thinkers to covent garden just what did it feel like to live in times of revolution . nineteen seventeen a real october story told a twenty fifth double. this is d w news live from but end in the french media about say two women have been stabbed to death in a knife attack officials say the assailants were shot dead by french soldiers antiterrorism with all his are investigating the attack which happened in the southern city's main train station. or so coming up

a showdown in spain as the autonomous catalonia region holds a brand independence vote police forcibly remove people from polling stations and fire rubber bullets as they try to shut down the ballots cattle an authority say hundreds have been injured. by man in a home for good to have you with us we begin with breaking news from frogs where a man has killed two women with a knife the attacker was shot dead by french soldiers the attack happened in the southern port city of mass say at the south train station police cordoned off the area as they evacuated the station authorities of all people to avoid the scene the french interior minister has tweeted that he is on his way to say.

well would you join now by correspondent and he's a bit today in paris and elizabeth what more can you tell us about this attack we know that the time to play such about a quarter to two p.m. . two women traveling. chief train station got pushed out i don't know if he shouted allowed. and he stopped one of the women in the belly before getting up front and the other one was stabbed in the back and. then the police reacted almost immediately he was bleeding and he was the little girl a little farther than ten meters from the bodies of the victims was a pretty trying to stop him and killed him and have authorities said whether they believe this was a lone wolf attack or that all those who were involved. we believe have gone through the inquiry form in relation to the fires undertaking which means that

certainly they believe that he was not part of a network at the very least radicalized by other people that he was not operating in a vacuum of the word overworked lone wolf or not used so much of a feeling that though this is something that is part of a series of terrorist attacks but to go through and from the deed in other countries correspondent and is a bit would take in paris thank you in spain the catalan regional government says more than four hundred sixty people have been injured in a police crackdown on a banned independence referendum spanish police have closed ninety two polling stations across the region but droid has called the vote a false and is trying to prevent people from costing about. rubber bullets being fired at protesters. clashes between voters and police forces. it was

a chaotic start to catalans band's independence referendum. the central government in madrid deployed police across the region they seized ballot papers and boxes of polling stations and occupied the regional governments telecommunications center. in the town of sharona officers forced their way into a polling station where the catalan leader colace who demands was expected to cast his vote. voted at another location and he sharply condemned the spanish police crackdown. only unjustified and irresponsible use of violence by the spanish state will not stop the will of the catalan people to vote and to freely decide about their future how does he chose. to. come in the mccarthy come in. and indeed many catalans were not deterred by madrid show of force thousands came out to make their vote count polls are due to

close at eight pm local time the catalan government says that if the yes side wins it will declare independence from spain within forty eight hours. while g.w. correspondent for the n.a.s. is in boston and we can talk to him now pablo was the situation in barcelona all people able to call several years. hi how and when i actually i'm standing just from a polling station which you can just see behind me there's a lot of people queuing and they've been there for quite a while i asked people in one month that he'd been there for an hour and a half and expected to be inside to vote about an hour later and now what we know is that plenty of people across the region have voted there are still at least i believe seventy polling stations still open across. this is despite of course the fact that many have been closed early in the morning and then others throughout the morning now of course popular this is a controversial vote tell us briefly why it's so contested it well the spanish

government in madrid believes that this is an illegal referendum because it goes against the spanish constitution now what happened was that the regional government here possible a few months ago which was essentially laying down the legal framework for a referendum to be held here and then if a yes vote came out of that referendum day would have that a law which would disconnect catalonia from the rest of the country this of course was all stripped down by spain's constitutional course backed by the central government headed by money. so essentially it's been a deadlock a standoff there's been a lack of dialogue both sides are saying that the other is willing to to reach any sort of solution or conclusion and i'm just been a lot of a lot of sort of negative comments being said for to create against money out of his government at the moment of have it been like this and how would you describe the police presence around the polling stations. well i have to say hello from

a lot of the images that we've seen i mean in some areas you saw a lot of police i mean i was surprised that i've only seen two police officers on the not even on this side of where i'm standing there on the other side of the street they're standing there the regional police and they didn't seem to be really paying much attention to what was going on just about twenty meters away from where they where it looks like the mushrooms in particular have decided to just sort of take a step back that's the regional police of course now we've seen some pretty heavy handed images and some bloody images of that from across the region today and it doesn't look very good for the national police when you've got images like this spread across the planet and of course here in spain is not a criticism as well and i think it's also important to point out that this referendum has divided catalonia but just how much would you say well i was there this week and i was when i was here this week doing reports and it struck me how divided it is i mean people always have their opinion of what was best for

