this is deja vu news live from berlin the cattle on parliament votes in a new government today and could elect a fugitive president separatist leader carlos push them on faces arrest if he turns up for that vote setting up a standoff that could reignite the spanish region's separatist crisis also coming up. the arms race between the world's top nuclear rivals heats up again e.w. has an exclusive interview with nato's the deputy secretary general we ask how dangerous the threat really is. also on the show the faith healer on the radar of german

health officials she claims to be able to heal incurable diseases but critics say that promise comes at a price our reporter takes a look at the evangelist trying to gain a following in ukraine and germany. eyebright thomas welcome to the show cattle on lawmakers in spain are due to vote in a new regional government today but there's some doubt over whether that vote will even take place it all depends on this man the separatist leader carlos to munt now he was removed as a catalogue president by the central government in madrid that following an independence referendum last year he's now living in exile in the belgian capital and is wanted by spanish. police. are seeking reelection but must be present

physically for this vote will they return that is the big question today will be going live to our correspondent in barcelona first we have this report on what's shaping up to be decision day in catalonia. this is the man at the center of the dispute catalonia sex president cutlass push to months he's been living in exile in brussels since madrid imposed direct rule on the region after the short lived catalan declaration of independence last year perched amount is apparently acquired a taste for belgian beer but remains reluctant to speak out in public. so i don't want to make any statement i don't want to speak the big question is whether the fugitive formal leader will show up in barcelona on tuesday to be sworn in again as catalan president spain's constitutional court says he must be there in person for that to happen but if he does return he faces the restaurant charges of rebellion

and misuse of public funds. when. i think somehow he will show up i think he has planned a strategy and he will manage to make it happened. in didn't out of all way and all right it's a complicated situation which i think politicians should solve. because that's what they're there for you know but if. you have perhaps he should go to parliament but he might not because of the constitutional court he's in a tough position. the speaker of the cats a land parliament has so far also dodged journalists' questions and the former leader's legal team said they have not yet decided what to do whether pushed a month returns to barcelona or not spain's deepest constitutional crisis in decades is still a long way from being resolved. might it be resolved in part today our correspondent barbara vessel joins us now from barcelona barbara will push the mont

be returning to barcelona today. he didn't he didn't say his party doesn't know the audience is waiting was bated breath and the international press here in front of the parliament in barcelona is awaiting a thousand journalists have been credited for this new turn off the ongoing drama since october of last year off cuts and independence so everybody is waiting the police has come out in force they are everywhere they are controlling every entrance and exit and the only solution and the only thing would be that this all of a sudden congress pushed a month emerges from the bushes in this little park around parliament and sort of how if i am right here but we don't know that yet ok well spiking all the suspense . posted a picture of a street in barcelona on instagram and possibly that he might already be there do

you know anything about that. he is playing hide and seek i mean it has been going on since yesterday evening when people got really exciting about this photo that shows the street leading right up to parliament here but then people who know him and who know the state of affairs here were just laughing and saying you know he's just joking he's just sort of really leading everybody around on their know their noses and basically the the situation now is that ten o'clock the executive committee off parliament will meet and trying to figure out what to do this afternoon because the votes of the people who are either in jail or puts them on to our next need to be trained need to be transferred to somebody else and they're trying to find out whether parliamentary rules even allow that because they don't have a majority if that is not possible so things are really very much still a knife edge here and it doesn't only depend on puts them on appearing are not it

also depends on the will of the parties who support independence whether they want to go on with this game of hide and seek and just political in and out and around because it doesn't really lead anywhere at the moment barbara we're looking at right as you talk there a policeman pacing in the background to the entrance of the building right there will spanish police take who's the man into custody will they arrest him if he shows up today. oh absolutely ryan i mean they love to i mean they have been controlling the border ports posts for the last days they've been at the airport they are about in the town they're looking into the trunks of cars they're just doing everything to figure out where the he will not try to sneak into this now tightly guarded area around parliament and finally sort of some home make his

