but it's running. in the vision of that occasion. but this is one game we can't afford to lose the world food program fights and a world war helping people help themselves michael. this is d w news live from berlin spain crackdown on catalonia is independence did the spanish cabinet has been meeting in madrid to discuss enthusing direct rule

over the region will find out from madrid and barcelona if this latest move is likely to end the crisis or worsen it also coming up the czech republic is poised to elect a populist prime minister to look at the man they've dubbed the czech donald trump and ask why the country is so critical of the european union. welcome to the program i'm mary in evanston it's good to have you with us the crisis over catalonia is independence bit is at another crucial juncture today prime minister mariano rajoy has been holding an emergency cabinet meeting to pave the way for establishing central control over the region now this comes after a catalan leader carlists paused a moment refused to abandon his threat to declare a breakaway state. a brief run on cats and on banks

a symbolic protest to put pressure on madrid yet some financial institutions a so worried they've moved their headquarters out of catalonia. spanish king felipe again he towns of the region and the firm the unity of the country is spaniard you've got that for. spain needs to face up to an unacceptable succession attempt on its national territory you know recently we don't know which it will resolve using legitimate democratic institutions. respecting your constitution dearing to the values and principles of the parliamentary democracy in which we have lived for thirty nine years that. the king spoke is by signs price for imposition of direct rule prime minister mariano rajoy is now taking steps to activate article one hundred fifty five of the spanish constitution this would allow the central government in madrid to intervene in catalonia and strip the region of some. of its

autonomy. and i'll be speaking to our correspondents in the dirt and barcelona just as soon as we hear from the spanish central government about their plans for catalonia. well turning now to news in germany and police in the city of new nick have detained a suspect after a man attacked people with a knife in six different locations this morning four people sustained minor injuries police urged residents to stay off the streets in the eastern part of the city where the attacks took place the suspect was described as a heavy set male about forty years old with medium blonde hair police said their manhunt will continue until they're confident that they have the perpetrator. now look at some of the other stories making news around the world and egyptian authorities say at least fifty two soldiers and police officers have been killed in clashes with islamist fighters in the bihari

a oasis in the country's western desert the casualties reportedly occurred during a raid on a suspected militant hideout brazilian police have arrested more than ninety people connected to an internet paedophile ring the raids followed a six month investigation involving u.s. authorities more than a thousand agents took part in the operation which police say is the biggest ever conducted in latin america well here in germany a first round of talks on forging a new governing coalition has been called constructive chancer uncle america's conservatives the pro-business free democrats and the greens must reconcile divergent views on immigration energy and the environment parties are seen as the only option available to merkel the social democrats have ruled out returning to government. now the second and last day of voting is underway in the czech republic's parliamentary election voters look set to hand power to

a populist billionaire andre bobbish and his on a movement the front runner has pledged to stamp out corruption boost investment and keep out migrants despite having a lead in the polls it still looks unlikely that ana will secure an outright majority in parliament. and joining me now is you repay he's the director of new york university's academic center in prague thank you so much for joining us now under a bomb it is often called the czech donald trump is this a fair comparison just how much do they have in common. well they have something some common because they are what billionaire stable came into politics from the outside which promises to do crean the politics before the the situation they are with and i. would have an indictment gratian agenda and certainly mr publisher would also like if he quits

a two to isolate the czech republic slightly more and this now from from the outside world but i would say that mr publishes at the same time more similar to. syria has conan because when he went into politics he bought said two major dailies in the czech republic plus the radio station so he's got the. media machinery behind the suit to promote his interests well what we do know also about andre bobbish is that he's quite critical of the e.u. if he is elected prime minister what will this mean for relations with brussels. well it we don't know at this point because we still publish this businessman is that he's a pretty modest who really assess certain things now during the electoral campaign . to impress his electorate which consists mainly of older less

educated people and those people are not happy with the european union but at the same time he's going to its own interests which are your structure only your public to germany and france aren't and lance us companies in all of those countries and so it is not in his personal interest to create any kind of deep divide between the czech republic and the european union i personally expect that if he becomes the prime minister he would modify the entire european rhetoric and would become much more. not maybe pro european but certainly a much less combative with regard to the european union. well it is clear that voters are dissatisfied with the establishment parties and that's despite the fact that the country's economy is doing quite well why is that. well i

think that water starts to reacting to a situation that's actually. brought mr published to politics because he runs in two thousand and thirteen on the very strong and by corruption. and in the search of politics was really are either that corruption there were a lot of corruption scandals and professional parties to some extent discredited themselves but i think that he was actually himself been. surrounded by allegations that he might have thought committed fraud was in european money so we have to retool and corruption is still. our topics but not the strongest in the past year repave the director of new york university's academic center in prague thank you so much for your analysis.

