yes we are we are the suckers for what we are we're friendly unbelievable. you send me a phenomenon starting october fifteenth on d w. this is d w news lawyer from ballot showdown in spain the polls close in catalonia off to a day of violent clashes over a brand independence referendum catalan authorities say hundreds have been injured as police forcibly remove people from polling stations the spanish government has

defended the crackdown calling the vote and the go go to madrid the latest. posts are coming up in the french if you have mass say two women have been a stops today in a knife attack officials say the assailant was shot dead by french soldiers investigators are trying to determine if you top post terror related. and making it official germany celebrates its first ever same sex marriage on sunday d.w. talk to the happy couple about their big day when they've waited nearly forty years for. find out on the home free thanks for joining me in spain the council on regional government says more than four hundred sixty people have been injured in a police crackdown on a banned independence referendum polls have just closed off to a day of. tension across the region but in the spanish capital madrid hundreds

protested against the pro independence vote and called for unity the government in madrid has called the vote to false and trying to prevent people from costing their ballots several european leaders have condemned the violence and called for political dialogue. rubber bullets being fired protesters. clashes between voters and police forces. it was a chaotic start to catalans bands 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 foetid at another location and he

sharply condemned the spanish police crackdown. he said we're in 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. the. command 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 . and 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. juries reported at least on the local government the.

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 to 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 a deepening sense for many political parties the reaction by the police has been to have you have to tell them we have seen those images and madrid says that police act is in a proportionate man and now if the cattle administration to speak space could it take action and if so what can it actually date. well actually the council and government has already taken a course of action. ten days ago one thing central government decided to do to bring them into the not 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 do the same thing don't worry the police actions because if they so wished martin what about where you are has anything happened on a similar level in madrid more protests a heavy police presence on the streets for example. well this morning there was a pretty peaceful protest well the only a few hundred people thanks for and i'm not sure what to them saw us additional gathering on switches for and it leads us we're actually talking to you again very peaceful i've been so half an hour ago i just said things very peaceful in date but again as i speech it was always have that i wake up to the hour in very low overhead something that is quite a common thing we're not. any kind of protest peaceful or it was expected and so

we've got a long night ahead of us. well time will tell what we have seen already protests against what several opposition part or was it having come to a response just at the political level now we've seen one of the physical level but maybe protests the same martin orbits monitoring the situation for us from madrid thank you meanwhile barcelona's football team has played its spanish league match today behind closed doors with no fans allowed to enter the stadium the team 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 as count new stadium is often used as a rallying point for catalan 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 sasha 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 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 him very fast but not fast enough it took only seconds but he had already killed those two women with a butcher's knife they now have revealed that he used them all 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 yet because normally you have your papers and calls you can should have to show them to the police at any good time. of course this is coming on the eve of the week when the discussion of the new security law to replace the face of the state of emergency comes into the house and whether that would shed your like that we don't know yet have also or he's communicated whether they consider this to be a lone wolf attack or do they suspect the others were involved. the police or certainly investigating his own two eyes but they believe that at the very least he was in contact with other people or he might have been radicalized by move people but he does not happen in the pack you see it happening to him and 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. in sunday's been does a good action by and shaky start of the season continued against had to bury him with interim coach when he said you're replacing sacked. a lot in the dugout mind raced into an early lead thanks to a month's homo's header on ten minutes of eleven doubled buy ins lead just after halftime of the defending champions failed to close out the game twice within five minutes through andre dude at salomon kalou to snatch a comeback a two two draw on this now take a look at all the results so far this weekend while in sunday's late match lights it defeated struggling alone while earlier in the day beat hoffenheim three two as we saw and came back to draw with byron two two on saturday dortmund one in our blood or so one over and over to one frankfurt left it late against to go out to

mark their first home win forsberg and minds shared points in a one one draw and there was a score to store between how big and but they've been in the north darby on friday night was another draw between a shaka and labor kusin now gay and lesbian couples in germany are tying the knot today with a new marriage equality law which has come into effect it is brings us this report now in the country's first same sex i do use. finally the day they have waited nearly forty years for until a few months ago both men day and called crier never imagined it would happen so soon still on the big day some pretty wedding jitters didn't sleep. last night. but happy really happy to be able to marry

a. photo and call made it a party in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine in what was then west berlin they've been together ever since and have spent years campaigning for gay rights in germany. that hard work has finally paid off. the ear. marriage is a contract for life for two people who love each other and want to make a life together to be there for each other their gender is irrelevant. but now they've made it official in front of their loved ones with the world's media looking on. the most moving moment was walking in here that seeing all our friends and hearing the wedding march. through that was a moments where you just. you just can't stay cool and. marriage for all is the message on their wedding cake and finally now for bodo and

it's a dream that's become a reality. and wedding cake that will probably taste very sweet indeed now i'm joined in the studio by rebecca riches who filed that report becky you witnessed history today what was the atmosphere like that high her yes it well i mean as you can imagine i hope came across in that report there the atmosphere was really exciting people there were so happy to be there for a couple of course i mean as with any wedding i'm sure the couple were very. excited. the only there was a lot of press there which really made it stand out from the right of a regular you know any other way you may be into registry office but one thing that i found quite how warming i suppose is it did seem just like any other wedding at a registry office you know that the ceremony was very similar they played the wedding march it was actually quite a traditional wedding and it was nice that in some ways it's got like just any

other wedding and this is just completely nor how important was it for the happy couple that they were finally able to marry really happy i mean photo and col have been fighting for this for years and they are activists within the community so there was a political aspect as well as the personal aspect they have been in a civil union since two thousand and one when germany first allowed civil partnerships but this was a very symbolic thing for them and they you know they really wanted to be seen as equal in the eyes of the law for them and for the whole community that other gay couples you spoke to see this now as full equality. i want to speak to the entire community but yeah i think this is a is a really momentous occasion i mean it's definitely history in the making here in germany i think for most of the gay community they feel like germany has finally caught up with so many other western democracies particularly other european countries and they had been lagging behind on marriage rights for

a long time now and i think for most of the community it's like finally now you covered this story in june when the german parliament finally gave the green light for marriages to take place what was the situation for gay couples before that well as i just mentioned they could be civilly partners translating it from the german that they could have civil partnerships civil union since two thousand and one and it did give them almost full rights but there wasn't quite full rights in front of the law as heterosexual couples have there were there was different adoption rights they weren't allowed to adopt children and there's also different taxation rights so now there i think more even more than that it's a symbolic and just tell us briefly about that parliamentary vote in june because chancellor merkel didn't actually approve it did she but still that law passed she didn't but she sort of paved the way i suppose for it to be debated in parliament and then voted on and then it was voted on i mean not unanimously but but. a large

majority voted in favor of it well rebecca thank you very much for bringing us that heartwarming story here on. thank you. pull out sofa now but join us again at the top of the hour if you can in the meantime head to our web site that is the w dot com for all the latest on how to humphrey thanks for joining me and now. make your smart t.v. even smarter with a smile. what you want when you want it. up to date. extraordinary. to. decide what's on.