comes walls and costly protective measures with me and. nothing. more challenging our future starting november ninth on d w. this is d w news live from berlin iraqi kurds hopes for independence shattered their leader the su barzani has stepped down after iraqi troops seized her coke and

other kurdish areas iraq's kurds have been under sanctions from baghdad and are internationally isolated funny fosh are has the very latest from the region also coming up. support for spanish unity spills onto the streets of catalonia now madrid must decide whether to arrest the cattle on leaders who proclaimed independence last week. and the united nations warns of a new humanitarian crisis in syria that has images of starving children emerged from a rebel held area east of the capital this mass chaos. plus a powerful storm leaves a trail of destruction across europe fierce winds heavy rains lashing central europe leaving six people dead poland and the czech republic are hard hit germany battered overnight as well.

our brian thomas welcome to the show iraq's autonomous kurdish region defied the central government and held a referendum on independence a month ago kurds overwhelmingly backed a separate state but the move triggered a quick retaliation with troops from baghdad seizing key kurdish areas and now president barzani the man who championed independence for decades is stepping down in a moment we'll be hearing from d.w. funny fish are who's in the region first let's take a look at how some iraqi kurds have been reacting to that news. outrage in the kurdish capital protesters here in erbil forced their way into the parliament building as lawmakers voted to approve barzani his resignation but many here feel he's being mistreated after fighting for kurdish independence for decades . barzani's long struggle for

a separate kurdish state culminated in last month's move to secede from iraq he wanted that vote to be his legacy instead it's provoked baghdad to crack down on the kurds. in a defiant address barzani defended the referendum he said the will of the kurdish people was clear. and then get a referendum can never be erased because these are the votes of three million people from. iraq no longer believes in kurdish rights. iraq is using the kurdish independence referendum as a pretext to attack kurdistan. the vote for independence has angered the iraqi government baghdad once the kurds to declare their referendum void and has backed up those demands with force after the

referendum the iraqi government launched a surprise attack on kurdish controlled territory and seized her cook the oil rich city would have been the economic hub of a future kurdish state. the loss of kirkuk has cost barzani support among some of his fellow kurds but it's unclear whether his resignation will help bring an end to the confrontation with baghdad. could we be seeing the end to the confrontation funny fish are joins us now from iraqi kurdistan she's in erbil the capital of the region good morning to you afai is this the end of the kurdish iraqi push for independence. no that would be really i know it's too early to tell at this point but what we can say at this point that a post referendum since that's a non-binding referendum that took place end of september there is a rift among those actually who voted for us in the independence because they're

worried where this conflict erupted after the referendum may lead to some say actually it's really good that president barzani the regional president here in iraqi kurdistan is stepping down in two days to make sure somebody else steps in and is going to lead iraqi kurdistan and iraq itself basically in a corporation where the central government leading both of them out of this crisis that again the others who say of course this is the right timing because once again your rock is proving that they want to take control over the regional government over iraq kurdistan so this is the time to push for it because iraq in iraq of course have pushed for independence for generations in fact not just iraq of course of course as we know but kurds in many other neighboring countries as well ok now baghdad has been taking a very hard line and moved troops into iraqi kurdistan right after the referendum is the regional government still in control of the situation on the ground in the

area. well in fact we have just seen a helicopter of the regional police here which of course suggests that the regional police is in control of of security here in iraq or distant but if you look at the rest of the airspace the fark today as it backed out the central government. basically doesn't give the permission for any international flights to a calm to our appeal incorporation of iran and turkey as well who do not want it kurdish state of it in iraq or rather also out of iraq that clearly tells you that to a certain degree the autonomy all of the regional government of iraq according to un may be limited but the question is by just how much in fact just a short while ago the prime minister of the central government in iraq other body has said that the border is two wars iraq according to stand at the borders through turkey the border through syria and iran to kurdistan to the kurdish region should

be controlled by peaceful forces as you say but peaceful iraq it forces so once again the grip will be tightened are on iraq who are to stun the question is just by how much. this is part of a much larger picture isn't it i mean there aren't only kurds in iraq there are also large kurdish minorities in neighboring syria and turkey and iran as well how did developments where you are fit in to their aspirations for statehood or autonomy. if you talk to people here in the streets of arbil for example or if you talk to kurds in turkey syria or iran from their heart they would like to have of course a state a whole need for kurds have a problem is just like politicians kurdish politicians are split over the question who should be basically had all of this kurdish state so are the countries the neighboring countries as well so people may be united in that quest but politicized in these countries kurdish minorities are not fun and foster for us and there bill

