searchers fighting against him seem to be. starting january seventh. this is news live from berlin police say a car was deliberately crashed into. the s.u.v. was driven into a crowd outside the main train station injuring more than a dozen people including children two men have been arrested the latest from australia. polls have opened in catalonia for today's crucial election it's

a barometer of support for independence from spain all the region seats are up for grabs after madrid dissolved a separatist parliament and its leader. and the trial opens for the man charged with carrying out a bomb attack on football team. bus investigators say it had nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with money. good to have you with us police in australia say a man intentionally crashed his vehicle into a crowd during rush hour in south central melbourne at least fourteen people have been injured several seriously the driver and a second man were taken into custody soon after the incident that occurred just after four forty five local time in an area packed with holiday shoppers.

the tragedy in the center of. a white s.u.v. barreled at high speed and to pedestrians just off to four thirty pm local time with authorities say more than a dozen people injured many have been taken to hospital including a toddler with serious head injuries. the driver of the car and a passenger in it have been arrested police are investigating whether the incident is terror related at this stage we believe he's i don't leave work however we do not know that my device and the seal in early stages of the investigation. the collision happened at the busy flinders street and elizabeth street junction outside the central train station the area was packed with shop as just a few days before christmas. it's another devastating incident for the city in january six people died after a man drove a car into a crowd in

a nearby spot. and let's go straight to melbourne didn't you correspondent dieter herman a standing by for a state or tell us more about what's been happening well i've been there about half an hour before it happened actually it was really packed with people absolutely packed with people not only shoppers the commuters as well it's about a kilometer away from here and maybe you can spot it behind me through the window of my hotel room the car crashed into the tram station and destroyed a lot of people in the air not just a lot of people in the area fourteen almost little guys as far as we know and finally came to stop the two people from the from the vehicle the two men from the vehicle were pulled out by bystanders and the police was on the spot only about a minute or two minutes after the whole thing happened. authorities saying that

this was a deliberate attack what are they saying about it possibly being terror related. they don't say that they are not sure what the reasons but this is attack it was then i absolutely show that it was a deliberate because the call was very very focused of two hundred kilometers per hour when the crashed into the people but they are not sure if it's terrorism related and they are still working on our idea of you correspondent peter herman reporting at the very latest from melbourne here thank you now rescue crews are trying to save people from a passenger ferry that sank off the eastern coast of the philippines authorities say two hundred fifty one people were on board the boat is understood to have capsized in rough waters off the coast of real town and crews on province around seventy kilometers east of the capital manila the local media reporting several

deaths but this has not been confirmed conditions have been poor in recent days due to a passing tropical storm now to some other stories making headlines around the world british prime minister theresa may has forced one of her key cabinet allies to resign after an investigation concluded he had breached the ministerial code damian green was found to have made misleading comments about pornography discovered on his parliamentary computers nine years ago he's admitted to making misleading statements but said he never reviewed the born south korea says its soldiers fired warning shots at north korean border guards after they chased a defector official say twenty shots were fired when the guards approached the demarcation line between the two sides they were pursuing a north korean soldier the second to defect to the south in around five weeks thousands of people have marched in peru to shore their support for the country's embattled president publicly since he is facing a congressional impeachment vote for allegedly receiving money from

a construction company implicated in latin america's biggest corruption scandal. tonight any wrongdoing in accuses the opposition of staging a coup. turning now to spain where voters in catalonia are casting their ballots in a hotly contested election seen as a gauge of support for independence polls have opened around the region and a record turnout is expected the election comes two months after the region declared independence following a referendum opposed by madrid spanish authorities responded to that with a crackdown arresting separatist leaders and calling snap elections madrid hopes today's vote will put an end to the political crisis. you call him about his companion for independent catalonia the pianist and her friends think that madrid stands for spain of the past. and.

