for oil exports let's talk to a man in baghdad what are the chances as a reaction to this what looks like a stranglehold on the airport barzani say over the next twenty four hours of the next week after assura given ten days he declares full independence is that likely i don't think it will make the kurds more go to the extreme in a way or another they are asking for negotiations. or waiting for a positive response happen by the iraqi government. maybe because of international community pressure will happen now. to open why did you go between baghdad and bill but let us say something which is very important the problem is that in two thousand and three. happened between the iraqi government and they are g. is that iraqi government will give seventeen percent from a from the annual budget. from the iraqi government to erbil and started from two thousand and three and till two thousand and fifteen or two thousand and forty so there is a problem now for some sort of problems that we give you the money to stay in iraq now you are you want to be outside iraq so give us back our money so i

government dealing with the multiple authorities in baghdad as well. whether the kurds are ready for independence will of course depend on. the unification of the parties but on that point it's worth bearing in mind that for the referendum there were very little hope so expectations that the parties the main parties would rally around a unified mobilize in support of the referendum those were proven wrong leading up to the referendum the kurdish leadership played a central role in getting together the parties and rallying the kurdish people for that unified stance on one kurdish independence but the crucial part of this is that in the pen this will be part of a. long challenging process that will require negotiation not negotiate not just with baghdad of course but also the region and the international community mr al nash me if the kurdish people vote for independence well iraq negotiate they have to. no of course mr nobody a brain mr to say yesterday there is no to get in between iraq and could the stand on the basis of intervention because they're d

government dealing with the multiple authorities in baghdad as well. whether the kurds are ready for independence will of course depend on. the unification of the parties but on that point it's worth bearing in mind that for the referendum there were very little hope so expectations that the parties the main parties would rally around a unified mobilize in support of the referendum those were proven wrong leading up to the referendum the kurdish leadership played a central role in getting together the parties and rallying the kurdish people for that unified stance on one kurdish independence but the crucial part of this is that independence will be part of a. long challenging process that will require negotiation not negotiate not just with baghdad of course but also the region and the international community mr al nash me if the kurdish people vote for independence well iraq negotiate they have to. no of course mr nobody a brain mr to say yesterday there is no to get in between iraq and could the stand on the basis of intervention because of and it's

government dealing with the multiple authorities in baghdad as well. whether the kurds are ready for independence will of course depend on. the unification of the parties but on that point it's worth bearing in mind that for the referendum there were very little hope so expectations that the parties the main parties would rally around a unified mobilize in support of the referendum those were proven wrong leading up to the referendum the kurdish leadership played a central role in getting together the parties and rallying the kurdish people for that unified stance on one kurdish independence but the crucial part of this is that in the pen this will be part of a. long challenging process that will require negotiation not negotiate not just with baghdad of course but also the region and the international community mr al nash me if the kurdish people vote for independence well iraq negotiate they have to. no of course mr nobody a brain mr to say yesterday there is no to get in between iraq and could stand on the basis of intervention because they're drive

northern autonomous kurdish region people in the area took part in a succession vote on monday that baghdad and other governments including crucially turkey have strongly opposed almost ninety three percent voted for the referendum but the prime minister hietala bodies of ministration calls it unconstitutional it's also demanding full control of the region's oil revenue and border crossings will get one guests in just a moment but first top the abdel-hamid sets up our discussion from a bill. to no more international flights to and from the airports of evidence eliminator and that should last until the end of the year from now on only for many emergency and military flights will be allowed to land or take up with prior great initiative with the authorities in baghdad domestic flights. as scheduled that many of the people who were leaving today especially because of the wet come here to. part of referendum they said they had cut short their holiday here simply because they did not feel safe to transit through the airport in baghdad now the kurdistan regional government is also refuting to ado

take control of the borders of its kurdish region if monday's secession vote result is not canceled baghdad has also closed the airspace to international flights over the area the us health secretary tom price has quit after a scandal over his use of private jets it was revealed that taxpayers will have to food bills of around four hundred thousand dollars for his trips. the u.s. government has ordered sixty percent of its staff in cuba to leave its embassy and said to be because of what it calls specific attacks on u.s. diplomats which allegedly included the use of sonic weapons embassy in havana is now expected to stop processing visas and issue a new travel warning for u.s. citizens at least twenty two people have been killed and another thirty two others injured after a stampede in india's commercial capital mom by it happened during morning rush hour on a pedestrian bridge which is connecting to railway stations local media say it was triggered by overcrowding and commuter panic when a heavy downpour caused some concrete to fall from the bridge those are the headlines the news continue

