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because privatization was robbery because. instead of cultivating its culture its words and language it brought forth a rookie pulse of nationalism. the soviet union's heritage where does russia stand today and moscow's empire our series starting november fifth on g.w. . this is d w news live from berlin a show of defiance in barcelona you are seeing a live pictures and has got a long separatists taking to the streets in support of their region's parliament
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this comes hours after a spanish prime minister marianna hoyo announces plans to dissolve catalonia as government and call an early election we'll find out from madrid and barcelona what this all means also coming up partial results from elections in the czech republic suggest the next prime minister will be a populist billionaire dubbed the czech donald trump a far right party is in second place. and we'll tell you about a young man overcoming a disability and living his dream. he's a professional video gamer and he is blind we'll tell you how he manages not only to compete but to with. all.
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i met her welcome this week spain gave catalonia an ultimatum withdraw your declaration of independence or face the consequences well today prime minister mariano rajoy made good on that warning roy said that he was triggering article one fifty five of the constitution to bring a rebellious region back under central control that would mean an end to catalonia as wide ranging autonomy instead of handing control to ministries in madrid for it here is exactly what the prime minister is aiming to do now is asking the senate to approve the dissolution of the catalog government it's expected to do so next week the plan also sees new elections as soon as possible and the third point catalogue later karla's pushed him out and his team will be barred from running for office now speaking in madrid roy said that the moves were necessary to restore law and order. but you don't have to fit in a fish worst we will proceed with ending the role of the president of catalonia the
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vice president and the councillors that make up the cabinet of the catalonian government elected feel that each of those functions will be carried out by the organisms and authorities created or designated by the government of the nation that on earth you input if you feel to begin with the idea would be that the ministries would assume these responsibilities for as long as this exceptional situation persists you know not spend their time on a me and self governance of catalonia will not be suspended it will remove the people that put the autonomous government outside of the law and the constitution and statute not self governance will not end it will be recovered for the sake of legality and for coexistence of all cattle and not just those who are pro independence independent. earlier i spoke with correspondent martin roberts who's been watching developments in madrid i asked him what in effect the spanish prime
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minister mariano rajoy had set in motion well basically. dissolve the council our government was not actually just. these are not actually taken by. army but governments it's very words that. they haven't got rid of and it's interesting to replace the council our parliament will remain in place. everything will be still in place except. where the guys at the top who will be released. some basically everybody will be. a minister. minister in the law so it's a surgical strike going to the nuclear option. all right we will move on now to some other stories making news around the world police in the german city
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of munich have ruled out a terrorist background after a man with a knife attacked people at random earlier today four people suffered minor wounds police arrested a german national who they say appears to suffer from psychological problems. afghanistan's defense ministry says a suicide bomber killed at least fifteen army recruits as they were leaving their base in the capital kabul the latest incident comes at the end of a particularly bloody week in afghanistan several major attacks have killed almost two hundred people since tuesday. brazilian police have arrested more than ninety people connected to an internet pedophile ring the raids follow 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 partial results in the czech republic's parliamentary election indicate
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a victory for populist billionaire andre bodies and is a and oh movement with nearly sixty percent of the votes counted the end opar t. have secured just over thirty percent second strongest looks to be the far right s.p.d. party with over eleven percent projections in just a total of eight parties will have passed the five percent threshold to win parliamentary seats. well bob has promised his voters he would fix the country's problems he would treat it like a business we asked years you pay the new york university academic center in prague what we should expect if bobbish and the eno do form the new government. you know certainly try to run the whole country like a business like firm this is something he has said many times i don't think he realizes forty two. states a country is not a family firm so he will still have to look for compromises for political
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compromises and. really much will depend on which party will be with him in the next government to be india and stop him. in the government with the durational parties den of course they will they will keep him in check and it will not be so easy for him to go ahead with some some of his more radical. ideas. the far right s.p.d. of tommy or going to more is in second spot and i asked you how big the fear was that the far right party could push an anti e.u. an anti migrant policy into the mainstream certainly have always enjoyed politics now but i wouldn't say a decisive voice simply because it is it is an extreme right party and even mr bump issue him so has been quite so against immigration. and outspoken some of the issues that. will come were and his extreme right party of direct democracy.
