it's words and language it brought forth a ripples of nationalism. the soviet union's heritage where does russia stand today moscow's empire we're serious starting november fifth. this is deja vu news live from berlin a new twist in the catalan crisis a prosecutor in spain is calling for the arrest of the region's dismissed leader carlos bustamante he's in brussels and is refusing to return to spain to answer questions about his role in the region's declaration of independence. also coming

up the man accused of carrying out the new york terror attack tells the court he feels good about what he has done donald trump says the suspect should be given the death penalty. and will take a look at why some hindu nationalists want to demolish the taj mahal it's causing big controversy in india. i'm sumi so misconduct at the have you with us spain's state prosecutor is asking a judge to issue a european arrest warrant for dismissed a catalan leader carlos bustamante and some of his ex deputies who are in belgium with him this comes after pushed him off failed to show up in madrid for questioning about his role in catalonia declaration of independence back in spain nine other former members of his regional government have appeared. court and

spanish prosecutors have requested their detention the ousted politicians are under investigation for rebellion and sedition meanwhile protesters have gathered in barcelona to express support for the separatists. let's bring in our correspondents barbara basal is in brussels and charlotte shell some pill is in barcelona with the latest good to see you both barbara let's come to you in brussels first spain state prosecutor now requesting a european arrest warrant for and some of his ex deputies has there been any reaction there in brussels. very dry comment off the state prosecution office here in belgium and that says as soon as the arrest warrant iran is here in brussels the law will be applied no that means because this is merely an in a purely judicial process between the two authorities in spain and here in belgium which means that then the belgium police will probably arrest karla's demand

they will maybe put him under supervision in any case they have to make sure that he doesn't flee again because that he has left spain they'd prosecution there and so of course there is the risk that he might do it again so for the bajan. that means there is a flight risk they more or less have to arrest him and then the whole process starts rolling down barbara if we do feel this one step further could carlos push him on an e.u. citizen be extradited to spain. this whole european arrest warrant it regulates the relatively easy and formalistic sort of educational procedure for extraditing one citizen to another that you stayed where that prison is supposed to have infringed the law and is being sought by the courts that's the purpose of the whole thing so basically yes he needs to go he can appeal before the belgium court there are some grounds for appeal the chances are not very high for

success he can make time he can sort of push this further later into into the winter basically the belgium has sixty days to extradite to put him on and we will see how this plays out traditionally. try to stay here for as long as possible but his chances of winning this case are basically nil all right charlotte let's come to you in barcelona now where there have been a pro independence protests today how people there been reacting to this escalating crisis surrounding pooja ma and members of colonial government. that's right just a short time ago there was an enormous crowd of pro independence supporters behind me they were here to greet several returning catalan officials who faced the supreme court today to offer their support they were chanting that they were behind

them and that they did not belong in prison earlier today we also had a similar protests outside the regional government office people were saying that that pushed him on is a hero you do of course have a divide though from people here in catalonia it cannot be forgotten that more than half the population isn't in favor of independence and will be looking with a very critical eye at the proceedings that have followed that independence declaration on friday. we heard what barbara said it looks to be a difficult case for carlos bush to ma and he's facing charges of sedition and rebellion but carry long sentences so are some of his deputies what is at stake here for catalonia. well we've got this election that's happening on december twenty first and of course it's going to be crucial to see whether or not the leaders of this independence movement all in prison at that point it certainly does look like that's going to be the case so the key question is how exactly are they going to fight an election behind bars or whether indeed they can

surely as well without them there are going to be some questions as to whether or not it's the independence movement can survive and whether we're just going to see an election where pro independence posses can't run and which case will be a lot of people wondering whether or not it's going to be a fair representation of how people feel here in catalonia about this independence movement charlotte shells from hell in barcelona and barbara vessel in brussels thank you both for your insights. not to the u.s. where donald trump has renewed calls for the death penalty to be handed to the suspect in tuesday's attack in new york city the accused sipho low sipar waived his right to silence and told authorities he was inspired to kill by the so-called islamic states online propaganda meanwhile u.s. president trump has called for capital punishment first type of tweeting he killed eight people and should get the death penalty family and friends of the victims

