a run in next year's presidential election. and in spain thousands of people have been taking part in protests calling on spanish and catalan leaders to end the country's political crisis it remains unclear whether catalonia still plans to declare independence from spain in the days to come. from us at the top of the hour you're watching the news in but then up next a deadly business with a review of all the like his financial need for. freedom of expression. a value that always has to be defended and you. all over the world aren't afraid of freedom of art. a multimedia project about artists and their right to express their views freely. d w dot

com or to freedom. crime fighters the new season of radio crime thrillers weekends. for investigative cases that will keep you on your toes. crime fighting stories at the base idea ever so every young person needs to listen to crime fighter and share tell a friend tell a friend to fight. crime fighters don't miss it. following the controversial referendum protestors on the streets of parceling i want to see come to me and become independent as soon as possible. the vast majority of voters hope to break away from spain it's in the past week. the

political situation has been desperate. separation could have 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. investors are rattled. on the matric stock exchange check prices continue to slide more than three hundred points have shed over the past week. just a becoming year and my sense is that this independence attempt isn't going down well as he moves from the e.u. ones off to meet with one of his clan but in the ninety's a sense and population wants howard that simply want to ignore any of them come. independence may not be plain sailing for catalonia as 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 plans on me and see bones in the coming weeks and for us to see and it's always my support to have a few other locations within the camera. person on your. marketing dicey importance to our patients been marked to see from cent 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. the e.u. competition commission announced that brussels will take ireland to court. year ago the commission decision. requiring ireland to cover up to thirteen billion euros. from apple however ireland has still not recovered any money not even in part. 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 had granted online shopping giant amazon un to tax benefits for the past eight years leaving a round three quarters of its profits on taxed. it was not justified.

amazon now has to repay a tax benefit worth around two hundred fifty million euros 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 a 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 carry within the next two weeks not that's exactly what is expected britain's fifth biggest airline had struggled with losses but hoped to turn things around with orders for boeing's latest seven three seven planes and a cost cutting program. bankruptcy remus world last year but that monaco is able to draw a new line of credit now that it's gone so is the airline. well 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 as many priests have been depressed for some time. britain's transport minister says other airlines have plans to quickly hire monex staff. 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 hot breakfast not doing so would be quite naive since the negotiations so far have made very little progress. they say to reason may's 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 the list rising exports in fiscal stimulus a feast 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 so up to eighty thousand south driving cars every year if they're proven to be safe. the full senate must take up the bill before it becomes law. top wall street bank goldman sachs could become the first major firm to start trading in 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 trades euros 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 eurozone 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 a normal especially around the iranian capital the eighteen million residents in the terran metropolitan region and the automobile industry which is based here have a huge appetite for role materials. but reza should 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 other more. goal is to meet a thirty percent level freight by rail. with a long way from the. moment just over ten percent. if we're going to raise that we have to improve all aspects of our rail about restructure. an 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 creek 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 white cream from the species only from the bamboo apple. tree and because it's more economy and that it's. more a price. to get long distance freight moving faster at lower cost reza chicanery seize 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. about. this kind of foreign private investment is a massive help of people who are committed and would 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 she carey 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 of both to blame the. extreme but climate change and extreme weather mean different conditions in individual growing areas with a twenty percent drop across germany doesn't mean every reduce it 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 ryan has the plot tonight and bald and each so drops of about twenty percent from the year before the few gains came mostly from the east. germany'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 easing pretty i'm from between it was a big challenge for individual producers and says don't lose money you know question the prize because international competition is to my face but i want to raise prices including you out of it perhaps or course. he's still a fan of the twenty seven teams i am not so we can review. an image a snapshot of a copy a work of art surveillance a document flood control plant and in itself it's all new presence. what does photography mean today. the media in constant evolution.

our photography special and. next. do you see this week's trial. miss of the solar war museum opens in paris. livable quality of life. with. body by young nike looks at. the roman sixty minutes. w.'s program guide to the lights. the whole. dot com highlights. when i'm traveling to be comfortable. but i also want to stay up to

date on the latest news and events. and e.w. make snap part of traveling easy just because it's available and thousands of her talents resorts and cruise ships worldwide. have you found the domain sign to send us a picture that shows d. w. in your room you could win a great prize d.w. dot com travel quiz. welcome to arts twenty one from berlin. where do you post your photos on instagram flicker tumblr and facebook or do you stick them in a photo album like up parents and grandparents.