way into the building behind us so far there has been no sign of him at around noon a little after noon there's a big demonstration to be expected to hear of his supporters who want to sort of say that yes he is their president but legally it is more more or less impossible to do this legally it cannot really be done to vote him into office against the will of the high court because that would mean that the standoff the constitutional standoff just continues and nothing can move forward and culture lonia ok well what happens if doesn't show up where does the independence movement go from from there what happens if he doesn't appear. we have to consider that the independence movement officially says yes which one is our president but behind the scenes there are many voices who say this can't go on i mean it definitely gets aspects of a kindergarten game you know people turning around in circles and saying i'm i'm

here no i'm not here i'm in office no i'm out of office we're independent no we aren't independent it becomes a bit ridiculous so serious people in the two independents big independence party say we have to move on from this we need to come up with another candidates now the rules say that they have if they can't vote puts them under somebody else into office today then they have another ten days to come up was another candidate it is possible and after that if that fails then we'll have new elections so that's what the rule book says and the independence parties seem to want to move away from putsch to more and they probably will not manage to do so today maybe a little later in the game barbara visual thanks very much for that from barcelona world cup along lawmakers are set to meet about an hour from now top of the hour right where barbara is for us there in barcelona. now for a look at some of the other stories making the news right now is the hold

a referendum in may on reforming that country's near complete ban on abortion prime minister leo broad carr says he will compare for changes in the current law arlin has some of the strictest abortion legislation in europe poll suggests a majority in favor of reform. the russian billionaire romano abramovich has been named on a u.s. treasury list targeting russian elites eligible for sanctions or session the c.e.o. of the state owned oil company ross nafta's also on that list it names two hundred other tycoons close to the crown. as many as one hundred fifty stranded skiers have been rescued from a broken down chairlift in austria armed forces helicopter the holiday makers to safety from the trees bird mountains in syria there were no reports of any injuries . well later tonight u.s. president donald trump is set to deliver his first state of the union address and

throughout the day we'll be taking a look at some of the president's policies and other global impact like his stance on nuclear weapons d.-w. has an exclusive interview with nato as deputy secretary general to assess the state of the nuclear arms race first we have this report. a disused nuclear warhead is being dismantled this is what the future of nuclear weaponry looked like until now that is. i want this our nuclear arsenal to be the biggest and the finest in the world and we spent a lot of money a lot of time a lot of effort at it and tip top shape and getting better. only a small number of countries in the world possess nuclear weapons russia and the u.s. are by far the biggest player is between them they own more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear arsenal while russia is estimated to have seven thousand

nuclear warheads the u.s. is thought to have six thousand eight hundred there were only a fraction of them are actually deployed and ready for action. and you the proclamation of the treaty for your signature. ever since the end of the cold war the u.s. and russia have steadily reduced the number of nuclear weapons and their arsenals a series of agreements signed by successive governments committed the two countries to part of nuclear disarmament. but with a new president in the white house things may be about to change in february the u.s. administration is set to publish its new nuclear posture review and early draft obtained by the media suggests that trump wants to build new smaller nuclear weapons that would be a radical break from decades of u.s. nuclear arms policy. and it seems the russians are no longer keeping their side of the nuclear bargain nato recently confirmed that moscow is in breach of

a bilateral treaty on intermediate range nuclear missiles something the u.s. has known been claiming. this is fuel for trump's nuclear ambitions observers say he has scientists already working on developing a missile system to match that of the russians. last week nuclear scientists move the hands of the doomsday clock it is two minutes to midnight. revealing that the world is now another small step closer to nuclear annihilation. the last time the clock was this close to midnight was nine hundred fifty three point of the cold war . let's bring in now did i ever use terry shoals who sat down with the nato deputy secretary general rose gottemoeller for an exclusive interview at the mall as an expert on arms control good morning terry is there the threat of a new nuclear arms race. well i think that we are definitely seeing the threat of

