communities. the good news is our own choices in energy conservation. recycling. and transport can rejoin the lines find out what you can do today at regional the lines. this is d w news live from berlin confrontation in catalonia on the eve of the independence referendum rallies take place in both madrid and barcelona to oppose sunday's disputed vote but the catalonian government insists that it will go ahead

. also coming up their buddies in beijing it seems but will china and the united states crack the north korea crisis the us secretary of state gets a warm welcome from his chinese counterpart and tillerson says the u.s. is in direct contact with north korea also coming up. in the bundesliga verda braman and hamburg's inability to score has cost them points and tonight's match spark of life into their attacks. i'm happy quite often welcome to the program tensions are rising as catalonia prepares to hold its independence referendum on sunday spain's central government is calling the vote illegal and has sent thousands of police officers to the region but catalan authorities say everything is in place for the. to go ahead however

there are plenty of voices in catalonia and elsewhere in spain but do not support the referendum. protesters in madrid demonstrating against sunday's referendum on catalonian independence the spanish government is determined to make the vote impossible because a lot of fishes are pushing ahead with the banned polling and friday night of his campaign has turned out for their final rally. where they chant. it may have been a party atmosphere but the build up to this weekend has been marred with a committee. in bus alone as support the ship's hired to accommodate additional police forces sent by the central government to stop the vote. police have been ordered to seal off polling stations and volunteer staff could be fined up to three hundred thousand euros. national assembly president says he hopes to police will

have for the voters. i'm aware they have a job to do that they have their orders and have to carry them out. but we also know that they have feelings. in barcelona stones families and children have classrooms sets to be used as police stations many of them have already spent the night here but they plan to remain until sunday when the vote starts. to pick up we had some visits from police but. which are not enough. we have you know we're. a party atmosphere for now but as police move to enforce the ban these photos could soon find themselves on

a collision course. for more we have journalist jose miguel who is in barcelona the regional capital of catalonia jose government sources in madrid are now releasing details of how they plan to clamp down on this vote were huge fines for volunteers directives to remove people from polling stations now how tense is the situation with just one day to go. yes you know with us tonight actually here and rested on situation is nothing really pends maybe in the back of people's minds there is some fear or or some tension but actually it right now mr not everything is happening inside the school many schools are being taken by it but to keep them open to try and prevent these as you said up in order to acquaint them so right not situation in which they're nice school these nights the feeling

is people are excited and the feeling here is that the vote is going to happen no matter what sort of the same i would say ok and we're hearing reports that the spanish police raided the cattle and governments telecommunications center earlier today what more can you tell us about that. yeah that's just through this morning the spanish what it used to be in which is one of the spanish police forces separated from the cars and i want when this morning there to try to make sure that the online applications and services based there that we're going to use by and go online voting and to calm the votes all can be used so according to. a spokesperson for the government this is a very serious bro for him in my debates tomorrow vote again pick up on the part of his house saying that even the things i thought these that vote is going to count and he's going to go ahead so the showdown it's really up to more so if the vote

does go ahead tomorrow as catalan officials are saying and a majority of voters come out in favor of independence what can we expect to happen next. what could happen one day is really the one million that are just i'm. just house. friends. and they were from the greenhouse that we see in forty eight hours they will declare independence day yes but it's most likely late leaving just days they have been sending mixed messages saying that maybe the creation of one half of a while. for a political they have to begin with every i mean has been so far. to any kind of conversation so if we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. is what may happen. jose miguel i used in barcelona thank you u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has said the united states is in direct contact

with north korea over its nuclear weapons program and its probing the country's willingness to talk tillerson made the comments in beijing where he's been meeting president paying and other officials he also called for calm the u.s. use china as crucial to attempts to stop developing nuclear weapons china has strong economic ties with north korea accounting for about ninety percent of its foreign trade earlier i spoke to stephen bora wake our correspondent in seoul south korea i began by asking him how important china's role is in developing channels of communication between washington and pyongyang. if u.s. and north korea are in some kind of direct contact and presumably that's a diplomatic process that's going ahead without china's direct involvement and whether or not that you site sit down to talk will depend on a variety of factors particularly the preconditions that they place on any kind of

