this is the the only news life from iraq faces a possible break up as ninety two percent of cuts called for independence that's results of monday's referendum which baghdad says it will not recognize the way the country go now. also on the program saudi arabia to lift its ban on women drivers

is this a sign of wider reform in this notoriously conservative take. on the european commission office new proposals to fix the a used migration crisis the block is as divided as ever. i'm phil gale welcome to the program an overwhelming majority of iraqi kurds have voted in favor of independence from iraq announcing the results of monday's referendum the kurdish election commission said more than ninety two percent of voters i had elected to secede and have a year referendum took place in iraq's autonomous kurdistan region as well as disputed areas of northern iraq it was celebrations in the city of solo money as the results were announced central government in baghdad has opposed the referendum

since its inception. more now from journalist a bigot svenson she joins us on the line from kirkuk one of the disputed parts of iraq where this fog was held welcome bigots so ninety two percent in favor of independence how's the result being seen where you are well the people are not ready surprised here in kirkuk they were expecting it and already jokes come up that we go back to the old days off of them saying when we had similar results over ninety percent this was usual when saddam called all the polls so they say we know all that now iraq's government refused to recognize this referendum tell us about their reaction. yeah he was a special session this this afternoon and the parliament in back of that and prime minister about he was talking and he was very far in rejecting this referendum and the result and he say he will not have any dialogue with the kurdish regional

government in erbil without cancellation of the outcome of the referendum and he said as well that he holds onto the you'll do you want to make them he gave the conditions regional government asked to hand over the airport controls this means sort of money yeah that'd be you know and kirkuk as well although in kirkuk we don't have civil aviation we don't have military every nation and then he wants to have full control about the border in with turkey and iran which could include his son faces so and this will must happen until friday six p.m. if not he will close the airspace and he will close the borders and cut istanbul be isolated so this is the last position i go i say that this referendum and i was opposed not only within iraq but also internationally of america and turkey amongst the critics given the opposition internally and externally what was that what is

the kurdish leadership hoping to achieve with this vote. well first of all about money wants to have an independent state he wants to lead could is done to independents he wants to have a state the problem is that he is not restricted only to the four kurdish provinces the money out of you know the hoop and halacha with which have already already autonomy but he wants to integrate as well as so-called disputed areas like can't cook and this is the big problem because kirkuk was under the control of baghdad before isis came in summer two thousand and fourteen and now arab media wants to have the control over kirkuk and this is the big dispute about that and we'll bring its best friend said in kirkuk thank you saudi arabia arabia says it's going to allow women to drive this is

a big leap forward for the ultraconservative country the only one in the world with such a ban erode the kray says the ban will be lifting to allowing women to apply for licenses without the permission of a male relative. the streets of saudi arabia have long been a battleground on one hand women wanting to drive on the other the religious conservatives who have called them too stupid their mobility a threat to society now it is the women who have won. them to the site of the most i'm so happy i actually haven't slept since the news broke because i'm so happy i'm twenty seven years old and i've been dreaming about this for my entire life and now it's finally coming true i can hardly wait another nine months and telescopes into effect let me get off of that the first one is. king solomon has issued a decree giving them the right to apply for driving licenses and the freedom of the

roads that will be implemented by june next year it's a huge step for saudi arabia enough to warrant a special announcement at the united nations you may be interested to know that a few minutes ago our oil decree has been issued in saudi arabia giving women the right to drive. this is a historic day for saudi society for men and women for years some saudi women have gone behind the wheel as part of a campaign with global support on social media. this activist lost her job when she was caught others have gone to jail now celebrating their victory. saudi law and forces a strict form of islam known as well. women have to obey strict dress codes they can't associate with unrelated men if they want to work travel access health care

they need the consent or accompaniment of a male guardian. but slowly things are changing on saturday women were allowed for the first time in to a national stadium for celebrations marking the kingdom's anniversary the movie is part of a program headed by the crown prince to modernize society and saudi women are already wealthy well educated and ambitious and. women are at all levels there in the government advisory council that doctors women are in big positions so why shouldn't we join the men that matter most to our nation. that boldness would suggest that saudi women will carry on the fight for greater rights. the european commission has proposed new plans to address your is

migration crisis and wants to resettle fifty thousand more refugees and to deport more migrants who is up ok whose asylum applications fail or who reach the e.u. for economic reasons the issue of migration has divided a member state since the mass influx of twenty fifteen scenes like this have become familiar in the past two years and the e.u. wants to put a stop to them on wednesday it launched another attempt to tackle the migrant crisis migration commissioner dimitris after mopper lost and eyes to a new scheme to resettle refugees directly from crisis owns and to neighboring countries its main focus is north africa the idea is to dissuade migrants from attempting the journey themselves with more than sixty five million displaced around the world we cannot stop showing solidarity towards this desperate people and countries hosting. this is why we are proposing to support

