sure its roots in language it brought forth a reclusive nationalism. the soviet union's heritage where does russia stand today moscow's in our series starting november sixth to double as. this is due to be news live from berlin catalonia as parliament declares in the presence from spain thousands of separatist supporters cheered at the vote in barcelona the motion passed despite the opposition walking out of the mouth of the spanish senate has voted to rescind catalonians power and take control of the rest

of the region where in barcelona and madrid. also coming up new clashes in kenya claimed more lives as the country country continues to grapple with the fallout from a repeat presidential election a vote marred by low turnout the claims of voter intimidation we'll get you the latest from nairobi. thank you very much for your company we want to begin with bows breaking developments out of spain the senate's in madrid approved government proposals to take control of catalonia just after catalonia has regional parliament voted in favor of declaring independence from spain in an unprecedented move the senate in madrid voted overwhelmingly in favor of spanish prime minister mariano rajoy worked . yes to trigger the infamous article one hundred fifty five of the spanish

constitution allowing the central government to remove cattle and regional leaders from office starting with president carter shortly before seventy out of one hundred thirty five cattle and lawmakers approved a motion to the cleric catalonia and in the pendant republic opposition lawmakers walked out in protest before the vote began. all right the outcome of both parliament sessions historic plunging madrid and barcelona are further into uncertainty and we have team coverage of these breaking developments in barcelona there charla chelsea bill is covering those events there and images martin roberts good evening to you both want to start off with you in barcelona earlier we saw jubilation inside the parliament what's the mood outside right now where you are. yes that's right were a few hundred metres from the parliament at the moment when it was announced that

independence was being declared there were huge eruptions of celebrations from pro independence supporters here every now and then you'll get big cheer is coming up again to you just to give you an example a few moments ago on the big screen that's facing the crowd so just in front of me they show you the spanish flag being removed from the government building in. enormous cheers from people who as that happened you've got people of all ages many of whom have been waiting for this announcement for years decades even at the moment things are very calm people are just taking the time to celebrate but there is a feeling of trepidation a lot of people don't know how the next few hours and days are going to unfold i think what's really important to point out especially when we're seeing these pictures of huge crowds gathering not just here in barcelona but across catalonia is this region is very divided these pictures are necessarily reflective of how everybody is feeling we know that the population of catalonia boycotted the vote on

the referendum and is thought opinion polls just how often people have people on in favor of independence so while we might have celebrations on the streets nights let's not forget that this is a region that is deeply divided and troubled heart mark want to go to now in madrid right after spain senate approved emergency measures to take control of catalonia make this a little bit more concrete for us how is madrid planning on preventing catalonia from seceding in practical terms. well right now. spends having a sister to hold an emergency meeting and i did a couple of hours are harming sororities this two are. the details last in a live broadcast we'll be looking now three things that while. they don't confirm that they're really even tell us what's going on in his county has been to use and having the appropriate ministers and the judge had him for direct. control will talk about his leaving all the other officials and more and more he's in

charge so in theory. this is a minute he's an intervention on the me and he can't tell you. how some of us are. actually removing just the only thing they're expected to do perhaps is to relieve the cheaper housing aris of these gypsies are indeed she's already been charged sedition her possible measure is that they will appeal to the constitutional to strike down are this up to. the parliament and hasn't apart from the government also the attorney general has made it clear he intends to bring the charges. somewhere and i'm sorry interrupting you there so that's that's that's the legal part of this but just make it concrete i mean are they going in there would be a police force how is this going to be carried out this is what i'm trying to find out. shot ok but that's ok that's what happens in writing i mean some things are easier said than done what was sometimes in order to be. i mean for

several weeks now thousands of. civil knocks on national police are already being hassled. is the central government's already taken out of much of their you know how to do new governments finances so many ways they've already mentioned they're going to the already. one of the measures that something was wrong with our song is so actually the government salaries but they lead everybody else is the risen christ which optional really to the loss of civil servants. are now i want to pose the same question to you or charlotte because how is the caroline leadership planning on carrying its plans to become affectively an independent area. yeah well at the moment as a peace runs been tweeting he's been trying to put european leaders at ease he's saying that he wants dialogue he's still trying to deescalate the situation of

course is not in his interests in the same way that is not in madrid's interest for things to really start to get very sensitive on the streets of catalonia this is a man though who is about to be stripped of his powers once direct rule has been imposed according to madrid he is no longer in charge so at the moment he is just celebrating what he sees as an overwhelming victory and then things will start to get very serious over the next few hours and days as madrid starts to act martin i want to get your take now what's the mood like in madrid where you are how have people reacted to these extraordinary events unfolding. well in madrid things are very calm i'm sitting here. again it's very solemn some. police helicopter harm you know what's coming. we have seen demonstrations times of the long nearly as numerous well i think.