bringing us up to date on the latest developments there thanks very much well catalonia has started its first week under direct rule from spain central government in madrid all titians and civil servants started returning to work amidst uncertainty if they will accept orders from the capital hundreds of thousands of pro unity demonstrators filled barcelona streets on sunday that was two days after separatist leaders declared independence now spain dismissed colonias regional government over the weekend and must now decide if its leaders will be charged with treason. among those leaders as catalonian president carlos bustamante let's go to a show that also bill joining us from barcelona barcelona charlotte will they call on president even be showing up for work today at his office behind.

that's the crucial question the bell here behind me is just wrong out nine o'clock it would usually be the time for him to start work today but we aren't yet clear whether or not he is inside that building yet he has posted a picture on instagram within the last hour showing the inside of that building although there's no clarification of whether or not it was taken today it could just be an attempt for him to tease the media waiting outside kingly to see what's going to happen next because the truth is this really is a crucial moment in this crisis this is the first day back at work and we're waiting to find out whether not just carlos push him on but also his officials are going to show up for work and if they do exactly what kind of response is going to come from madrid the only person that we know so far who's who's made an appearance is the president of the parliament she's defiantly turned up for work there's been no response from madrid yet so far nobody else but it is still early brian so that

could still change ok what about the man himself that is the big question will you be arrested when he shows up today is there any way to know that. well we know that spain's public prosecutor is preparing charges against him he faces a charge of rebellion which carries a thirty year jail sentence as do many others here and we don't know for sure whether that's going to happen but we have heard from people that we've spoken to that they think perhaps if it were two it would happen today once he's seen to be directly violating the direct rule that madrid has put in place he still of course thinks that he's in charge in madrid things very differently things that he is his breaking the rules so it's really going to be interesting to see how he plays these out these next few hours his fate may be sealed when it comes to the north but if we see him for example being taken out of this building publicly in handcuffs how exactly are people going to react to that we've had thousands of independent

supporters in this square right here celebrating independence and they're going to take it lying down as the man who made it happen for them is put in jail that's that's going to be crucial and it could turn what's been a very calm situation into something extremely volatile and charlotte this isn't just about barcelona there are two hundred thousand catalonian civil servants across the region and the current president has called for them to engage in passive resistance what form could that passive resistance take today. that's quite right they're not just going for possible passive resistance from those civil servants they also wanted a democratic resistance they say the words of carlos preachment for him from people here who support independence we could see for example officials who are madrid who are coming into this building today to take over roles previously held by regional government officials we could see their entry being blocked we could see the people staging a sit in trying to stop them from taking over those roles it is still all to play

for at the moment but as i mentioned there is a real possibility that the roof air on the streets that things could start to get quiet violence police are preparing for just top prospects we've seen in the last hour four large vans turn up on either side of this building behind me preparing to make sure that this stays as calm as possible as the day progresses that's our correspondents charlottesville some pill in barcelona outside the offices of the catalog president waiting for some very important developments to unfold today charlotte thanks very much check in with some of the other stories making the news at this hour in kenya the opposition leader rollo dana held a rally in nairobi as a standoff continues there over the country's repeat presidential election. has called the voters sham the electoral board is expected to decide whether to reschedule voting or protest block turnout order declaring victory for incumbent president who can yatta. president trump has sharply criticized investigation

into his two thousand and sixteen campaigns alleged ties with russia this is u.s. media report the first arrest in the probe could be imminent pointing to specific evidence trump used twitter to accuse his former opponent over a clinton of having ties to russia. officials in saudi arabia say women will be allowed into three major sports stadiums for the first time beginning next year landmark move will open up the previously male only venues to families you know when it comes days after saudi crown prince muhammad the solemn on pledge to restore moderate islam in the kingdom. and the academy award winning actor kevin spacey has come out as gay and has apologized to a man who accused him of sexual misconduct species announcement came via twitter after broadway performer anthony rapp told buzz feed that spacey had tried to

seduce him when he was fourteen years old. also to syria now where activists say government bombing has killed at least eleven people in rebel held eastern dota the areas north of the capital damascus as part of an internationally brokered deescalation zone declared earlier this year but the government has laid siege to that area prompting the u.n. to warn of a humanitarian crisis in the making. was already close to death when her parents brought it to the doctor. her mother has no milk she has hardly any food herself so hot died the next day in eastern how to she was only thirty four days old. to talk to house in homs that works in eastern how-to via skype he tells us there are sixty thousand children under five years old but there's no vaccine no drugs and hardly anything to eat. some people have had no outside help since last year.