a further fifty thousand resettlement places with half a billion euro and i really count on member states to make the shoes flight. that member states generosity is far from guaranteed and the scheme is only voluntary it follows a compulsory plan to redistribute migrants who've already arrived in europe a scheme that met with shop resistance adam up last said he still expected countries like hungary and slovakia to comply with quotas imposed by brussels but he also stressed that the e.u. has to increase the number of people it sends back mainly economic migrants with no right to assign them. we have to be. clear and brutally honest people who have lost the right to stay in your group must be added to. this scheme is set to run for the next two years as the e.u. seeks to bolster cooperation on

a deeply divisive issue. from the dublin comes from the bad riggers who's been following today's press conference and joins us from brussels welcome belt is this plan the answer to europe's migration crisis. no this plan is only part of the answer if you look at the numbers only twenty five thousand refugees pay a year. on the list and i'm talking about real refugees certified so to say by the united nations it's not about migrants it's not about migrants coming from africa through libya it's only about refugees from syria and they will be picked up in transit countries like turkey or lebanon so this new initiative is not about the people who actually entering europe are trying to end europe by boat and that's it's only a part of the solution and it's only a small drop in the sea of refugees we have rolled wide twenty five thousand

a year is more or less nothing compared to the inhabitants of the european union so add to those drawbacks that you've outlined a bad way we throw in the fact that this game is voluntary what have the reactions been to this plan. the reactions on the one side that's a good approach and this reaction come from those countries who were against mandatory schemes like poland and hungary the czech republic and also austria they say it's good that we have this voluntary basis and on the other side the countries who are the usual suspects i would say like germany sweden france who take in these refugees. this new scheme they say it's not good that the solidarity is not among all the twenty eight member states but only thirteen of the twenty eight states taking part in this voluntary scheme so far so this is not the

solution for the sort of dirty problem in the union and there's also another solution for the monetary scheme which is also running is still there ten thousand people waiting in italy and greece for relocation to other e.u. countries in this is not happening then rigorous in brussels thank you after some of the other stories making news around the world pope francis has launched a campaign to tackle growing worldwide anti immigrant sentiment the two year campaign will attempt to raise awareness of the migrants plight and change people's view of them many migrants and refugees turned out to hear the announcement in hopes weekly address instant peter's square. souces within germany's conservatives say volved is to step down from his post as finance minister to become president of the german parliament the move could help but chancellor merkel as she seeks to negotiate a new coalition following sunday's federal elections. thailand's top quarter

sentenced former prime minister yingluck shinawatra five years in jail for negligence in the management of a rice subsidy program if you look wasn't present for the hearing she is believed to have fled the country in august and the verdict was originally due. officials on the indonesian island of bali say they say almost one hundred thousand people have fled their homes amid fears that a nearby volcano will erupt hundreds of tremors from mt and go on the east of the island being recorded daily volcano last erupted in one nine hundred sixty three killing more than a thousand people and the women's tennis season is approaching its end but there are still want to highlight some calendar when the w t a finals take place in singapore at the end of october it will be the first time it will have been held in asia southern asia tennis talent is there on the ground for local associations working to improve the development of up and coming players in india the search is

on for a future female superstar local tennis impress structure has improved a lot in recent years three time grand slam champion sania mirza remembers a very different time i used to play on court. you know and there was no course to play on today we've got an academy like this so you can see we don't want us to go back to where it was twenty years ago we wanted to keep moving forward and they're not the only ones development work is also taking place in jakarta former player you sukey is hoping to see more local girls playing the professional game we tried . this once then you know ethical. and we make them to believe that tennis in general there is plenty of work to be done there are only two asian women ranked in the world top forty both of whom are from china but with the w t a foreign news coming to singapore in october southern asia is in the spotlight

former players like yeah you pursue key and sania mitts are doing their bit to help hopeful local youngsters follow in their footsteps. you're watching d.w. news still to come a two hundred twenty percent tariff vs jets and u.s. response to the canadian state support for. the plane make it describes the levy as absurd and now europe is involved in the rock and facility we'll have that story on the rest of the day's business news in just a moment. i'll have your news updates at the top of the hour and meantime of course there's always the web site. of the day. we take personally. with the wonderful people and stories make the game so special. for all true fact.