northern autonomous kurdish region people in the area took part in a succession vote on monday that baghdad and other governments including crucially turkey have strongly opposed almost ninety three percent voted for the referendum but the prime minister hietala bodies of ministration calls it unconstitutional it's also demanding full control of the region's oil revenue and border crossings well that's one guests in just a moment but first how to abdel-hamid sets up our discussion from a bill. to no more international flights to and from the airports of evidence eliminator and that should last until the end of the year from now on only for many emergencies and military flights will be allowed to land or take up with prior great initiative with the authorities in baghdad domestic flights. as scheduled but many of the people who are leaving today especially to preserve the desperate come here to. part of referendum they said they had cut short their holiday here simply because they did not feel safe to transit through the airport in baghdad now the kurdistan regional government is also refuti

for example baghdad will easily be. percent of the of iraq it's a lot of money coming into the country and that would not go without a battle. thank you very much for that hard to have made life for us at our avail airport in northern iraq. pro and anti separatist campaigners in spain's catalonia region are holding their last rallies before sunday's independence vote regional leaders insist it will go ahead despite the finest government and course declaring it illegal john hendren has more from barcelona. each day a peaceful show of force growth. led by young in fiercely proud catalans in the street. police say sixteen thousand of them organizers say tens of thousands more. are going to shut the schools because they don't want. democracy. by comparison this twenty secession rally mustered perhaps three dozen people. at a secret location days after the spanish army arrested catalan leaders and confiscated ten million ballot papers this video tweeted by catalan president carlos preached a month shows the resistance printi

of course there has been pushback from baghdad saying let's not do this referendum or their very least let's try to to postpone it. but saying this referendum is not about drawing a new borders it is to confirm are right for independence so as i was saying even if it is that happens tomorrow that does not mean that you know a mediately all of a sudden there is there is an dependence. is also telling the world basically back off this is our right to to express our views and make this decision for ourself and to be clear that our national community has been pushing this back for quite some time and the kurds are now pushing back saying no we're going to do this it appears we do now have the translation so let's listen to the kurdish regional president masoud barzani now and also the process of and felt campaign which has resulted in the one hundred eighty two thousand people that the majority of women and children their fate system and accounted for that was shared was the arab by his ation and force the fourth day sion the killing of two hundred to three hundred thousand faily young cur

this is d w news and live from berlin tonight independence for the kurds in iraq baghdad says no ninety two percent of kurds has said yes to independence and monday's referendum baghdad says it will not recognize the vote and deciding federal troops to retake control of the kurdish region will this conflict lead to violence also coming up saudi arabia says it will lift its ban on women drivers but is there more behind the wheel here could this be a sign of wider reform in this notoriously conservative king. i'm bringing off it's good to have you with us tonight iraq is faced with the question of how to keep the country together it comes after kurds in the north of the country voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence kurdish authorities say over ninety two percent of kurds backed independence in a referendum held on monday but iraq's central government in baghdad refuses to respect the result and has threatened sanctions against the kurds all that could put them on a collision course with a newly confident nation in waiting. there were euphoric scenes among iraq's kurds after the of

and baghdad has since accused the kayleigh ji of not sharing the oil wealth but any fighting here could jeopardize the battle against icily and how we around fifty kilometers southwest of kirkuk. who could truly was killed cook was at the halls of the referendum and could issue independents you could say they will fight anyone who tries to take it from them. that al-jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera. how the russian air campaign in syria not only changed the course of the whole but strengthened moscow's influence as well. also i had a flight with us health secretary rizzoli swallowing a scandal to his use of private jets that's when we come back. hello again you know there is still sun still running around greece sometimes western turkey in southern italy this is just won't go away it's not the most active area of weather in the next few days in europe but at the moment yes it is but mostly over water there's been a string across north and that probably disappeared now but just watch the area around the igi still being fed by cold winds down through ukraine from russia so max only

with baghdad simply because it's baghdad that controls the airspace over iraq now the book of the past for example passport control and customs oafish even if they are kurds they are actually part of the central government in baghdad when you arrive at the airport there. they're not they don't have the kurdish flag on their uniforms and they have the iraqi flag on their uniforms and they do receive the salary from baghdad. the position of the director of the airport here is that we don't know exactly what do they mean is it a change of personnel people sent fresh from baghdad or what exactly does it mean as it stands now the airport will be open for domestic flights all international flights are going to be suspended starting friday but it will also be open to you many tarion flights and emergency flights. with baghdad this is as much as we know as of now and. the airport says she's trying to get more information from baghdad but as i understand it at least about an hour ago the dialogue between the two sides wasn't going very well. for a second because i want to listen to the presiden

many people actually banned by baghdad to go to baghdad. so that's not what other than speeding up the process as has been suggested way does this lead the leave the kurdish leadership as they are being squeezed. well they are screes but they also do have the support from the kurdish people and i think the more you see punitive meserve measures coming out of baghdad the more people will rally behind president. and from what i see and hear not only just the kurds of iraq but also the kurds of neighboring countries such as iran syria and turkey head of the vote some people were a bit skeptical about the timing whether this was the right time or not but since we're hearing this harsh rhetoric from baghdad and neighboring countries you do have people who are more and more in support of the president saying this is not about one person or one government this is about our future whether they're worried yes are they expecting problems yes indeed they are and i think this apprehension as how far things could go people do say this is a volatile regi