the independence movement in catalonia really wants to change things for the better than people in the rest of spain don't necessarily agree with that our parliament for example approved a law giving people the right to receive gas and electricity even if they can't afford it but the central government then overturned the law but we don't have a common future with madrid and. we are not going to do that. but the group has been plastering makeshift posters like these all across catalonia but you didn't expect to get involved in this campaign until a little while ago independence how do you thin an option for oil initially i wanted to very against independence and the referendum it was after all a united country would have had more means to improve in citizens' life but when i saw how the police were breaching voters something inside me broke to pieces i couldn't help but say that it was that. the referendum was

a turning point for many people here but that doesn't mean that they are any closer to agree with each other quite the contrary the catalans are more divided than ever . yama vivus has always apace independence but it wasn't until after october's referendum that he took to the streets for the first time to express that sentiment along with hundreds of thousands of others he finally felt accepted by his home region. a lot of bullied example his our country is based on stigma if we say something that is considered politically incorrect we are socially has a fight here in catalonia speaking out of favor for united spain was for a long time. we didn't dare to be. but the referendum and what happened at the time was so ridiculous that we lost our fear of stigmata really finally found the courage to speak our minds. jamo recently started

a satirical you tube channel in one of his videos he proclaims a catalonian republic from his balcony he wants people to laugh about a topic he thinks is being taken too seriously he's also calling for a conciliation not of political or politicians have broken our society but we shouldn't forget the neighbor he's been against the war in favor of independence to know is that our neighbor and not our enemy that we need to learn to appreciate each other again but even as even if we don't agree with each other. but gentleman knows reconciliation will take years he intends to keep on making his videos and hopes that one day they will make even independence supporters laugh. let's go to our correspondent barbara valle she is in barcelona for us today covering the story hi barbara are we expecting a high turnout today. yes indeed sumi i'm told so say that up to ninety percent of people could turn out to the polling booths today

we see one behind us we've seen people streaming into it since nine o'clock this morning and so that means that everybody pretty much you can walk and hold a pen will turn out because the political emotions are really running high here in catalonia and we see the two camps the pro independence camp and the un to end time independence camp we see them really not reconciled at all we see a lot of animosity on both sides and everybody really tries out to show their political vote their political opinion however many fear that the vote in the end might be inconclusive and that we'll see like a fifty fifty situation so barbara does that mean that people from both camps are turning out today. pretty much so because what we have here is a strong case of identity politics that has been pushed by the pro independence party throughout the last five years more or less and there are many people who

also resent this and so we see something that we had a lot of propaganda really in schools here in the university in the local media in the local t.v. station for instance that was by the government really turned into a propaganda tool for independence and there are many people who are fed up of this who said we want to return to our normal lives we don't want to be bothered by this nationalism and who resented and on the other hand side of course you see the very strong supporters of nationalism which is sort of really like a religious which has a religious fervor to it almost how significant is this vote is this going to be the day that decides how long is future. it is difficult because nobody can really see a way out the political parties on the spectrum are on the pro and against they still maintain that they don't want to talk to each other they still say that they

would not get into a government with the others they still say that they can see a way forward some sort of reconciliation to talk to madrid to find a solution that is legal and peaceful at the same time and that would bring people back together so the vote it's the reticule e could be decisive if it creates a clear majority. if what what the poso say happens that it's going to be until inconclusive then again we'll see an impasse we'll see people stuck in the rut of the strong emotions and sort of politics that don't really happen that don't work for people and barbara looking at the larger implications i imagine the e.u. is looking at this vote very closely. the e.u. wants to for this problem to go away go away totally and quickly because of course everybody fears in europe that either independence movements could be stirred up in belgium for instance the flame issue independence pro independence party was sort

of making movements and and sort of getting together was karl is put him on the leader of the pro independent she says he who fled to belgium from here and nothing happened so far but for the european union this is threat it does not want europe to be splintered into seventy tiny little statelets it says in brussels they say that we want they want to tear down borders not to create new borders and that's what the independence movement here really does create new nationalism create new borders in europe and new divisions and that is from the eyes of the european you've seen from the eyes of the european union very. barbara they saw reporting from barcelona catalonia goes to the polls thank you barbara let's return to that story we brought you just a short while ago from the philippines the rescue crews are trying to save people from a passenger ferry that sank off the eastern coast of the country and we can talk to