talks north korea has historically resisted talks that were predicated upon its taking steps towards the nuclear as they should that being said china is of course very important to any sort of approach north korea given the amount of economic power that they have on north korea and i think some u.s. policy makers and analysts have in the past assumed that china has this sort of magic ability to affect north korea's behavior but history shows that that isn't always the case now as you mentioned china is obviously an important actor in this situation and they've also adopted u.n. sanctions against north korea and seem increasingly willing to cut those ties of over its nuclear weapons program but how much further can washington push beijing to exert power on north korea to answer that it's important to distinguish between economic and political power china has a lot of economic power with christie said given that north korea's only active

land borders with china and so much of its trade depends on interaction with china but that being said. north korea is still a sovereign country and when it comes to what policies they want to carry out and if they choose to pursue nuclear weapons or missiles there's not much that china can do to change that so. is it will be able to assess the extent to which the two sides are able to cooperate and just how much the u.s. is able to get china on board with carrying out u.n. sanctions and other kind of punitive measures on north korea now looking ahead president trump will visit beijing in november of course currently there appears to be warmer ties between u.s. and china but could anything be derived now from between now and that briefly if you can. the calendar is full of big events between now and then china will have its communist party congress and north korea will be celebrating the foundation of its ruling party and south korean officials just said this week that they expect

more provocative actions between from north korea around mid october so the question will be if tensions do rise u.s. and china will seize on that urgency to cooperate more cohesively and to make a more united front or if the more tense situation leads them to break apart in some way and they have some differences on the best way to move forward so we'll have to states you know over the next couple weeks and see how things develop with a full calendar we'll certainly be watching that closely steven burrill a console thank you and now to some of the other stories making news around the world dozens of people have been arrested after clashes broke out at a neo nazi rally in the swedish city of golfing burg counter-demonstrators protested against a march by the nordic resistance movement and police struggled to keep the two sides apart a police officer and several people were injured russian opposition leader alexina

volley has held an election rally just a day after being released from police custody he was detained for much of friday before another event one in a series of demonstrations across the country the russian authorities accuse him of violating laws on organizing public meetings. the united states is recalling more than half of its staff from its embassy in cuba after a series of mysterious sonic attacks in the worst cases the dems have suffered mild traumatic brain injury cuba's government denies responsibility and says it does not know what is causing the incidents. german police have arrested a man in connection with an extortion scheme targeting supermarkets police believe he's the man who placed poison jars of baby food in the stores and threatened to do the same in other cities across europe unless he was paid ten million euros. to sports now bundesliga match day seven got underway on friday night when shell

co-hosted leverkusen the home side got on the board first when midfielder lay on go red sky stepped up to take a free kick staring at home from twenty three metres out leverkusen then tie things up just after the hour mark when jamaica international leon bailey shot rang in off the defender's boot that's his first goal in this league old one one was the final score. and the saturday night bundesliga match sees hamburg hosting their brain men in what's known as the nor derby it's one of the fiercest and oldest rivalries in the german leak the neighboring clubs are both slipping down the table so they'll be looking to grab a crucial three points tonight. tension is high head of the north darby it always is before the most play tie in but it's league history hamburg won their first two matches this season but the team followed it up by losing four in a row next up archrivals vit up. front i think that in order to

have me is a little bit more explosive because of the history it brings with it. it's a feeling annoyed debbie will always electrify it interests everybody lack of goals has been hamburg's make concern in recent outings they've created chances but haven't scored in their last four matches. us had chances sometimes we've hit the side netting or we've been just a little bit off when we're through on the goalkeeper so we have to get lucky back on our side we have to work hard for it and play with intensity and then the goals will calm. braman has similar concerns only three goals scored so four and still without a victory this season the green and white are ready to fight. we definitely expect it to be a high intensity match plenty of tackles fast transitions from both teams lots of scrambling for second balls all those battling qualities constitute not. hamburg

are ready to join the fray because one thing is clear the loser in this darby is in for a bumpy ride in the coming weeks. in formula one racing lewis hamilton will start sunday's malaysia grand prix in pole position hamilton clocked the fastest time in qualifying edging out for ariz came here i can n. and red bulls max for shopping hamilton's title hopes received another huge boost after his main rival sebastian vettel experienced engine trouble and the german was forced to head to the garage the ferrari driver will now start the race on the back of the grid. well leave you now with some very cute images of panda cubs are in china's sichuan province the oldest is five months old and the youngest just two more at the top of the hour thea that.

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