trepidation but. i think most people don't. i'm sorry but most people most. people. are not. on the other half of our sympathy. right charlotte and my final question will be for you in barcelona this has been just such a high wire act from the start the word is out now do you get the sense that there is a general sense of relief or an uneasy calm before the storm. depends where you stand later depends the approach and it's or against independence but the one thing that really unites both sides is that they have really been throughout the motional rollercoaster the last few days and weeks so one minute it looks like we're going to have regional actions that a person on was going to hold him if he felt like he was going to get

a guarantee from madrid that they weren't going to impose article one five five he didn't get it it's now we have independence every just been so many ups and downs and twists and turns in this process that there is in previously in previous days been some frustration now though those who have been waiting for so long for independence really are going to just celebrate this moment just sit back and think this is they finally have the independent nation that they've been hoping for right to do here in charlotte charles some reporting from barcelona and martin roberts from madrid thank you both for your continued coverage. for you and as martin alluded to in the run up to this dramatic showdown there have been calls for you mediation let's get reaction now from brussels where our very own marks hofmann is the correspondent he's standing by monitoring of developments there as well first up mike's i want to start off by asking you what you've heard from high ranking officials about these extraordinary events unfolding in spain we called the

e.u. commission our contacts there and asked them if they had anything to add now that independence at least seems to be on the way after the vote of the catalan parliament but no they don't have anything to add and they didn't have anything to add today at the media briefing either that's a briefing that we have every day here they are sticking to their line they're only talking to one person and one person only and that's the prime minister of spain roy but there is one tweet by the council president that you council don't know and he stuck to that line to said their only interlocutor is ruhollah but then he added a little twist and that's interesting because he did say and i quote here i hope the spanish government favors force of argument not argument of force so that's a clear message to recall is something that none of those high ranking politicians has done not to crack down with police force no matter what happens in the next days and max in practical terms if catalonia to seat suspects successfully are

there any consequences when it comes to you know can it still be part of the european union. that's exactly the point i mean for the european union and first there are no consequences that would still have twenty eight member states as of now but one of the member states would have gotten smaller that is spain but for catalonia the consequences would be much more dramatic it would most likely by all accounts by the accounts of everybody we've talked to not be part of the european union any longer it would have to reapply for membership until then you have tariffs until then you have border controls and we know how complicated this whole process can be only by looking towards the united kingdom with their brags and so that would have huge impact on that region. and that max of course there have been those the calls from the catalan leadership for the e.u. to act as an honest broker they've gone on answered why i mean couldn't you have played a very constructive role in all of this but it's a tried and true method for the e.u.

are others to step in as mediators when the two parties involved can't really talk to each other anymore and that seems to be the point where we are at the moment i mean the catalan government in the spanish government have huge trouble communicating with each other that has gotten worse there seems to be the best but you really can't do anything as long as raha is so the spanish government doesn't ask them for help the e.u. is a system of nation states the e.u. is. the nation state so if the e.u. institutions let's say the commission would go behind the back of one of those nation states of spain and say listen we're just going to talk to catalonia if you want to or not that would be a huge breach of trust it would be a huge problem for the e.u. institutions and on top of that they wouldn't be in accordance with the rule of law because everybody here brussels agrees that catalonia is not in line with the spanish constitution so if the e.u. commission let's say did that against the will of the national government of spain that would cause tremendous problems all right no easy solutions there max hoffman

reporting on the spanish breaking news events i thank you so much. and now we have to the horn of africa were renewed unrest in kenya has claimed more lives as the country continues to grapple with the aftermath of yesterday's rerun presidential elections one person was killed in clashes between protesters and police today rain the overall death toll to at least five log and yet has been locked in political uncertainty since the supreme court a null presidential elections held back in august. the streets of kenya's capital nairobi are unusually quiet worried about the prospect of violence many are staying indoors those few who have ventured out have had enough after months of political tension. i would like politics to quieten down so we can continue with our work we don't want people to fight or kill each other we want kenya to be peaceful.