into baghdad in the baghdad basket well professor. earlier we have to leave adair out just for the record i want to stay at least publicly the kremlin claims that it has no intention of using its economic relations to further our political goal i hear what you say but all great powers tend to say that but it's not just great powers as we discussed are all the programs that the kurdish people have been pretty skillful at using all. means at their disposal both political and economic. interest i guess that applies to everyone else. we have to leave it there i invite our viewers to you leave their comments now twitter you tube and facebook pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here on worlds apart. this was the with me. the most get a little bit of the it was. on you but i. know both of you want it but i just sort of kind of it was a sign of this yes or no but if you dump a lot and just know she refused. to . wear the blue he won't get a good area for immigrants it's hit and miss we never really know for sure but this ha

as their vote for independence gets overwhelming support but there's talk in baghdad of sending in the troops so where is the vote to secede from iraq heading also coming up german chancellor of the machall hits the campaign trail again just days after winning the general election this time around she's helping out in a vote and one of germany's states. and hugh hefner the founder of playboy dies at the age of ninety one did he empower women or was he just a peddler of porn. i'm brian thomas welcome to the show iraq's kurds are facing growing political isolation after the massive yes to independence and monday's referendum airlines from turkey egypt jordan lebanon all saying they'll be halting flights to iraqi kurdistan at the request of baghdad now turkey has also warned it could stop cross border trade with the region and iraq. central government has threatened its own sanctions. there were euphoric scenes among iraq's kurds after the official result was announced kurdish authority said that with a seventy three percent voter turnout the poll had been a resoundingly success. at this

and baghdad has since accused the kayleigh ji of not sharing the oil wealth but any fighting here could jeopardize the battle against leisel in her around fifty kilometers southwest of kirkuk who controls kirkuk was at the height of the referendum on kurdish independence the kurds say they will fight anyone who tries to take it from them. that al-jazeera. people in the indian city of mumbai are blaming the local government for a stampede that killed twenty two people at a train station residents say they repeatedly warned city leaders about the dangers of a narrow bridge where the incident happened sudden downpour calls commuters to run for cover at least sixty three ranger refugees are feared dead after their boat capsized off bangladesh on thursday child three has more. behind me this is where the boat wreckage tragedy took place on thursday evening we spoke to some of the survivors in this boat racket that told that there were at least two hundred people in that boat. we travelled the whole night and by the bangladesh the day before they even hit something hard on the sea and capsize

he said that the new iraq because participated in building and went willingly to baghdad for back in two thousand and three turned out to be practical and think tarion country he said the kurds they've all what they could they believed a key role in ratified the constitution back in two thousand and five but they did not get what they expected in return then he went on speaking about all the current problems with the central government in baghdad and he said that after the vote they will still be a time for negotiation that independence won't come on the next day and maybe it will take a year or two or even more depends on how good these talks with go but within minutes the prime minister either allowed by the gave us choice statement and he also didn't mince his words he said that baghdad when never accept the disintegration of iraq and that this referendum will lead actually to a creation of a racist and sick tarion state he then went on putting a lot of the blame on the kurds he said that yes they did not receive their share of the federal revenue but about a quarter of iraq's oil

america's only reliable allies in this part of the world america is waking up to the fact that the baghdad government is largely a rainy and dominate so america's new the absurd position of backing the iranian government against its kurdish allies american policy has always been since two thousand and three to preserve one iraq that's not a policy that's any longer sustainable america has two options it can either coax its. the respective parties into some kind of confederation or persuade baghdad to accept the reality of kurdish independence and to try and oversee or mediate negotiations well but i think at this point of time the united states is not yet ready to stated his position as you delineated it just now because you mentioned the statement by the state department before and i think it was very interesting because essentially what it essentially sad was dead washington still supports iraq's unity but it also appreciates and understands the legitimate aspirations of the iraqi kurds to me that's a norm statement indicating that perhaps publicly do united states doesn't want to take s

their respective parties into some kind of confederation or persuade baghdad to accept the reality of kurdish independence and to try and oversee or mediate negotiations well but i think at this point in time the united states is not yet ready to stated his position as you delineated it just now because you mentioned the statement by the state department before and i think it was very interesting because essentially what it essentially sad was dead washington still supports iraq's unity but it also appreciates and understands the legitimate aspirations of the iraqi kurds to me that's a norm statement indicating that perhaps publicly the united states die. doesn't want to take sides but i wonder if privately it is actually inside to vies to support the status of the change of status for the current simply because of what you just mentioned the increasing iranian influence and the iraqi government so the united states spent a great deal of diplomatic capital trying to pressurize the kurdistan government into delaying or not holding the referendum at all it's now except. that the referen

