this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin crunch time for catalonia madrid gives the region separatist leader another three days to clarify his stance on independence or face the consequences or so coming up. a boost for

populist politics in europe as conservative sebastian coe it's winds austria's election by embracing the policies of the far right. of her. son in a well welcome to you i'm under that she the crisis in gaza loony has taken a new turn on the government in madrid has still got a region separatist leader he has until tuesday to redraw any moves towards independence or face serious penalties this good include the imposition of di recruited by madrid spins deputy prime minister soraya signs that madea was responding to the failure of the council on media to stick to a deadline today to clarify his johnson independence. she said his decision not to answer the question of whether he intended to breakaway on not was unacceptable

but. the government regrets that the catalan president has decided not to respond to its request of last week i don't think it's very difficult to say either yes or no to the question of whether he has declared independence or not. this is a question that cannot remain unanswered i don't think it's a complicated question with something as important as this we need clarity. correspondent barbara visit is following that story and joins me from the catalunya capital barcelona barber of the central government has extended the deadline is anything like to change by then from the catalan side. not very likely agree to because what could they possibly do and push him on has tried to sort of take off some heat out of this issue by writing to madrid and saying oh come on let's sit down and talk about all this i'm such

a peaceful man i don't want a crisis all i want is a good result lucian of this murder it is not playing it was quite clear it really they really insist the central government on the rule of law on the wrist or all of those half cooked independence declaration from last tuesday and they say if you don't step back we are going to take away power from you and you will be politically a total totally on the outside the government which you will have ignored today's deadline and had not said a clear yes or no to independence as a central government had demanded basically he's keeping all his options open what does he hope to achieve with this strategy. what he's really trying to do somehow is write the tiger because as we know from past experience that usually goes wrong because he tried to no sort of satisfy his own followers by keeping this in the balance and on the other hand sort of give peace signs towards madrid and

trying to engage the central government in talks and somehow save his skin but this is not going to work simply because madrid is not playing ball was him however we also heard this is in his own regional government the left wing party propping him up his minority government they are very dissatisfied and they are angry and they say now we want independence right now otherwise we're going to explode things so things are going wrong for puts them on in any case he's going to lose is a fragile majority in the regional government here and he has madrid on his back so want to if peter moore ignores the new deadline of stay what is at stake at the moment. at stake is the independent relatively aton the relative autonomy of catalonia what will happen on thursday if he ignores

the deadline after the deadline really is that the government will invoke article one hundred fifty five step means it will take away the powers of the regional government it will then put in a sort of interim government or a governing body and it will call for elections and so the people will get to decide who is going to take over after push demand however his own political fate seems to be sealed at this point in time baba bizzle in barcelona thank you very much. to austria now where thirty one year old conservative sebastian kurtz isn't track to become the country's next leader after his party won sunday's election if confirmed he would be europe's youngest leader but his victory is also controversial because to win support he embraced the anti immigrant and divisive rhetoric of the far right feedom party. they call him ven divert c.

the whiz kid at thirty one the conservative sebastian cortes becomes europe's youngest head of government promising a new kind of politics. today we have a strong mandate to change this country and i thank you for making that possible. that would. the far right freedom party led by hans christian strata achieved close to the best result in its history and looks most likely to form a coalition with the conservatives both parties that campaigned against immigration and islamic the will for change in austria is widespread and strong a series of scandals hammered the social democrats of outgoing chancellor christian can he's now facing a spell in opposition. it's about defending modern diverse and democratic austria that will be needed more than ever in the next five years.

yet another surprise came for the greens their vote fell by nearly two thirds making even their presence in the next parliament uncertain. wrangling over the shape of the next coalition can now begin to lift the far rights likely return to governments in wealthy austria will worry a european union already unsettled by brics it and rising extremism. yes article look at some of the stories making news around the world officials in portugal say dozens of wildfires in the north of the country have killed at least twenty seven people more than five thousand firefighters are struggling to contain the blazes in neighboring spain fires killed at least three people authorities said winds from hurricane ophelia off the atlantic coast were worsening the flames. iraqi troops have started moving into kurdish held territories in the province of

