you know who we are not suppose for what we are we're a family unbelievable. be a sun media phenomenon starting october fifteenth on d w. this is d w news live from but then after causing severe destruction in central america hurricane night is now fast approaching the u.s. gulf coast residents there scrambling to prepare for evacuations the storm barrels closer it's forecast to make landfall southeast of new orleans in the hours to come

we'll be speaking to a weather expert in the area in just a second. there's been a day of protest in russia with demonstrators calling for jailed opposition leader alexina valmy to be allowed to run for president. also on this program. the cross tracing over the political mess here and get to know your runs very deep people tell me they hope to bring a swift and crisp and steepest political crisis in decades to w.'s gale is taking us through the streets of boston lona and asking whether catalonia can inch back from declaring independence. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a thanks for joining us hurricane nate is barreling towards the u.s. gulf coast all thought he's there saying the storm is traveling at rap. speed

towards the southeastern tip of the state of louisiana they're warning residents not to take it lightly the hurricane killed at least twenty eight people when it passed through central america a state of emergency has been declared in parts of louisiana alabama mississippi and florida residents of new orleans prepare to hunker down for hurricane ace the storm is forecast to start by louisiana's biggest city but even interact could bring severe flooding. and more snow more concerned about my car than anything honestly my house is i'm not so concerned about. nace may not pack a punch of other storms this season but it's already unleashed heavy rains on central america in nicaragua has wrecked towns left under water. we don't use everything food clothes we don't have water besides the rain that's falling children are dying my mom's eighty five she doesn't have anywhere to sleep

or stay. i mean you know. costa rica el salvador honduras also sustained serious damage in the u.s. for states are expected to be his hard officials have ordered evacuations in some low lying areas but most of the water that we're going to see will be because of storm surge and obviously no one should take this tram likely it is proven to be very deadly. and honduras and therefore walking around that area so we have to make sure that we are not taking it lightly. the eye of the storm is expected to make landfall in a few hours. ok we're going to talk to dave knows from now his weather expert a w w l t v in new orleans dave great to have you with us how serious is this storm looking does it compare to hurricane katrina twelve years ago.

nothing in comparison to katrina this is a much smaller storm a much weaker storm that katrina was was very that was very down back in two thousand and five here in louisiana where you may not actually have a true lay in full of this storm in louisiana looks like it's going to make more of a landfall along the mississippi coast just near polacks the mississippi about an hours outside or so of the new orleans area and this one could be a possibly a category two storm right now with winds of ninety miles per hour about one hundred forty four kilometers per hour with a possible landfall speed of one hundred five miles per hour and that's roughly about one hundred seventy kilometers per hour or so could be doing a lot of some wind damage in mississippi looks like that biggest threat for them is going to be the storm surge a rise of water coming from this storm potentially around say two to three meters of water across much of a cosigner mississippi and even southeast louisiana too and now would be again

a pretty detrimental outside of the hurricane protection levees we have here in the state. dave you know twelve years off the cat train how well is the region prepared to cope with extreme weather events now. well fortunately significant advances of it may help the city protect the city for rising water prior to katrina a storm surge of around seven to eleven feet would be horrible for our area fortunate we have both the levee systems we have now due to gates and a flood gate. it part closed to prevent all the water flooding that we had with a katrina type type storm surge now the surge is not to be anywhere near its biggest trade and i was twenty eight a lot of the mississippi could still be low but half of that but we already had city be protected with all those flood gates here so we shouldn't see too much and we have flooded you new orleans ok dave many thanks for that dave now found from w

w w l t v in new orleans and apologies to all of you is for the quality at the end of that interview. now staying in the u.s. president all trump has sparked renewed speculation about u.s. foreign policy towards north korea off the posting a somewhat cryptic tweet is what he wrote presidents and their administrations have been talking to north korea for twenty five years agreements made massive amounts of money paid hasn't worked agreements violated before the ink was dry sorry but only one thing will work now so far hasn't explained what he means with these words they come just days after he referred to want to call the calm before the storm at a gathering of military leaders. turning to russia now demonstrations across russia on the saturday with thousands of people in at least one thousand nine hundred eighty s. marching in support of jailed opposition leader alexei navalny they were calling on

