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the crackdown calling the vote and legal we'll go live to madrid for the latest. news there coming up in the french's here mass say two women have been stabbed to death in knife attack officials say you say that was shot dead by french soldiers antiterrorism authorities are investigating the attack which happened at the southern city's main train station. on helena home free good to have you with us 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 madrid has called the vote a false and is trying to prevent people from costing their ballots. rubber bullets being fired protesters. clashes between voters and police forces.
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it was a chaotic start to catalans band 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. for him on voted at another location and he sharply condemned the spanish police crackdown. a syrian 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
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madrid show of force thousands came out to make their vote count poles 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. and a correspondent martin roberts joins us from madrid for more now martin we are hearing reports of violent clashes between the police and protesters in catalonia tell us more about that. well as you and your correspondent just said well over four hundred injuries reported at least by the local government. and catalonia there's no details on how many of those are actually serious or what the degree of damage is in each case however we will be looking get some very shocking images indeed of old ladies working teds. in twitter as it's being spread around the world again not very many details with
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a deepening sense for many political parties the reaction by the police has been heavy handed help. we have seen those images and madrid says that police acted in a proportionate man and now if the cattle administration to speaks this could it take action and if so what can it actually date. well actually the cousin government has already taken to court action. ten days ago one thing central government decided to bring him to be that least the local government finances the. supreme court i mean again justice takes its time it's hard to tell. what the outcome will be and what it will be reduced or they could be doing the same thing don't worry the police action that's because if they so wished martin what about where you are has anything happened on a similar level in madrid more protests
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a heavy police presence on the streets for example. well this morning there was a pretty peaceful protest and all the only a few hundred people ranks one of them up tripped into or out of there and saw us additional gathering horns which is full and at least as we were actually talking to you again very peaceful i am so half an hour ago i just said things very peaceful and date but again as i speech it was a police have it and we kept our in very low overhead something that was quite a common thing were not. any kind of protest peaceful it was expected and so we got a long night ahead of us. well time will tell what we have seen already protests against what several opposition or was a happy time to respond just at the political level now we've seen one of the physical level but maybe protests to see. martin orbits monitoring the situation
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for us from madrid thank you meanwhile barcelona's football team has played it spanish league match today behind closed doors with no fans allowed to enter the stadium now the team that made the announcement less than half an hour before kickoff with thousands of fans already waiting outside the cups president says it was a protest against police efforts to stop the referendum boss alone his camp new stadium is often used as a rallying point for catalonia nationalists. well turning now to our other breaking news story from france where a man has killed two women with a knife the assailant was shot dead by french soldiers the attack happened in the southern port city of mass say at the sash on a train station police cordoned off the area as they evacuated the station antiterrorism authorities have said they're investigating the incident french president to manually merkel has condemned the attack on twitter and praised the reaction of security services. and we're joined now by
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correspondent and is a bit more to paris and elizabeth what more can you tell us about this attack. what we don't know about the attack is that the. police caught. very fast but not fast enough to thirty seconds but he had already killed those two women with a butcher's knife they now have revealed that hole a number of little offenses it doesn't mean that that's all you've got with that's all they would say to us. he between twenty five until i see no i.d. papers which may also mean that yes because normally you have your papers and calls you can should have to show them to the police at any good i'm. of course this is coming on the eve of the week when the discussion of the new security to replace
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the face of the state of emergency comes into the house and whether that would shut your lights out we don't know yet have also or he's communicated whether they consider this to be a low will support a code or they suspect the others were involved. the police will certainly investigating his own who are what he is that they believe that at the very least he was in contact with other people or he might have been radicalized by most people but he does not happen in the fact you see a tad these two men shouting allahu akbar which sort of. cans also to indicate that this was a. had islamic terrorism. and is a bad mood say reporting for us from paris thank you thank you. now on sundays when does legal action by and shaky start to the season continued against how to belly with interim coach release and you're replacing sacked predecessor carlo ancelotti in the dug out by and raced into an early lead thanks
