the show you sure you join the conversation here on to w. on twitter on facebook. the whole d w one. for in focus global insights the news that your local heroes. you don't need for mines. this is day two of the news live from berlin catalonia president exiles himself in brussels colace pushed him on says he is not seeking asylum but will not return until he's guaranteed a fair trial this is spain's top corporate past

a charging with rebellion also on the program. police in germany detain a nineteen year old syrian suspected of gathering parts for a powerful bomb the country's interior minister says they arrested prevented a serious terrorist attack but what was the intended target. and celebrating a defining moment in the european history today marks five hundred years since martin luther inspired the protestant reformation will look at his legacy. i'm still got a welcome to the program days after the clearing independence in catalonia the region's deposed leader has resurfaced in brussels belgium is prime minister says kala supposed to mow was not invited and will be treated like any other you said he said addressing a press conference mr said that he was not. it's impossible to seek asylum but to

bring the cattle on independence issue to what he called the heart of the european union spanish prosecutors have already announced charges against him and other ousted members of the cattle and regional government accusing them of rebellion and other crimes whose demob rejects the charges and says he will return to catalonia if he is guaranteed a fair trial. d.w. correspondent ben to break it joins us from brussels welcome back so the belgian prime minister now says his government to didn't invite color supposed to mull what is behind these comments the belgian prime minister michel made it very clear that he's not able in the building to accept the claim of mr putin meant that he is still the president of qatar catalonia. mr michel is following the line that the u. has given he is saying there's no. office that the cattle on leader now is holding

here he's just a normal citizen and he will be treated as such that does also mean that if charges are brought against this the then of course belgium will follow the rules and villa probably extradited mr putin month to spain so this is also a case for normal citizen and mr putin. has to accept that he is just a normal guy he can travel of cause in belgium and out of belgium as long as no indictment is brought he's there with other members of his format cabinet so is he looking at trying to form some sort of government in exile. mr bushman announced to gether with the five other ministers he brought from barcelona that he will carry on business government business here in brussels what he means by that is unclear because i think nobody will follow his orders but he's trying to establish a kind of a government and he says he will stay in brussels as long as he has no guarantees

that he will have a fair trial in spain and he wants this going to he's from the european union and is for sure that the european union will not act on that so we're in a situation where he's a free man at the moment there's no warrant out for his arrest but. in spain looking to file charges against him so what can we expect to happen next as soon as these five in the court then the judge can issue and the rest verdict from spain and also an international arrest warrant for the rest of the european union and then if mr sharon has to pee in court of course he can be arrested anywhere in the european union this is a normal procedure between that you member states and mr putin says he doesn't want to flee just as he does to one doesn't want to you know to escape justice so we will see if he is just a coward

a ruby here in the end the time to tell ben reading it in brussels thank you. russia has joined the white house in denying now collusion between donald trump and moscow during the twenty sixteen elections the kremlin pointed out that it is not implicated by the first criminal cases against the us president's associates this comes after donald trump's former campaign chief paul manifold and his associate rick gates were placed under house arrest following their indictment in the special counsel's investigation and another former trump advisor george papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to f.b.i. agents. police in germany have arrested a syrian man suspected of plotting an islamist inspired terror attack the nineteen year old was arrested during a morning raid by special forces in the northeastern town of shredded federal prosecutors say the suspect was plotting a large scale bomb attack with the intent to kill and injure the biggest a number

of people the man had been gathering highly explosive material since july and was allegedly in touch with an unidentified member of the so-called islamic state group . i say i'll get more on this from d. don't lose chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome melinda what put investigators on to this man they appeared to have conducted surveillance both online and also by telephone and then as well sent a team physically to watch this man during the recent weeks we're told that he had a number of contacts online to people who were considered to be either jihadist sympathizers or propagators of propagandizes of violence and we're also told that he had physical contact to such people here in germany as well so from everything that we can see there was were multiple levels of surveillance

by multiple instances ranging from federal investigators to state investigators in three different german states on what would use targets and how far advanced were his plans. we don't know precisely what targets he was looking at we're told by police sources that he intended to conduct an attack against a large assembled assembly of persons so clearly in a public place and he possessed many but not all of the ingredients necessary to make a highly explosive bomb there were still a few ingredients he had not yet got but he had gotten quite far with his plans according to the police there have been a couple of terror attacks and foiled attacks over the last year what is the state of alert in the country at the moment. authorities have repeatedly said to germans

