A crowd in Melbourne Australia injuring at least fourteen. Zero. Also ahead. Were watching those votes let them vote against us will save a lot donald trump members as they prepare to vote on a resolution opposing his recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. The polls have opened in catalonia its a vote many hope will finally resolve spains political crisis. A verdict for the socalled rage case of a former korean air Vice President accused of delaying a flight with her. But first we begin with some breaking news a ferry carrying two hundred fifty people has capsized near the philippines capital manila coast guards are saying bad weather is hampering the rescue operation over the past week heavy rain and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm left more than forty people dead. And joining us on the line from manila what can you tell us about this ferry capsizing. Well what we know at the moment is that. By dr graham bones. The truth in the bill to the voters i want to be on or i can mention really playing at the doctors here as you know all good to see is in each of the most important time of the year capability and budget just do we are heading home because you know i like working in several parts of the next room again so im hoping that the need be i do feel that they can be the thing up there already helping out with the desk people were all to me that they feel that at least one of the dynamics i mean actually go up ok jim and i will leave it there well check in with you a little later thank you for that update from the philippines. Well police in australia say a car deliberately rammed into pedestrians in the city of melbourne injuring up to fourteen people a white s. U. V. Crashed into a cable car stop on flinders street during Late Afternoon rush hour police have arrested the driver and another Person Police arrived at the scene within minutes and of a race to the main at this stage we have fourteen people injured and several are critical. At this stage we believe is that a deliberate act and a report that at this stage we believe is deliberate act however we do know that my device can and does feel it early stages of the investigation so enter thomas joining us from Sydney Police giving that press conference where theyre saying its a deliberate act according to them but not really revealing any other details andrew. Or they havent said crucially is what they think the motive of this attack was was it oddly logical or political in which case it would count here as terrorist or was it Something Else but they have said it was a deliberate act and for the first few hours after this only happened three hours ago just over the first a while afterwards there was some hope i suppose that this was a terrible accident but that is not what the Police Believe this is a street right in the middle of Melbourne City center its a street that would have been packed full forty five in the afternoon as it was just over three hours ago now with Office Workers coming out of the finishing a days work but also we shoppers remember is the busy pre Christmas Period in australia at the moment that would have made the streets particularly crowded and this is a road that is open to traffic but has a Pedestrian Crossing on it the lights were red because green for pedestrians there were lots and lots of people crossing the road when this call apparently accelerated at speed according to witnesses right through the junction knocking down many people as you say the place is saying fourteen people injured some of them many of them critically if indeed it is proven to be that it was a quote terror attack as its called anger would australia have prepared for this type of attack. The Prime Minister ministers in the government have certainly said that they think something is coming theyve been a number of laws passed in parliament paying the security level of this country giving the police more powers to investigate socalled plots before they happen all of which has been very controversial but all of which has been to guard against an attack of this nature if indeed this is an attack of that nature and of course we dont know that says yet the hasnt really been a terrorist attack like this if this is what it sees in recent months in australia or even in recent years there was an incident in the middle of sydney three years ago now where a gunman took people hostage in a cafe that he was very much alone operates he has links to International Groups like oh yes were very very sketchy at best earlier this year in january very close to where this incident happened right in the middle of melbourne another car went down a pedestrian street knocking down many people killing five people that case hasnt yet gone to court but the man who was definitely carried out the place alleged that he didnt do it for any ideological or political reasons he was a drug user he had many domestic issues hed had a bad instance at home that same day they say that that was criminal rob them terrorists so this would if it is a terrorist incident and that is a big if at this stage this would be the first for for many years in australia ok Andrew Thomas thank you u. S. President has threatened to cut aid to un members who vote against this recognition of jerusalem as israels capital at the request of arab and muslim countries the United Nations will hold an emergency meeting on thursday i can has the latest from new york. Security Council Staff pose with the secretary general for an annual photograph is called then its business as usual in the chamber like most other Member States those represented here unwilling to