experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services. be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by for. this is the to be a news live from berlin the biggest prize in literature goes to a renowned british author. you know about par in the desert to problems in the city you feel for the. monitor. if your room.

is your group was best known for his novel the remains of the day which was adopted into a hit film i'll ask an expert if he's a worthy winner of this year's prize also coming up spain on the brink the government in madrid says it won't be blackmailed over catalonia as demand for independence and rejects calls for mediation catalonia as leaders push on with a threat to secede. and the girlfriend of the las vegas gunman speaks out she says she had no idea he was planning the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. i'm sumi so much gonda good to have you with us british novelist and short story writer ishiguro has been awarded the nobel prize for literature the sixty two year old is best known for his novel the remains of the day the swedish academy said

they wanted to recognize his works of quote great emotional force the decision to honor issue good old marks a return to a more conventional recipient last year of the committee stunned the world by awarding the prize to american singer songwriter bob dylan. and the permanent secretary of the swedish academy sara danny us was a few sips in her praise as she announced issued his award the nobel prize in the two thousand sydney to see if the world did you think you might. come to the. right the old oh you did any foreign minister you know coming to me with. well let's talk more about this year's award with david van he's an author and professor of english and creative writing at work university in the u.k.

david thank you for joining us what is your reaction to this decision to award the price issue goudeau out to him as a surprise. it doesn't come as a surprise except that no one ever knows who the nobel is going to go to and last year was a big shock with bob dylan but this is just so exciting to have is your girl in it because he really is truly one of the our best living writers the remains of the day is one of the best novels i've ever read in my life it is a big influence on me and on couple generations of writers so this is really welcome news for writers around the world i'm sure a real war an award really richly deserved this time tell us more about issue brutal well what do you make of his work what makes him so special. well what's great about the remains of the day is that it does something that film can't and in an age when we mostly are focused on films rather than books and we

all hope our books will be made into movies his book actually does something that even the great production with anthony hopkins and emma thompson just couldn't touch even though that's the best acting you could have they couldn't do what he does with style with a voice it's an english butler who's very reserved it's a formal very careful voice he has a sense of dignity in his role as butler in the service to lord darlington but in the end it turns out that the lord wasn't so worth serving and he's missed out on love he missed out on everything in his personal life he made all these sacrifices and at the very end of the book his heart is breaking but what's amazing is that the style is breaking also this voice which we've been immersed in for days reading that book and which has been so formal so beautiful so elegant and reserved is breaking apart the sentences are falling apart as his heart is breaking it's a stylistic trick and and a kind of you know tour de force right in that the film couldn't capture even

though had the best actors possible so i think writers ever will be so happy about this because he's just one of our best writers just just period i mean that his books show a wonderful range a great imagination he's one of those writers you're reading and think how do you do that like it seems impossible his work david you mentioned yourself last year the academy surprised a lot of people by naming bob dylan of the winner of this award is this a sign that the academy is now returning to a more traditional path. i hope so i think maybe they thought they were being sexy for a year and i think that that they saw that that was not a good move for them to make not a good direction to go i mean it was a tremendous insult to all writers of the world to have it go to a singer songwriter because although of course we all love bob dylan and love singer songwriters it's not the same as what we do in literature and that prize seemed to say that what we were all doing in literature didn't matter wasn't more

significant than the lyrics in the song and especially it was an insult to american writers there hadn't been an american win the nobel prize in literature since one thousand nine hundred three with toni morrison so when you consider all the great american writers like francis cormac mccarthy hard love to see honored with the nobel. marilynne robinson. you know any program that there's probably a hundred writers who should have been on the list before him so it was such a disappointment last year david van an author and professor of english in creative writing at work university of u.k. thank you very much for joining us on a program to spain now where the crisis over catalan independence has hit a deadlock spain's government has rejected calls for talks over what it calls an illegal movement and says it won't give in to blackmail officials in catalonia have threatened to announce their split from spain as soon as next week they claim some ninety percent of catalans voted for independence in last week's referendum. not