that they are very much a potential target for terrorists and of course many people here in berlin are thinking today about the attack on the christmas market just a little over a year ago here in this city the fact is though as you rightly point out there have been many attacks that have been four wheeled by police work as in this case so yes the threat is high but clearly the all of the intelligence and police services are very much aware of that and are working hard to prevent it being carried out linda crane thank you. well let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world kenya's opposition leader rather are doing or has condemned last week's election rerun as a sham saying that kenyatta won by fraud he told supporters of the opposition would respond with economic boycotts picketing and other forms of legitimate to protest but he made no mention of any legal challenge to the result. afghan officials say

an explosion in a car has killed at least three people and injured so horrible police a teenage suicide bomber blew himself up in the capital's diplomatic quarter islamic state a group has claimed responsibility. british media reporting that u.k. police are investigating the bore accusations of sexual assault against a hollywood producer harvey weinstein reports say seven women have made the allegations against the oscar winning producer who is at the center of a growing scandal over sexual harassment you know the incidents are said to have taken place between the nineteen eighties and twenty fifteen. now across germany today people are commemorating the five hundred years since martin luther spearheaded a revolution his actions ultimately led to the birth of protestantism protestantism in the eastern german city of britain burke the country's leaders are gathering for a service in the church where luther was said to have nailed his ninety five faces challenging papal or thorazine chancellor merkel who is the daughter of

a lutheran pastor of the day celebrations of an opportunity to reflect on the changes resulted from the reformation. d.w. the correspondent to cater brady is following the celebrations in the witan burke welcome kate what's been happening. phil well i'm still here in front of the cache of the castle church here in britain back and as you might see behind me just some of germany's leading the political figures and now leaving that church after a mass which has just taken place and there's lots of events going on in that i'm back today i'm just in front. me here and there's a few hundred to one hundred people have gathered to have a quick glimpse of those leading figures of germany as they made their way in and out of that mass of course everyone keen to try and get a photo as well of angle of merkel who on her arrival this afternoon i was also greeted with with some protesters who were shouting for her to get out and also

there's a small medieval market going on in town today to kind of try and recreate that feeling that the city might have had five hundred years ago today and what was the main message of the church service well the main message in that sermon which just took place behind me was focusing on the idea of freedom the regional bishop said that for martin luther himself it was an act of liberation when he nailed those ninety five theses on the door just here behind me and he kind of asked a question the regional bishop was asked and what that freedom means today so there's to be an official state ceremony of the top of the hour what is planned. that will take place just at the other side of town and in the city hall there's

going to be some music and some short films because all of these leading german figures will be heading over to take part in that as well and we're also expecting to hear some speeches from the state premier of saxony and also of course firm chancellor angela merkel who has always been very open about her links to the lutheran church and the role that religion has played in her life and of course her father was also a pastor. brady infant backtracking. and the day w. will carry the whole. ceremony begins. he lives. in many of all of it and has become a worldwide religious movement in germany martin luther revolution many people even . look at

the. luther like you've never seen or heard him before to the students he's the sum of it and back. and has it that it was here on this day five hundred years ago that nailed his ninety five theses to the door of the castle church the document was an attack on corrupt practices in the catholic church allowing sinners to buy their way out of purgatory. but the lutheran revolution didn't stop there he also translated the bible into german what was once reserved for the learned now became

accessible to everyone by the early fifteen twenty s little as reformation movement had grown too big to be contained rejecting the pope's authority it's split from the catholic church bitter power struggles and wars ensued aleutian can still be traced today. what began as a debate a dispute over the liberties and religious freedoms of christians come to represent something much bigger namely the freedom from oppression and bondage to sin what i like to call the freedom of personal responsibility. today one in four german. is a member of the protestant church however the majority of protestants are found outside the country to do to help reform there are some one hundred sixty million in africa more than sixty two million in asia and nearly one hundred eighteen million in europe at one hundred seventy two million the us has the most protestants that's

almost three times as many as in latin america with some sixty one million. on reformation day five hundred seventy three million of them join in celebrating bought a new test legacy. to . join me again at the top of the hour when we will carry out acts of state ceremony live from a vision back and have a good day. health . and here in. solidarity. they fall by the wayside with the gap between rich.