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this is d w news live from berlin the spanish government rejects the latest moves by tough on leaders in their bid for independence and that's after they signed a declaration to break away from spain only to suspend calling instead for talks with madrid we'll get the latest from our correspondent on the ground also coming up across the istanbul for the latest on the jailing of a turkish german journalist michel atoll oh she's going on trial on terrorism related charges supporters say are baseless. and as part of our series on being gay in today's russia we meet boris an activist who's campaigning to raise awareness about the plight of gay men in chechnya.

i'm brian thomas thanks for joining us we begin this program in spain where the government is meeting to discuss. it's next steps in the catalonia crisis the last after the cattle on president used a much anticipated address last night to sign a declaration of independence only to suspended and call for negotiations with dread a disappointing night for pro independence catalogs who gathered in barcelona hoping to witness and historic moment disappointment and confusion these catalogs came here waving flags and in the mood to celebrate they were expecting to mark a declaration of independence but after the leader of the movement delayed any such move the mood has shifted. i think many people today are disappointed in him. now is the reason that we're still confused and we still have to figure out what actually happened. i mean they can't then i'll grant satisfied actually i think

it's an opportunity now to talk to each other. talks that's also what the cuts alone leader called for earlier in the parliament he said cuts aloni a would have deserved independence but the time is not right yet . we propose that the parliament suspend the effects of the declaration of independence so that in the coming weeks we undertake a dialogue without this it is not possible to reach a solution. without much or it has gone to the invitation it insists that the referendum was an illegal action. of the man neither mr pushed him on nor anybody else can claim without the framework of legality and democracy to impose mediation and the dialogue between democrats has to take place within the law respecting the rules of the game and not inventing them to their own

advantage. in madrid many spiny it's reacted to pitched month speech with joy with a few exceptions. the coward this man is calling and the pro unity party in barcelona made itself even clearer. the fact that you want to destroy europe and spain is not even the worst thing the worst is that you've destroyed the feeling of togetherness of all cattle and. the divisions a widening not only among those for or against independence but now also within the pro independence community some parties say that catalogue leaders missed an opportunity a more conciliatory. we're convinced that no one in catalonia has any reason to be unsatisfied because this is a move towards consensus dialogue mediation and negotiation without having to abandon the clear outcome of the referendum that took place in early october.

later in the evening supporters in barcelona back in the mood even if there is no immediate declaration of independence they still hope dialogue we've produced a result for a while and. while canada at this point for the very latest let's go straight into abuse of on a far far in barcelona a very this is not the clear declaration many separatists wanted what are catalogs saying about all of us this morning. right right and because it's not clear a lot of people here are disappointed in fact they literally saw that independence balloon deflating in front of their yesterday and they are upset because they say that maybe the president pushed him out has missed the only chance in the history of catalonia to declare independence others are saying well let's stay positive because after all he suspended the declaration but that does not mean that the game is over yet and once again others the ones who did not support independence to

begin with are happy that he did not make that declaration but it's the same time the over it just for ha long the situation is going to continue to go to drag on unforeseen consequences for the region and for spain ok the uncertainty is going to be addressed today when the spanish prime minister royd holds his cabinet meeting an emergency meeting this morning what options does spain have the spanish government right now. pretty much the options that they were talking about over the course of the past week for example article one hundred fifty five this article in the spanish constitution could be invoked that would mean that this central government here in catalonia could be dismissed and also the autonomy the partial autonomy all of the region could be suspended now what exactly will happen we will not know probably for four pm then problem is that are actually going to declare his statement about the situation already yesterday after his

speech the deputy prime minister indicated that there will be consequences and all legal methods are going to be applied to stop this process from continuing so clearly brian if you don't really see there that there are going to give into some negotiations that the cut the lonia government would like to see. very much beyond the mind of cut on leaders today what's going to happen with them in barcelona what's their next move if madrid refuses to talk. right well if they refuse to talk of course we don't know yet to really at this point or just on madrid right now and here here at the square where the central government is located everyone is pretty much on standby waiting to hear whether they will give in to something now when this if this does not happen get basically back to square one where we came from and that is that that cut all alone you could again call for some sort of an international mediation but also could even declare