everyone in catalonia once independence these demonstrators in the regions capital bus alona are against the independence process which the spanish government also rejects is illegal. criticism of the movement following sunday's referendum has also come from spain's king philippe in a television address to the nation the king accused separatists of being disloyal a charge which catalonia as leaders dismiss. the king's speech was an endorsement of the policies of prime minister arroyo policies that are catastrophic for catalonia. madrid has appealed to catalonia as leader to respect spain and its institutions that happens happens mr putsch demands messages a journey to nowhere because there is no democracy outside the law there is no cure existence there are no rights outside the law for a long time is to put them on has been living outside the law outside reality and

outside sanity. catalonia is leaders are planning to make a formal declaration of independence on monday in barcelona people say they just want the politicians to strike a deal. i'm very well aware of the problem we have facing and a solution must be found this is like a divorce there's no coming back you cannot divorce today and get married to morrow . the situation is very tense we've reached the stage where the spanish and catalan governments need to ease tensions they need to talk and international mediation will be perfect and all. only care about their seats they only care about their salaries which we pay with our taxes i'm watching a train crash a confrontation and i don't like it. for now the deadlock continues the spanish government has rejected an offer from the separatists

a fresh talks but the catalan leaders insist their independence will become a reality. let's get more on spain's political crisis now with james summaries a lecturer in. well they're technically right in the sense that it's against the spanish constitution so hundred spanish law yes it is against the law. under international law international or is relatively neutral the catalans have no right to declare their independence but equally there's nothing specific to stop them doing so either what really matters is whether spain or greece to kathlyn is independent which of course is definitely not doing at the moment that that would be the crucial factor at the moment catalonia is talking about unilaterally declaring independence and that's something the other countries would be very reluctant to accept so while. we see this already in

the european parliament. mr summers just what legal basis a does the catalan government have here if you want your regular independent to unilaterally. it's not really a legal basis what they're trying to show is that they've got the people behind them and this referendum is a bit ambiguous on that point they got ninety percent of the vote but they did so on a forty two percent turnout so it's ninety percent of forty two which works out of around thirty eight percent of the total an adult population so they haven't really shown conclusively that they have the people behind them so what the catalans are are essential trying to do is is demonstrate mass popular support but i think what it what what we see so far is that they have a bout the support of forty percent of the population now they would argue of course of that vote was disrupted the ballot boxes were removed that people were

prevented from voting and that is depressed the turnout for the vote and of course maybe some points to that but at the same time it's up to them essentially to show that the catalan people are behind them what we're seeing now is is in a sense a period of posturing in which both sides try to make themselves strong as possible to pursue their objectives ok mr summers that just very briefly if you can what can europe do here yes. well europe will not want to get involved if they can they'll see this as a spanish internal affair and unless the crisis escalates to an extent that they have to intervene they will stay clear of it and this is what we see in the statements for example you're compounded by various government officials. ok james summers i don't like change in love again after i get a little starry eyed james summers

a lecturer in law at lancaster university thank you so much for joining us on our program. moving on to some other news now the girlfriend of the los vegas gunman has spoken out for the first time in a statement mary lou donnelly said she had no idea what prompted stephen paddick to carry out the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history she was in the philippines when paddick gunned down fifty eight people on sunday stanley now returned to the u.s. where she's being questioned by authorities. this is the woman who police hope will be the key to unlocking the mystery behind the motive of sunday's mass shooting investigators have been questioning mary lou dally the las vegas shooter's girlfriend in a statement read by her lawyer she denied any knowledge of his sinister plan c. never said anything to me or took any action that i was aware of but i understood it anyway to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen.

investigators say the shooter led a double life that he spent decades acquiring weapons and ammunition they described him as disturbed and dangerous we have found no evidence to this point to indicate terrorism. but this is an ongoing investigation we're going to continue to look at all avenues we're not closing down any doors u.s. president donald trump met with survivors of the attack many of them still in hospital but i just have to tell you that i just met some of the most amazing people we we met patients that were absolutely terribly wounded and the doctors the nurses all of the people of the hospital have. a job that's indescribable. and they were for the night that it happened before it happened and they found. many people tramples met with some of the first responders and said in

