This is al jazeera you from doha also coming up they want they want a regime change its obvious in his first interview since the five month old crisis began qatars emir says the four blockading countries want to overthrow him. Marching for unity hundreds of thousands stage a rally in barcelona to protest against catalonia determine independence. And child people smugglers the young mexicans recruited by gangs to help migrants cross into the u. S. The president of the Kurdish Regional government in iraq is stepping down Massoud Barzani says he wont stand for reelection his turn in office ends in just two days he was the driving force behind last months controversial kurdish referendum on secession was the Iraqi Government dismissed as illegal from edible stephanie to. An independent kurdistan was supposed to be his legacy and yet it seems to have led to his downfall as somebody looking mustered better than he finally addressed the people directly on sunday night after relative silence for weeks when all the. According to the law the presidency camp extended by the Parliament However i informed the parliament and i will not extend my term i will not accept any amendment in the law to extend my term as president. Supporters of the president gathered outside parliament they managed to get into its grounds despite the presence of riot police at the entrance opposition media was attacked and these men also asked around for the names of critical opposition m. P. s but it didnt disrupt parliament which after hours of talks approved the redistribution of president ial powers among the Government Parliament and the judiciary. After twelve years as president come wednesday by design he will take some more of a back seat he remains head of the k. G. B. Party and hell still lead the High Political Council a body created to deal with the post referendum phase and he said he will remain what he called the highest rank of references to the pressure featured heavily in his televised address. In the fight against. Great bravery the people of kurdistan showed defending spirit the International Community came here the role of the peshmerga the people of kurdistan but unfortunately at the time they had to show action they all went back to their own interests and all the principles disappeared you also referenced a kurdish proverb saying again we realize that the kurds only have the mountains as our friends but he also mentioned the betrayal over losing her cook in reference to fellow kurds in an Opposition Party at the end of his address present must food but is that the kurds to be unified theyve always been internal divisions here but the aftermath of that controversial referendum seems to have widened those cracks in kurdish unity could perhaps be the biggest challenge in the short term Stephanie Decker aljazeera. Catechism is says the countries behind the gulf crisis are trying to force a change of leadership shutter mean been hammered out fanny was speaking to the Us TelevisionProgram Sixty minutes his countrys been living under a blockade of almost five months since four arab states cut diplomatic and economic ties my kind of reports from washington. There was no sign of friction among gulf leaders when they met President Trump for his first foreign trip it was all smiles and a common pledge to combat terrorism in all its forms less than two weeks later the blockade against cutter was launched much to the surprise of carters emir shaikh bin. We were praising each other. Laughing with each other this cussing you know how to solve this terrorism that is a threat for the rest of the world they are making demands of you that you shut down aljazeera that you may give them your word that youre not supporting in islamic groups are you going to meet these demands our sovereignty is a red line we dont accept anybody interfering in our sovereignty when you tell me to close a china like aljazeera history were right one day in fifty or sixty seventy years how it changed the whole idea of free speech in the region do you believe that they want regime change yes they won they want a regime change its just so obvious history as well tells us teaches us that they tried to do that before in one thousand nine hundred six after my father. Became the emir of qatar has denied any support for terrorism. Offered this explanation as to why the taliban was allowed to open an office in doha the reason why they came here its not because we asked them to come here because other people like the United States america United States wanted the taliban here they wanted to have dialogue so they asked us if we can host them here and have the dialogue so that we host of them here this is the reason why theyre here how with this in we want to turn and. Believe me charlie we wanted to end but nothing is going to be about our dignity our sovereignty but we want to turn i only say that if they get no walk one meters toward me im willing to walk ten thousand miles towards them but it may be left to others to persuade those continuing the blockade to take that first step mike hanna aljazeera washington meanwhile bahrains foreign minister is calling for cattle to be frozen out of the regional bloc the Gulf Cooperation Council ali bin Ahmed Al Khalifa has tweeted that bahrain wont attend the upcoming g. C. C. Summit unless caton meets the demands of bahrain and the three other blockading nations now a seventh round of talks on syrias ongoing war in kazakhstans capital is due to begin in the coming hours last time deescalation zones were agreed on in certain areas but since then theres been renewed fighting imran khan reports from a