kirkuk government forces who want to retake military bases and oil fields that kurdish fighters seized three years ago from so-called islamic state goodish officials have called the operation an unprovoked attack it comes three weeks after iraq's autonomy scourges region voted for independence. filipino security officials have said the last remaining leaders of an islamist militant group laying siege to the southern city of mari have been killed the two brothers were aligned with islamic state they were killed in a military operation after to profit from a rescued hostage. hurricane ophelia has made landfall in southern island bringing strong winds and cutting out power for thousands across the region island's national weather service is predicting wind gusts of up to one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour. here in germany chancellor angela merkel's conservatives are

taking a drubbing and a key reason election the vote in germany second largest state lower saxony so her c.d.u. party lose to the social democrats the result is good news for maxwell cornish and partners who did poorly in last month's federal election. the the the social democrats haven't forgotten how to party just three weeks after their worst election results in modern german history the s.p.d. years back coming out as the strongest party in lower saxony for the first time in nearly twenty years. as a fitting you know this is a great evening for the s.p.d. in lower saxony and for me many thanks to the voters but also to my party members who fought passionately he lied and it came to. it's a remarkable turnaround in the summer of the s.p.d. he was far behind in polling the victory in lower saxony was badly needed after party leader martin schulz his historic defeat in the bonus talk elections. i think

you know sing in austin and he does what the social democrats achieved in lower saxony is unique in the history of election campaigns in germany and we're not i mean thankful but we're also very proud and very happy about this great success i think and what the isn't close enough or pretty is pretty bleak candidate band manages conservative c.d.u. party last two percent scoring their lowest results in almost twenty years. he said that to me not to unleash as rationally i would have wished for a better result for the c.d.u. party in lower saxony. but let me be absolutely clear about this we do not have to be ashamed about tonight's results misson via hope. the recent weakens chancellor merkel who is facing a difficult time at the negotiating table. another party got a big bump out of the results the far right don't turn it for germany won seats in

the regional parliament for the first time that means it's now represented in fourteen federal states of germany. from the one to sport and to american football at first where the man was still out of the take any protests in. racial inequality has find a grievance against the national football league cullen kaepernick alleges he had been without a job since the start of the season because of team owner collusion the former san francisco quarterback first took in me during the u.s. national anthem last year as a means of publicly objecting to police shootings and alleged racial brutality they want to see action now and women hosted munching on sunday with the home team looking for their first win of the season and they're still looking after gladbach picked up the win and moved into fifth place in the league. braman fans are nothing

if not optimistic despite not having seen their side win all season they filled the phase i study and coach alexander newry was relieved to welcome captain draco you news of age back to the starting line up for the first time this season after injury. it was the opposing team's captain who opened the scoring on twenty seven minutes now stingo taking advantage of some sloppy better defending. hugo could have anticipated that turn and finish simply exquisite minutes later the visitors tightened their control of the game vesta guard rose highest from a corner and celebration from the jane out of respect for his former club no more goals followed after the break this was planned back first away win of the campaign . the wait for any win goes on and xander nuri is a man under pressure. staying

over there when the sea again only a point in the standings separated liverpool is in from words like heading into that match at the bay arena and both sides are looking to make up ground in the top half of the league have a look. it took until midway through the first period for later clues in character with who spoke to get interesting a late accusing call occult havoc in the woods but box on lost bender smashed in the opener his first goal of the campaign. hit back just before the breakthrough oh no little ford did ok regi more mon at half time. later cruise and then reaching the lead when argentinian striker lucas and lower rio continued his good start to life in the bundesliga. but yacob last of course he snatched a point for the wolves in sixty nine minutes their fourth draw in a row under new coach martin schmidt it did not play the coups in the third

straight home league when. i was reminded the top stories at their funding field spain gives catalonia separatist leader on thursday to clarify his stance on independence if he decides to push ahead with plans to break away the madrid could suspend the region's autonomy. and austrian conservative sebastian kurtz is on track to become the country's next leader if he does he would be the youngest leader in europe his people's party said look set to come fast in the country's election after campaigning on an anti immigrant and right wing platform. you're watching the news coming to you live from but i do remember there's lots more on our website that's w dot com and you can also follow us on twitter and on facebook coming up next as helena humphrey from the business

says but the latest day's business headlines do stay with us if you can great to have their company. w.'s program guide. the highlights of the whole. highlights.