almost the entire world is against them tonight the people who survived saddam hussein are about to face baghdad's troops yet again i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. he said great people of kurdistan you did not allow anyone to break your will when you voted yes to independence. it was. all we really pose national authority across the whole of iraq including the kurdish region. and this is not a threat. that instead of threatening and punishments let's start a serious dialogue to be good neighbors. that. will be honest we will use all the tools of the constitution and the law and we will surprise them. then we might face hardships but i'm sure the future will be bright that. we say little but i will speak for themselves the most important is that the will of the people of kurdistan could not be broken. also on the show tonight the trump train in the german election and the one leader whose final term in office may be all about making that train jumped the track of the new york times columnist roger cohen is my guest tonight will be here in about eight minutes. we begin the day with a lesson

baghdad and the airport here comes under the control of baghdad is there any light at the end of the tunnel here . as we don't want iraq iraq is it is it his settled opinion that he can only go so far with this. certain point both. iraqi prime minister and the kurdish president. push it too far because the likelihood. is very real it's already happened twice in the past. the brink of a civil war back in two thousand and eight for example troops went into. one of the disputed territories ended. in this referendum if. they were really moments away. from beginning beginning a conflict do you. know that it takes very little if you start deploying troops face to face it would take very little really to spark an armed conflict. really also back down because they also have a public opinion to deal with they have regional players to deal with very complicated situation when you speak to the kurds they say if we knew that this was going to happen the people. have been through so much already bracing ourselves but the reality of their bill today for example is no the reality a very big. this i

baghdad so this is going to be very difficult to see how all this will certainly it does. leave the question really of this is the first step what could happen next and as far as baghdad's concerned and indeed as far as anchor is concerned of a slightly annoyed here because they might say surely look we want to concentrate on the fight against both countries might say that the last thing we want is more stability in the area that the kurds would want to be able to call the country of kurdistan. well that's absolutely right and it's very clear from the words of the prime minister a baddie he did say we had a really good cooperation during the battle over on mosul we are currently also cooperating when it comes to the how we show offensive why is this happening at this specific time now he also said that he was open for negotiations but you must not use the referendum always is always results as a bargaining chip and i think the kurds are quite realistic in this is that they know they can't just forge ahead and march on to try to declare an independence anytime soon i think

he said baghdad should now engage in serious dialogue instead of threatening sanctions. three members of the israeli security forces have been killed and one injured in a shooting near a jewish settlement in the west and the occupied west bank a palestinian gunman was shot dead and u.s. president donald trump says he'll fly to puerto rico next week as the caribbean island struggles to recover from hurricane ria three and a half million residents on the u.s. territory still without power and many face food and water shortages. aid agencies are warning that hundreds of thousands of children who fled violence in myanmar are risk of malnutrition four hundred thirty thousand muslim ranjoor refugees have crossed into bangladesh since a military crackdown began more than a month ago more than half of them children some of them the two traumatized to speak about their experiences drawing pictures instead. reports from the could have pollen count in southern. there are moments children best described using markers and pencils moments too difficult to put in words like when merria

authority in baghdad and they said that the airports here actually had been opened with. approval of baghdad that they had been financed by the kurds that they're run by the kurds part that there's a civilian supervisory body that comes every year to check on that airport and that is done with with baghdad including to move it into airspace so he said that he didn't understand where was the issue and he felt that if that was a means of punishment because of the referendum of punishing the kurdish people of punishing the. lives outside that uses those airports to come and see their families it was one thing that if they were legal issues that was another thing he was talking about low. the airport where the prime minister yesterday was about putting the airport under so of the federal border guards if that happens just missed a pause on the have a plan b. if the situation gets so very negative. well they're not talking about it publicly at least it's going to i mean when it comes to land crossings you can actually see maybe how do you federal border guards can deploy to th

hour really there was a high level delegation that went from year to baghdad but those talks really reached an impasse and after that we saw masoud barzani very defiant saying well the vote will go ahead despite all criticism is just an opinion expressed by the kurdish people at this point and seeing all the rhetoric coming out of baghdad calling this vote unconstitutional also parliament asking prime minister body to take certain steps like deploying iraki forces to do so called disputed territories that took part in the vote yesterday all of that is something people here are monitoring closely and many would tell you they did expect that no one would accept this referendum especially in the region a lot of disappointment perhaps because of the reaction of the international community but these are going to be very very difficult times. thanks for the. now israel radio is reporting there's been a gala tack in the occupied west bank it's reporting a palestinian opened fire on three israelis near the heart of settlement near jerusalem a palestinian was reportedly shot will bring you m