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promotes i think that mr bobbish would have a problem with. being in the same qualities shown or being supported by mr cumorah so i think that yes this party will be in the parliament it will be heard ten percent of the vote which i expect expect that that's what the final result for them will be. is significant but i do not see them in the next government because mr bush knows that it would damage import of victory. all right we're going to move back to our top story we hear about how catalonia has been reacting to the new move from madrid bobber of a soul our correspondent is among the throngs on the streets of barcelona it was a bit difficult getting in touch with her barbara how is this going to affect the catalan leaders what's the mood there all the mood is really excited sighs and says
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i'm out here in the sunshine in barcelona to show was their opinion. just this afternoon taking back. from a couple of those governments to conduct the month of friends and just assume an office was great it was loud cheers when you arrived here a little while earlier people are trying to get the best spot to see their thinking freedom saw them from time to and it's just i did notice not violent peaceful people are smiling but they are yelling loudly and shaking that every time when the helicopter off the hey did they really just want us to be that goes overhead so that really shows what they think also said the power is not good however they have really come out in force we don't know figures yet that will take some time. to sort of support their government to show that they are absolutely for independence
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of course this does mean it's a majority opinion in proper load and thought this is a lot of people who have come out to show what they sing off the acts. that's. all right bob are of a school in boston loner among a very very enthusiastic pro independence crowd on the streets. well doctors in poland are now in the third week of a hunger strike over a mounting crisis in the country's health care system the protest was triggered after one young medic collapsed and died her colleagues believe that she was literally works to death justina mia chick had just finished her rotation when she suffered heart failure the thirty nine year old doctor had been working double sometimes triple shifts at the hospital it's thought exhaustion contributed to her death. hers and cases like it have prompted doctors and warsaw to stage
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a hunger strike. resident match a novak says he cannot live on his monthly paycheck of around five hundred thirty euros so the young surgeon has been working overtime up to eighty extra hours a week. because i'm so overworked i'm afraid i'll make a big mistake because i've heard of patient zero take their life. for the hunger strikers it's a wake up call for poland's health care system which they say is chronically underfunded and understaffed it's also suffering a major brain drain the country's medical association estimates that more than ten thousand doctors and seventeen thousand nurses have already left poland to seek work elsewhere. the shortage of doctors has created months long waiting lists for treatment the government has responded with more pay for medical staff and more spending on health care but it falls well short of the striker's demands. what are
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the holes expect a good education good roads and security that will cost money so we have to be responsible with how we spend it. medical practitioners and four other cities have now joined the strike action their message is clear. and we don't want to go either stays we want to live in like here and write our families we want to be close to our parents our grandparents. we don't want to live far away from them. in motorsport the formula one world championship might just be decided tomorrow at the united states grand prix lewis hamilton could claim his fourth world title with three races to spare but sebastian vettel still has an outside chance of overhauling the brit. it's been a blockbusting fight for the biggest title in motor sports but the battle between
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lewis hamilton and sebastian vettel could come to an end this weekend in austin texas championship leader hamilton is staying calm nothing's changed for me when everything is exactly the same as it was going into the last race into the second half the season. mentally for me so. maybe a change from your perspective for me doesn't vettel and ferrari have given the sadie's a serious run for their money this year they initially had the speed to compete and looked on course to end three years of missed sadie's dominance the german lead for much of the season before reliability issues it is car hamilton want four of 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 and the britain is champion.
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but never got a sports story about defying the odds it is about a video game enthusiasm from the netherlands for lost his sight early in life that didn't stop him from becoming a professional gamer. meet blind warriors spin of the gaming world known as fin van de vega in the real one at the age of six he lost his sight and his biggest fear at first was being unable to play video games anymore but after a while he discovered he was able to play street fighter. i was able to hear what was going on in the game and react to each intervention to move from each character has a different sound. after you learn each sound effect you have to know how to react on it and from that moment on my new game experience started soon spain had the skills to enter his first tournament as
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a pro. i want to measure on my own face and that was so amazing i mean i almost had tears in my eyes because of my so wonderful. to show everybody that even with a disability that you can participate in the real world if you want. i really hope that what i'm doing can inspire other people to do the same or to go for what they want in their life even if it's impossible as they think there's always a way to do something if you want to spend wants to help make games more vision impaired friendly in the future. thanks for watching the news see at the top of next hour. it's reformation day on d w you have programs while on the clock marking its five hundredth anniversary we're going live to the commemoration ceremony to bag.

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