independence within a few days if they really press add radically at this point nobody believes that's going to happen so soon so everything is on standby no demonstrations are called for hold the port at this point so we don't know exactly just what the response is going to be from president puts them on ok stand by very much the operative word right now funny for us in barcelona thanks very much well things might be on standby in spain but markets have been responding looks pretty positive to what's been happening right now they seem to like the most recent development a european stock markets certainly are up investors seem relieved after last night where the catalan president signed a declaration of independence but halted implementation to allow negotiations the euro rallied on the news too and it is now trading at over one dollar eighteen it hasn't been much higher since before the october first referendum in europe single

currency took a tumble in the days of uncertainty that follows but it picked up on tuesday even before the announcement held by a strong export data from germany so for the latest market reaction let's bring in our market correspondent john hendren alone in a frankfurt genelle good to see oh so looks like that investors read something good something positive into last night's speech. it certainly looks that way monica so basically as you said european indices are up in early trading today led mostly by spain's ibex which is up one and a half percent this is of course a market improvement to last week's uncertainty driven selloff and it's because investors know that they've gone at least half of what they wanted what they were actually wishing for was of course that would hold off on the declaration of independence that this would pave the way for dialogue with madrid now of course

the missing half here is the response out of madrid and of course we're hearing that all responses are still on the table and reaction might address adjust accordingly but for now a push for more speech has been seen as a sort of effort towards deescalation that investors were looking for well those most relief seem to be investors who hold bank shares especially. they've been under immense pressure and this doing quite well exactly that upswing in the bags that i mentioned has mostly been driven by the spanish banking sector or the banks you mention dell they have both seen their shares trading more than two and a half percent this morning those are of course two of the banks that have announced moves away from catalonia and this this indicates that they're relieved that what has been saying to them and all week basically spanish banks spanish banks have been on edge yesterday for example at the european central bank's weekly

auction they stocked up on a lot of cash basically on fears that the funding market in europe would become very difficult for them but of course they're still waiting with bated breath to see what happens this afternoon so so say for a rainy day what does this tell us about this rebound how sustainable is it. again depends on what raju will say but i will tell you that investors i did sit up and take notice as push mong seemed to address the business is directly last night who were making moves out of catalonia saying that's a these were decisions that we that were being taken by the markets but that would have no economic impact on catalonia no investors here would of course beg to differ. they worry that perhaps push them all is underestimating the economic impact that moves away it could have on the region as a whole and they wonder if economic pressure would be enough of

a deterrent so they're waiting on that as well all right so this is the end of the story just yet so now the milan in front of thank you so much. and the story of german turkish relations is also opening a new chapter the latest in a long series of tests monica relations between germany and the turkish government under president aaron i want to have of course been deteriorating since last year's good attempt in turkey you know since then thousands of people have been detained there including a number of foreign and dual citizens eleven germans are in turkey jails right now on political grounds including the journalist mashallah tolu and she was arrested in april on charges of being part of a terrorist group and of spreading terrorist propaganda her trial is set to begin today berlin says tolu has been unjustly imprisoned many consider her case another example of how press freedom is under growing attack. let's go now to istanbul our correspondent during jones of following the story for

us during this case is so important isn't it because we're seeing all the foreign journalists critical of the government in jail as well. yeah that's right mistletoe is not the only one then as you tell another german turkish journalist is also in jail he hadn't even been charged yet and we've seen also a number of other foreign journalists talents french journalists have been detained and only this week we saw the sentencing of a finnish turkish journalist working for wall street journal i'll berat he was sentenced to two years in jail for terrorist propaganda fortunately for her she was out of the country when that verdict declared but yet another warning and toulouse case also serves as warning to both for the foreign journalists as well as all journalists working in this country that they do they face the threat of jail for reporting what about michelle or toes specifically her trial begins today how long could that take when might we expect

a verdict well at least cases i don't hoarsely slow they usually were held for want two days as one is expected to help the two days and then usually they are adjourned then held a month for two months later i think the key thing here will be of this case is whether the defense lawyers pleas for her to be released from pretrial detention. child is also imprisoned with her so there is a strong case for her release possibly even to granting our travel documents her travel documents but so she could leave the country this is been this has occurred to several other foreign journalists but much of this is seen as a political decision given the fact also that turkey's relations with germany a very bad many people are suspecting that will not happen ok can you give us some perspective here dorian you know that we're talking about the foreign nationals in turkish prisons now but thousands of people were arrested following the failed coup how many are in prison right now and what's going to happen with them.