the referendum is very important it before my future and i hope at least that baghdad will eventually to be independent. with the federal government in baghdad is called a referendum on constitutional and he's refusing to even recognize the result little known start negotiations with the kurdish regional government ok allergy over future independence for iraq. events of the last few days here can only be described as some of the most momentous in this region's history but the political ramifications are massive the threats continue from the baghdad governments and neighboring countries and there's a sense here of great uncertainty as to what could happen next. the federal government has threatened to close the region's international airspace if kurdish authorities don't hand over control of their two main airports by a friday deadline. turkey is threatening to cut off the kayleigh g.'s oil pipeline and close the land border turkey is the biggest supplier of goods and food to the chaos. we don't have. to use making of the same damn regime but the kurds don't have a life with. maybe det

of the main problem between the two sides and that is one of the main points why the government in baghdad is so angry that those disputed territories were part of this referendum gets not only the government and in iraq who is angry how to regionally they really concerned internationally as well the iraqi government has already started threatening them as to what it's going to do if they pass this through the straits. well there's several threats that actually have been issued over the past seventy two hours i would say. the most concrete one which is the sort of take surrendering to the international airport to the many to the for the road border guards or closing it down no iraq. has. notified the international carriers that fly into this region that starting friday fifteen hundred g.m.t. all international flights will be suspended only domestic flights will be operating by those borders this also parliament asked the prime minister. to take over the international borders of the land borders of the kurdish region those are three on the border with iran and two on the border with turkey

government by regional countries he said it's not the solution and he invited members of the baghdad government and neighboring countries to come to a bill for discussions to try and negotiate some sort of solution to this crisis meanwhile more threats from the baghdad government the cabinet saying that the calle argy have three days to hand over control of their international airports here all they will face an international air in bargo we understand that domestic flights will continue it's highly unlikely we understand that the k r g will agree to these threats also the cabinet saying that again the kayleigh jihad three days to hand over control to border crossings land border crossings or neighboring countries will be invited to take control of those border crossings themselves so yet again we're seeing an escalation of the rhetoric from the baghdad government from neighboring countries replies by the k r g sorties here the crisis continues and the situation does seem to be escalating. moving to our other top stories this hour three members of the israeli security forces have bee

this is d w news line from berlin tonight independence for the kurds in iraq baghdad says no ninety two percent of kurds in said yes to independence in monday's referendum baghdad says it will not recognize the vote and it sending federal troops to retake control of the kurdish region will a vote for freedom leading to a future of war also coming up saudi arabia says it will lift its ban on women drivers but is there more behind the wheel here could have more reform in this new tory asli conservative kingdom be just around the corner and the rise of the robots automation threatens every half of all job say experts but could it also change our lives for the better. off it's good to have you with us tonight iraq is faced with the question of keeping the country together it comes after kurds in the north of the country voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence a kurdish authorities. over ninety two percent of kurds backed independence in that referendum that was held on monday but iraq's central government in baghdad refuses to respect the result it has threatened sanctions against the

the government in baghdad and when it comes. they have to. live because. of the iraqi. authority everything. with. the airport and she said she didn't understand yet what baghdad wanted exactly she said they were reaching out but at the moment they were getting no answers. from iran turkey and syria and they've been keeping a close eye on the situation there anyway. things from them. well iran was the first one actually to react that was a few days ago it had announced that it was. closing its airspace rather to. the kurdish region actually if you go and check on the billboard now it's. been canceled for a few days already. threats that they will close all the border crossings the government in baghdad asking them to do that at the moment happen. publicly they are. saying that they considered. own national security considering the amount of kurdish people who live inside for example iran and syria has been a bit more muted at the moment having its own problems but so far nothing has materialized but those threats are taken seriously by the people here especially that ba

parliament in baghdad. prime minister to send iraqi forces into the disputed many of those disputed territories actually took part in the referendum according to the commission about more than a million people from those who voted in this referendum even though we don't have the breakdown and that would be very indicative really about the mood in the center of all that is obviously the oil rich city. the turnout there among kurds was more than sixty percent. of the city that didn't vote. moving the iraqi forces would actually be something that worries everybody here because there was a very serious back in two thousand and twelve. face to face on the borders of threatened really the time to bring to choose sides a civil war and it had to take a lot of you as an international intervention to stop that. is part of the problem when you mention kirkuk there holder is part of the problem with kirkuk the way that it's technically speaking some people say look it's outside the region that would become an independe