all thought he's to allow an avanti to run in next year's presidential election police arrested more than two hundred people with authorities saying the demonstrations weren't authorized the protests by the way coincided with president vladimir putin sixty fifth birthday. they defied the ban on assembly to answer the call of their leader seen a volley. and under the eyes of the great poet pushkin they reclaimed more school students more transparency the right to freedom of expression and a crackdown on corruption where their main demands their message was clear from flags and with badges and chanted in chorus. person get asked. some have even brought cake for the president sixty fifth birthday but there was no party. on those and we want him gone on this quickly as possible and here is rule for eighteen years he's been president a prime minister for all of my adult years we believe people in power should face

reelection and suppression not less to me it's always just that much this is what we are here to support not only who has called people out to ensure the future of the country because we want competition in the upcoming presidential elections. the first real money so she would go to police also broke up protests in putin's hometown of sin petersburg hundreds were arrested across russia many subjected to brutal place treatment. along the line now from some petersburg russia correspondent emily show and emily you've been monitoring the day's events there bring us up to speed with what's been happening. so the the protests today were largely peaceful people assembled on the field of bars around five pm well six pm session time and they were kind of waiting flags and then eventually

people started moving and things got a little bit chaotic they went to two different whereas in the city i followed them to near the fence block out central station and they kind of just just sit around for a bit there was that there was a lot of police and on the way there. there were mass arrests. there were buses that were parked in the middle of the road and a huge line of riot police started arresting people and i actually saw a bus full of people being taken away and then here at the central station there were police standing and standing around for a long time and then two arrests were made i saw family grounds all the protesters being arrested. well this protest according to authorities was not authorized the osce already say it gathered that it wasn't authorized to find these campaign on the other hand says

that it was legal because they also already didn't provide an alternative place for them to meet so that's their argument there and i suppose the argument that people can well that the police can make is that they came out from the authorised protests however i've heard that most of the protesters has now been let go and they've actually been written up for violating traffic laws ok and bring us up to speed also with what's been happening elsewhere in russia being demonstrations across the country. yeah the numbers vary according to various sources that you read one independent source that i thought that over two hundred people across the country have been arrested. in twenty seven cities there were protests in eighty cities today everywhere where to find he has a campaign headquarters he called people to come out on the street it was a large protest in moscow which we say several hundred people attended

and other sources say thousand came out onto the streets and things were rather people in bomb parts and think petersburg only one person was arrested and protesters were allowed to walk around the duma freely they've been locked up to the red square so things have been rather varied across across russia say ok ok emily many thanks for that emily show and reporting from st petersburg spanish prime minister mariano the hallway has said his government is prepared to suspend catalonians will call on me to stop the region from becoming independent the whole his remarks came in the wake of large demonstrations on saturday in spain's biggest cities in madrid thousands of people calling on the central government to do more to stop the separatist movement the huge turnout came as catalonian leaders were fused to rule out other declaring independence thanks week there were big crowds

emboss alone into the cattle and capital is calls for a conciliatory end to the dispute growing louder. they've had enough thousands of people rallied outside the mayor's office in verse alone on saturday the protesters here once talks to end this crisis. our politicians should do their work talk like civilized people if they can do that they should go. yes if i can. i don't want all of this you know independents. it's uncertain whether catalonia as leaders are going to listen to those against independence now but there are signs the government is reconsidering its stance one of the coalition parties tells me that they will not push for independence immediately we are ready to it so we don't want to it's not something that we like a lot to go to make steps forward unilaterally and with all this. coming from the

spanish state and all the. threats of repression and we don't like it so we wait and we see there are more and more signals that the government has moved away from its plan to declare independence unilaterally next tuesday but the problem is i'm told that there is huge pressure from supporters in the streets to see. what has happened is that the movement has arrived to situation of no control so it goes alone is like a bull running down a mountain. so it's very impossible for any actor to retake control and decide that they are going to stop the movement for independence power in the region is pro independence movement says the expert is shifting towards radicals millions of voted for independence

a week ago but millions more boycotted the referendum the rift that runs through catalan society has deepened. the cross tracing over the political mess here in catalonia runs very deep people tell me they hope to bring a swift end to spain's deepest political crisis in decades. now hot air balloons come in all shapes and sizes the ones you're seeing there are populating the skies above new mexico at the moment that says the albuquerque international balloon fiesta gets under way there were traditionally shaped balloons but also a collection of wear the shapes including a baby in a carriage a buckingham palace guard and a motor bike race nearly a million of these hot air balloon enthusiastic by the way expected to attend the

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