comment publicly on the extraordinary letter sent by u. S. Ambassador nikki haley at ambassador did you receive the letter from hillary about the years many letters and the majority view apparently summed up by one representative who was willing to comment on our position in this case has been very clear we had the opportunity to express ourselves in the Security Council so so thats our very strongly prince principled position sweden was one of the fourteen Council Members who voted in favor of the jerusalem resolution monday the veto by the u. S. Is accompanied by an angry statement from the ambassador what we witnessed here today in the Security Council is an insult it wont be forgotten what some would regard as a thinly veiled threat driven home in a letter circulated to all Member States regarding the vote taking place in the General Assembly thursday as you consider your vote the ambassador writes i want you to know that the president and the u. S. Take this vote personally she continues the president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested i report back on those countries who voted against us President Trump made clear what the possible consequences could be they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while were watching those votes let them vote against us will save a lot we dont care. But privately many un members are outraged at the letters bullying and threatening tone and what was to be a vote condemning attempts to unilaterally change the status of jerusalem may gain even added significance in november more than one hundred fifty nations voted in favor of a resolution declaring all israeli actions in jerusalem as now and void as it was an occupying power a similar result in the General Assembly thursday would also be a sweeping international rejection of President Trump and his policies mike hanna al jazeera United Nations well the turkish and Palestinian Foreign minister has dismissed trance threats and said no country should be intimidated humen no we. The u. S. Says well track down who voted for what and well report to the u. S. President we will get the names of the countries one by one what we do by getting these when you allow invasions into those countries or you punish them the world has changed the notion of i am powerful therefore i am right has changed now the world is rising against the unfair from now on no honorable nation no honorable state will bow to such pressure. Of. World. And. On. The. Well south africas Ruling African National congress has passed a resolution to downgrade the countrys embassy in israel to a Liaison Office it says the decision to give practical expression to the oprah people of palestine south africa is among the countries who condemn president Donald Trumps recognition of jerusalem as israels capital well now cross over to gaza and speak to malcolm webb so were just a few hours away from the General Assembly vote malcolm we know that hamas has obviously spoken out very strongly against the u. S. Is decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital but for gazans ordinary gazans how closely are they watching this vote do they care at all people here angry and incensed than they have been ever since the december when trump announced the u. S. Administration would recognize you as israels capital and that hasnt changed very much the mood now whether or not following people are following the details of whats happening at the u. N. Well well see later today following the vote at the General Assembly but there was a demonstration wednesday against specifically against the u. S. Is veto of the resolution at the Security Council to. Us vetoed a resolution that was going to maintain status of jerusalem so that didnt pass people who demonstrated on wednesday on weekdays the crowds normally number in the hundreds but the biggest demonstrations are on fridays and another one planned for tomorrow so well see what happens then thats what i wanted to ask you in fact because weve seen last friday it was called the day of rage and we saw demonstrations and in fact gaza has really felt the repercussions of that decision that was made by the u. S. President donald trump so do we expect a big turnout on friday. Well every friday so far since the sixth of december thats when the biggest demonstrations have been and thats what the organizers say will happen tomorrow but well have to wait and see four people have been killed so far here in gaza and two in the west bank during these demonstrations Rights Groups say hundreds have been imprisoned and that dozens have been injured as well but were waiting to see tomorrow if this momentum continues here in the street to gather and also towards the border with israel as well where some of the protests taking place ok martin webb think you. Still ahead on aljazeera for the fourth time this year any north korean soldier or defect to the south of. Polands president signs to laws curbing Judicial Independence triggering a possible confrontation with the. Welcome back now if you look at the weather across southeastern parts of asia its looking quite interesting moment that is contact pushing away towards southeastern parts of asia that is our next system that is tembin tembin is going to be pushing right across southern parts of the philippines and eventually again towards vietnam its not got a great deal of strength at the moment but it will gather strength as it moves across the South China Sea but certainly for southern parts of the philippines it does mean some pretty heavy rain in the next twenty four hours and an already between systems seeing some very large rainfall totals