all right some soccer news now and shall have made a move up to fourth in the bonus legal with the win over mines on friday leon carets go finish this attack with a nice like touch getting the best of minds goalkeeper rene ardler the redskins fourth call this season gave shelter an early lead in the second half do you know perched on or out of another in front of goal with fast food court chop a bit minds to mill. and all eyes will be on league leaders dortmund later today when they visit frankfurt back to back slip ups of the bonus league and champions league have dortmund suddenly questioning themselves. you know overabundance league of champions byron has narrowed their performances in the champions league have been lackluster coach paid up a she believes it's time to reflect this is fifty tween it's important as a coach to analyze yourself we analyze our game we analyze our players we analyze ourselves we do that but even if we are winning and following last weekend's been

this league defeat by rb leipzig and the champions league draw nicosia in midweek it appears to dutch coaches methods are having some teething problems but the club's results have been positive overall this season. i know it's not easy we have an away game at frankfurt but we've shown this season that on the road we're capable of being a strong and dominant team. buses side will have to be on their guard frankfurt have won their last three home games against dortmund but lost the last time they went head to head in the german cup final last may coach nico covert she is prepared for a tough clash. expect to see a dormant team that will make its presence felt on the pitch almost shoulder form we witnessed before their defeat to lapse that even against leipzig i saw a good dortmund side. we did before be much of. dortmund counterpart pay top of heads to frankfurt expecting the same. the formula one world

championship may be decided tomorrow at the united states grand prix lewis hamilton could claim his fourth world title with three races to spare but sebastian fettle still has an outside chance of overhauling the briton. it's been a blockbusting fight for the biggest title in motor sports but the battle between lewis hamilton and sebastian vettel could come to an end this weekend in austin texas championship leader hamilton is staying calm. nothing has changed for me when everything is exactly the same as it was going into the last race into the second obviously this is a mentally for me so. maybe a change from your perspective for me doesn't vettel and ferrari have given me a sadie's a serious run for their money this year they initially have the speed to compete and looked on course to end three years of missed c.b.s. dominance the german lead for much of the season before reliability issues it is

car hamilton wood for the last five races and now boasts three hundred six points. the us grown prepare mutations are fairly simple if hamilton wins vettel must finish at least fifth to take the battle to mexico next week anything less than the britain is champion. would like to go back now to our top story and spain's prime minister is expected to announce a decision over catalonia autonomy shortly to delhi is correspondent joins me now from barcelona so barbara what is prime minister mari and her hoy's likely to turn out for catalonia what powers could madrid take away from that region. he still could go the harder option that is completely take over government put in in an administrator from madrid in this palace this government palace here behind

us or you could go the softer option and just replace a few minister and president which to munge and particularly take power over finance and the police probably and maybe the regional broadcast t.v. tastes those are more or less the two ways we do have an indication that madrid might be ready to play hardball because what we've heard is that the state prosecutor has ready to indictment against put him on his ministers and against the president of the parliament here in catalonia for rebellion that means probably treason of we translate the spanish words that is the hardest accusation that could possibly made against him under the article one five five and it carries a jail sentence from up to thirty years so that is a sign that maybe madrid is really going to go the hard way so does this mean that there is simply no way out at this point for catalonia or could elections possibly

defuse the situation. elections could defuse the situation but then. demand here in this palace who has been holed up there since the early morning without showing his face or giving any notice of what he intends to do he would have to call them more or less immediately on this week and say ok hold off we're going to elect a new government of people will be able to go to the polls and expression their wishes and their opinions and then madrid would be willing to sort of postpone the application of one five five that's the only option really madrid we already know they announced that yesterday they call for elections in january to give enough time for preparation and to then have a new regional government they can probably negotiate was that of course we know that is quite a ways down the road and there is plenty of time to sort of inflame and further

sort of add to this crisis that is just sort of really under way and it is ongoing all the time emotions are rising all right barbara valle reporting from barcelona thank you a reminder now of the top stories we're following for you spanish prime minister marianna rahowa has been holding an emergency cabinet meeting he's expected to announce the suspension of catalonia as autonomy a short time from now this comes after the region's leaders refuse to abandon an independence that. they're up to date now on d w news will be back again at the top of the hour thanks for watching. progress thirty three they start to divide the country to meet.