three n one craves starting november third phone t w. the whole d w one out. for in focus global insights the news out for local heroes. a w made for minds. this is d w news live from berlin the ousted president of catalonia out of the country but for how much longer tonight he's been summoned home to testify former

cattle on president collars where jamal is in brussels as spain's high court process his charges of rebellion ense addition against him the cattle on leader says he will not return until he's guaranteed a fair trial i also want to show police here in germany arrested nineteen year old syrian suspected of gathering parts for a powerful bomb the country's interior minister says he was planning an islamist terror attack but what was the intended target and it marking five hundred years of the protestant reformation german leaders paid tribute to martin luther inventing back where the monks first to challenge the authority of the catholic church. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us and we begin tonight with a former president on the run who says he's. not spain's high court has summoned

the sacked kava long leader to testify in madrid on thursday it is just the latest twist in the ongoing cavill on the crisis. is currently in the belgian capital brussels he and other kettle on leaders traveled there after a spanish authorities launched a rebellion case over catalonia as independence bid. carla spears dumond's first appearance since declaring catalan independence last week was every bet is frenetic as the political fallout he left behind in spain now in belgium the ousted president says he's there for protection not asylum i am not here in order to deliver because. these are the belgian questions of i'm here in brussels as a result of europe i'm here. to act with freedom and safety and security. as he left yet more chaos behind the upstart leader couldn't avoid

questions of whether he had fled the scene. outside the spanish unity supporters certainly think so. i'm here to defend spain and complain about this person who is a coward and a terror maker for. the courts made to have their say it's a medieval charge sheet from modern times catalan leaders faced up to thirty years in prison for crimes of sedition rebellion and the bears all meant. by the spanish government does well composed them on support for fresh elections in december seen as a concession to trade. it is very important to respect this call for elections from the prime minister of the spanish government. and this is very important because this implies an acceptance that the return to democratic legality lies with accepting democratic elections that go. back and. dominate the

airwaves though some were surprised that our former leader turning up in belgium if you could fault his logic when i look at it yes i understand what he's saying right now the spanish government isn't giving him any guarantees the minute he lands here they can put him in prison. in the u.s. but here. whether his bid to break spain up will indeed land him behind bars will be the subject of intense scrutiny not just here but across europe. we want to go now to madrid journalist martin robards is on the story for us this evening good evening to you martin so we understand the spanish high court is summoning the ousted kettle on cabinet what exactly does that mean and you know can anything happen as long as that cabinet is out of the country. well yes well the prosecutor says it already said this if they fail to show. us the

just european arrest warrants on where each you know would somebody delay musses or we could become observers asleep but i think what needs to be made clear is that. even if they were to appear in court they wouldn't necessarily be arrested i mean this is just the beginning of the whole proceedings i mean yes the prosecutor is going to ask you know the people who appeared to be held to be remanded in custody and so the trial itself of the jokes. you know in theory they could. remand three men i cannot depends only on the judge yet they could remain free men inventing it that includes the former cattle on president now mr bush to mine said earlier today that he welcomed snap elections in catalonia so does that mean if he were to voluntarily return to spain would he be

able to run in these snap elections and possibly be in a reelected. well the spanish government spokesman over the weekend said he was actually welcome to. start running again on the thing to remember here is still a piece i mean poland may have been dissolved well you know they're still beyond. your problem or descriptive names soviets because again on the theory democracy even if they were severely arrested or was in jail because i mean begin as with everything else because of that you don't use its territory. is to actually dispose of the process of the public office criticism has been well that was only after a trial which took of the three years so yeah in theory but it is from china so yeah. they could look from jail or even win yeah i mean it's amazing if you know

when you look at the legalities of the situation and we know that to mr bush to my he is in brussels with some of his former cabinet member ministers but not all of them some of them remained in catalonia what do we know what they're doing and is there a you know some kind of strategy behind leaving some of his cabinet behind. but what we do know is. who we're approaching. audiovisual terrorists met with the members of the phone carriers on tuesday which was all it was a couple east of the well significantly most of the whole of the building going to describe this is the full rethink rather than actual government buildings again as the stolen bases were still. within the law. they also refused to start a press conference afterwards whether you know what they've actually done well they