this footage is from syrian opposition activists it can't be verified but there's no doubt that eastern how to has been on the syrian government siege for four years . there were more deaths on sunday. armed rebel factions to back and they cause casualties in government controlled areas to. the east in how to is supposed to be a deescalation zone but in recent months the siege has only grown tighter the syrian army has destroyed tunnels used by smugglers to bring in food and medicine and the syrian government has allowed next to no united nations a transports in recent months the last convoy was on the twenty third of september it brought some supplies for twenty five thousand of the at least three hundred fifty thousand people who live here. high commissioners or mining or parties that the deliberate starvation civilians as a method of warfare constitutes a clear violation of international humanitarian law and may amount to

a crime against humanity and war crimes until recently the syrian government allowed seriously ill children to levy sneak out of a treatment in damascus but now opposition ling doctors say there are sixty eight cases of severe malnutrition every third child is on the developed. there is two years old proper medical care and food would help neither exist in eastern how to. this is t.v. news still to come on the program powerful storm sweeps across europe battering germany poland the czech republic six diet high winds and some viewers for a. second was there are now smartphone fans are pleasing investors today as you can see brian if there was any doubt the new i phone ten would be popular it's been put to rest shares of apple suppliers listed in taiwan climbed on

monday with some up around four percent major i phone assembler high precision industry also known as foxconn was up one point eight percent apple started offering the hotly anticipated new device on friday and within minutes demand of the i phone ten exceeded initial supply apple was forced to push back shipments to late november and then to december british banking giant h.s.b.c.'s profits were up more than five fold in the third quarter mainly because the lender expanded its market share in asia the bank reported pretax profits of four point six billion u.s. dollars in the last quarter up from eight hundred forty three million in the same period a year ago at that time were hit by a one off loss of one point seven billion us dollars from the sale of its brazilian unit bank continued continues the banks continue to bet on asia seems to be paying off it's been part of a just busy strategy to expand business one of the world's fastest growing regions

to make up for losses elsewhere. let's go for a quick market update and cross over to ollie bonser standing by in frankfurt for us only h.s.b.c. they're showing the finance sector how it's done and what about the other european bias. they sure are there some strong european banks here santander and spain are being p. parivar in france but they are not to be found in germany the two largest private banks are the commands bank in the deutsche bank bank number one in the country but a far cry from what it once was it was once in the same league as the major banks around the world making good money but those days are long gone and i don't your bank is struggling to find a profitable business model and same story if you will come out spunk there the state is still in there with a major equities package shareholders package a candidate for takeover more or less out of out of weakness. only it's monday

start of the week it was an outlook what's going to move markets. it's going to be a terribly exciting week because there's so much that can move markets and probably will we just talked about apple in the program apple also comes out not just with the i phone with the new i phone but with a quarterly quarterly results later in the week and when that happens it usually does not just move the apple shares self but major parts of the market as well and it's another central bank week. brought the dax to new highs last week this week it's bank of japan bank of england and the fed now the fed not expected to move on rates that's expected and december the next rate rise for the dollar for the united states but donald trump is scheduled so he says to nominate the next head of the fed probably not the current one janet yellen and the bank of england scheduled probably to raise rates in

a very difficult political and economic situation in britain. it is the weekend financial markets thank you very much. now we keep hearing about robots taking all our jobs soon and most of us think that's decades away well we might want to think again because it's already happening and you breed of robots is hitting the streets of germany these days for now they're only helping human male carriers in their daily job. meet the boss but a strong robot that is always two steps behind sensors track the milk areas footsteps and a hand gesture is all it takes to stop it. we have between forty and forty five kilos on a cart that's really hard to push the possible it makes it so much easier because we can also get to carry more it's really great. the robot can carry up to one hundred fifty kilos that means fewer reloading stops

