my wife mary and i are symbolically presenting the church to christ. i am for trade and i see this with pride in the regalia of the byzantine emperor as the great not so the road with gold woven into it the company tsa the ermine line brocade cloak from venice and of course the gold crown. no other prince of my age establishing a monastery possessed so magnificent a crown i must emphasize that i saw myself in the succession of those who had been victorious over the ottoman empire my parents had already seen me in that succession when they named me constantine in memory of the great emperor of byzantium and i was anxious to fulfil my mission in life of course that could be only one patron for the church who else but the emperor constantine.

constantino as my greek painter could not have guessed the grave consequences his paintings would have i was recording my feet from birth to death when he painted the portraits of the countess geno's and the bronco fans my mother's family and that of my father. here you see me as a child with my immediate ancestors around me i already bear the insignia of future rule and every eye is bent upon me in hope. but as i now know it was not in fact every on. there is my grandfather who raised me and my father the man with the sad expression. i always think i can see that bloody night when he himself was murdered in his eyes. i was only one year old and was saved by a trick my father servant still an infant from a gypsy woman and handed it over to the rebellious boy i was in my place they promptly killed.

the. one with the glowing eyes failed to do these men accomplished stone at constantine and thoma with the sword of the count of the xeno family another artist subsequently over painted their portraits rightly so posterity now no longer sees them feigning to wish me well. instead their gaze is averted the stoli grow to the sultan claiming i had sealed a secret pact with the sultan's enemies in the eyes of the porter i was guilty of high treason. the sultan welcomed the opportunity to deal with me he had long mistrusted my policies now he had a pretext for high treason they could be only one punishment. the.

long long after my death the people of my life yet i was still singing a ballad klingon am romanesque weep people of romania. the ballad imagines the words i would have spoken to the two kind of those who betrayed me if it was to rule that you desired why did you not tell me. i would have granted your request. and you wouldn't ruled in us.

entered the conflict zone confronting the powerful. here in barcelona the battle over catalonia is independent so swung at least for the time being in favor of the spanish government my guest here is alfred bosch leader of the pro independence republican left really now admits that the movement has bitten off way more than it could chew. next on d w. d and count its evening at the elbe film in hamburg on a d.c.

is when asked was that d w coproduction. exceptional artists and lots of music after two thousand and seventeen echo classical man. and sixty minutes don't. think you're smart t.v. smarter d.w. for sure. what you want. to do extraordinary. that you decide what. find out more. dot com smart. here in barcelona the battle over catalonia years independence has swung at least for now in favor of the spanish government madrid is in full control now of the region and there's been little or no sign of the democratic resistance but the

separatists have been asking for my guest here is alfred bosch leader of the pro independence republican left on the city council here will you now admit that the movement has bitten off way more than it can chew. out for bush welcome to conflicts of thank you a new country has been born those were your words big words couple of days ago you spoke too soon didn't you know because the republicans been proclaimed and newly born baby and small it's fragile and we have to make it grow a baby from which the leaders have already fled to belgium to escape possible arrest that's hardly a glorious start to it is that well we might see again something we hadn't seen in

europe for decades which is politicians looking for political asylum within europe so that development we should follow closely but i'm curious start to your to your republic is it shows the nature of the spanish. date and have something which has been eminently democratic which is being done to respond to a popular mandate something like that is absolutely questioned and persecuted by the spanish powers so it shows the nature of your leaders that the first sign of trouble they were worried well obviously we need to pursue an international agenda and the best place to do that is brussels and this isn't pursuing the international agenda this is running the way it let's let's let's call it what it is this wasn't planned was it that they would go off on some trip to consult foreign powers this was to get away from the possibility of being arrested was that well that's the sole reason well obviously the prosecutor came out yesterday and he stated all the

accusations the offenses which hang on these people now one of them is rebellion which could mean up to thirty years and jail the other one is submission up to fifteen years cetera and you have another place apparently they hadn't considered that well that's a bit disproportionate isn't it for somebody who has been democratically elected who has organized a vote and afterwards tries to deliver on that vote now for once that politicians deliver we might as well respect them they really hadn't considered that possibility they did the obvious down the state would level charges not that it has done yet but it's considering ok now the question is why is half of the catalan government here in town in barcelona why is the other half in brussels obviously the half which is which is in brussels is pursuing the international agenda the catalan republic has to be a regular perfectly.