the salon i know good quality here when i see it and a good story when i hear it my name is elizabeth dole and i work at studio. this is news live from berlin wake up to the danger that is the message from the ousted catalan leader to the international community as a judge prepares to issue a warrant for his arrest of thousands of cattle and students take to the streets again to protest against the way madrid is handling the crisis but the e.u.

remains firm in its backing of the central government in spain also coming up a separatist leader in nigeria disappears without a trace supporters of nom de koninck say he has not been seen since the military raided his home in september members of his family now fear the worst. and this may look like just another record time but it isn't well explained why this is different and why it is under threat. i'm sorry so much got to thank you for joining us dismissed leader carlos push to ma says he will fight to extradition from belgium if a judge in spain issues a warrant for his arrest as is expected later today the judge jailed nine members of the dismissed cattle on government yesterday one has since been released now

puts them all wants to internationalize the issue but the e.u. says this is a domestic matter the crisis is also dividing opinion on the streets of barcelona. in catalonia one story continues to dominate and on the ground the jailing of its former leaders and an arrest warrant for it to abscond the president is splitting opinion. it's a joke from someone who has fled the conflict. it's a matter of democracy and no longer just a matter of independence but personally i think it's bad news for a government to have political prisoners and it can affect those of us who are in favor of independence. for catalonia as ousted leadership the route to independence has taken them here a jail awaiting the next stage of their inquisition over charges of rebellion. but i just i mean they are here know and they are fine but they are worried about their

families in catalonia as well as in spain they are determined to move forward and hope for our support from the outside. is the most important not among those jailed is this man catalans former president holed up in belgium that is that. it is a grave attack on democracy. imprisoning political leaders who have ample citizen support is an act that violates the basic principle of democracy. carlos bustamante ever returns to face the music he will hope it sounds like this. the speaker of the council on parliament arriving to watch today after appearing in the supreme court she has another week to prepare her defense. well let's bring in our correspondent starlets how some pill is in barcelona and barbara vessel is in brussels good to see you both charlotte let's start with you

what is the situation facing the aid jailed members of the cattle in parliament. well those eight face an extremely heavy sentence if it doesn't go their way rebellion alone one of the charges leveled against them carries thirty years in jail but this person could take years it's long and protracted the big surprise in fact is that they've been jailed so quickly a lot of people were expecting to see them out on bail like one of their former colleagues who is today a free man the other a key former ministers in colors push months government to remain behind bars for the foreseeable future you did mention there that one of these lawmakers was released on bail what can you tell us about his case. yeah he's a very interesting figure he's the former business minister and he was being dealt

with differently by the judges believed because he didn't take part in the independence vote last friday he quit the government before that vote took place so he's now been released on bail he's had to pay fifty thousand years now what's so interesting about him is that he said that he wants to run. for pushing one's party in the election on december twenty first whether or not this is part of a a well crafted plan and that the pro independence leaders wanted to have somebody remaining who is not behind bars we're not yet sure but we know that he certainly divides opinion here in catalonia there are a lot of people who were very angry with him for the first you know taking part in the vote and secondly not being among those who are essentially facing the music today some people have gone so far as to call him a traitor and in the spanish media he's being described as the lonely man you know the one that's on his own while everyone else is facing these very serious charges ok barbara let's come to you in brussels now carlos bustamante will very likely

issue a legal objection to any arrest warrant that is issued what would happen then what kind of legal protections can he expect if any. there is a set process for cases like these if we remember for instance the case of julian is solved in great britain some years ago it was very similar he fought his extradition to sweden for years in in front of british courts and now we're going to see something like this in belgium puts mond can goes through the two instances off the belgian courts to defend himself against the extradition extradition demand that is by the way has not yet arrived on belgium soil it seems and he will cite to the infraction off his basic rights mainly that's what his lawyer says and that's what he himself indicated so he has some months to go and in order to suit if not to go to spain also his lawyer has suggested that the spanish authorities could

talk to him on videoconference however given the severity off the charges as mentioned by childhood that is very unlikely they're going to do that so they will insist off his extradition bot it will take some time barbara belgium is a difficult case on its hands here what is the government there saying about the situation. the government would rather he would sort of to solve into thin air particularly the villone and pardon the french speaking part of the government here in belgium because they have had secession problems in the past of course and these in the main coalition party is a party which is the flame machine national party here has had strong ideas about sort of splitting off from belgium and sort of really tearing the country into that has quieted down that now in government they're behaving somewhat more responsibly however some of their ministers have already spoken up in defense of cards put