a prepared statement that they showed the world what professionalism looks like. near the scene of the attack people unite in grief their wounds fresh and their resilience strong. phenomenas following the latest developments in las vegas for us i spoke to him earlier and asked him how investigators are reacting to the statement given by the gunman's girlfriend. well obviously i cannot really say for sure if they believe her what seems clear is that investigators from now don't seem to see her as a suspect you know rather a witness or a person of interest as we've heard in the report the girlfriend mary lou then lee was not directly involved in the shooting she was not even in the country last sunday apparently two weeks ago the shooter had bought her

a flight to the philippines to allow her to visit her family there in a way it seems like he was trying to get her out of the way and according to that statement that mrs stanley's lawyer read he had also wired for a substantial amount of money while she was in the philippines which in hindsight could be seen as a kind of parting gift. cussen phone naaman reporting for us there are you watching still to come we look ahead to germany's world cup qualifier against northern ireland later today the holders can guarantee their place at next year's tournament and russia if they avoid defeat. first though monica has the latest on the global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions indeed i have a sunni what do fridges washing machines televisions have in common well they all have an energy label from a fall very good to d. for adequate now this grading system has led to many customers buying what energy efficient appliances and its latest report the international energy agency has

lauded this program as an important contributor of course to reducing dangerous c o two emissions but there are also some major blind spots. big trucks. exhaust from large trucks is a blind spot in the current emissions debate measures to reduce the emissions from trucks exist in only a few countries including china japan the usa and the european union. globalization is not slowing down and ever growing frightful humans are being transported around the world truck traffic is growing and will continue to grow the international energy agency predicts in the next three decades trucks are expected to produce as much pollution as all the coal fired power stations in the world according to the report there's also message of room for improvement in the energy footprint of new buildings the international energy agency says that for two thirds

of new buildings in the world there are no environmental standards in place in cities like beijing or new delhi buildings are expected to have a life of seventy to eighty years the report says that means that today's like of climate protection measures will pose a problem for many decades. so energy efficiency measures have achieved a lot in terms of reducing c o two emissions but we mustn't rest on our laurels isn't that right fatty be able executive director of the international energy agency i mean your agency in this report states that governments are getting somewhat lax why is that so important. as you mentioned carbon dioxide emissions are very important and is the main cause for climate change which is a major challenge for all of us and i just sector is the main responsible sector for climate change more down to terms of the emissions causing climate change come

from the now just sector therefore we thought fixing the problem and i just sector we have no chance whatsoever to fix our climate problem and i mean look at the energy sector there are two major police options we have to fight against climate change one is renewable energy making more use of solar hydropower you say could just using energy more efficiently so who do you think it needs to take action now because it's very abstract we talk about the energy sector is it can i do something personally would that be enough you can do with pleasure a lot of things but it may not be enough we need to collective answer to that and therefore governments are the ones who should write the rules of the game and they have to provide incentives for you to use energy more efficiently and do trues more sustainable and not just or says you can do once or twice by you can get your pocketbook and the money here but the governments need to push you incentivize you

to use an edge more efficiently for example when you buy a television set you should go on my buy a more efficient one and governments should make life easier for you to choose make that choice but you know your report also says that the all that has been achieved already in reducing greenhouse gas emissions was mainly down to the fact that list energy was needed in order to have the economy up and running as the economy slowed down so it's a weak economy ultimately good for the environment effect we can have bought you can have a growing economy but using the energy more efficiently and using energy from renewable energy sources you have. but in the last twenty thirty years global emissions increase every year but in the last three years they remained flat they did increase even dog global economy increased why didn't increase because we get more renewables in the system and also use an edge much more efficiently for our

cars for the television sets for the industrial sector and we have built into the german and other countries more efficient buildings right i mean you get you here in germany now because you present this energy report together with the german economy and environment minister but it's a place you made many all the german policymakers this is a country of diesel gates not very energy efficient what did you discuss i think to be fair germany is on the forefront in the fight against climate change and in terms of energy efficiency it is one of the top countries together with japan and other countries and also in terms of energy germany is pushing the buttons very very hard so directly some challenges such as a deal for the gates and others but job one is doing very well in terms of fighting against climate change we like to hear that oil executive director of the international energy agency thank you so much for being here with us today.