with a politics we want life to continue as normal. our incomes are being hurt and we are struggling. old we're tired of politics. thursday's repeat elections were marred by skirmishes between police and opposition supporters the clashes stop some ten percent of polling stations from opening and delayed voting in many others in the kibera slum area of nairobi the situation was particularly tense. they decided to keep people from the hotel next to sense that was very difficult for us because we had a lot of violence from the probe youths were protecting them from the officials. voting has been postponed in four counties until saturday because of the unrest opposition leaders are still calling for their supporters to boycott the vote saying the irregularities that caused the previous election to be an old warrant

fixed and they fear a repeat of the violence. everything has its own time. the first thing we are trying to convey to our people at this point in time is that the forced repeat election tomorrow. we want to make sure that they're not injured and with a limb to stay away because they might walk into a trap where there will be indeed that is a priority we don't want any lives to be lost. as counting continues the election commission said that just over a third of. voters cast a ballot on thursday. some are heeding the call to boycott all but assuring a victory on paper for the current president who will kenyatta who cast his ballot in a jubilant mood. but the rerun looks as if it will fail to ease the conflict. all right well let's head to where kenya's capital nairobi now where we find a correspondent to come on he's standing by how we learn more about the results.

it is. i don't think you can hear me all right well let's try and get to her a little later on again now i want to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world. to white south africans have been given long jail terms for forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to kill him the judge said the man showed no remorse for the racist crime the case caused outrage in south africa more than two decades after the end of apartheid. the united nations says the government of syrian president bashar al assad was responsible for a chemical weapons attack that killed at least eighty people back in a from a report coauthored by the u.n. says the government used deadly sarin nerve gas against a rebel held town of. syria denies using chemical weapons.

the united states has really several thousand previously secret files relating to the assassination of president john f. kennedy back in one nine hundred sixty three all this after congress ordered them to be declassified president donald trump has however agreed to intelligence agencies were quests to withhold some items for further review. australia's government has lost its one seat parliamentary majority after the country's top court disqualified the deputy prime minister from office for holding dual citizenship barnaby joyce unknowingly held new zealand citizenship through descent when he was elected last year he's since renounced his second citizenship and will stand again in a byelection in december law until then a minister malcolm turnbull well preside over a minority government and he says it will be business as usual. and

joyce's says he accepts the court's ruling and has vowed to fight on as a tough guy in politics and we get you needed so she taught him to it and you know you take the hits and take the second for us but you know we'll buy the ticket we know the risks and. now i'm going to make sure that i don't promise be i'm going to get back to work and work hard for the people of mali to have the electric of me live and make sure that i do the best job from our nation which is where boys for today. right now time to shed a tear for burrow in a berlin carrier that's been in the air for close to four decades yeah if thirty years is a long time for the airline business the bankrupt carrier conducts its final flight from munich to burlington i will take you to take the airport in a moment passengers will be getting all teary stuff too but the trustee in the bankruptcy says the bulk of jobs could be saved still that's just an assumption.

it's a bitter end for many air berlin employees and some are not mincing their words about seal thomas bingle man. you feel when you. pray. before you goodness leave the. you know what you feel when you look in the. room. even though bingle man took the helm of air berlin earlier this year has guaranteed at least four point five million euros and thousands of employees a few years but they are being left high and dry and they aren't the only ones. felt by consumers less on offer less flights on offer over time that gap will be partially filled by mainly by lost tons and tons as low cost affiliates euro wings

and possibly by easyjet or commodore but negotiations are ongoing and it's far from certain whether that is going to be successful time has run out for air berlin and its rivals on lining up for its remaining assets but the real pain for consumers may only be beginning after all industry experts predict travelers will have fewer and more expensive options as germany's second largest airline disappears. coffman is that berlin is take a lap board for us frank prices going up job losses a lot of long faces in berlin tonight a bit. absolutely especially amongst the employees of two flight attendants taking. pictures from the terrorists here the business terrorists. whether. flights an airplane in the background and of course is

a very emotional moment for a lot of people working for the airline about eight thousand employees this airline had that took that was a brand from berlin evelyn and these people were especially proud of their work and what they get there and we're talking about a lot of history here thirty eight years old. it's a company that's gone through a lot of turbulence and that's a long period for the airline industry and a german carrier that was founded in the u.s. funny enough. exactly ben this airline was founded in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight first flight was in one nine hundred seventy nine the year later in west berlin here from this airport and the reason for why this was a an american company was set during that period of time west berlin was on the allied control the americans the french and the pritish safety were stolen and assure the freedom and the pace in in the west part of the city and therefore