catalonia but i did notice that people now are very much firm and set on what they believe that is an interesting fact which is that eighty two percent of catalans do want a referendum and now whether they are in favor of it or not as a whole another issue and the latest polls around forty to forty five percent are unsafe or of independents but of course like to be mentioning the way the central government has been treating this whole movement in the past couple of weeks and months hasn't really done them any favors and in fact there's a belief here that they're helping. catalans in fact to become more in favor of that breaking away from the rest of spain so we'll see what happens today we'll see what happens in the next couple of days but it's a very confusing time and i'm there is aren't aren't many any clear answers ready to walk what happened in catalonia but of course you will be monitoring that situation for us and i will be coming back to you throughout the day for now thank you very much. and now some of the other stories making news around the world

legislation banning full face was new veils in public spaces has gone into effect in austria only one hundred fifty women are thought to wear burkas only cabs in the country the government says the law which says faces must be visible from the headline to the chin is about protecting austrian values the so-called back about signals a shift to the right you know stream politics. gay and lesbian couples in germany a tying the knot today is the country's new marriage equality or comes into effect a couple who've been together for thirty eight years with a first in the country to say i do same sex couples in germany were previously only able to register their relationships to civil partnerships. former u.s. football star o.j. simpson has been released from prison on parole officer having nine years behind bars for. the seventy year old left in nevada prison short beyond midnight simpson was sentenced to thirty three years after a botched on drug very we have previously been acquitted of the murder of his

ex-wife and her friend in one nine hundred ninety five. in the french city of new celebrations on gold in the professional football match took a tragic turn here you can see fans searching for ways to congratulate players in a stadium beriah collapse at least twenty nine people were injured and the match was called off. well in sunday's bundesliga action buy ins shaky start to the season continued against had to belly in with interim coach replacing sacked predecessor in the dug out by and raced into an early lead thanks to months homos he was his head a brother at ten minutes well robot levon dusky doubled by and lead just off the hof time but the defending champions failed to close out the game but in school twice with five minutes through andre jute and salomon kalou to snatch

a comeback two two draw on a saturday dortmund went into their away game against top of the table but they faced a tricky task the hosts of wrong three games in a row were looking to extend the longest unbeaten run in history against the league leaders. and dortmund were out to prove a point after they made a weak thumping at the hands of around madrid with coach peter boss making five wholesale changes to the starting eleven out spurred. and this was pay dividends as the black and yellow has hit the ground running four minutes in who missed out midweek sent the corner in and dortmund took the lead at the first time of asking of the boundary ya malenko back hitting the ball to score his first win as long a goal for the club since his move from dynamo kiev in august with but seven minutes later alex book finally showed up and gotten themselves back in the game be levelling the score was his second of the season and only the second

goal dortmund conceded so far this campaign gets four back and so the watching fans why they're the team to beat this season. with a sublime goal to reestablish the lead of of of of of of in the eightieth minute the video referee intervened and awarded dormant a penalty for this foul by joshua cooper on lucas pist check up the pit emerick about me i had the ball to put the game beyond doubt at his feet for his shots on goal was lackluster at the best but in the end it didn't matter as dortmund won the match two one a victory that helps put the meat we did buckle behind them as the black and yellows continue to dominate the league. so let's now take a look at all the results so far this weekend one in sunday's early match tough and i'm three two as we so bad in it came back to draw with buy in to two and dortmund

one in go on sunday be ten i've also see one franc that left it late against god to melt that first home win force for the mind set points in a one one draw on there was a scored a stroll between hamburg and a man in the north dopy on friday night there was another draw between shock and may the crews and into days of the late game which just kicked off like sick travel to cologne. in formula one max fessed up and cruised to victory at the lazy a grand prix the red bull driver produced a sensational race but the same cannot be said of ferrari sebastian facto was hoping to gain some ground on championship leader lewis hamilton but technical trouble left him and his team mate wondering if the title is still within reach. max has stopped and may have started third on the grid but with most he's travelling with hamilton struggling for pace the dutchman easily what took him to

stop and who just turned twenty a day ago went on to win in dominant fashion much to the delight of his team and family making this his second career formula one when. he was able to win. as for the title race ferrari was dealt a double blow kimi reichen and failed to start after experiencing technical trouble and sebastian vettel started dead last in the race even though he managed to pull his way up to fourth he still finished behind championship leader lewis hamilton who came in second. the mr adie's driver now has a thirty four point lead over fettle in the driver's standings but the title race is tight this day belonged to the dutchman. and just a reminder of the top stories we are following for you to women who have been killed in a knife attack at the main train station in the french city of not say the assailant

was shot dead by french soldiers antiterrorism authorities said they are investigating the incident. more than four hundred sixty people have been injured in clashes between riot police and voters outside only exaggerations in catalonia the region is pressing ahead with a banned independence referendum the scottish government has called as a false and scotland officials to cool off the vote. loss all the time we have finale do join us again at the top of the hour if you can in the meantime head to a website d.w. dot com thanks for watching i'm by no. welcome to quadriga he was right here but isn't that nice out of the bottom in the i.q. boys are you ready for this. women's talk w. . more women. more talk we think we have.