i think the twenty call you gave the cutoff in your. toes i'm going to because i feel i'm telling the famous potato. this is d.w. news the live from berlin international arrest warrants against catalonia as exiled leaders are withdrawn the spanish judge says that he has done it because carlos pushed him off and four other leaders have shown

a willingness to return to spain the move comes as campaigning for catalonia as parliamentary election gets underway we will have the very latest from madrid. also coming up yemen plunges further into an arcade who the rebels celebrate the death of their former ally president ali abdullah saleh he was killed in a rocket and a gun attack as fighting in the country's civil war intensifies. and u.s. president donald trump tames the wild west he slashes protection for wilderness zones of the state of utah it draws protests and lawsuits but also praise from song . i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. we begin with some breaking news from spain where the supreme court has withdrawn an international

arrest warrant for catalonia as former leader carlist pushed a mom pushed him on addressed his supporters via video link from brussels on monday where he has been in self-imposed exile since october as a legal declaration of independence the court of madrid says that it has withdrawn the arrest warrants because the politicians have shown a willingness to return to spain let's get more now from journalist martin roberts who is following the story with us from madrid so martin we just heard the rationale there from the spanish court in order to withdraw this these these arrest warrants why do you think that they have done this now ok well as you say the election campaign officially doesn't the way today pushed him on in the other through former cabinet members in belgium running for public office they can only exercise a thought shows willingness to read what's the first thing he also gave two of the

points very very interesting well is a legal technicality he wants to try then the other nine former cabinet members here on thursday but most importantly of all there's a hearing coming up in belgium on the fourteenth of december and he's not you know it's very very lightly about here in the belgian coast refused to actually pushed him out of the it was on charges of sedition and rebellion and that would severely show you know some of the judge's hands here so i think he's trying to like to have us how is this likely to impact the legitimacy of catalonia his independence claim and what is next for carla's pushed him on. well this is a very interesting question because there's absolutely nothing now to prevent him from returning from all the other hand if he was to do thus he would almost certainly be arrested the question then is whether he can carry on his campaign behind bars in spain which may be no less difficult than doing it but i think you

know conference from belgium the legitimacy well again. you know the nothing to stop him to this but i mean that would severely limits his action and the question is you know if he was the elect it's you know could see in theory yes he crudes they have a member of parliament. how he would actually be able to discharge his juices and whether you know the courts would less and less of a not. a very big question so yes it's a very big question mark over whether it effectively be able to do us martin roberts with the latest from madrid thank you saudi led warplanes are reported to have pounded the capital of yemen after who think rebels killed former president ali abdullah saleh he was fleeing the city after abandoning his alliance with the rebels in yemen's complicated civil war the attackers ambushed sally's vehicle and shot him dead. the house of the ex-president in flames in

front of it supporters of the healthy rebels celebrate the death of the veteran former leader in yemen's capital sanaa who thiis hailed sollars killing as a victory against their sounding led enemy. on this great exceptional historic day the day of the fall of the treasonous conspiracy it's a black day for the aggressor states in their conspiracies against our dear yemeni people. this graphic video likely films by silas killers was widely circulated on the internet on monday it shows what's believed to be the lifeless body of the former strongman wrapped in a blanket and loaded onto a truck that was driven away. after stepping down five years ago salah was long considered an ally of the who sees it in the last few weeks he unexpectedly switched sides and appealed for cooperation with the saudi led coalition sollars

assassination has also shocked yemen's internationally recognized president abdurrahman who months or hardy who's in exile in riyadh he called for resistance against the who face. in the aftermath my condolences to the family and relatives of the former president ali abdullah saleh i call on all the people of our yemeni nation in all the provinces that are still under the control of these terrorist criminal militias to rise up resisting them and renouncing them. observers in yemen bucephalus death as a major setback for the saudi led military alliance and a boost for the who see rebels who now have virtually the entire western part of the country under their control the united nations is warning that the death of the former president will make an already complex civil war even more devastating. and for more let's bring in now damien the goal track he is the u.n.