have been holding vigils in their memory let's bring in our washington bureau chief alexander phenomena with the latest hi alexandria could donald trump's death penalty remarks actually jeopardize a fair trial well actually it is possible donald trump's remarks could have consequences because he's demand for their specialty for the suspect could be seen as a public intervention that could in their case and that could come back and haunt prosecutors and help defense attorneys defense attorneys could use those remarks now to argue that they're a client has no chance of getting a fair trial and that is actually why presidents are normally advised not to weigh in on pending criminal cases meanwhile xander this investigation is continuing as you said any new details have emerged about the suspect and the attack. well

actually we actually we are learning more and more details of the suspects personality we know nor know that they he had been planning this attack for about a year that he to test run in a rental truck last week and then decided to choose halloween to carry out his tag hoping that more people would be at this time on the streets he is being described by the investigators as a voracious consumer of propaganda the f.b.i. found about four thousand pictures as a seated with. state on his cell phone they also found about ninety views including feed years of my ass or i asked fighters killing prisoners and the suspect himself told the end this to gators that he was inspired

by a video in which the leader of the so-called islamic state. was questioning what muslims in the united states and elsewhere were doing to responds to killing or for muslims in iraq and alexander we understand that the f.b.i. have identified a second back man who they're calling a person of interest what more do you know about him well the f.b.i. released a poster yesterday saying that they were looking for this man the main suspects associates and then only after. time they said that they found this man but they didn't want to comment on him or to say whatever he is providing them with any important information. alexander phenomena reporting for us from washington thank you alexandra. you're watching news still to come some hindu

nationalists want to demolish the taj mahal and it's causing a huge controversy in india we'll find out what's going on. that story in a moment but first a big announcement from the bank of england today yes the b. o.e. has raised its key interest rate for the first time in over a decade from one quarter of a percent to half a percent the u.k. is at a very uncertain crossroads as to where briggs it is going to take the nation b.-o. a governor mark carney says it's time to tighten policy despite the british economy's sluggish performance this year he expects only very gradual further increases over the next few years. over to all but a financial correspondent is following this story from frankfurt only have i understood this right at the central bank is basically trying to break the break that fall that's right it's not like in the united states where the fact that fed

is raising interest rates because the economy is going along at such a good clip and the labor market is stronger and getting ever stronger no thanks it is making itself felt in the british isles and above all in terms of inflation everything that's imported is now more expensive since the brics it because the pound the currency has fallen so drastically at the moment it's around fourteen percent below where it was before that for exit vote investors worldwide are just weren't that confident that the british economy would make it through unscathed and that's basically the case the british economy is weak so this is an interest rate hike out of weakness believing that with higher interest rates the pound becomes stronger and thus buying power returns at least a little bit inflation goes down leading to a healthier economy but i guess this would also hurt brits. it would hurt those with a mortgage for example anyone with credit on their books and for many people

a report said today you know people who took out a mortgage in the last ten years for many of them it will be the first interest rate hike and they will be looking who can i afford the mortgage with perhaps more interest rate hikes coming for savers different story other side of the coin they're looking at that better yields for importers means better conditions but for for exporters that means worse conditions if the pound indeed does go up and their terms of trade worsen could be another blow to the economy and britain the markets took a differently the pound went down because of you mentioned the gradually. mark carney saying that any increases further would be gradual the market took that to say that the pound won't strengthen very very much and the footsie the market went up to the positives and negatives of the b o e's rate rise from all the banks in frankfurt

and from one central bank to the next us president donald trump is due to announce his pick for the new leader of the federal reserve who's going to take the helm of the world's most important central bank increasing number of reports reckon he will drug power a fed governors in two thousand and twelve he's a centrist on monetary policy and is known as pragmatic and down to earth. the head of the u.s. federal reserve is the most powerful central banker in the world some past fed chairman have even attained near cult status like alan greenspan he opened the money floodgates and sent equity markets into a feeding frenzy it led to a time of unprecedented growth fueled by credit. until the bubble burst in two thousand and seven unleashing a global financial crisis greenspan wasn't around anymore it was his successor ben bernanke who had to do the damage control but he kept monetary policy loose the u.s. economy had gotten used to extremely low interest rates a rapid reversal would have caused shocks to the system but it was business as

