one in an equal society. divide starting november fifteenth on d.w. . visited every news coming to live from berlin not everyone in catalonia wants to break away tens of thousands rallied today in barcelona calling for spanish unity this as a new poll shows a razor thin majority or opposed to breaking away from spain plus. the somali

government fires its police and intelligence chief following the latest attack in what would you shoot dozens for love dead and wounded. and in the bundesliga byron munich were looking for a knockout punch against our real lives for going the distance with the stars in the german cup earlier in the week. and sarah harmon welcome to the show and thanks for joining us. and massive anti independence rally has ramped up in the heart of catalonia tens of thousands of people demonstrating in barcelona for unity spain this after the spanish central government imposed direct rule over the region in the wake of the catalan regional parliament's moves to trigger independence what were you the latest from our correspondent on the scene in just a moment but first this report. the they took to the streets of boston learner in

the hundreds of thousands the spanish flag held high the call for national unity coming just two days after the catalan declaration of independence the where all spanish they say catalonia belongs to spain they call themselves the silent majority for days they've kept quiet now they want the world to hear their message for a united spain against a breakaway catalonia many feel betrayed by the separatists. and say this is not good and what they created as a break to this end at work the ones who are not separatists are isolated also with family and friends you feel that. if we demand that catalonia state in spain and in the european union since we are all europeans. these people fear a future as an independent state outside the european union and without all the

advantages of membership some go further they want to see the arrest of khalid to munt the catalan leaders sacked by madrid it's a tense standoff at one point a group of pro unity demonstrators attempt to storm the barricades to reach the catalan parliament. with fresh regional elections ordered for december in madrid spain socialist leader pedro sanchez is banging the drum for unity. that india have no doubt that harmony and coexistence will win catalonia will continue to be part of spain thanks to reason and the law everyone wants peaceful coexistence between catalonia and spain local media said the public prosecutor could order to months arrest as early as monday with tensions still running high there's little sign of any end to the crisis. let's go to barcelona now where. a story for us charlotte you were at today's demonstration what did she say.

by that's right friday was a chance of those who have full independence to have their say today was the chance for those who are against it and they really did send a strong message they turned out in their hundreds of thousands police say they estimate three hundred thousand people were here activists put that figure close to a million they were draped in spanish flags they were chanting spain should be united viva spain it was a very peaceful it must be said there were any minus scuffles here just on the square behind me towards the end of the prison protests but other than that it was extremely calm that shouldn't mask the fact that people here were angry and they were frustrated some were even chanting that belongs in prison so there is a sense here that things could starts to unravel that though it's been peaceful so far it could become very tense still in the coming days now madrid has called for

a regional election at the end of this year and the latest polls suggest that at this stage the pro independence coalition would likely lose now this is just one poll but do you get the sense that we're starting to hear from what had been previously a pro unity majority that was silent. well there have been so many twists and turns in this in this process sometimes a day here in barcelona can consume consume like a week says very hard to predict exactly what is going to happen in those to elections in december we don't yet know for example whether or not the parties who have driven at this independence movement will take part we don't know if they'll be allowed to take part and if of course they are committed to we don't know whether they will they could just to distance side to just boycott this vote they say they've already had a democratic election they were given a mandate by the people and they will argue that this independence movement has been approved by the people as well this region they really is extremely divided as

we would see as was pretty from today this is really a fifty fifty split say honestly the results of that election really are very unclear at the moment. are briefly there was at least one offer of asylum for pushed him on from belgium what do we know about what's going to happen to him. will he faces a rest possibly is soon as tomorrow that of course prompted the offer from that minister in belgium he said he was worried that wouldn't get a fair trial been remarkably quiet today just to give you a sense of how quiet he's and he tweeted once and that was to celebrate the results of a football match between his team during a and riyadh madrid what happens tomorrow though is what's crucial now it is he going to turn up for work tomorrow are his colleagues going to turn up for work tomorrow and if they do what exactly is going to be the response from madrid more questions than answers there in virus alona charlotte charles impel thanks very much for your reporting. the president of iraq's autonomous kurdish region massoud

barzani has given his first televised address and seemed to find baghdad and held a referendum on kurdish independence farzana reanimated his plan to step down the first of november and in this speech he lamented the fact that quote nobody stood with the kurds cuse the iraqi central government of using the referendum as a pretext to take punitive action against kurds after they overwhelmingly backed statehood since the vote baghdad has in force and international flight bound and made military advances and took another area. in somalia a least twenty seven people are dead after a court made of attacks in the capital mogadishu dozens more were injured the islamist militant group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the two car bombings and hostage situation in the wake of the attack somalia's government dismissed the country's police and intelligence chief. drek each as the only

