it's roots in language it brought forth the ripples of nationalism. the soviet union's heritage where does russia stand today and moscow's empire were serious starting november fifth home to a dog. this is d w news live from berlin calling a snap election appears to have paid off big for japanese prime minister shinzo abbay exit polls are projecting a landslide victory for his ruling conservative coalition who follows a short campaign that focused heavily on the economy and the north korean crisis

also coming up thousands of people have taken to the streets in catalonia to protest the spanish that will government this as madrid looks to impose direct rule over the region following demands for independence we'll get reaction from barcelona. and we'll revisit the blueness legal action from last night byron munich traveled to hamburg and it got physical handing the defending champions an extra man advantage as they look to religion table toppers dortmund. thanks for joining us i'm mary and i haven't seen japan's prime minister shinzo abbay has sailed to a landslide victory after taking a gamble with snap elections votes are being counted now but exit polls show obvious governing cold. mission may win

a super majority all that would enable the government to revise the country's post-war constitution called the elections last month to consolidate his government's position official results are expected later this evening turnout for the election was depressed by rainy weather and strong winds from tyson land which is moving up japan's eastern coast. short time ago i spoke to journalist michael paine in tokyo and asked him about early projections well the exit polls are predicting that the government will definitely win a majority as to whether or not they will win the super majority which is the two thirds majority you mentioned of that we probably won't find out until later in the evening but it will definitely be a crushing victory for the prime minister and probably will certainly historic low voter turnout both because lack of a real competitive election as well as

a thai food hitting the island right on election day here looks like turnout is probably going to be well below fifty percent in fact. well why did they decide to hold a new election right now he didn't have to call them early so why now. well he calculated that this was going to be his best opportunity and that calculation is clearly proven correct i think the number one issue was that the opposition parties were not ready to contest an election right now at the time he called the election the main opposition party was polling something like three or four percent support it was just had a new leader and was not able to to really put together the policies at all and the tokyo governor yuriko quite who was a popular potential rival didn't have time to set up her own political party which she might have been able to do by next year so basically the prime minister pounced

while the opposition was not ready for an election all right so the opposition in japan is quite leak and yet himself has faced allegations of cronyism and not all of his popular policies are popular and yet voters still do like him lie is that well to be honest the polling shows that the voters don't really like he polls lower than his party does essentially i think most of the people believe that he's the only person who can run a competent government at this time and with threats like north korea and other problems hitting the nation they kind of reluctantly are going against the ruling party abhi himself is clearly not trusted you can see that in the polls he's not liked but on the other hand he's considered to be the only option in town so it's not a win that shows any great affection of the people for the prime minister it's a win by default. and journalist michael penn reporting to us from tokyo many

thanks indeed thank you. now the spanish government is moving forward with what's being called the nuclear option in catalonia madrid has announced on president of measures to temporarily strip the region of its powers by firing its leaders and triggering fresh elections catalan president carlos whose dimona is accusing the central government of the worst attack on his region since franco well meanwhile large crowds rallied in barcelona to protest against spain's proposals. to these pro when dependents catalans the central government's decision to fire catalonia separatist leaders and trigger new elections was yet another insult in response hundreds of thousands of protesters took to barcelona streets among them as preached demand for now still the question on president since. i wonder what

without standing for any election with very little support and against the will of the majority the government of mariano rajoy wants to name a board of directors to remotely controlled the life of catalonia from madrid in announcing the decision spanish prime minister mariano to hoa's says triggering coup one five five is the last resort the article announced the central government to wrest back control of regions acting in a way that seriously undermines the interests of spain not if he's been there but we are not suspending catalonia as autonomy or itself governance the measure will remove those people that put the autonomous 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 cattle lands not just those who are pro independence look independent of the measures still needs to pass the spanish senate which votes on friday it's expected to pass as roy's party holds

a majority of senate seats. well for more of the w.'s barber of a zone joins me now from barcelona barbara could these measures by madrid actually backfire and further fuel pro separatist sentiment in catalonia. of course they do to a certain extent mariana because the movement was more split before and now of course they feel galvanized they say we have to march together and they have a very effective social media networks like calling out people for demonstrations as we saw on saturday evening is so that of course works better however we don't really know how strong they are was regard to the seven and a half million inhabitants off catalonia and whether they really do carry a majority that is completely unclear that puts them in government of course constantly claims to speak for the people but that's what all populists governments