usual under his successor janet yellen at least at first now she's opened the door to gradual rate increases amid stable growth in the us. federal reserve stronger intervention in the economy stands in contrast to the policies of the european central bank which has favored a lighter touch and focuses on inflation the fed reacts to developments in the job market yemen's term ends in february. jerome powell is the man tipped to replace or the former investment banker is a republican and already part of the fed's governing board markets look ready to welcome such a choice he's nomination would signal continuity theoretically stanford university economist john taylor remains a candidate but his chances are slim analysts caution that he might be quick to tighten policy. janet yellen would normally be expected to serve

a second term but because she was appointed by former president barack obama that is out of the question for the current white house by replacing a fed chairman only after one term president donald trump looks set to break another tradition. and let's talk about this with the from our business desk last year a long time wall street correspondent for us did a lot of reporting on the fed would be a good choice absolutely ben he is a solid choice more than anything he has been with the feds for about five years on the board of governors so he has some experience however and that's very interesting about him as opposed to all his predecessors he has no what you would call formal training if you will in terms of monetary policy or monetary economics he has not studied that field he comes from the feel of law and a lot of years in the private sector so he's relatively new to the federal budgets been there for about five years could he breathe fresh air into the board system

while a new chairman i guess always brings a little bit of fresh air but he will not bring a bigger changes he has over the last five years always consistently voted with janet yellen. and that was during the time when they health interest rates are lowered almost zero percent and he has also voted with her when the fed started raising rates so we will not i cannot possibly see how we will see a big change here why replace yellen in the first place i mean continuity is a good thing for the markets. i guess this comes down to a political choice oh absolutely it's a trump move absolutely ben we know president trump and we know that he is not himself very policy oriented he does not understand or care about the details of economic policy what was very important for him is just to put his own mark on the fed he actually said that himself in interviews to he just wanted to nominate somebody it was actually funny that he was all over the map with these candidates

he had harsher candidates yet hawks wanted interest rates to go higher he had one of them to go lower and he didn't even care he just wanted his own person there and that's what he's doing is making actually a very informed and a very good choice so it looks like we're going to get a republican but is it a one hundred percent certainty i mean could we see a last minute tweet it doesn't look like it anymore we've seen a lot of reports on paula now in the last couple of minutes too but of course this is still president trump making a decision so you can always be in for a surprise if he does just reconfirm yellen i wouldn't be surprised at all she would be a good choice as well i don't expect it at this moment lots of the thank you very much facebook shares are taking a big fold despite the social media giant reporting a surge in quarterly profits found among says they'll have to take security steps which will impact that profitability facebook is in the hot seat in the u.s. the way it handled political ads allowing the spread of russian propaganda to

influence last year's presidential poll. some of facebook's huge profits came from entities that wanted to influence the u.s. election the internet giant has now admitted that fake accounts created in so-called troll factories and russia had an impact with posts that were widely shared the question is how big of an impact. the messages were incendiary that were heavily partisan the content is really really striking and that's the kind of stuff that gets shared for free and you don't have to pay to get that to too many people one of facebook's legal advisers has admitted that the platform should have done more tech clamp down on fake accounts the most recent numbers indicate that in the space of the two years ahead of the last election one brush based group generated some eighty thousand posts that reached around one hundred twenty six million users that's roughly half of the people eligible to vote in the u.s. election facebook says it's now taking steps to address the problem c.e.o.

and founder mark zuckerberg has said he wants to beef up tools to prevent misuse. protecting our community he said is more important than maximizing our profits. and that protection won't come cheap facebook says it will be doubling the number of reviewers and security personnel that's ten thousand new positions critics say the move is overdue and that facebook has ignored hate speech and propaganda on the world's largest social media platform for far too long. there's still no sign of a breakthrough in germany's coalition talks the parties are trying to hammer out an agreement on forming a government but negotiations are becoming increasingly contentious the greens have accused the free democrats of using populist platitudes the free democrats have called for more mutual respect. they're putting on a brave face but the road to

a so-called jamaica coalition remains rocky the talks of proof that old habits die hard the greens are now locking horns with their would be partners over key issues if there's one thing they can all agree on it's pointing fingers. isn't it we used to stressing the differences between our parties and the f.d.p. are not exactly helping to ease the tensions. interviews despite their differences the business friendly f.t.p. remains confident they'll reach a compromise. there are a number of issues we do agree on that is also important to mention we all want to strengthen the e.u. and nato we have some common ground on diplomacy development aid and security. strengthening nato that's one policy the greens can get behind at least in theory but as they say the devil's in the details. this should not be just about investing