in the potential for their own back in the sunshine the twenty five in baghdad if anything is warmed up a little bit forecast was forty so as q eight city up to forty three there so wind direction is coming out of the plane that onshore breeze which it sees of course coming lebanon is like bring it war to light ish as a start and develop in this part of the mediterranean sea you might catch them otherwise it's just pretty skies mostly blue but isn't tiring clouds in the air temperature wise in baghdad would go down a little bit but you saw what might well happen we've been hovering around the high thirty's and die half the last week still the same is true of abu dhabi been hotter in the dome on cloud virtually nothing in the sky there's still a possibility of getting a shower or two in yemen or the mountains of south for saudi but to be honest there's not much there in the forecast beyond sunshine. for most when we grow old we take life at a slower pace well not for this centenarian. online dating teaching. kicking in door. she's a blogger adored around the globe and she's doing it a

he said the didn't you iraq the kurds participated in building and went willingly to baghdad for back in two thousand and three turned out to be practical and think tarion country he said the kurds did all what they could they believed a key role in ratify the constitution back in two thousand and five but they did not get what they expected in return then he went on speaking about all the current problems with the central government in baghdad and he said that after the vote they will still be a time for negotiation that independence won't come on the next day and maybe it will take a year or two or even more depends on how good these talks would go but within minutes the prime minister either allowed by the gave us choice statement and he also didn't mince his words he said that baghdad wind never accept the disintegration of iraq and that this referendum will lead actively to a creation of a racist and sick tarion state he then went on putting a lot of the blame on the kurds he said that yes they did not receive their share of the federal revenue but about a pool to of iraq's oil p

are very very loaded could extremely frustrated saying that baghdad is not abiding by the constitution is not giving in its own share of the federal budget is not giving it its own share for example of military equipment even though the peshmerga were very heavily involved in the war against isis there's also a part of his own legacy you seventy one years old now he is due to step down in november he could extend that because it happened before and so i think at this point what's he want to tell the world ok here we are we did our share it's a historical moment because now everybody around the world knows who the kurds are because of their role in the fight against isis and with that he is stronger in baghdad ok i had a national election there next year thank you very much for that whole toda on twitter if you want to connect with our. correspondent in erbil in iraq kurdistan i came across as very interesting opinion piece on al jazeera dot com on the regional implications of this kurdish referendum i got a dolly of al-jazeera sent to studies asks whether common concerns about u.s. pol

with the federal government in baghdad has called the referendum on constitutional and he's refusing to even recognize the result let alone start negotiations with the kurdish regional government ok allergy over future independence for iraq's. events of the last few days here can only be described as some of the most momentous in this region's history but the political ramifications are massive the threats continue from the baghdad governments and neighboring countries and there's a sense here of great uncertainty as to what could happen next. the federal government has threatened to close the region's international airspace if kurdish authorities don't hand over control of the two main airports by friday deadline turkey is threatening to cut off the kayleigh g.'s oil pipeline and close the land border turkey is the biggest supplier of goods and food to the k r j we can. we can have. you come to our party is making of the same mr saddam regime and the kurds don't have a life if we stay with make that. determination among the people who wanted a country of their own for generations bu

referendum the government in iraq's kurdish region refuses to under the airports to baghdad. alone down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up president trump plans to cut the number of refugees entering the u.s. to the lowest level in nearly four decades plus. the president. and a ride down money laundering lane in the london bus toll that takes and properties legend brought by crooked and high profile nigerians. after winning a landslide in the succession referendum the government of iraq kurdish region has rejected baghdad's demand to hand over control of its airports ninety two percent of kurds who posted a ballot voted yes the results been announced despite a last minute appeal to cancel it by the iraqi prime minister john stratford reports from ever built. celebrations on the streets of appeal up to ninety two percent of voters said yes to secession from the kurdish region of northern iraq. the referendum is very important it will for my future and i hope at least that baghdad will eventually to be independent. with the federal government in baghdad has

just two hours international flights to iraq's kurdish region are said to stop as baghdad piles on the pressure after this week's referendum plus. i appealed to the leaders of myanmar including military leaders condemning racial it's of the violence and. the u.n. says their anger crisis is the world's fastest developing refugee emergency with more than half a million people fleeing to bangladesh but eventually you've got to get off the planet if we're going to continue as a as a as a human race to boldly go where no one has ever gone before get ready to book your ticket to mama. it seems that neither way neither side has given way in the run up to the referendum in the catalonia region of catalonia on sunday the spanish government has insisted there will be no independence on october the first a spokesman repeated the government position that this is session vote is illegal meanwhile the catalan government says preparations for the breakaway ballots are in high gear it says more than two thousand three hundred voting stations already farmers supporting the separatist government say the

with the federal government in baghdad has called the referendum on constitutional and he's refusing to even recognize the result let alone start negotiations with the kurdish regional government ok allergy over future independence for iraq. events of the last few days here can only be described as some of the most momentous in this region's history but the political ramifications are massive the threats continue from the baghdad governments and neighboring countries and there's a sense here of great uncertainty as to what could happen next. the federal government has threatened to close the region's international airspace it could heal thora g.'s don't hand over control of the two main airports by a friday deadline turkey is threatening to cut off the kayleigh g.'s oil pipeline and close the land border turkey is the biggest supplier of goods and food to the k r j we can. feed ourselves. we don't have that much power. and threats that a body is making are the same as the saddam regime but the kurds don't have a life if they stay with baghdad. they may be determination among the peop

