voters are affected when it comes to. Political and religious leaders say the saturday election should not have been called in the first place we the people. Be respected. To get. On with election are called off many people are hoping tensions might so dozens of people who were injured in a confrontation between police and protesters on thursday were brought to this hospital several of them want to said and discharged us some are still at metered with gunshot wounds that man there was shot at an area not too far away from here. System millicent blames the police but she and many other supporters of. Hope that while he may not have participated in the poll he may yet help to change the way elections are held in the future catherine soy al jazeera western kenya still ahead on the bulletin a a celebration in south africa after two white men a sentence for an attack that highlighted racial abuse and the son of africas longest serving later a sentence for embezzling millions and public funds. From the points of asia. To the city that never sleeps. Skys a clerical secured parts of china and right now weve seen some very wet weather just pushing across the northwest pacific thats heading towards japan in the form of possibly a typhoon by the time it makes its way there through the weekend but it means elsewhere for much of china its fine and dry twenty eight twenty nine celsius for hong kong over the next few days just not just down towards the southeast and cold system could produce a little more class but i think it will be generally settled for the most part with some decent spells of sunshine so meanwhile across Southeast Asia as per usual some heavy downpours there into malaysia pushing down into indonesia so pockets of heavy afternoon right a little bit of wet weather too just stretching its way into the fosse out of vietnam maybe into cambodia id also cross pos of thailand from time to time but for many i think it should be fine dry and sunny the amounts of dry and sunny weather to into central and northern parts of india. Just around that southeastern corner of india down towards the fos out of the country to topple nadu and also into kara elsewhere the sun should continue as we go on through the next couple of days in a delhi pleasantly warm and around thirty degrees celsius. Weather also stretching across a good part of pakistan. There with sponsored by the time. We wanted the good news thats. Trying to get. On the right. Get. The one today. This time out just zero. Good to have you with us on our top stories and a historic move the spanish Prime Minister has stripped of its ptolemy and that Regional Elections came within an hour of the Parliament Issuing a declaration of independence. Violence has broken out between supporters of kenyan president hu kenyatta and opposition protesters kenyas Election Commission is calling for calm as it counts votes from thursdays repeat president ial election and. The United Kingdom says a military action should be considered against those who have carried out Chemical Attacks and syria it follows a u. N. Investigation that blames the Syrian Government for the lethal attack in april more than eighty people were killed in the sound gas attack and Khalid Shaikh the Syrian Government rejects the uns report mike hanna reports from the United Nations. The Security Council debate is about women peace and security but in coming days the chambers likely to become the scene of heated argument about the future of the joint investigative mechanism jim its annual mandate needs to be renewed before the seventeenth of next month the g. M. As it is quite frankly the best who we have it has been created by unanimous vote. It has demonstrated that it is highly professional. Impartial. So we have. To lets lets use it frankly collectively but the key the key priority now is to recreate consensus. I consider that we have the moral and political responsibility to succeed here in its latest report jim found the Syrian Government accountable for a sarin gas attack and it looked province earlier this year more than eighty civilians died many of them children the report says evidence gathered from eyewitnesses satellite imagery and mobile phone footage indicate the attack was carried out by Syrian Government aircraft and that samples of chemical compounds used in explosives lifted from the scene are identical to those found during an inspection of syrian bomb stocks before the conflict began. Earlier this week russia vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for jims mandate to be renewed maintaining it first wanted to judge the objectivity of the latest report. And in a move likely to raise the level of argument the u. K. Says the Security Council must pass a Chapter Seven resolution which would allow armed force to be used there must be a Chapter SevenSecurity Council resolution to do what we said we would do. We all agreed in advance that if we were in this scenario then they would be a Chapter Seven resolution to impose accountability on whoever used chemical weapons in syria the question now will russia hold to the supreme and will formally reject jims findings and well that Security Council veto for the tenth time since the syrian conflict began mike hanna aljazeera United Nations the Syrian Opposition wants three main rebel factions in Northern Syria to unite as one on me but many say the move has come too late and the Government Forces are taking more territory while the rebels of attracting a lot of reports from turkeys border with syria. Safe abubaker is the commander of an elite Free Syrian Army unit the f. S. A. Once the pride of the Syrian Opposition is backed by turkey the u. S. And many european and gulf countries it has paid crucial roles in recent military operations against i sit in Northern Syria. But it has been weakened by divisions and is outnumbered by rival groups syrias opposition is now turning to commanders like from the brigade to unite all the armed groups and build a new army. We will have a Transitional Authority a new army that will run the country went to show other side is a victor dog power but we need weapons and Logistical Support the Syrian Opposition is expected to appoint a minis