so if you like the whole areas been softened up by some big amounts of rain extending into borneo too so looking pretty wet across those southern parts of the philippines and the rain will eventually push in across northern parts of borneo weve got some heavy showers for java weve got circulation which is going to threaten heavy showers for kuala lumpur in particular further north into southern parts of thailand and across cambodia generally doesnt look too bad and then as we head down into a straight here weve got this trough of low pressure here and frontal systems out in the southern oceans otherwise we should see a temperature of twenty eight members are quite warm twenty three in sydney and the risk of some showers out across Western Australia of perth highs of twenty five. She. Looks. Like shes a journalist be a writer for the. Show felix failing to. See if you cant. Hello again the top stories on aljazeera a ferry boat carrying two hundred fifty people has capsized near the philippines capital manila coast guard Officials Say bad weather is hampering the rescue operation and. A car has driven into pedestrians in the australian city of melbourne injuring at least fourteen People Police say it was a deliberate act but dont know the motivation two people including the driver have been arrested. The u. S. President has threatened to cut aid to un members who vote against this recognition of jerusalem as israels capital at the request of arab and muslim countries the United Nations will hold an emergency meeting on thursday. Catalan started voting in a regional poll which may help settle the question of whether there province should secede from spain the leaders off the separatist movements are pitted against candidates who want to stay part of spain a record turnout is expected opinion polls suggest the candidates are neck and neck madrid called for the snap election after a procession of leaders held a vote in october to see. Separate from spain pov right and following the vote joining us from barcelona just give us a sense of whats going on today paul what youre seeing in terms of turnout whether people are coming out in these record numbers that are predicted and what the mood is. Well im outside the industrial the Technical College which is the largest polling station in the whole of catalonia here in the center of barcelona and the doors would you to open at nine am local time in fact they were a little bit delayed with the final checks taking place inside and as a result to give an indication of the interest that there is there was a queue out of the courtyard that im standing in and somewhere around one hundred metres down the road with people turning out early doors to cast their votes its settled down now into a sort of steady rhythm but its clear that people are turning out in force and well have to wait and see whether the predicted turnout figure of somewhere around eighty percent actually materializes but there has been a huge level of interest from both camps in this debate to try and mobilize their forces mobilize their support as much as possible so that the result of this is as accurate as possible an indication of two sentiments here in catalonia how close though are we expecting this vote to be. Its going to be very close i mean to the opinion polls leading up to this ballots and the poll of polls aggregating all of those polls together appear to give the produce a session parties the biggest block but not an outright majority if the polls its a be believed theyre going to get somewhere around forty seven percent and the pro Unity Parties more likely to be somewhere around forty three forty four percent so not enough for an outright majority in the parliament that said the pro Unity Parties are kind of banking on what they describe as a silent majority perhaps. As many as a million votes is who remain undecided in the hours leading up to this ballots and they hope will come out and cast their votes and they hope according to the produce parties anyway that most of them would prefer to be closest to madrid now it remains to be seen whether that will happen. Its a tall order to be honest and the outcome will not be known realistically until late tonight perhaps around twenty three hundred g. M. T. Proportional representation is in play here its going to take a while to count those votes and actually allocate the seats all right paul brennan thank you. The former korean air Vice President whos not raids tantrum delayed a flight in twenty fourteen will avoid more jail time the Supreme Court ruled that show here not was not guilty of the most serious charge of changing a flight route cho the daughter of the airlines chairman got angry when a Flight Attendant served her nuts in a bag instead of on a plate she forced the plane to taxi back to the gate at new yorks john f. Kennedy airport kathy novak has more from seoul. Back in december twenty fourth teen the then Vice President of korean air and the daughter of the companys chairman show here ana was in the first class cabin of a flight from new yorks j. F. K. Airport bound for seoul and she was so outraged that she was served back a damia nuts in a bag instead of on a place that she ordered the plane returned to the gate so that she could have the chief Flight Attendant thrown off now the question before the courts has been didnt show break Aviation Security law by changing the flight path when she ordered the plane back to the gate originally a District Court back in twenty fifteen found her guilty of that charge and sentenced her to one year in prison but later three months later the high court on appeal overturned that