what is on president to crack down since last year's fell could attend there are over sixty thousand people in jail also well over one hundred fifty thousand people of have lost their jobs as well and is only going crackdown and these cases are still continuing that we've already had the first initial conviction seeing very heavy sentences life imprisonment for a number of soldiers or convicted involved in the coup but beyond that is many other people not linked to the coup but are considered to be part of that network of supporters with the government claim are behind that coup attempt those cases are continuing and there are the expectations will be further arrests than dismissals from jobs pro-government media are saying that possibly another twenty to thirty thousand people could be facing arrest or removal from their jobs as this ongoing crackdown shows no signs of ending dorian jones bring us up to date from istanbul thanks very much time for a look at other stories making news right now voters in liberia taking part in

a landmark election the ballot could mark the first peaceful handover of power in that west african country in about seven decades president ellen john lee johnson sirleaf is stepping down after twelve years in office final results of the first round are due in two weeks time. frankfurt book fair the biggest in the world is kicked off today in the german financial capital ahead of the grand opening french president a manual markov got a private tour with german chancellor angela merkel france's the fair's featured country this year. the hollywood producer harvey weinstein is facing new accusations of sexual harassment and assault the new yorker magazine is reporting that thirteen women have now leveled such claims against him including three who told the publication that he raped them a spokesman for weinstein has denied the allegations. least

seventeen people are now confirmed dead dozens more are missing as wildfires to continue to sweep through california the blazes have destroyed more than two thousand homes and businesses and hundreds of additional firefighters have been sent in from other states to battle the inferno which continued to move fast with the help of strong winds and dry conditions. the wildfires ravaging northern california's famous one country are also breaking out in southern parts of the state fanned by winds whipping across the arid landscape the flames have brought massive destruction the emergency services increasingly stretched it all depends on how the fire is behaving and what's safe for us to do our primary concern is life safety secondary concern is property protection to hospitals in santa rosa the biggest city in the northern region affected have been forced to evacuate their patients without is of also imposed a curfew to deter looters. lucrative wine country of napa valley and sonoma lies

directly in the path of the fires some of california's most prestigious wineries reduced to smoking ruins. it's right behind me an office working its way down the hillside. what can i say it's slowly working its way. to destruction playing out in california comes in the wake of the disastrous flooding in the american south. it has been a challenging month and a half for natural disasters across this country with hurricanes affecting texas the gulf coast florida the virgin islands and puerto rico and i want to say to the people of california all of those and then are in the path of these advancing wildfires that we are with you we are standing with you with the fire still raging right across california well thirty say the number of dead and injured can only increase. well today marks international coming out today and all this week it was

focusing on being gay in russia with an exclusive investigative series interest installment yury were shut out talks with an activist campaigning to improve the situation for gay men in the russian region of chechnya there are reports that some one hundred gay men there have been seriously abused and even tortured this is the story of boris. but they've got only the oligarchs have it easy here in russia everyone else gays teaches journalists people with hiv have it tough for. the nationalists me as a gay man i feel social pressure each and every day look at the homophobia has become trendy you can even own money with it make a name for yourself homophobes get invited on to prime time t.v. chat shows and make even more money both being for misleading can.