did it out of the decisions i mean the time being it just looks like a symbolic act of defiance but i think the main thing is that they seem to expect that they will contest the following election again. neither all situation they said in the last accepted government intervention but they seem to be accepting the consequences. no longer considers the government offices. but also accepted that you know that the elections the reforms call for this were the first of december so again we're in just a little situation yeah that is what it sounds like our correspondent martin roberts on the story forced tonight in madrid martin thank you very much. for here in germany the interior minister says that police have prevented a serious terrorist attack special forces arrested a nineteen year old syrian today in the northern city of sherry the suspect reportedly had contacts to islamist extremists and had been gathering materials for

a highly explosive bomb and his intended targets remains unclear tonight. a syrian flag at a housing complex in a northern german town of. this is where special forces arrested a nineteen year old syrian man early on tuesday on suspicion of planning an islamist terrorist attack on the american fast as a human are according to our findings the yemen a decided at the latest in july to detonate a bomb but with the aim of killing and wounding a large number of people. on social networks he researched instructions on how to build a bomb we also know that the suspect was in contact online with people with jihadist backgrounds and it has one and also the g.i. distortion spectrum mouth. throughout the morning police searched the apartment and other locations for additional evidence the suspect had placed orders online for

chemicals to build a bomb. the german interior minister is convinced authorities have prevented a severe and imminent terrorist attack in germany. to get out some of the police operation took place at exactly the right moment light enough to secure the necessary proof and early enough to prevent any danger. but. the danger of an islamist terrorist attack remains high in germany and europe and that security forces would act with determination to counter any threats. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world russia says its submarine deployed in the mediterranean sea has fired three cruise missiles into syria's eastern deer as we were prone to destroy its target in one of the few remaining moments drawn to the so-called islamic state in syria and afghan

officials say an explosion in kabul has killed at least five people and injured several more police say a teenage suicide bomber blew himself up in the capital's diplomatic quarter the islamic state terror group has claimed responsibility. british media are reporting that u.k. police are investigating further accusations of sexual harassment against hollywood producer harvey weinstein reports say seven women have made allegations against the oscar winning producer who is at the center of a growing scandal the incidents are said to have taken place between the nineteen eighties and two thousand and fifteen. where people across germany are today commemorating five hundred years as since martin luther spearheaded a revolution which ultimately led to the birth of the protestant church and the eastern german city of witan bear the country's leaders gathered for a service in the church on whose door luther is said to have nailed his ninety five theses now those theses went down in history as challenging the authority of the

pope. queuing up for church in martin luther's hometown witan back today thousands came to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the protestant reformation and all of my life i've been lutheran this is a very important day for me any less is the this is the place where luther lived and worked and we want to celebrate this today and that if one cannot understand german history without luther and the reformation it has left its mark on us i myself belong to a lutheran church and belief in its values but at the council church of wittenberg germany's leaders including chancellor merkel herself daughter of a lutheran pastor attended a service to commemorate martin luther d.s. legend has it that it was here on this day five hundred years ago that nailed his ninety five thesis through the door of the council church the document was not tacked on practices of the catholic church luther wanted to reform it not divide it

but his ideas to simply to revolutionary how i'll timidly it was a liberation for the world the replace the hiroki of power and money but the new individual freedom manifested in love. in the time for service and getting back the head of the protestant church in germany which bed for to torment the hat of the catholic church in the country cardinal run up marx jointly presented german president funk by the steinmeyer with the cross as a symbol of unity after the service german chancellor angela merkel underlined the importance of religious liberty saying that ensuring it is one of the key duties of a free society. soviet justice freedom of belief must always be protected from religious fanaticism so too must our commitment to that freedom include respecting those who practice a religion it. today service representative the culmination of

a year of celebrating the reformation throughout germany. and our correspondent kate brady she's been following those celebrations today in video prairie she joins us now good evening to you kate so what was the main takeaway from today's ceremony . well if there was one what that stood out from several of the speeches that took place today that was tolerance you know something that was really hammered home by the german chancellor angela merkel who pressed the importance of the freedom of religion of course this is a very important issue right now in germany especially over the last couple of years when like across europe we've seen a growing trend of islamophobia and many different groups including here in germany picky and the political posse the after they have struggled with the open mindedness which has been demanded of. today and that's something that she's been

encouraging throughout today's speech and that's also being reiterated by other people who spoke at the events today all right as our correspondent kate brady from the eastern german town of getting back there where celebrations have been taking place five hundred years since the start of the protestant reformation kate thank you very much you're watching d.w. news live from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i have to say you that. it's not just germany is a strong country. that we have achieved so much we can do this.