and it is gonna ring a lot of attention on the streets about has failed ninety minutes from frankfurt it is the only place in germany where the possible it has been rolled out. it can go open curbs but it can't climb the stairs and it can't go up to the second floor on its own but it does everything she does if she stops it stops and then she can also take the mail and deliver it. to. only six mail carriers get to work with the roberts for now but many in the country will be watching whether postpone it will soon be rolling on their streets. now and some powerful storms here in europe over the weekend brian extremely powerful there are least six people have died after a powerful storm swept across central europe leaving a trail of destruction in its wake that storm caused traffic chaos a lot of hundreds of thousands of homes without power in poland the czech republic

parts of germany also hard hit just weeks after being battered by another fierce storm. the morning after the city is submerged in hamburg the surge from storm have pushed the river elbe over its banks causing massive flooding. the high winds diverted and cancelled flights major rail connections were severed across the country leaving thousands of travelers stranded. on the first safety reasons we've had to cancel many regional trains heading north but also a long distance travels at the mines we hope to clear the lines by monday used to be to fight. the high winds also felled trees and tore the roofs off buildings emergency teams responded to hundreds of calls. this is the second major windstorm to hit central europe this month following the destruction of storms less

than four weeks ago. well it has been more than a month now since elections here in germany is still are clear what constellation of parties is going to lead the country just all americans conservative alliance the free democrats and the greens are still deep in coalition talks they took a break on thursday over policy differences but talks are set to resume and that's reports that party leaders have been trying to find a common line one of the biggest sticking points migration and asylum honey saw need flood syria's civil war in two thousand and fifteen he arrived in germany alone but he was determined that his family join him my his own and what would my son do in syria with a war going on here and he can't go to school and he can't play there. john and. sundays family are now with him but germany has since blocked reunions for asylum seekers who don't qualify as full refugees but have so-called subsidiary protection

status something the greens hope to change however the chancellor's conservative alliance want to make the current policy permanent yeah they did with sign. the ruling must be that anyone who only has subsidiary protection must return home after the end of the civil war. if we take our basic law seriously if we take the european human rights convention seriously the declaration of human rights and christian family values seriously then we can define families as first second and third class to fenian the positions appear diametrically opposed but behind the scenes the coalition talks continue party leaders have reportedly been working hard to find an acceptable compromise. motors force though and lewis hamilton has been crowned formula one world champion for the fourth time at the mexican grand prey resave his driver and closest rivals a boston federal were involved in a collision on the very first lap with both forced into the pits to change tires

red bulls max for stop and took advantage to win that race but allen's ninth place finish was enough to seal the chance in chip britain's fourth title leaves him three off the shelf the markers all time record. for the bonus league an hour and braman were gunning for their first win of the season on sunday as they hosted hausberg t when listened for matches now a good result for braman would give them desperately needed points and lift the pressure on coach alexander nori. raymond's goal getter max cruiser was back after recovering from a broken collarbone both teams were counting on quick transitional play but it only worked for the fortieth minute michel big going to one nil for outscored thomas delaney too far off his mark and an easy score for the austrian.

just before the interval gregorovitch again trying to term provider for alfredsson bugga sin but the icelandic case was brought down in the box by nicholas moyes. he stepped up and converted the penalty him self for his fifth goal of the season to nail the score at half time. bremen coach alexander nori fielded a flat back four but that didn't help in the sixtieth minute be picked out no trouble getting past the very defense and netting his second to round out the score . it was the most lopsided loss ever for braman under nouri. for the first and he says it's understandable that the fans are disappointed and rightly so but we're also not satisfied and we're going to give our all to change the situation. it's been an. outpouring meanwhile and a four match drought with air force three the campaign. let's take

a look now at all the been asleep the results there is that stick guard went over freiburg hausberg beat braman on saturday byron triumphed over leipzig hanover solved dortmund drew with. downed hoffenheim living in handles alone and has a defeated hamburg on friday and frankfurt split the points. so what does that mean for the bonus league standings let's take a look byron munich go back to their familiar perch at the top of the table for the first time this season ahead of dortmund and leipzig at over move on to fourth now in the bottom half had a bilin stood guard post berg all get a boost hamburg braman cologne are still stuck in that drop zone. gives you a quick reminder of our top story at this hour masoud barzani the leader of iraq's kurds has stepped down after the backlash against the region's independence bed

angry protesters stormed parliament in air below after hearing that news. that's all we have time for here did have the news live from berlin we're back again at the top of the hour by.

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