nationalist. the soviet union where does russia today. we're starting november fifth. the day of the news coming to live from berlin spanish foreign minister mario the old boy sacked battling his parliament after the region the players the prime that's why it's called snap elections for the region that were out there thousands of separatists supporters gathered on the straights of barcelona to celebrate independence for you the latest from the dread and barcelona coming out plus new

classes in kenya playing more by the country grapples with. repeat presidential election will go tonight well. and sarah palin welcome to the show it's good to have you with us we begin in spain where prime minister marianna report says he's dissolving the cattle on parliament where his sacked the government of catalonia and call him snap election for the region set to take place in the summer the twenty first all of this after the cattle on parliament voted in favor of declaring independence from spain that vote trigger huge that liberations in parts of catalonia thousands are still out on the streets of force alone a white now. all right spent dramatic day in spain and developments are coming fast and furious let's go straight to madrid our martin roberts is standing by to

tell us more now martin the spanish prime minister says he is dissolving the catalan parliament and calling regime elections tell us more about what that's going to mean for the situation ok first of all i think the message he's trying to send is that he saw. the intervention is what was going in this is in i mean it again he said these are you move. oh it has a longer look departments not want selves just a handful of people. i'm a possible joyce even if there is also this it should only last a couple of months i mean what's also the message is trying to send well also i think it will be struck t.j. is that he's hoping the festive season will help calm down which is very very trying to at the moment and indeed that's a structure that he used a couple years ago for general elections i wanted him to work in his favor. so it's very significant it remains to be seen however whether he gets the

productivity john stevens he expects. a lot of the well estimated fifty percent of customs well to maintain you. will have to come i was imposed judicially. but anyway in two months so what happens ok in two months time we'll have the snap elections how is spain in practical terms planning on implementing direct role this isn't something that happens every day. it never happened before at least not since since nineteen thirty four which was the never heard of exxon with. no independent you know actually i suppose time since then returns to. the horror is a civil war and succession which is. constitutional very seriously. but simply the groundwork they've been line for weeks and transfer thousands of.

national police to work alongside and hopefully the whole generation were. which incidentally as well although she was very relieved it was june sixth because she was. also a good thing is they've taken control of. her strength to fight every. trace for several weeks thinking of the long messages that. it will be how to replace her. god so there's a lot at stake here martin is there still a way out of this extraordinary situation to defuse tensions and both sides go home happy. well that looks extremely unlikely i mean i think that may have been an option this morning when the opposition socialist brought in . these measures trying to get perhaps a longer months and

a last ditch effort to dissolve parliament itself and hold russian actions but chance is gone unless russia and was suddenly to change course and assad is going to be split on all these measures i mean what seems to be extremely unwanted i mean his way of diffusing use of it remains to be seen whether it works and we simply decide this is about to last very long and everybody's going to have a chance to cast upon a sort of twenty goes to december let's find out more. now martin there have been accusations leveled against catalyze that they're trying to incite a heavy handed response from spain perhaps as a way of stirring up international sympathy do you think the country needs to brace for violence at this point well i think your own governments are obviously expecting massive protests now you the occupations of the heads of key buildings certainly on one. he's going to have to own his heavy handed approach

i suppose of marble which. hopefully that will be necessary because they were transferred millions of people. simply perhaps. troubling from a trip to. the well happens. i don't think i mean as you say coming out a lot and needing to this point clearly they have. no. it doesn't look as though it's going to happen. european. but again we're in uncharted territory here we think. this is actually.