stunner. So the flags out for the various delegations are going to be arriving here in stana on monday and choose a for the seventh round of talks now the sixth round of talks took place in september where there was a major breakthrough for deescalation zones agreed upon within syria and places like the taqiyya homes and it live now those deescalation zones to some degree say the russians the iranians and the turks with a guarantee guarantor story all of those deescalation zones however others say that clashes have taken place now the russians say that theyve been fighting groups like hates t s a crawl a sham and i saw fighters now the observers said actually civilians have been caught in the middle of those clashes now and the next couple of days we are going to see talks taking place between those three guarantor countries russia turkey and iran are also going to be saying talks take place with the Syrian Opposition and with representatives of the Syrian Government also here are the United Nations and the United States now thats going to be interesting because Rex Tillerson has in the last few days the secretary of state said that he wants to see independent verifiable elections take place within syria but he doesnt see a role for the asset a family doesnt see the outside family having a political role of any kind in syria so thats going to be an interesting conversation will take place between the americans and the syrians if they actually do sit down and talk a lot of talking going on in the next couple of days lets see what happens but its likely that were going to see some sort of movement on these deescalation zones and whether they extend the deadline for the deescalation zones to last longer than the current six months twenty six syrian hostages who escaped from eisel have received an emotional homecoming in homs they were among seventy people of dr bob yong group almost ten days ago when the syrian army and progovernment forces regained control of outcoming attained some hostages are still missing though syrian Authorities Say i still killed more than one hundred people in a Revenge Campaign before they were pushed from the town. Hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in barcelona calling for spain to state united the protest as saying they are the silent majority who dont support cotton on his bid for independence some were even demanding the arrest of such cuts on the that. Under simmons reports from barcelona. Two days after the vote to break from spain and for anyone who wondered how strongly those opposed to the move feel then is the answer i think cool for the jailing of karlas police drama and they describe themselves as the silent majority you couldnt find silence in the center of barcelona this sunday and sound square the seat of power for a Regional Government has been sacked by the state it was tense and a small number of pro unionists pushed against barriers in front of the Government Palace overall it was a peaceful protest though the crowds cheering the Spanish NationalPolice Helicopters that provoked anger when overflying procession demonstrations for those who say the loonier should stay in spain this day belongs to them aside for a stranger people here whats striking about it is the number of people who are actually demonstrating for the first time this is a family day out louisa column a and two of her daughters were reticent about its a bit weird to think see a spanish flag out like you wouldnt normally do this people would literally in the street i watch out whatever and i play you know i dont know like i wouldnt feel comfortable doing it because of the guards m. P. But they tend to be quite like the kind of hate crimes people sometimes a mother says unionists on not extremists regardless people theyre not rightly but were not fascist im never in the social splits it would be maybe two generations three generations. In a neighborhood nearby some of the session campaigners are working out their next moves and the mood isnt celebrated. This man says the movement is losing momentum because the Regional Government is spending a weekend doing little while the madrid government makes all the moves and he isnt alone we have confidence in our president any president but this is very different device a president that is very difficult for us to understand very minor. Most of the campaigners here say they are prepared to defend public buildings if the police try to arrest politicians with institutions all returning to work on monday their plans could soon be put to the test Andrew Simmons aljazeera barcelona somalias police and intelligence chiefs have been sacked after two suicide bomb attacks in mogadishu at least twenty seven people died in saturdays attack which has been claimed by the Armed Group Alshabaab most of those killed were Security Forces its the Second Attack in the capital in two weeks kenyas Opposition Leader has branded the president ial election a rerun a sham and a call for a new poll within ninety days. Church leaders and supporters in the capital as the country remains in political limbo but the poll was marred by violence and a low turnout of just forty three percent of the doe reports from nairobi. Theres little doubt present to hook headed for lunch when of the thousands election was boycotted by the opposition but is shrunken electron monday due to a water tunnel continues to tarnish the credibility of a process that has deeply polarized this nation. Opposition leader raila odinga is leading the campaign to discredit that. I think. Is a bizarre it is gross. I think really no elections no one. You know kind of the turnout. The