culture war be over we are not suppose for what we are we're a family i believe a. new sunnier phenomenon starting october fifteenth on d w. this is t w news live from berlin a crucial intervention in spain's constitutional crisis can philippe slams catalonia as independence bit as on lawful that has hundreds of thousands rally in the streets to protest police violence against voters get reactions from barcelona

. also coming up. for our. provo where. police release dramatic body camera footage of the las vegas massacre investigators say the gunman was methodical and meticulous our correspondent is in los las vegas with the latest. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us spain's king philippe has harshly criticized catalonia as bad for independence in a televised address he accused catalan leaders of acting outside the law and carrying out a referendum on independence last weekend despite that catalonia as leader told the b.b.c. the region would declare independence and quote a matter of days his threat comes after thousands of pro independence supporters demonstrated in barcelona protesting police violence during the session vote.

i'm impassioned voices some seven hundred thousand strong a powerful message that cut alonso are united against police brutality and what they see as the flagrant suppression of catalonia and sovereignty by the madrid government weighing in on the fray spain's king philippe voiced support for the state's actions urging authorities to defend the constitutional order against what he says are illegal calls for independence by the catalano regional government. decisions have systematically violated the legally and legitimately approved rules and demonstrated an unacceptable disloyalty towards the powers of the state. precisely a state those authorities in catalonia represent. missing from his address to the nation any mention of the brutal crackdown by federal police on

trying to cast their votes on sunday and a mission that didn't go unnoticed by protesters. he ignores the images of police violence seen around the world. without any violence or provocation from the people. of course the spanish government and especially the king defend the unity of spain. it seems he's not interested in the opinion of two or three million people. so we're afraid that police violence will escalate we're waiting for some help from their european institutions so far the response from e.u. leaders has been muted but residents in one barcelona neighborhood are amplifying their message to brussels that this crisis isn't just down for spain but affects the entire european union. we have our correspondents on the ground covering this story for us funny for charice been tracking the latest developments

in barcelona and max hoffman is in strasburg where the european parliament is discussing spain's political crisis good to see you both are funny let's start with you colonias regional government meeting this morning what more can you tell us. radical a problem and in fact still convenes and they're trying to decide or trying to answer the question not whether they're going to declare independence but when they are going to the clear in the pendants and a split from spain what i'm hearing is that the main policies of the government are asking the catalonian government to declare independence on a monday if that's going to be the final decision it will not know probably for even tonight at nine p.m. when the president of the government of the catalonia government is going to issue a statement or originally he was supposed to issue this statement at noon so some sort of a has it in severe and probably that has to do with the fact that the government is

also waiting for some reactions from brussels as the european parliament convenes there to you and put that issue of the independence movement on their agenda max let's come to you as funny said this is on the agenda there today where you are on strasburg and we have heard prime minister praised him or he's accused the e.u. of being indifferent to what's happening what's the response to that there. from the perspective here in strasbourg where the european parliament is we can't confirm any kind of indifference on the contrary some very emotional scenes also. involving spanish parliamentarians and also spanish officials one even cried today when recounting what was happening in his country and of course we have the debate that was that was scheduled for today at fifteen hundred so indifference would be the wrong word but of course it's true that the e.u. institutions especially the e.u.

commission really hasn't done anything there would be some scenario is thinkable what they could do for example acting sort of as a mediator but other than that it's quite hard for the e.u. as a whole to act here because the legal situation is quite clear you have an e.u. member state acting within the legal framework that's what spain is doing on top of that prime minister most likely told his colleagues and the e.u. commission to stay out of it so from the perspective from strasburg and brussels we're dealing with it you member state spain and not you member state catalonia. you mention those calls for the e.u. to mediate it is brussels are ready to step in is that going to be decided there today. that's not what the parliament itself could decide what we're expecting though is a whole range of opinions being expressed reflecting the whole debate and of course the two big moderate parties have already said that they intend to call for

mediation not necessarily mediation from the e.u. institutions but to have the two parties get back to the negotiating table everybody condemns police violence although of course the more conservative party say listen what we have here is a state trying to uphold the rule of law and if we criticize that if we are not on board with that as the european union then the e.u. has a huge problem the farther left you go within the spectrum of the parties the more they condemn police violence funny let's come back to you know we heard max say there that the e.u. wants to get both sides of the parliament back to the negotiating negotiating table is it too late for that you said yourself that the government has said it would declare independence a by monday is there really no going back. well that's a good question i mean everything is possible in politics i would say as long as the channels of discussion of dialogue are open we haven't seen much of that in the

theme of that aid and barcelona in fact none of that so far the president here of the regional government pushed him out is very very much determined to push ahead with independence now really the question is as i say what else is going to happen today what kind of reactions and possible discussions come out of the european parliament what is the central government in madrid going to say we already heard the spanish king making a statement yesterday delivering a speech said they're different how do you say different political discussions right now today that may lead or not lead to that final question to the ass or the question will there be a declaration of independence next week next week at all or not. all right our correspondents are funny for char reporting from barcelona knocks off man from strasburg thank you both very much not to some other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump has visited puerto rico where he appeared to complain about

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now russian president vladimir putin has called delays to preparations for next year's world cup an acceptable warning organizers that they should not be complacent russia is hosting the tournaments for the first time and many of the venues are still under construction. seen from above it certainly resembles a stadium this is the arena one of twelve venues for next year's world cup in russia the tournament is now less than nine months away but on the ground and looks like there's still plenty of work to be done construction here has been beset by delays and is a months behind apparently minor details for the russian sports minister with. all the main construction work at the stadium has been completed only decoration is left. president vladimir putin things a bit differently. as

a meeting with senior sports officials he spelled out his expectations. first of all being behind with world cup preparations is unacceptable if we relax we will not fully accomplish the work. russia has grand plans for the world cup spent billions on stadiums and other infrastructure to showcase the country sporting prowess to the world. more than just football is at stake. has the day's business headlines coming up in one minute. mr brooks.