there's a lot of history in this day in the evening here in berlin when it comes back to the to a time when the wall was still standing and the plot confrontation was ongoing a frank you're about to board the last flight to munich i believe which coincides with the final flight back to berlin i bet it's going to be at emotional rightfully . absolutely for me as well we are broadcasting here from the in the we are based in berlin has t w and of course this is no line we have used says employees as well as journalists as well quite often. flying out and reporting from elsewhere in the world and for me personally like with many other clients of the airline one thing will really be missed in the airline industry in europe and this is this it's a shock that halts and this was a goodie everybody called leaving the airplane from the flight attendants. here not

only in poland but everywhere at the final destination of a nebula in flight this will be over i'm addicted to those chocolate i think it really excited at the end of my flight not just to be back i but to get my chocolate hot tell me though if you're getting on the last flight to munich at the last flight from munich to berlin is that the exact same time how you will get back . i'm going to take a look down saw flight and this is that's a bittersweet and out with all the chocolates still i will try to take when when i'm in munich tonight because a lot of questions came up during the process of how the steel was made that looked on so i was able to take over about eighty percent of the airplane of the of this company i in future time say will employ about three thousand former. flight attendants for example employees but with a low wage and the whole thing that eveline goal to go to one hundred fifty million euros credit from the driven government why all this was made possible that the

brought up a lot of critics especially from the competitors like ryanair for example even easyjet that is that are still in the game however we don't know whether they will take out a final little share of the company i bet all that leaves a bit of taste in your mouth frank catching that last flight of the sweet taste of chocolate they have a full fifteen minutes of biz news for you next hour including all the latest on thank you frank. and we'd like to take you now back to one of our main stories the unrest in kenya the country grapples with the aftermath of yesterday's rerun presidential elections and you know who it is come on he is in nairobi and she'll be joining me right now yes there she is have we learned more about the result. well those results are still streaming in and we expect that they will continue to do so in the coming days there was concern of the beginning of the day as to whether or not these numbers to may to reflect the reality on the ground late

last evening the electoral body here in kenya did say that they received a forty eight percent voter turnout but today they changed that figure and of course this is concerning because the reason why kenyans a back to the ballot in october is precisely because of tallying concerns and a lot of people are now watching the electoral body and trying to make sure they get it right this time around and let's talk about those four districts that we've heard about they were supposed to have separate reruns tomorrow is that still scheduled to happen no that is no longer going to happen this is the latest information that we're getting from from the electoral body they said that due to ongoing security concerns they have postponed indefinitely the rerun of that's election that was meant to happen tomorrow but in two other counties that experienced voter irregularities and no voting at all those two will still continue all right now let's talk a little bit about the turnout because according to reports only a third of the registered voters went to the polls compared to

a whopping eighty percent back in august does this mean that this election is legitimate. that's a question a lot of people are asking but analysts have been quick to say that there's various reasons why people didn't show up for this election the major one of course being the boycotts which had been asked by the opposition and which their supporters heated to a large degree but there's also voter fatigue people are tired of being in an election nearing process and we also saw flooding in some areas which hindered the voting process but there are kenyans who are on the fringes who say they're not politically affiliated and they didn't participate in the election out of principle that they don't believe or trust the institutions and they don't believe that this election was free and or fair either to describe to us a situation right now the vote took place yesterday but there was still some violence today earlier on there was and we're getting reports that one slum drilling here in nairobi the capital known as worry is erupting as we speak police

are yet to get to that area i've seen a lot of people on social media asking for police support but we've also seen violence in other parts of the country including the western county where protesters engaged police in running battles there after they had blocked off a major highway connecting kenya and uganda c'mon you're reporting from nairobi thank you. and before i let you go when i remind you of our main headlines right now. space parliament has voted to assume direct rule over catalonia after the region declared its independence from the country prime minister mariano rajoy has called for calm and pledged to restore the rule of law to the region the vote in the parliament followed a fiery debate that saw office isha lawmakers walk out in protest of vote counting in ai is underway in kenya's presidential election a rerun early estimates put turnaround turnout at about below thirty five percent

while at least five people have been killed in clashes between protesters and police. going at the top of the hour. kickoff life we take football personally. are you ready for. europe's first african soccer coach sunday only say it is

a former bundesliga star who's now coaching the ducks second division from. but how come he's the only african coaching europeans why. the conflict follows her way and as she goes. he says he does many of the do has just one question on her mind. for or against catalan independence until recently she's been against separation but the spanish government hard line approach has changed to heavy use. in sixty minutes on t.w. . health. and here in stool all. solidarity. they fall by the wayside when the gap between rich and poor

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