a new nuclear arms race as we just heard in this report the u.s. and nato believe russia at this time has already deployed a missile that is in violation of the i.n.f. treaty the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty and they say that russia must come back into compliance if not there's a real risk that the u.s. will try to develop a system that matches those capabilities as you heard president trump has already given authority to start drafting plans for those for those missiles which is not in violation of the treaty but the next few months will tell us a lot about that as the u.s. and nato try to bring russia back into compliance with the i n f at the same time and this was key for deputy secretary general go to miller the new start treaty is another arms control treaty with russia and that would be implemented by next month and that reduces the strategic nuclear warheads that each country can maintain and other items and this is being complied with and before she came to nato deputy secretary general got to miller was the chief u.s.

negotiator on this treaty so let's hear what she says about that i do think it's important that new start is of course means that implementation phase is completed the russian federation and the united states will both be under the sun to limits of the treaty so that means one thousand five hundred fifty warheads deployed and seven hundred delivery vehicles that means missiles or submarines bombers deployed and there can be no build up above those numbers there can be no arms race as long as the treaty remains in force. ok well terry so she's obviously still an optimist but of course it remains to be seen if there's any trust between the two countries if the u.s. doesn't believe russia is going to comply with any treaty it remains to be seen whether arms control has a future event i want to ask you about terry president from saying that modernizing the u.s. nuclear arsenal will make it the best in the world but can we also expect it to to

increase in size. well everything depends on what comes out in this nuclear posture review the n.p.r. and we're expecting to be seeing that next month and a leaked draft does say that he wants to expand the nuclear arsenal. besides modernizing he wants to also add new capabilities that were left by the wayside before so again this fuels the people saying that that there will be a new arms race again got similar says that modernizing is ok and even necessary for nuclear safety but she means teams that there isn't going to be a buildup it's it's fine if we modernize the arsenal but it doesn't mean that there's going to be a big buildup in fact the numbers are coming down and they need to continue to come down so you can modernize but you modernized in a judicious and measured way and i think that's a very important point to people lose they say modernization it means

a big burst again of building missiles building submarines bombers and nuclear warheads no it means judicious keeping the numbers coming down. now an interesting point is that got to miller was an advisor to the u.s. government to the trump administration on this nuclear posture review so she knows a lot more than she's telling us but she refused to comment of course on the lead to draft and says that we just have to see what that document looks like when it comes out next month ok and we're looking to hear more next month on what that document exactly does look like for now terry thanks very much. you walk right this is the end of the news still to come on the show a dubious faith healer from ukraine making the headlines here in berlin with health officials warning against his advice our correspondent was on one of his healing events. orders off now in the german software giant s.a.p.'s spending some

big gash indeed brian s.e.p. is actually europe's biggest software maker and it says its future is in the clouds as if he says it's buying california based kalidas software for two point four billion dollars it's said to be s.a.p.'s first billion dollar deal in nearly four years kalidas provides cloud based service software services for marketing sales this comes as cloud services proved to be the bright spot in s.a.p.'s annual results which came in at the low end of market expectations due to falling sales in the company's licensing business. so let's get the word from frankfurt on this with our markets man daniel cope daniel a big acquisition fast a.p. big approval from investors as well. well actually investors are telling me that it was actually time finally to realize that the cloud business is really the future many have been criticizing s.a.p in the past that they were too slow pretty

much realizing all of this because of this mostly the profit margin in the last a year it was down actually went down to a level of just twenty eight point five percent now it's a p. also releasing new numbers today now saying that their profit margin is at a level of about thirty five percent but investors still not satisfied already in early trading shares of s a p were down here at the blue chip index next very interesting also even though the profit margin is still not at the level where it is in other blue chip. companies the income off the c. of s. and p. it's actually the highest with fourteen million euros per year and then you see you're standing outside a branch of deutsche bank germany's biggest lender is in the spotlight today tell us more. yeah it is in the spotlight again actually because of two reason we have