and a looming referendums that they province in a tug-of-war between the federal government in baghdad and the iraqi kurdish capital. ♪ molly: now, signed, sealed, delivered. that is the tune president emmanuel macron will soon be singing. that is because this friday, he will put his signature on his controversial labor reform decrees. the changes aim to simplify employment rules and make hiring and firing easier. unions say it weakens workers rights. >> when it comes to the in's and outs of work in france, this is the bible. the french labor code. -- thents to the text text, emmanuel macron on planned to reform this past april, but has been faced by months of protesters. he decided to go another route. he packaged his reforms as by the cabinet and signed by the president, they just need to be published publicly to be applied. so how macron has enacted reforms is part of what has his opposition up in arms. >> if one can govern against the people, they can put something in place that has not been approved. they can push aside the parliament to pass labor reforms. this is important. wh

by the end of 2003 the press corps in baghdad have pretty much been stripped. the one thing that all of the baghdad reporters heading comment was that for the most part you never heard of any of them. they have stripped the bureaus leaving only a token presence in this bureaus and those personnel then were told they were not permitted to travel around the country. that means a set in hotels and waited for the daily car bomb to go off. they got their footage. that became the story. that we started seeing we started seeing as early as the summer of 2003. then there was a larger work to shape perceptions. the white house is over reliant. as a justification for war ultimately hurt our credibility. if the couple that with newsrooms of full of executives and editors who came from the vietnam era and the sad part of human nature. i don't know if this is developed because of our information systems but the sad part of human nature and that is always going to be more interested in what went wrong and what went right and who died as opposed to who lived in achieved. and

however the reaction of baghdad is very important and what we heard from prime minister. is that actually he will do all of you can to avoid the does integration of iraq so you see that those two points and you can figure out that it's going to be a very complicated negotiation if that actually really happens any time soon you have to remember that baghdad wanted negotiations before the vote and masoud barzani said no negotiations after the referendum and then you obviously have the reaction of regional neighbors and all of that is going to. be much clearer in the days to go we've been going through rumors of border crossings opening and closing it is a very complicated situation at the moment the people behind me are just celebrating but the kurdish authorities know that before they actually can provide this independence they talk about they have a lot of work to do a long tough road ahead hoda abdel-hamid in erbil thank you very much for that hoda and not hard to mention key locations there let's have a look at them on the map the votes taken place in the provinces. and

almost the entire world is against them tonight the people who survived saddam hussein are about to face baghdad's troops yet again i bring golf in berlin this is the day. he said great people of kurdistan you did not allow anyone to break your will when you voted yes to independence. it was. we really pose national authority across the whole of iraq including the kadish region when. this is not a threat. to us instead of threatening and punishments let's start a serious dialogue to be good neighbors. would be honest we will use all the tools of the constitution and the law and we will surprise them. were in fact. then the peace we might face hardships but i'm. sure the future will be bright that . we say little but our actions will speak for themselves the most important is that the will of the people of kurdistan could not be broken. also on the show tonight the trunk train in the german election and the one leader whose final term in office may be all about making that train jumped the track of the new york times columnist roger cohen is my guest tonight will be here in about eight minutes. we

in baghdad the reaction couldn't be more different iraq's government opposes the kurdish push for statehood and has demanded an immediate an element of the vote. of our position on the kurdish referendum is firm and clear we oppose the process because it does not conform with the constitution it has no legal basis ended lexa legitimacy its result has no binding power on the federal government in baghdad and no legal effect that we will never acknowledge the result. well and let out of the stuff that. iraq's government has already taken retaliatory steps threatening to halt flights in and out of the kurdish autonomous region it's also demanded that those behind the vote including kurdish leader massoud barzani face legal consequences iraq's prime minister he said he wanted to keep his country united without resorting to the use of force that parliament has given him a mandate to deploy the military to the kurdish territories including the oil rich region around the city of kirkuk. we will impose federal authority on the whole of iraq with the force of the constitution and the force of the la

the people on the streets and the government here say that they've had enough they say that the baghdad government have consistently let them down over the years they feel as if they have not been treated with the kind of respect that they deserve. after battling isola peshmerga kurdish peshmerga forces so instrumental so important in that fight with the coalition in pushing eisel back they feel let down of course it was only two three years ago when i saw forces were literally ten fifteen kilometers from the. very city so no matter what seems to be this increase in rhetoric these are incredible threats that are coming not only from the baghdad government from all the regional players certainly the people here on the ground in era bill and the kurdish regional government pushing forward. remain determined and seen thus far relatively on faced by by these threats. we told you this one now why this just drop.

