demonstrators in a sea of whites have been pushing for a peaceful dawn over on the streets of boston and in the capital madrid thousands campaigned for unity over the catalan referendum it remains unclear whether catalonia still plans to declare independence from spain in the days ahead. and you're watching news from above and more coming up at the top of the hour to forget you can always get the latest news around the clock on our website d.w. dot com and had it all for invited see you again soon. climate change. waste. pollution. and isn't it time for. eco africa people and projects that are changing no one are

meant for the better it's up to us to make a difference be good for good. magazine d.w. . make your smart t.v. even smarter with a smile. what you want when you want it. up to date. extraordinary. in depth. you decide what's on. find out more w. john smart. the. following the controversial referendum protest is on the streets of boston i know what to see counseling me and become independent as soon as possible. the vast majority of voters hope to break away from spain but in the past we. the political situation has been desperate. separation could have dire

consequences for the spanish economy without catalonia spain would lose around a fifth of its economic power the car manufacturers say outproduce is in catalonia and the region also has a strong chemical and pharmaceutical industry. invest as a rattled. on the metric stock exchange check prices continue to slide more than three hundred points have shed over the past week. just over coming year and my sense is that this independence attempt isn't going down well as he moves from the e.u. bones off to meet with one of his clan but in the ninety's a sense and population was how shall i not simply want to ignore any of them come. independence may not be plain sailing for catalonia is economy if companies based that are not facts on the region. the spanish bank bank based in barcelona and bank

have already announced plans to leave. both are worried about losing access to the euro zone and funds from the european central bank. german companies with branches in catalonia could also follow suit. there are five hundred of them and they've been given this advice. going to expand zones put any potential expansion problems on me and see bones in the coming weeks and for us to see and it's always finds that they want to have a few other locations within the camera. person on your own. marketing deicing the importance of that compares. to see forty cents to list. the spanish government in madrid also knows this on thursday evening they said they want to make it easier for companies to establish new sites in spain.

patience at the european commission is running thin island's government is in trouble for failing to collect taxes from us giant apple. the e.u. competition commissioner announced that brussels will take ireland to court. than a year ago the commission decision. requiring ireland for up to thirteen billion euros. from apple however ireland has still not recovered any money not even in part apple is currently appealing the case it argues that the revenues in question a subject to u.s. tax rules instead. meanwhile luxembourg was also singled out by the commissioner on wednesday with the ruling that it has granted online shopping giant amazon un to tax benefits for the past eight years leaving around three quarters of

its profits on taxed. it was not justified and this is now has to repay a tax benefit worth around two hundred fifty million euro plus interest the commission's position is clear. it states that no matter your flag or ownership paying your taxes is part of doing business in the european union. british airline monaco has gone bankrupt following alitalia and is the third major european airline to collapse this year. the message came early on monday a shock to many holiday makers over one hundred thousand tourists stranded many in the mediterranean. the government is vowing to bring them home in what it calls the country's biggest ever peacetime repatriation we expect the vast vast majority of one hundred ten thousand monarch passengers who are currently on holiday with

monarch to come back to the u.k. within the next two weeks out that's exactly what is expected britain's fifth biggest airline had struggled with losses but hope to turn things around with orders for boeing's latest seven three seven planes and a cost cutting program bankruptcy remus worlds last year but there monaco is able to draw a new line of credit now that it's gone so is the airline. where the decision really was a result of continued losses losses been sustained for quite some time forecast to continue mainly as a result of depressed prices in the market overcapacity in the short haul market has meant price of been depressed for some time in. britain's transport minister says other lines have plans to quickly hire a monarch stuff. but that's little consolation for the three hundred thousand people who helped tickets to fly a monarch. they won't be going anywhere. and

now an overview of other major topics the federation of german industries has borne german companies in britain to prepare for a heartbreaks it not doing so would be quite naive since the negotiations so far have made very little progress. they say to reason mais government lacks a clear policy and if britain leaves the e.u. without proper plans in place that we devastating consequences for everyone involved britain is germany's biggest european export market for cars b.m.w. operates many plants in the country. inflation is again on the rise in turkey state officials say the annualized rate rose to eleven point two percent in september and it could climb further according to analysts rising exports and fiscal stimulus a boost of the turkish economy which has lifted consumer spending that means upward pressure on the cost of goods president said in a speech the high inflation is

a problem and that he expected the central bank to act. a u.s. senate panel has given the green light for south driving cars the senators have called for uniform nationwide regulations. this new bellwether lao call micah's like general motors ford and the google parent company alphabet to each cell up to eighty thousand south driving cars every year if that proven to be say. the full senate must take up the bill before it becomes law. top wall street bank goldman sachs could become the first major fund to start trading in but coins big investors have apparently shown a keen interest in the digital currency sources say goldman would likely create a team to trade the currencies much as authority trade zeroes and treasury bonds such a move would be a breakthrough for the cyber currency. huge quantities of change are no longer in

circulation in germany over eleven billion one cent coins have been produced in the country but eighty percent of them by the bin hoarded according to the government the two cent coin has seen a similar fate cent coins totaling two hundred twenty million euros are no longer being used in transactions and critics say making the coins is a waste of metal five euro zone countries have already scrapped the small coins including italy where all prices around it to the nearest five cents. in iraq the overwhelming bulk of freight is transported by road traffic jams and normal especially around the iranian capital the eighteen million residents of the terra metropolitan region on the automobile industry which is based here have a huge appetite for brawn materials. but reza carry the head of the region's state

run railway says there's an alternative he's talking about the eleven thousand kilometers of railway rates that cross around the other more the goal is to move thirty percent of freight by rail. away from the. moment just over ten percent. if we're going to braise that we have to improve all aspects of our rail about restructure. in african just south of tehran the two most important railway lines in the middle east cross each other. one runs from the port of banda a pass on the persian gulf in the south to azerbaijan in the north the other runs east west from afghanistan to iraq. the swiss trans invest logistics create wants to invest thirty million u.s. dollars in the next two and a half years to build the country's most modern freight hub covering an area the size of eighty football fields. you're planning to build dry port to your

country like you come to new york here for the full country you know an empty country near what took the car we're moving by proxy no we are planning. the shipment by crane from the species only from the band. to pier brought by train because it's more economy and that it's. more a price. to get long distance freight moving faster at lower cost reza chicanery sees rail is the only practical solution but he says iran needs european logistical experience to make this happen that experience is being brought in by private investors. this kind of foreign private investment is a massive help. welcome and we'd like to see more of it and we're trying to remove hurdles so that things can be done. up until now a print has seen traffic of between six hundred and twelve hundred goods wagons

a day when the new freight terminal is completed kerry is expecting many times that number. germany's twenty seventeen wind has been praised but harvests a twenty percent lower than usual late frost and some hail storms advice to blame. it's claimed that climate change and extreme weather mean different conditions in individual growing areas with a twenty percent drop across germany doesn't mean everybody juicer was down twenty percent in most of the producers and the regions of reflected differently. but the three largest wine producing areas in the country brian has the pattern night and boat and each so drops of about twenty percent from the year before the few gains came mostly from the east. gemini's numbers are comparable to overall declines in europe italy and france are also reporting much lower grade. but the quality of

this year's grapes is better say the wine makers thanks in part to late september sunshine but business point be easy to do and some but people are individual produce and. don't lose money no question the prize because international competition is to my face for them to raise prices and going out of it. he's still a fan of the twenty seven thousand i am not so we can review. already checked go. duramax looks at winter fashion trends. design is all rediscovering some traditional. what will the sponsor

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