because you know from the. The kims kids we said then defend it to the votes three point five Million People but it printed in the so called election on thursday. I was on the ballot of and boy declared that he would play no part in the run up to the repeat tell action but didnt get demand of the Electoral Commission make reforms that he believed necessary to avoid previous mistakes that did not happen the Election Commission has promised. Vaulting will take place in twenty five constituencies and was then kenya where Security Fears and violence prevented polling from taking place with voting incomplete its unclear whether the commission would wait or declare victory. Its violence between canal time rayna supposed to most kenyans consigned in nairobi scalding water as members of canal to. Stand over the remains of their houses and shops of time i took clashes with the biggest supporters. Both sides were armed with machetes my voice and other crude weapons what started the violence is disputed with each side blaming the other yet wolf like knowledge of this it to place it spot Kenyas Deputy president says theyre willing to hold conditional talks with all positions we cannot engage in any discussion outside the Legal Framework on the constitutional provisions that fix to change these or that we believe in dangerous situations of our country. Police also accused of brutality and killings in Opposition Strongholds in the capital and was then kenya. Go to nose brother paul was shot and killed in mother slums in nairobi yes. But how many thanks now. An emerging depending on this oddest thing is that hes buying the china that hes a very bad thing its kenya crisis is a two thousand and seven vote sparked months of postelection violence that left one thousand one hundred people that mohamed atta well jazeera arabic a. Break here not just here i want to come back to the most important thing is to be. A message for the u. S. President is the head of the Nuclear Watchdog says its iran plus. Reporting bring apex predators like back to the Scottish Highlands after an absence of three hundred. Hello flowers just had a tangle with a Tropical Cyclone there it is a massive cloud its hard to determine anything really from it and its still below hurricane status is definitely a turner and this is area of low pressure so its feeding washed up into the east coast and that is where we just had a bit of a not quite a noreaster but its certainly a plunge of cold air that combination i think will make for some pretty nasty weather up the east coast in the next twenty four hours is really pretty strong winds hitting new york the state and the city and there we are not with the middle of monday with cotton down to some degree but you have had it pretty nastily before this happened cold is obviously there in east encounter now next in terms you winnipeg zero chicagos Higher Ground low single figures what about plus eight thirty and four in denver so it had a big drop here as well dallas has warmed up in los angeles is cooled down to about the more reasonable and average twenty or twenty one and weve got a bit of snow that far south youll notice in utah or colorado so the situation certainly a change in the feel of the weather for a good part of the u. S. And particularly in the east and having seen the amount of rain there was around recently start to see the next day or so be a lot more settled in this part of the world. Short films. And inspiration. Stories of three young women challenging the world around them. Aljazeera selects at this time. Welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on aljazeera the president of the Kurdish Regional government in iraq is stepping down. Was the driving force behind last months referendum to see from iraq the parliament voted to distribute his powers between itself the government and the judicial. Hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in barcelona to call for spain to stay united is the biggest show of force yet from the socalled silent majority who dont support catalonia is independence but. Them out of the rest of such. Government. Has told the Us TelevisionProgram Sixty minutes the countries behind the gulf crisis want regime change this country has been living under a blockade for almost five months after four countries cut ties in june he says he never saw it coming. Is an associate professor of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says the me is interview shows theres no softening of his countrys position. I think that certainly the emir was speaking directly to the American People going well beyond the government and Rex Tillerson in the secretary of state making the appeal to the American People that this is unjust and so on i think his claims about sovereignty which he made in an earlier in dress over the summer are not new i think what he did show determination and the and the claim that this was about regime change which we wish we all knew from the very beginning i think also is a toughening stance as it were all of us knew from the very beginning that the saudis and the emirates is behind these new shipments would have loved to bring about regime change and in fact there might have been a military possibility in the first couple of days and they also miscalculated thinking that the cuts or e people would somehow rebel against their government after the ending of formal relations and so on none of that happened so this was about regime change but see here the emir say that it was a bit startling so i think this was a serious attempt to address the American People and also the kind of educated classes and so on