that abstract number of two percent for defense that won't make the world a safer place. and there are other issues but. we need to agree on the fact that turkey cannot be a full member of the european union. with so many differences some are questioning whether the coalition talks will ever truly take off now to some other stories making news around the world in afghanistan at least fifteen people have been killed and dozens injured in a fuel tanker bombing officials said an explosive device triggered the blast which in golf nearby vehicles in a town northwest of couple there was no media claim of responsibility gavin williamson has been appointed britain's new defense minister he replaces michael fallon who has resigned after allegations emerged about inappropriate sexual behavior fallon's departure as the latest twist in a growing scandal over abuse in the u.k.'s corridors of power. and on sunset she

made her first visit has made mars later to the state of rocky not where she met villagers more than half a million more had to have fled to neighboring bangladesh to escape violence and persecution sochi has been under intense international pressure over her response to what the u.n. has called ethnic cleansing now india's most famous monument the taj mahal is at the heart of a political controversy some hindu nationalists are calling for it to be demolished they say the muzzle liam built by a muslim emperor does not reflect indian culture one lawmaker described it as a blot on indian culture. this majestic mausoleum was named one of the new seven wonders of the world ten years ago. the taj mahal draws eight million visitors per year prince william of wales and his wife kate middleton

among them the taj mahal commissioned in sixteen thirty two took twenty one years to build the john intended it as a memorial to his favorite wife mahal but this long revered symbol of love is now being scorned by hindu fundamentalists because it was built by a muslim. any moment built by muslims can not be our national pride. there are the monuments of slavery they are the monuments. they are the moments of. hindu nationalists see the taj mahal as a tribute to muslim conquerors who occupied india in the sixteenth century they believe it was built on top of an older hindu temple the tension the higher they want the hindu temple to be excavated even if that means demolishing the taj mahal . just like the people of germany that broyard this wall of.

wall in the same way this. monument this should be reconverted into a jew. only then it will become a symbol of. the controversy has dominated headlines in india for dancers members of the ruling d.j. p. party in parliament support the calls of the fundamentalist that's why the chief minister of the state of death was compelled to make a demonstrative visit to the taj mahal. wearing the robe of devout hindus a degenerate is known as a hard liner but in a symbolic appearance meant to put an end to the dispute he insisted the taj mahal would remain standing his a close confidant of indian prime minister narendra modi who has himself used famous muslim buildings like the red ford in delhi to showcase india as a regional superpower critics say modi's party politics are dividing the country

and pitting the hindu majority against the muslim minority muslims in india say they feel socially and economically marginalized by the b j p government hardline hindu nationalists now want to restrict religious freedom to they say that muslim prayer or no mas should be forbidden at the taj mahal. when it is. being maintained by archaeological department. and thus the taj mahal status as a symbol of love is being overshadowed by irreconcilable differences between religious groups in india. fan press and sports now and in baseball the houston astros won the world series for the first time in the club's history the best of seven contests against the los angeles dodgers went right to the wire but the astros pulled off a solid victory in the decisive game two the other uttered the light of their fans . for this is the moment fifty five years of hurt finally came to an end.

fans watching on the big screen it's houston's home stadium went wild as they saw their team become world series champions in enemy territory oh it was history in the making and a big moment for the city after recent events. you didn't. do was do good was. an exploded out of the blocks a game seven hitting five home runs in the first two innings george springer was the hero as he hit a home run for the fourth consecutive game from their houston held out the dodgers winning the decider five one to seal a memorable first championship. thousands are still displaced following hurricane harvey's devastation this victory was a boost for the whole city. and everyone down oh no not put down so crickets that

they gave us some hope for yourself then it's you who are here now we're here every of the what a good. after fifty five years waiting for glory the party in houston will be left out and proud. to football and in the champions league it was a tough night for german sides rb life six path to the next round got tougher after they were defeated by porto three one dortmund meanwhile on the brink of elimination after their one one draw at home to cypriot side apo well rafael guerrero opened the scoring in the first half of returning to the pitch after a long term injury even the score in the second half through mikhail protests and dortmund didn't have an answer all tottenham hotspur stiffy defeat of real madrid keep start means hopes alive just barely. thanks for watching today if you were

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