it feel like to live in times over the revolution. nineteen seventeen a real october started over twenty fifth. this is news live from berlin and spain central government takes drastic measures to stop catalonia from breaking away half a million people take to the streets of barcelona in protest separate the leaders are calling it the worst attack on the region since the franco dictatorship we'll get reaction from barcelona and madrid also coming up

a populist billionaire has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections in the czech republic andre bobbish must now form a coalition government in order to leave. and a story of a young man overcoming a disability and living his dream he's a professional video gamer and he's blind we'll tell you how he manages to not only compete but when. thanks for joining us i'm mary in evanston it's good to have you with us. the spanish government has announced unprecedented measures against separatists in catalonia prime minister mariano rajoy plans to sack catalan leaders and call fresh elections catalan president carlos whose damone is accusing the central government of the worst attack on his region since franco well meanwhile large crowds rallied

in barcelona to support independence. for these catalans madrid's response is yet another insult hundreds of thousands of separatist demonstrators took to barcelona streets on saturday among them was carlist. the catalan leader his supporters later gathered again outside the regional parliament to protest madrid's move to impose central authority. without going through the polls with little support and against the will of the majority the government of marianna wants to appoint a directory to remotely control the life of catalonia from madrid. was harsh in his criticism of madrid likening its announcement to spain's fascist dictatorship that ruled the country for much of the twentieth century. the spanish government with the support of the socialist and liberal party has undertaken the worst attack on

the institutions and people of catalonia since the decree of the military dictator francisco franco abolishing the government of qatar lonia. spain's prime minister mariano rajoy was likely expecting a strong rebuke from barcelona and triggering article one fifty five of spain's constitution he has turned to what he considers a measure of last resort in the growing political crisis between madrid and barcelona. the autonomy and self governance of colonial will not be suspended it will remove the people that miss government outside the law and the constitution. self governance will not end it will be recovered for the sake of its legality and for the coexistence of all catalans not just those who are pro independence. plan foresees catalan affairs coming under madrid's direction regional elections would be held within six months that can only

happen if spain senate approves roy's decision to trigger article one fifty five. senators are due to vote on friday roy's conservative people's party holds a majority of the senate seats well for more we're joined now by d.w. barber of easel in barcelona and journalist martin roberts his in madrid thanks to you both for joining us martin i'd like to begin with you what do you believe raha is really trying to do here is he trying to drive a wedge between those for and against independence for catalonia now i think it's pretty straightforward he's made. wants to stockhausen not you from trying to break around homs the region. the region is currently in a constitutional legal limbo so he says he's restoring. if there is a second to remove it i would say this is replying to his critics who are she was

in. our situations the faster he's finally did was he remains to be seen whether he's acting correctly. well indeed many observers are saying are hoist taking a risk barbara do you think that the measures by madrid could actually backfire and actually fuel separatist sentiment in catalonia further. in a way of course that's right because people that were not unified in this pro independence camp before feel energized now and they sort of feel they need to march together so that's one aspect whether this really changes the will and the idea of the other half of the catalog population who is against independence and who would rather like to return to their normal and daily lives and who is looking was sort of distrust that economic developments here that is yet to be seen so it's unclear

what would happen if elections would come very soon and whether the pro independence camp would even be the victories of this it is it's clear the camp is galvanized but whether anybody came and changes changes opinion it's quite. well barbara clearly the crisis is fueling uncertainty in catalonia many businesses and banks have said they're going to leave the region because of this uncertainty but how much of this crisis can be blamed on the catalan leader quite a lot because he really tried to push things he really brought this to a head we have to consider that during the last two years the scuttle on government really produced a whole sort of infrastructure on top of the existing government structure that is geared towards independent they said independence they sent somebody to russell

