this is deja vu news live from berlin a crucial intervention in spain's constitutional crisis king philippe slams catalonia as independence bit as unlawful that's hundreds of thousands rally in the streets to protest police violence against us for the reaction from barcelona also

coming up. through. your group took her out with. her own. police releasing dramatic body camera footage of the los vegas massacre investigators say the gunman was methodical and the taken our correspondent is in 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 his bid for independence in a televised address he accused catalan leaders of acting outside the law in 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 demonstrate in barcelona protesting police violence during the secession vote.

impassioned voices some seven hundred thousand strong. these pro independence protesters marched through barcelona streets to condemn the government's strong armed response to sunday's referendum weighing in on the fray spain's king philippe voiced his support for the rule of law scolding cuttle on authorities for willfully ignoring the constitution in their bid to assert their regional sovereignty. no they will nominate their decisions have systematically violated the legally and legitimately approved rules and demonstrated an unacceptable disloyalty towards the powers of the state. but 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

cottle 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 was 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 there is some sort of a has it in steer 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 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 or 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 it 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 alice 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 asked 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 and max often from strasburg thank you both very much a turkish court has handed down guilty verdicts and life sentences to thirty four of the forty soldiers on trial for plotting to kill president. during last year's

failed coup the court and is near the luxury resort where everyone and his family narrowly escaped a team of rogue soldiers who stormed his hotel on the night of the coup the trial is part of a sweeping crackdown that followed last year's failed putsch and is the biggest such case to reach a verdict so far. our correspondent dorian jones is covering the story from istanbul hi dorian tell us more about this trial who are the suspected crew plotters. well this is part of a group of over forty soldiers who are accused of being part of a team that were planning to kidnap and according to prosecutors assassinate president urged one while he was on holiday in the marmaris region it was a very dramatic episode they flew in by helicopters most of them are believed to be special forces members but they arrived late and the president managed to escape

according to some reports only minutes before the soldiers arrived and then then embarked on a plane heading towards istanbul in many ways it was one of the most dramatic episodes on this very dramatic night of this attempted coup and in many ways the fact that the president did skate his. this operation in many was was among the main reasons why they believe that this coup attempt failed he very successfully then went on to rally his supporters and opponents of the coup onto the street and the coup attempt was for to and i think a lot of attention is focused on this given the fact that it's dramatic and according to the prosecutors and now these convictions that they were attempting to kill president the one they deny this but it is a very important case for the government and for those who was determined to bring what they say of these people to justice for this attempted coup an assassination attempt of the president during just briefly if you can't how is this being seen

there is this being seen as a fair verdict. well i mean according to the defendants even speaking before these verdicts were handed out they said this is a kind of group called this was all they want their voices would never be heard in fact one quoted a very popular to the and they said we'll the grass that gets trampled on when elephants fight many of them said they were just following following orders they weren't even aware of what the objective of the operation was critics will say that this in many ways there are many problems with very little concrete evidence to support the case of the support of the tribes say that this was the most important part of the coup attempt and those have been brought to justice and now we're serving the sentences all right to tell the story in jones reporting from turkey thank you dorian. now to some other stories making news around the world turkey's a president a heir to one has arrived meanwhile in iran where he'll hold talks with this counterpart house on rouhani about the kurdish independence referendum in iraq

turkey already has several thousand ground forces stationed in northern syria erica one has previously said he will not accept a kurdish state on turkish border. u.s. president donald trump has visited puerto rico where he appeared to complain about the cost of the relief effort saying the disaster had thrown his budget quote out of whack hurricane maria devastated the island two weeks ago and it has been struggling with a lack of clean water food and electricity a fresh details are emerging of the horrific shooting in las vegas that killed fifty nine people and injured more than five hundred investigators say the shooter prepared extensively for the attack even setting up cameras outside his room in the mandalay bay hotel to warn of approaching police the massacre has renewed the debate over gun control in the u.s. ask president trump per person visit las vegas. the view from the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel where the gunman opened fire on to a crowd of concert goers below. he smashed two windows in his suis to take game as

his victim's. body comforts it shows the police scrambling to locate the shooter and get people to safety they say the bullets rained down for between nine and eleven minutes. the killer sixty four year old steven paddock a millionaire real estate investor and high stakes gambler investigators are still puzzling over his most of but they believe he meticulously planned the attack they say he even set up cameras outside his hotel room possibly to see if police were approaching this individual was premeditated obviously premeditated the fact that

he had this type of weaponry and amount of weaponry in that room it was preplanned extensively investigators find twenty three guns in the room along with so-called bomb stock devices authorities say they could have been used to modify his semiautomatic guns allowing them to shoes rapidly and continuously they found other stashes of guns and paddocks homes in the nevada tens of reno mesquite federal agents are hoping his girlfriend can shed some light on his motives she's being questioned after returning to the u.s. from the philippines u.s. president donald trump is due to arrive in las vegas later today where he'll meet with victims of the a tough. he has brushed all for new calls for greater gun controls saying now is not the time for a political debate. yahoo now says that all three billion of its user accounts were affected by

a two thousand and thirteen data breach not the one billion it revealed late last year the company said user information such as a passwords a credit card numbers or bank account details were not compromised yahoo also says it has taken quote significant steps to their security reminder now of our top story at this hour spain's king philippe has intervened in the country's growing constitutional crisis criticizing catalonia as independence bed as on lawful. thanks for watching we're back in thirty minutes. with. those values germany is a strong country. that we have achieved so much we can do this.