and at some other stories making news around the world iraqi a prime minister hyderabadi has told the french president that he wants to avoid armed conflict with a rocky current meanwhile the man on the call has offered to mediate between baghdad and iraq's autonomous kurdish region following his meeting with a body in paris today kurds voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence in a regional referendum late last month. meanwhile iraqi forces have announced they have captured the last stronghold of the so-called islamic state a terrorist group in the north of the country iraq's military backed by u.s. led coalition launched an offensive last month to retake the town i asked still controls a stretch. of iraq's western border with syria. now it's one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time oceans cover seventy percent of the planet and world leaders and scientists are meeting in malta today to discuss ways to protect them a major threat to our oceans include overfishing as the world's population grows so

too does the demand for fish about a third of global fish stocks are close to exhausted or have already collapsed climate changes another key issue are oceans absorb access greenhouse heat and c o two and that impacts underwater organisms rising sea levels also threaten coastal communities and livelihoods and pollution it is also another major threat to oceans it's not just a matter of trash washing up on our shores contaminants like micro plastics risk of getting into the food chain well the chief diplomat federica mcgrane is at the conference in malta she had this to say. when oceans are healthy they are one of the greatest resources we have if the oceans we're a country they would be one of the greatest reward economists and for sure they would have a seat in the g seven. millions of jobs and livelihoods depend on our fortunes.

well let's take a look at how pollution is impacting our oceans on the island of princip a off the west african coast people have set themselves the tough task of preventing plastic waste from ending up in the sea. selena if another days has a busy day ahead of her the twenty four year old is committed to making pre-suppose dream of becoming free of plastic come true but on the. good morning up i've come for your plastic bottles today's collection day. that you got them already. recycling plastic has become a major activity on the island since twenty fourteen with the no plastic campaign started. without a proper disposal and recycling system all these plastics could have all the weiss ended up in the sea. fernandes works for the biosphere research team that started the campaign for every fifty bottles they hand out

a reusable container made of stainless steel. have been made over the plastic so we have four tonnes of plastic stored on the main island of south america a maritime transport company is helping us by taking it to lisbon free of charge to recycling companies there will receive it. they want the island free of plastic by twenty twenty one of the challenges actually comes from the sea tiny particles known as micro plastics washed up onshore spanish scientists might have a sense e.o. has been asked to analyze the beaches. most of the sample is organic material and not many plastic particles at first glance that's a good sign the beach appears to be very clean but we can't identify many fibers with the naked eye what looks like hair could turn out to be plastic it needs more analysis. but while the sand is relatively clean that could still be

a high concentration of micro plastics in the sea. going plastic free is no easy task but the people of principle are determined to do what they can. to some sports news now and our reports suggest the buyer new nick will hire their former coach your pancreas to replace the sacked carlo enchilada until the end of the season the seventy two year old would take charge of the german champions fourth or third time his most recent tenure ended with his retirement in two thousand and thirteen after he led by. into a trouble of champions league and german cup titles. germany's world cup qualifying campaign continues on thursday night when they visit northern ireland the world champs are the only team in group c. with a perfect record and they would qualify for next year's world cup in russia if they avoid defeat but northern ireland are the second best in the group having lost just one so far. the germany team braving the elements in belfast on wednesday as they

prepare for their clash with northern ireland the germans have won every world cup qualifier so far most recently dealing norway a six neil spanking but they haven't always looked at hundred percent convincing and coach you walk in love knows one of their biggest enemies will be complacency. shocked law offices next it's clear that next year as reigning champions and conflict cup winners the hardest thing will be to maintain and call on this. super human motivation but you that will be our biggest task and solution not to speak with. germany will be facing a northern ireland side that are guaranteed second place in group c. leap frogging germany into first is all but mathematically impossible that means they'll need to win out in a playoff against another group runner up to qualify still germany aren't taking

anything for granted in this contest. going into they're a very unpleasant opponent to be facing supported by very loud fans it'll definitely be a tough task. anything but a win will deservedly or not unleash becky elation that this germany team isn't at the level of the unit that won the world cup three years ago that shows just how high the expectations are. minor now for our top story at this hour kazuo ishiguro has won this year's nobel prize for literature judges called him a deeply a regional author whose works posted exceptional depth issue but it was best known for his book the remains of the day which was adapted into a hit film. thank you for watching to the news.

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