just a couple days ago who called himself catalan foreign ministers they have a diplomatic representations in a lot of european cities and even beyond that so they are really really trying to prepare for independence they were playing at being a state a nation state and so the point came where he really pushed it and of course the final clash was madrid occurred. martin turning back to you now assuming roy's plans are approved by the senate later in the week just how does madrid intend to actually enforce these measures and do you think the central government is prepared to use force. i'm sure they're hoping it will come to terms of us. house basically what they said is the day to day running of how to respond to change very much. as i said yesterday you know this has been a surgical strike. full house on civil servants are still going to be doing that

day to day jobs. you know the parliament hasn't been dissolved in that sense cattle will still be running it's on the fence it's just that those ultimately responsible will be ministers emerge on the ministers. out and on your. their. children to have gotten their jobs this way just so i think you know that was going to actually change on a day to day basis all right and now barbara turning back to you now roy said one of his first priorities is that elections take place as soon as possible but even if these elections did take place it was to stop catalan separatists to simply be reelected. now this particular group in government now they can stand again however of course they can put force of the leaders it is possible but we have to see that this government doesn't really have

a big majority it's propped up by radical left wing party constantly pushing for independence and we don't know how this party would would emerge from elections so it is quite uncertain and it may be that anton independence camp brings up somebody who sort of can energize and galvanize people so everything is to play for at this moment all right barbara vale in barcelona and martin roberts in madrid many thanks to you both. well now to some of the other stories making news around the world and voters in the northern italian regions of long party and veneto are holding non-binding referendums asking for more autonomy from the central government both regions are led by members of the far right northern league they want more powers over infrastructure health and education they're also looking to slash the tax revenues sent to room millions of japanese voters are braving

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a new government. a billionaire touting his business skills to run the country and now andre bobbish has a chance to do just that he ran on a platform promising to slash taxes curbing immigration and preventing deeper integration with the european union but after his victory a slightly different tune. i don't know why so many people say we're an end to european party or a pro europe party. if some of. his win comes despite fraud charges linked to e.u. subsidies and being ousted as finance minister in may with his party picking up almost thirty percent of the vote bobbish says he's ready to form a coalition government following a fragmented vote that put nine parties in parliament but not all opponents may be willing to join forces the far right s.p.d. picked up just over ten percent of the vote finishing fourth its leader told me

a oakum or a repeated his anti immigration stance and called for a referendum to leave the e.u. and the senior partner in the outgoing government the social democrats suffered their worst ever result even though they helped produce a balanced budget and refused to participate in the e.u.'s refugee relocation program but as in other national elections politicians here to draw on euro skepticism and fears of immigrants to rally voters. all right to formula one now and lewis hamilton smashed the track record to claim pole position for sunday's us grand prix in austin the poll with a seventy second of hamilton's career and eleventh of the season the receiving driver can clinch his fourth formula one championship if he is for a sixteen points more than closest rival of us in federal who qualified second the

ferrari driver trails hamilton by fifty nine points in the standings hamilton's mercedes team mate felt area but tough as in third followed by a red bull's daniel ricky ardo and ferrari's kimmie right conan. now a sports story about defying the odds it's about a video game enthusiasm from the netherlands who lost his sight early in life but that did not stop him from becoming a professional gamer. meet blind warriors spin of the gaming world known as fin bend a 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 key to find each 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 a pro. i want to match it on my own face and that was so amazing i mean i almost had tears in my eyes because well so wonderful. to show everybody that even with a disability you can participate in the real world if you want but. i really hope that what i'm doing fire other people to do the same or to go for what they want in their life even if it's impossible that they think that 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. truly inspiring a quick reminder now of our top story hundreds of thousands of catalan separatists

took to the streets of barcelona on saturday to see it to support their region's parliament rally came hours after spanish prime minister mariano rajoy announced plans to dissolve catalonia government and call for early elections. you're watching d.w. news coming to you from berlin we'll be back again at the top of the hour in the meantime you can always get the latest news and information on our website that's sad. dot com everything from all of us in the news thanks for watching. every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word published in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not learn a hell of a simple on.