or did you correspondent genoud to milan she's following the latest from manila gennaro the rescue operation is still underway what more can you tell us. exactly still needed to clean coast guard is saying that there are seven on thirty five number of casualties but the number that is floating around at least locally could even move out the two years that four bodies have been retrieved from the water or not least one hundred twenty nine people have been saved although i witness accounts are also pouring in people are calling into radio stations saying that. the boat was forced to stop after the rain from the pick up pace and that passengers had gone to the side of the boat slightly ported over and one was even chained data as they were twinning to safety they did see especially all people who couldn't be saved and more to try obviously this event an ongoing story see that's all there is so their rescue helicopters are still on the scene and we're expected to learn more from them as the coast guard again is expected to release more

information later or as you know these journals do milan a general thank you very much for bringing us up to date. are moving now and it's a big deal for lufthansa and its hangar look has a futures hang in the balance today don't you those robin looks like clear skies ahead with brussels had to approve the german airlines partial takeover of yet as lufthansa grows so do concerns that it could become far too dominant. opportunity in the demise of its one time rival with. the faction carrier could take on a new groups as well as the aircraft and employees to service them. it's originally proposed to take over this included two subsidiaries that plan sparked e.u. concerns of a competition responded last week with a more modest proposal dropping the purchase of austrian fly and nicky together and

instead of the original eighty one craft it wanted to buy it would now buy just sixty a green light from brussels raises other questions first among them who will buy the line nicky which remains insolvent there are already a number of interested biasing polluting the original form a austrian racing car driver niki lauder yet another decision for a turbulent european airline market. is in frankfurt forest and that it seems likely that the e.u. competition commission will essentially be approving a monopoly when it comes to some routes is it a necessary deal or a dereliction of duty for the regulator why probably it's a mixed bag when you look at the results which are expected to come out from the commission or thora the competition or thirty so reuters is reporting that the compromise is that giving up on lending and starting riots and sold off and also in

the future would not expand its presence in the gulf in order not to have a monopoly there but of course there are other strategies and there are the best in nations where they really will have one and i guess that the competition authorities will monitor of the pricing policy or flow found that very carefully going forward ok and also tourists are affected there's been a knock on effect at least for the tourism industry. yes the tourist authority in berlin is saying that because of the demise of lenin there are fewer flights into the german capital and that it's really get yet kind of the or is an industry is feeling that very terribly in the month of october november red day with numbers down by as much as seven percent of course going forward the hope is that lufthansa. sort of service many of those flights which have not been serviced

when belin sees to offer them so from january on that there's hope that they will be again more flights into a billion well it's hardly say when you consider a billion subsidiary mickie has been hung out to dry last tons was blocked from taking them over what will be nicky's face. yet actually it looks at the fate of nicky it looks quite promising because to be fair nicky has been operating mainly very lucrative destination such as my dog car for example and then number of this and we probably get the results or the we get the results from the is from the authorities as soon as today as well for nicky who is going to win the bidding for the carrier all right and then to thank you very much for that analysis for us. they're disappointed pilots unions speaking to budget airline ryanair for the very

first time in the company's history the reason the discontent islands ryanair have refused to negotiate with the unions on pilots' pay the airline says it will answer a number of proposals and whiten by noon today the unions have threatened to go on strike again if the deadline passes without a satisfactory reply. at one immutable and rather obvious fact a brac said great britain is surrounded by water that means up ports are not only a vital lifeline for british trade with the e.u. but also stands to be huge bottlenecks massively increased customs inspections post would hold up cross border business news bigot months reports from dove everything runs like clockwork in dover there's many as ten thousand trucks pass through the port every day there are a few formalities as most of the traffic involves the european union that could all change after bricks it john surely has been

a holy or here for twenty years his office is right next to the port he specializes in shipments to and from eastern europe there or thereabouts that way for moldova. we could do it first though for sure we don't have a customs office as we do of the letters in the parking space for five trucks can we get. to you. this is right we're calling it is economic suicide john's big worry is that if customs documents are needed again waiting times could massively increase this trucker knows his boss in that case would simply avoid doing business with the u.k. . for days in dover. and. rose to germany. through latvia or someone from serbia. customs paperwork for nonnie you countries is processed in a small hotel at the moment that makes up