thing left of the cost in front of the nasa have to tell some below to the attack is but many of the burnt out house once belonged to possibly by. members of the militia used to chaos after the blast to barricade themselves in the hotel it took a full ten hours before the police were able to regain control of the building rescue workers are recovering the bodies as the death cold continues to climb. up to the shaikh is still searching for her brother she found his car after the attack . we found a dead body inside his ruined car but after taking it home we found it was someone who looked like him. we returned to body when we heard the last we called him but his phones were all. survivors and now being treated in the madina hospital including this driver. when i was driving a car and

a security officer stopped me saying that two cars in front of me was so spiked when i stopped there was a blast and the officer died on this the whole place turned into smoke and gunfire i didn't think i would survive but. it was the second major attack to hit somalia in two weeks the somali president had promised to step up in the fight against the islamists but so far lets who has come of the pledge however the hats of the police force and intelligence services have resigned. as like now so many other stories that are making news around the world hundreds of women turned out to central paris and other french cities to protest sexual harassment and abuse many rallied under the hash tag meets fear which went viral in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal fresh lawmakers are considering tougher laws against sexual

harassment. in the syrian activists have released new video which they say shows kindergarten children running away from government shelling near damascus a number of casualties is unclear at this stage suburbs of eastern are in the grip of a government see despite being declared in deescalation zone earlier in the year. the mains of thailand's late king and been brought to their final resting place in bangkok it ends in a lab work five day funeral ceremony that drew hundreds of thousands of warmish to the streets king but me one died. last year at the age of eighty eight at his death he was the world's longest serving monarch. a powerful storm has swept across central asia causing at least six deaths and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake northern germany was one of the worst hit regions with winds gusting up to one hundred seventy kilometers an hour a severe storm surge calls the river elbow to overflow leaving parts of central

hamburg on the water fallen trees cut off major train connections and caused travel chaos across the country the storm also caused blackouts in hundreds of thousands of homes in poland and the czech republic. turning out to some sports news in the bundesliga and sunday's late kick off guard came away with an easy win against fellow strugglers freiburg guard struck twice late in the first half through daniel again jack and benyamin poverty and then they completed the route shortly before the final whistle that thanks assignment or aura three until the final score and saturday's top game byron munich locked horns with life the two teams needed one hundred twenty minutes and a penalty shoot out on wednesday in order to produce a german cup winner this time they only had ninety minutes so who came out on top while take a look at this. even the choice of ends was no problem for i and robin by and

seemed to be winning at every turn under your pontus leipzig severely orbán lost the toss again like in their cup match on wednesday. and in the twelfth minute the by and captain got the better of his life counterpart once again after a slick pass from sebastian rudy orbán brought robin to the ground. after consulting the video assistant referee the ref sent or been to an early show or of a now a man up by an pounced some shot passing in the middle of the pitch and robin picked out how messed rodrigues and the colombian on loan from rayo madrid hit the target with clinical precipitation one nil in the nineteenth minute. three minutes later a team over enters streak of bad luck against by and continued or bans red card that divan are coming off in favor of. the bavarians dominated the first half with two thirds of the possession and in the thirty eighth minute robert backed his tenth goal of the season javier martinez with the perfect through ball in the

polish goal getter cool as a cucumber as he made it to nil live and he left the game shortly before the interval leaving bahrain without any real striker for the second half and it showed but sick posed no threat to minix goal and the clash ended two nil up by and come out on top of leipsic for the second time in four days. and your parting kiss continues to be their good luck charm. also on saturday hoffenheim slid further away from the top of the table when they couldn't handle mention go on fox at home often i got off to the perfect starts for karim to me and i thought his response above such as the pressure after the break torgan azar equalise much to hoffenheim coach and not those monks prostration and spectators pain watch this the both of a splinter made it to one to gone round i'm not bester gone sealed the three points

heading in against his former club three one the finals for them and here's a summary of all this weekend's finest legal action so far. well there you see that stood guard win over freiburg and beating braman on saturday as we told you byron's triumph against hanover also saw off dortmund shaka drew with wolfsburg live box downed hoffenheim leverkusen handle cologne and hair to defeated hamburg on friday minds and frankfurt's for the points. spectators and wire were treated to some stunning action as competitors braved huge waves of the world surf leagues big wave tour surfers did their best to stay afloat but that was easier said than done as waves of over fourteen meters crashed down on them twenty sixteen women's champion paige almost retained her title in walsh came up top of the men's section. winning his first ever big wave tour event. here's just

a reminder of the top story we're following for you this. hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets of the cattle on capital barcelona demonstrating for unity with spain this is a new poll shows a slight majority of people in the region are anti independence. that's t.v. news you have today don't forget you can always get the latest news around the clock on our web site www dot com i'm sara harmon in berlin thanks for watching i'll see you very soon. on freedom and the whole. world i come from the region is rich in history and i'm telling you what's so poor and if your creation opportunity and freedom this makes it special you difficult for him depend.