relatively well. all right uncharted territory there in madrid martin thank you very much for bringing us up today well that's the view from madrid we also want to give you the view now from barcelona earlier our correspondent. sent us the reactions from the streets of barcelona. spoken to some people here and they say that they want to celebrate today because frankly they don't actually know what's going to happen tomorrow at this festival spirit this conical spirit we're seeing today something very worrying for people here in my some of the people that we've spoken to say that they're worried that police are going to come in and break it up i others have said that war is going to be arrested at any point they say that for him so this is really an opportunity for them just to take stock of the independence movement one hundred thing i want to point out about this rally. and

see independence rally just down the street as well so making the point that not everybody is jubilant as these people behind me. are or whatever happens with catalonia is going to have a huge impact on europe let's get the reaction for you now from brussels barrett rager estate of correspondent there baron good evening to you the e.u. has made no secret of where it stands when it comes to catalan independence tell us a little bit more about that. the u. is fully supporting the spanish government and every move it makes that is clear of the us says this problem this forward to teen bus alone in madrid has to be resolved within the legal framework the constitution of the framework of spain and so there's no room for an independent republic of catalonia and no e.u. member country none of the other twenty seven recognized cut alone the independent state in the would not do that as well the only thing is that the task ahead of the

european council to protests today he said please don't resort to violence use forceful arguments but do not argue with force so there is a slight fear that this might get out of control out of hand that officially doesn't react and says spain has to solve this problem on its own for example to the french president also said he's behind. on the holiday and also the german chancellor told through a spokesman that she is behind us but has spent his counterpart so there's no question they use behind the spending government ok so catalonia has no support for independence within the e.u. but in practical terms if tara long is to say yes or spain what's going to happen. nothing the diplomats tell us they've just ignore any move

to become independent there will be no border there will be no tariff there will be no possible controls of things like that and every decision to cut and run government which is no longer in office now legally it would take would just be ignored so nothing would change actually on the ground from the viewpoint of the european union. if that happens we don't know here talk to the so-called cut a lot of foreign minister he said he will stay in his office and wait for the police to remove him from there he's also prepared to get arrested so it's clear that the cut on one some mirror to monetise images or something of that but the u.s. says nothing will happen as far as we concerned is taking a hands off approach but could the e.u. have done more to broker a dialogue between catalonia and madrid to avoid some of the tensions were saying now. he was very reluctant to get

involved in this spending. argument between cut along the and the central government because he was saying we have no point no institution is obliged to get into this inner conflict and so only if both sides had prevailed for mediation then they you could do something but so far only cut alone has a part plotted for mediation so the sits on its tied hands all right not getting involved for now that's parent record and brussels thanks for bringing us up to. or continue to bring you the latest developments on that story but for now we're turning to some other news around the world to white south africans have been given long jail terms for forcing a black man into a call and threatening to kill him the judge said the men show 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 april a report coauthored by the u.n. says the government used deadly sarin nerve gas against the rebel held town of khan shai cohen syria denies using chemical weapons. the world food program says myanmar's government has given it the go ahead for it to resume operations to roll hinge of muslims in northern iraq and state u.n. agency suspended its work in august after myanmar security forces began targeting a muslim minority group hundreds of thousands have since fled into neighboring bangladesh. ballot counting continues in kenya from the country's presidential election the cost of the divisive vote is becoming more apparent one person was killed in clashes between protesters and police today

bringing the overall death toll to at least five kenya's been locked in political uncertainty ever since the supreme court an old the original presidential elections that were 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. we want life to continue as normal. our incomes are being hurt and we are struggling. old we are 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 hold of the voting existence there because very difficult for us because we had a lot of violence from the road to youths we're going to talk to the only official says. that. voting in four counties was initially postponed until saturday because of the unrest. opposition leaders continue to call on their supporters to boycott the vote citing security concerns. 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 indeed and want to live them to stay away because they might walk into

a trap where they will be in debt that is our priority we don't want any lives to be lost. because of the new outbreak and violence election officials announced that the new runoff would be delayed until further notice as counting continues officials said just over a third of registered voters cast a ballot on thursday some have heeded the call to boycott all but assuring a victory on paper for current president oher kenyatta who cast his vote in a jubilant mood but the rerun looks as if it will fail to ease the conflict. thanks for watching. stories that people the world over information they provide the opinions they want to express d.w.

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