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to a month's homo's header on ten minutes. doubled by its lead just after half time but the defending champions failed to close out the game well in school twice within five minutes through andre duda and salomon kalou to snatch a comeback two two draw. and on a saturday newly promoted hanover travelled to gladbach the visitors have been at the season surprise package remaining undefeated in their first six bundesliga matches but bloodbath were reeling from a six one defeat to dortmund last weekend and looking to bounce back in front of their home crowd. kind of a made the fans wait for the answer kickoff was delayed after their bus was stuck in traffic after that there wasn't much to see until the thirty six minute with lost in the unleashed this cracker which went wide although it did hit the back of the net worth of fans hoping for a better second half we're in for
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a treat but free kick made its way to summer signing mathias into one nil to the home side with a small dose of luck for the scorer who grabs his first for the club thought that another set piece another goal this time for hanover with martina haneke was the one who rose highest in the box to get his fifth of the season. then the ref tonight had over the chance to pull ahead after waving away their appeals for a penalty with but the visitors were undeterred keeping the pressure on as martina harnick managed to hit the crossbar from just two metres out with deep into extra time when chance agree for it was brought down at the other end prompting the referee to have a second look despite pointing to the spot and actually a check of the footage saw him stick with his decision. scores
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a second spot kick of the season two one if in the referee's made the right cold they use everything available and got it right there was contact it was a penalty. kind of his coach galland in what was his team's first defeat of the season. so let's now take a look at all the results so far this weekend in sunday's early match fiber betov and hines three two as we saw came back to a with brian to two on a saturday at dortmund one in our book frankfurt left it late again got to make to mark rather their first home win forsberg a mindset points in a one one draw and there was a school a store between hamburg and but a man in the north darby on friday night there was another draw between child and leverkusen and in today's late game which has kicked off light sick travel to. well the controversy continues in the american national football league over
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standing and saluting the flag as more and more professional football players have chosen to kneel during the national anthem an act of protest against police violence president trumped your attention to the protester in a speech in alabama last month calling the gesture disrespectful to the flag subsequently more n.f.l. players have joined the demonstrations every sunday. well joining us now is d w correspondent alexandra fon naaman who was in baltimore covering an l f eight n.f.l. game there xander the games just kicked off was there another needing protest against racial injustice there. but what we saw today in baltimore was very interesting because it was a sort of a compromise we saw the river coming out on the field and then taking any kneeling down before the national anthem was played and for the national anthem
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they stood up and they remained standing and that was actually what many of their fans wanted to see i talked to many of them and they told me that they wanted their ravens to stand during the national anthem where u.s. president donald trump took to social media today calling on players to show respect their argument of course is that they want respect and equality so is this a stalemate situation. you know what we saw last weekend and over the course of this we was a very strong sign of unity in the n.f.l. as players club owners and coaches stood together lock their armstrong that sending a strong message to president that they will not be divided but i'm not sure that they are going to continue in the long run because what we also saw during this week were very many many angry fans posting on twitter on you tube videos
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showing them burning their jerseys or there or take cares there is a new poll according to this poll sixty two percent of americans interested in food will say that they plan to watch less sports and thirty six say that they plan to buy less n.f.l. merchandise so that's something that the players and of course the club owners have to take into account because in the end this is also a huge business but is there perhaps the sense that these take any protests might spread to other sports in the u.s. . well we also we have seen. as leagues for example baseball a baseball player who took any during the national anthem we also saw basketball players stressing that it is important to have the right to protest but my impression is that in the long term the ass leagues themselves and of course the
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fans just want to concentrate on what they love most sports and xandra phenomena in baltimore thank you. well as all we have time for but do join us again at the top of the hour if you can because in the meantime we have lots more on our website that's d w dot com i'm headed home for an invalid thanks for joining me and it forward to seeing you again see. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers with official.
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