a small portion of the overall traffic less than one percent about five hundred trucks a day customs broker alfie matthews processes the documents by hand an elaborate computer system would be needed to get through more we could have a deal with europe that or european trucks don't need examinations so they don't have to stay here they could drive straight through paperwork could be done electronically there wouldn't be any queues but as things stand there is neither a sophisticated computer system nor a deal with the e.u. britain urgently needs a solution there's nowhere to park any more trucks. is there room for oh i don't have a truck here i hear odd sorry mary. there are thirty ten thousand a day room you see in the cliffs. but true.

without a clear way forward dover will become a bottleneck in the absence of a better computer system or a deal with brussels the traffic jams could stretch over twenty kilometers in britain and on the continent. now to a major court case beginning here in germany soon daniel the trial is starting today are for the man charged with carrying out a bomb attack on the bristly dortmund team bus in april the suspect has been charged with attempted murder causing an explosion and serious bodily harm now at first investigators thought the incident was terrorist related but now they believe the motivation for the attack was greed. fans had already started gathering in the stadium for dortmund's champions league match against monaco but dortmund didn't make it there that night just as they left the hotel shortly after seven pm the team bus was rocked by several blasts glass shattered

dortmund defender mark barr truck and a police officer were injured. i was taken to hospital for surgery on a fractured wrist. the buses reinforced windows prevented further injuries. police discovered three homemade explosive devices packed with shards of metal plates than bushes by the roadside a shaken dortmund team lost against monaco when they played their reshaped match the next evening. the authorities first line of inquiry a terror plot letters left at the scene claimed the attack was retaliation for german military operations against so-called islamic state in iraq and syria. ten days later police arrested a twenty eight year old german russian national identified only as surrogate w. the motive of the attack not terrorism but greed the suspect had taken out options

on thousands of dortmund shares betting that an attack would send prices plummeting and net him millions. dortmund were in action on the field on wednesday in a blockbuster german cup clash against wonderfully the leaders by munich the last sixteen encounter came with both sides in good form us they could only be one winner. dortmund beat by a long route to winning the cup last season i did win two in a row new coach peter shergold but winning at the audience of in a is tough for any team. and button made a fast start in the twelve minutes nicklaus soothers headed to talk to the robo it's a pilot in the rebound it was his first ever could go and get by and they deserve lee. but don't want almost levelled on thirty five minutes when the ball ran through to under ya malenko but cleared off the line. soon after though by and

doubled their lead when a well move was expertly finished through must move the the bye and fans knew they'd seen something special at a rough time in front of goal in the last two seasons but you wouldn't know it. goldman pulled one back midway through the second half or young malenko to set up a grandstand finish but it wasn't to be for the holders of first defeat for a while mighty buy and go through to the quarterfinals. of biron and dortmund weren't the only sides in german cup action on wednesday bremen came out on top in a high scoring clash with fiberglass while leverkusen defeated mention gladbach thanks to a goal from leon bailey last season's runners up frankfurt needed extra time to get past second time shelter were among those to win on tuesday the draw is next month with the quarter final ties taking place in early february fifth and in another kind of competition wigan in northwest england is holding the world piii eating championships it is the twenty fourth time the pine mad town as host at this of

that. in this corner of the world it's the stuff of legend there's a way to figure out the city but. it is true. that if you. delete. the rules a simple. one of the famous meats and potato pies as quickly as possible it's such a challenge the brave folk of wait until you go every year each eager to claim the title world champion pai. will go to hold lengths to secure victory i'm fortunate because as you know it's an international sporting competition that was thinking very seriously and you know what i do often don't tell you how to test if you know and to help make sure that two hundred ten balls and trying get the pipe down is quick as possible. then the moment of truth. it's

a pos that could only be. moxon applets and already have three titles and after thirty two seconds of pie scoffing he. so as the sun sets on another chapter of northern english tradition the bright folk of weight go to bed after i well made the pollies be with. you. deliberately driven a car. the driver and a passenger have. the drivers. thanks for watching about thirty minutes.

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