humanitarian coordinator in yemen and joins us from the capital sanaa welcome to you jamie i want to begin first by asking sell a son we have heard has called for revenge and the arab league has also warns that saleh is death could cause an explosion in the security situation there in yemen how worried are you about a potential increase in violence here and what is the feeling there and sanaa thanks a lot for the last five days people have been under serious fighting on the presence of their own homes on able to get medical treatment and then war and food supplies to edify children and people in very difficult circumstances this is eased up over the last twelve hours or so but there's been no strikes all the same the situation on the ground is very uncertain people don't really know what will come next people are bracing themselves for more airstrikes there were twenty five last night on various buildings in the center of unable to copulate today areas and right now

we're trying to see what humanitarian assistance we can deliver. the populations have been affected i want to talk a little bit more about the humanitarian situation i mean we've heard dire reports of food shortages cholera in fact we hear that nearly a million people are infected with the disease there that's an estimate produced by your organization in fact do you see any hope of getting citizens the help that they need. well i mean the blockade has been in place for about four weeks now that has actually exacerbated three years of conflict and not time we've turned up to a situation where you've got three or famine for seven million people who don't know how they're going to feed themselves the families on a day by day basis they depend on the international humanitarian community at the same time we had one million people or most who are affected by color there's a direct consequence of the collapse of all the health systems in this country and because of that people are very very precarious situation anything that exam as is

there such as the five days of conflict the blockade all of these things just makes the challenges all the more complicated for us to deliver assistance to those populations populations need to assist the poor of a died or whether it was opened very narrowly and we go into course one commercial on one humanitarian that was the north we need the fuel to come through there right now if we don't have fuel and it runs a few weeks more color a lot will probably will bring assistance and this is an essential commodity for us specifically the death of salai how do you see this playing out i mean how do you see this impacting your humanitarian aid efforts in the country well i think it's a very uncertain situation normally in yemen because no one quite knows how things are going to move on now with the reported death of the former president salih it's uncertain no hope of this previous airlines will function and what the reaction will be from the government of yemen so delay caution we are

a very are very concerned about the cause and might meet our difficult work challenge to get assistance at a time when people are starving or suffering from color and other diseases are breaking no so the death of former president salih i think is only added another completely complicating dynamic to a very complex situation. jamie mcgoldrick the u.n. humanitarian coordinator there in yemen thank you so much for telling us a little bit more about the situation there at the moment in sanaa and in the country as well we appreciate it. let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world the u.s. supreme court has allowed president donald trump's travel ban on six muslim majority nations to go into full force the court's decision lifts injunctions issued by lower courts the ban prevents most travelers from iran libya syria yemen somalia and chad from entering the u.s.

as well as some north korea some people from north korea and venezuela it could still be overturned. and president trump has delayed a decision on whether to recognized as the israeli capital and move the u.s. embassy there doing so was one of his campaign pledges the delay comes amid warnings that move in the embassy could spark violence between israelis and palestinians. and also in the united states president trump has ordered the biggest rollback of public land protection in the country's history trumps announcement shrinks to wilderness national monuments created by past democratic presidents in the state of utah by at least half a move that got pro development lawmakers pumped and environmentalist see thing. some of the most glorious natural wonders in the world those are donald trump's own words to describe this federally protected land hundreds of thousands of hectares that make up bears years and grand staircase escalante.

on monday trump took the rare step of massively shrinking these two national monuments the move could open up vast spaces for mining and grazing trump argued the lands protected status is federal overreach. because some people think that the natural resources of you to should be controlled by a small handful of very distant bureaucrats located in washington. and guess what they're wrong. but not everyone in utah is cheering over trump's clawback. thousands of protesters lined up outside the state capital to protest the

announcement environmentalists say it's an abuse of presidential power and native american groups say the move places ancient cliff dwellings and other sacred sites on the land in jeopardy they have filed lawsuits to block the order trump has already called for a review of twenty seven other national monuments with the aim to slash them to. sign up for snow sports news moving along to football in fact and fire munich have a serious score to settle in the champions league tonight they are facing paris long and while the french champions are most likely to win big buyer would love to grab the number one spot and make up for the humiliation of their last encounter. it's not quite mission impossible when byron play host to parry says a man on tuesday night but it's close after losing three nil in paris in september

to top group b. the bavarians need to win by at least four goals p.s.g. have conceded just one in europe all season so no one's expecting a miracle right. about a month after if i use two teams will level at the top of the table and have the same goal difference. say we were playing to win the group. think but we need to stay realistic we're not so presumptuous as to say we're playing to win the so if i miss it's as long as open seek it might be about something else for kingsley come on as a native parisienne and a former p.s.g. youth player c'mon would love to get a result after delivering a largely ineffective performance as a second half sub at the park to plants their much opposite a match is still one that goes through our heads and we'd love to get a little revenge but it's nothing against p.s.g. we want to show europe that we're still here and we're still one of the big teams in the champions league. for p.s.g.

who have done nothing but post blowout wins in the competition thus far that question answers itself they suffered a shock loss in the french league at the weekend albeit with a weakened starting eleven and they still believe they can have the last laugh and . you're watching news still to come in the program facebook is launching a new app for children some experts say the intention is good but others are unsure about the company's true motives. and monica jones will have all that and more coming right out there watching d w i'm sorry for len i'll see you again soon .