do and nothing is been proven yet right so marinara hall is calling for elections as soon as possible but isn't there a danger that with new elections in catalonia we'll just see separatists being reelected. now this group that's and then power now can stand again so put them on and his ministers are out of course they can put up new leaders however if you look at the latest polls for four put a centrist pro independence party they were in so hot it wasn't really so great it's not that he would just easily sail into majority plus his government now is being propped up by an extreme leftist party and we don't know anything about their fates they might not be able to do this again and get enough votes together so that is completely unclear and there's a further aspect during the last regional elections voter turnout was only in the

sixty's of percents so now this time we can be quite sure that everybody who is against independence who wants to sort of return to their life who don't want to threaten economic welfare and the economic future of catalonia will turn out to vote so it's really completely open we don't know what will happen now what do we know about the next move by the catalonian government. we know nothing of course because they're keeping their cards very close to their chest however they have three options which the man can really declare independence during this coming week and go down in flames be arrested and become a marcher great maybe some some people some of his supporters would love that but it's not clear whether he'll want to do it and he could also just sort of keep his feet still and wait for madrid it's an act and he could still call for elections

from his own side he could do this before the senate takes his powers away on friday so he could still call for elections and avert the autonomy being suspended that is basically his best bet but whether he will choose that is totally unfair all right barbara vai's all monitoring the situation from barcelona thank you so much. in the bundesliga on saturday by a munich continue their assertions under new coach you behind because they travel to hamburg where they find out a great a victory in a physical encounter. hamburg knew they were going to need all the help they could get against their bogey team by a munich may be ham on the hefty mascot could help keep things tight at the back. in the first half hamburg did throw everything they had in byron's way the visitors piled on the pressure and telly sixty eight percent possession but struggled to

create chances through ball from kingsley komang ended up with aryan robins shot hitting the side netting. some excitement after forty minutes gideon young stopping come on in his tracks. the referee sent him to an early show or a hard but justifiable decision thomas came on after the. interval hoping to kick start the byron attack and five minutes later david alibi with the cross. and car on town to the so open the scoring for the bavarians the frenchman. mother's presence did indeed provide the spark but he only lasted ten minutes on the pitch before thought problem sent him back to the bench hamburg talk to stave off defeat but andre hons late shot pushed over the crossbar by sven. the

hapless hosts have now failed to score in four straight home games and sunday's results could even sink them into the drop zone. biron meanwhile continue their upswing under your pint this three wins nine goals scored none conceded even if it took some hard work against ten men hamburg. well that victory meant by a move to equal top of the bundesliga their rivals dortmund a slipping up away to frankfurt despite taking a. few. roman birky raring to go the news for you a contracts promise to give a dormant keeper much needed boost it was a show of support but seemed to do the trick dorman not threatening in the opening stages mark butler surged towards a goal and nervy shot in slotted in. the black and yellows in front of the nineteen minutes. dangerous zombie attack but also

leaky in defense frankfurt had no shortage of chances but failed to capitalize but he was not letting anything past his posts the second half was as intense as the first appear and what a about me young just missing out here. but the dormant fans were soon given something to cheer about to maximilian philip was unstoppable and made it to nearly fifty seventh minutes. sure of the when coach peter bosch switched around his defense it was a fatal error burkey took down and to really bit church a penalty. sebastian kept his nerve to pull one back for frankfurt and four minutes later marius evolves levelled the scores it was a pinpoint pass that set him up for dortmund defense was nowhere. if incompetence

of i'm completely unsatisfied we had to win this game we knew it wouldn't be easy because of our defense we had to change everything around and we knew then it wouldn't be easy and it wasn't. when you're two miller ahead you have to win the game with them which must be given to all of the final school after being to go for dortmund it felt more like a defeat than a draw. one of the teams hot on dortmund's heels after that draw rb life who managed a one nil win against its guard marcel's obvious or world of beauty pass run robert's healer in the twenty second minute and that was all the scoring his side needed absolutely no chance of stopping this one it's obvious there was only on the pitch because bruno was injured in the warm up and life saving wind up with just one point fewer than the table toppers.

formula one now and lewis hamilton smashed the track record to claim pole position for sunday's us grand prix in austin the pole was the seventy second of hamilton's career and eleventh of the season the mercedes driver can clinch a fourth for the one world championship if he scores sixteen points more than closest rival sebastian fettle who qualified second the ferrari driver trails hamilton by fifty nine points in the standings hamilton's mercedes team mate terry botha's as a third followed by red bulls daniel ricky ardo and ferrari's kimmie wreck on and you're up to date now on daily news thanks for watching. the d w media center see it find it here it discover. video and audio podcast and language course.