all knock a thought up a flop of fear that if the current campaign of homophobia got going back in two thousand and thirteen when the old banning so-called gay propaganda was passed people thought it wouldn't change much but now we really feeling the impact you want to watch sodomites perverts. sags out of our cities. obviously because we don't need immigrants and we don't need gays what we need is a healthy society the church common children those are the values we need. no one of us here to distract people is a colorful character he fits the bill it's about distracting people from the real

social and economic problems that exist and the problem is that really affect our future. he says gays and western agents to undermine russia's moral foundations from the inside out. when the first report is about the persecution of gays in chechnya came in i reacted instantly petersburg named after the president's father before i handcuffed myself to it. when use of the stunt spread of said i should scrub the bridge with detergent to

get rid of what he called the contamination i'd left behind the book watching to see if the the thing is that i actually am a child because a tough one but how could he have known. how did you know i hear he's attacked all saxony. i mean. that was difficult to hear from him but it's exactly the pressure i was talking about when you realize that the whole government machine is against you. you know how much you know move the charts and if the book doesn't matter if it's putin who's in charge or someone else no one's ever going to get rid of the discriminatory laws we have. little the saying i like russia i don't want to go anywhere else i want to do everything i can to live a free lunch. to

football now and world cup qualifying where there was a huge shock last night with the united states crashing out after a two one defeat in trinidad and tobago now it's the first time the u.s. has missed out since one thousand nine hundred eighty six that means panama have now read. their first finals now there was better news for stuttering argentina as they reached next june july the world cup in russia thanks to who else messi scoring a hat trick and a three one win in ecuador well meanwhile in european qualifying three time runners up the netherlands failed to reach the finals as expected following a very poor campaign they did beat sweden to nail but are in robin's goals were not enough to reach the finals in russia the barn munich winger then announced his retirement from international football france will be there after olivier hole and

griezmann scored it to one victory over belarus european champions portugal also got through after andre sobers goal help them seal a two no win over switzerland now face a playoff to try to reach the world cup. this choir's here now from the sports desk for more on this good morning he does however and let's start with the netherlands they've had a terrible campaign it was really unexpected that they crashed out yet their campaign was as the dutch say that nader and humiliating this is a as you just said three times runners up two time european champions and they can't seem to get their act together and european all world cup qualification the reason for this is the court that best ever plays they don't play anymore the opening we see behind is that he's the last of the bunch and now he's gone off to ninety six cats are the seven goals retiring it doesn't matter who coaches holland

holland just don't have the players at a young level that it can bring in so i was going to be tough times ahead for the dots on the good note they used to being disappointed at not make atonement as they fail to qualify for the euro two thousand and sixteen very fascinated and indeed ok so the dutch are missing the german kind of use machine to move the people into the program and some more big names that are aging as well yes all egos. lionel messi did it again didn't he yet without messi a gets messy for argentina leader messi is a cold machine and that's exactly what argentina have been missing in south american qualifying they've scored just sixteen goals going into this game in ecuador a place where they haven't won since two thousand and one it must be said. bridge reading a collective sigh of relief the head of the game it was front page headlines are we going to make out we're not going to make it somewhat under the radar is not the fact the argentine of squeaked in now is that the south american champions chile

with sanchez with video they're not going to the cup so there's another big thing we won't be seeing in russia and the list of big teams not going is top as well with the united states and i must say i am going to have. what thirty two years on years you know idea that made it to the world cup is ninety six let's be honest. the north and central american federation called is the easiest one to qualify if you're a half decent footballing nation you're playing caribbean islands mexico will make it what happened for me that. i think they got rid of klinsmann is a national coach way too late bruce arena came back in the used to coach the national team eighteen games only two defeats but he's lost the important ones you can't lose to a team that only had three points usa they love t.v. they're watching the world cup from their home and their television sets better isn't it is it is a very business better those who are first thanks very much. for the german bundesliga powerhouse byron munich went from the pitch to the silver screen last

night here in berlin it was a full house for the screening of the t.w. produced film the mere song me of phenomenon it's a documentary about byron's motto and the way germany's most successful team always bounces back tough times the babalon cinema in berlin welcome fans filmmakers and film a bye and players like clouds. to the film's opening. so drove by and is big on the me a son me a phenomenon features fans from all over the world some of whom were in attendance . i'm a boy and fan since childhood that's what led me to move to germany in the ninety's but you know. the club motto me a son mia. is said to be the hearts of by munich philosophy and many hold a club close to hot. right there with. you know about five. or six i mean even the w.'s director general

couldn't hide his affiliation. i want to begin by outing myself i am a buyer in munich fan. the film is available now online. and on d.v.d. view t.v. from the fifteenth of october. that's all we have time for i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being with us we're back again at the top of. the bag.

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