every week and always looking to the future on d. w. dot com science and research for asia. physics. medicine. chemistry. literature. economics sign says. thinks. the world awaits the twenty seventeen nobel prizes. you will follow in the footsteps of the greatest minds all the time. the nobel prize is twenty seventeen. this week and d.-w. news. the people of catalonia have been celebrating after authorities said ninety percent of cattle longs for to yes to secede from spain in the region's independence

referendum. earlier catalonia as leader carlos preach monk said the region won the right to be an independent state. we have sent a message to the world we have the right to decide our future we have the right to be free and we want to live in peace without violence and apart from a state that's and capable of promoting one single thing rather than the imposition and use of brute force. officials say more than eight hundred people were injured in a police crackdown on the independence vote which the spanish government declared illegal. and barcelona police fired rubber bullets and used but tongs officers across the region seize ballots and boxes at polling stations. so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for a knife attack that killed two women at a railway station in march saying one victim's throat was slashed and the other

stabbed in the stomach eyewitnesses say the assailant shouted allahu akbar prior to attacking the women he was gunned down by soldiers on patrol at the station i.a.s. claimed the attack in a statement by its propaganda agency. hundreds of thousands of shiite muslim pilgrims gathered in the iraqi city of karbala on sunday to mark the ashore a religious festival the annual holy day commemorates the killing of prophet muhammad's grandson a mom hussein in the seventh century his death eventual may lead to a deep split between islam shiite and sunni branches. pope francis has urged europeans not to fear unity and put aside nationalists and other self interests and the italian city of bologna and he said the european union was born out of the ashes of war to guarantee peace the part of also pressed his campaign for europe to open its doors to migrants during a visit to

a migrant center francis insisted politicians work for the most marginalised people and not special interests. gay and lesbian couples in germany began tying the knot on sunday as the country's new marriage equality lowered came into effect a balin couple who have been together for thirty eight is where the first to say i do same sex couples in germany received full marriage rights after a parliament though. they were previously able to register their relationships as a civil partnership.