demond and said it was all this was against democracy and people shouldn't be put in jail for voicing ideas like that and so chaunce michel the belgian prime minister really has big problem on his hands he tries to keep the ball really low he has shot up during the last days he's not talking anymore however everybody fears that the whole thing dragging on for months and months in front of build from court belgian courts could turn into a sort of fragmentation grenade for the politically fragile situation in belgium idea of his barber of a cell for us in brussels and a charlotte shell some pill in barcelona thank you both. well catalonia as most are independents are being watched by separatist movements in many parts of the world in nigeria a group called the indigenous people of biafra is calling for an independent state in the south east of the country it is an old demand that sparked a bloody civil war fifty years ago w.

visited the home of the independence movement leader nom de canio who went missing in september his disappearance has fueled fears of new violence this is a statue of nom de condo with its arms chopped off the real name become who has disappeared. i witnesses say security forces stormed his house in southeastern nigeria in september he has not been seen since the army says he fled but this man believes he was killed i would say it will be the case a member of the separatist i.p.o. be the indigenous people of be up for up he has been on guard at his leaders house since it was raided and conduit himself disappeared so from that joyce hsiang did do that then just over that we had a physician to do. so most of us was somewhere like america we. some of the separatists proved what they believed was a military operation says that twenty people were killed after the brother

of the missing separatist leader flinch and. after many unsuccessful attempts to protect him he agreed to meet us he says the actions of the nigerian military has made to the i.p.o. be even more determined to carry on. to asking for a friend i'm is not asking for. one to three people on don't open achieve that is through referendum. and that's what my leadership and that's what everybody believes in today the government has rejected the separatists it's it says an independence referendum would be unconstitutional and dangerous. the information minister says all the governors in the region the same opinion because shows will get is transmitted to the people and then we'll go into the and quot region in the kind of five to titian that leads to the most of life's fear of an escalating conflict is growing among the population nigerians in the south east of the country

have long felt sidelined and neglected but many do not sympathize with the radical approach of the b a friend separatists this increasingly harsh exchange of words on both sides of the conflict son subparts of an independent speak about the destruction of nigeria the government on the other side because the separatist movement a terrorist organisation most observers doubt that in the current political climate a peaceful referendum which be possible. now some to some other stories making news around the world u.s. soldier bowe bergdahl will not go to prison for deserted his post in afghanistan in two thousand and nine but a military judge ordered him to be dishonorably discharged and reduced to the rank of private prosecutors were seeking fourteen years in jail for bergdahl for endangering his fellow soldiers he was captured by the taliban and spent five years in captivity u.s. president donald trump has left washington ahead of his first official tour of asia

the president and first lady will first stop off in hawaii before heading to japan trump has extended his already lengthy trip on told nov fourteenth to attend the east asia summit tensions over north korea are expected to dominate the trip and the maltese journalist who was killed in an apparent assassination last month has been laid to rest closer a hometown daphne cut a one ago died in a car bombing maltose prime minister said the family had denied his request to attend the funeral i don't want to go there was a fierce critic of the prime minister malta has declared a national day of mourning. now scientists have discovered a new type of wrong a town in indonesia it is the first time in nearly one hundred years that a new species of great ape has been identified researchers say it's had a voice and eating habits are different from any other orangutan but they already fear for its survival. say hello to your new cousin no we're not monkeying

around this frenzy had fellow is the latest member of the great ape family his last name is pronto tappan newly insists to the untrained eye he may look like any other around newton but when an older member of the family died in twenty thirteen after a brutal confrontation with local villagers researches took a closer look. what they found was remarkable the test results published in the journal current biology revealed the animals have smaller heads and frizzy affirm the top a newly orangutan was its own distinct species. long called the whole the voice of the language of the wrong times is already different . but also they're living in a very high altitude habitat and they're really in the fruits of various tree species that nobody's ever seen them eat. just one there may not be much time to

celebrate there are only eight hundred left the least of any great ape species the biggest threat comes from a distant relative humans. anthropologist michael chris and was one of the lead researchers on the study earlier he told us about the timeline of how this species evolved so that we interesting point is it's a very small population that seems to be a remnant population of the first orangutans that actually went down to what is also mark. from the mainland asia and they seem to be direct descendants and then there was one split about more than three million years ago and that formed during that and not of sumatra and the second split about six hundred thousand years ago which were born in a ring but there were temporarily ends is there pretty much you know a direct line to the first orangutans that went on to the island. anthropologist michael crichton speaking to us earlier from zurich you're watching news still to

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