from baghdad. we don't know if this isa warfor from baghdad. we don't know if this is a war for public opinion from baghdad. we don't know if this is a warfor public opinion in baghdad or not. they are serious, they want to do business. we'll hear about rya nair cancelling another huge amount of flights, 18,000 of them that will affect 400,000 passengers. it is not to do without original problem with the pilots holidays, we get into that in a moment. a man has died after armed police opened fire on a car near bristol. the shooting happened just of the junction of the m5 near portishead. avon and somerset police say the incident was not terror related. as usual in these circumstances the independent police complaints commission is investigating but they said there were reports the driver had threatened another motorist. the bbc‘sjon kay has more. had threatened another motorist. the bbc's jon kay has more. we have a statement from haven and somerset police tonight, not a huge amount of detail but it begins to explain what happened here. it see

baghdad has called the vote unconstitutional. iraq's prime minister the body has said international flights to the kurdish region would be suspended and vowed to keep iraq from breaking apart. they took advantage of the situation and violated the constitution i don't want to say that we will use force we'll use our heads and respect the constitution if they respond to this then it's fine and therefore today i demand that they return all the areas they recaptured from the islamic state it's what parliament decided. by. iraq's neighbors have rejected the referendum turkey has been holding joint military exercises along its border with the kurdish region and threatened to block kurdistan's oil exports . several airlines are stopping flights to northern iraq at baghdad's request. the non-binding vote is unlikely to lead to independence anytime soon. but that has not dampened the mood across the kurdish region. let's go to iraqi kurdistan then where we find t.w. correspondent just karim in the money welcome jafar so let's start with t

not only baghdad but also iraq's neighbors are stored in putting the pressure from all sides certainly from all the books around all the borders of this good this region and the voting i've visited just the first day of the vote of the referendum will have to see tomorrow when the enthusiasm here starts what else will happen it does sound like the parties already started behind you with that man expecting a yes vote result what will happen if indeed it is a yes that what we've been next move to move or be the k l g i'm both on it once he gets that mandate if you like. well publicly it said that this is an non-binding referendum but there's no two ways to look about it it will lead to independence sooner or later now president barzani has been saying all along that after the vote which is just an expression of the will of the kurdish people according to him then there will be time to hold all the negotiations he did with baghdad and he was willing to give it as much time as possible and that was one of the biggest issues with the central government in baghdad that it is prime minister b

suspend flights to kurdish cities well despite threats from the government in baghdad. reports. good. despite the sense of joy. the great. great. great. joy the joy. of the people who. will tell you great for the future. about. the u.s. congress has been briefed on president trump's plans to cut refugee numbers wants to keep the numbers in twenty eighteen at an all time low of forty five thousand that's far lower than the one hundred ten thousand limit set by president obama last year. the u.s. government has sent a flotilla of ships to puerto rico to help with the growing humanitarian crisis caused by hurricane maria the ships are bringing thousands of extra military personnel to help distribute aid more than a week after the storm hit the island is still without electricity food and water are also scarce. so africa's largest workers union has organized marches to protest against president zuma it claims corruption has become endemic under his leadership tens of thousands of people took to the streets. catalonia says it'll go ahead with an independence referendum on su

with the federal government in baghdad has called the referendum on constitutional and he's refusing to even recognize the result that alone start negotiations with the kurdish regional government ok allergy of the future independence for iraq's. events of the last few days here can only be described as some of the most momentous in the region's history but the political ramifications are massive the threats continue from the baghdad governments and neighboring countries and there's a sense here of great uncertainty as to what could happen next. the federal government has threatened to close the region's international airspace it could heal thor it is don't hand over control of their two main airports by friday deadline. turkey is threatening to cancel the kayleigh g.'s oil pipeline and close the land border turkey is the biggest supplier of goods and food to the k r g. we can not beat ourselves. we don't have that much power you come to our threats that a body is making of the same is the damn regime and that the kurds don't have a life if they stay with bank that. they maybe determ

baghdad but also by the united nations we might be able to postpone they also want guarantees that baghdad would pay their share in the national budget which is which has been cut off for months and then you have many civil servants. in this region who are now getting paid less than half of their monthly salary so maybe the kurds are trying to put this defiant poster publicly while trying to get as much as they can privately but this is now a very difficult situation because you have this regional opposition you have international opposition going all the way to washington and you have a president regional president who will have to turn round and explain to the kurds if indeed this referendum is postponed why and what did they get in return or a hold over the night is there an appeal. aid workers say the ranger crisis at the bangladesh border is now one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes in the world they say they're struggling to meet the needs of the one four hundred thousand refugees who fled violence since august twenty fifth one has more now from southeast bangladesh. a month a