to remember that daughter bank is really a bank in trend with many employees maybe also behind me here at this local bank store very uncertain about their future because dodge a bag announce that they will be closing many off their local bank affiliates on the other hand daughter bank again having problems with lawsuits again this time from the united states because many people ating stock index future trading that's actually what has been released asha bank has not been commenting commenting a yet about this they might be there might have to pay another ten million ten billion euros because of that so yes the bank in crisis on friday daughter bank will be releasing also their numbers and it's going to be very interesting what they will be sharing with us then you're open frankfurt thank you bad news for tech giant apple its signature i phone ten isn't selling as well as expected apparently

that's according to a report by a leading japanese financial newspaper it says the u.s. tech giant is how thing production of the phone this quarter the article says the phones have to price tag is to blame the devices cost upwards of one thousand dollars a result of their cost me over lead panels and sold in lackluster sales could delay the company's plans to introduce all its screens tall the models the reduction in production will likely have a knock on effect on asian tech companies involved in apple's supply chain. fox wagon will not conduct any more tests involving animals that's what the company says the announcement comes after reports that german carmakers finance tests in which monkeys as well as humans are exposed to toxic diesel fumes in a false flag and says it is launching an investigation the chief executive called

the tests unethical and repulsive. here at the university clinic in aachen in two thousand and thirteen and fourteen a group of twenty five healthy people were made to inhale nitrogen dioxide in varying concentrations over periods of hours several times a week the common a factor is wanted to use the tests to determine exactly how dangerous nitrogen dioxide was to humans the tests were commissioned by the european research organization for environment and health and financed by german comic is the w. b.m.w. and german pot supplier bosch the study was supposed to be conducted under the cover that they were to be no negative effects on the human subjects but the methods which have now been revealed have let loose a wave of indignation. and it's absolutely understandable that people are outraged that tests on monkeys and even on human beings cannot be ethically justified. that amounts to nothing more than hot air according to environmental

organizations they say the german government has been in bed with the automotive lobby for years. mrs merkel is really the first cut chancellor and she even fights in brussels to make sure that emissions regulations are less strict and if possible not controls which control yet and it seems there were no controls at volkswagen either the supervisory board says it knew nothing about the studies and is now threatening consequences. because i'm to complex mr entire complex is reprehensible ethically morally and in that sam so i think the w. will have to hold the employees who are responsible for this accountable so they can shift. these revelations will deliver another blow to the german car industry's image. now to self-styled faith healer that is making the headlines here in berlin first off keep taking your medicine and following your doctor's advice that's what

german health officials were saying when ukrainian evangelist lattimer munchen paid a visit to berlin recently money and says he can heal anything from cancer to blindness let's take a look at the story behind the headlines with this report from our correspondent nick. my. this is the man they don't come to see in the flesh self-styled apostles led him in one town and the prolific on social media and cable t.v. this was the ukrainians first personal appearance in the german capital just yanis . position time destroying the curse of cancer a phone call a g.'s. s. gone yes. but it's not just cancer that munch on claims to be able to heal. there was a problem exactly here. the problem is now gone. the holy ghost

has taken it away. your heart is completely healed says it's a new the. it's a claim that trolls in the crowds to these crusades as the service is unknown just how it is made lynch on a celebrity in ukraine but it also raises questions to munch on followers give up on conventional medicine and who pays for these immaculately choreographed events. back in the ukrainian capital the country's orthodox churches and their arcane rituals are losing ground fast to the times. when john's church known as regeneration center with its modern social media operation and cable t.v. network is one of those filling that gap. was. to touch on a spent ten years as

a member of one town's regeneration center by the time she left she was working as a live in assistant for the family her own family first joined the church when her sister became seriously ill they credited the church with her recovery. people always want some kind of miracle something extraordinary i was a member of regeneration for a long time sometimes they'd bring the same person onto the stage more than once they'd pray for them the person would fall to the ground that would go on week after week i guess. but the promise of healing comes at a price. that they convince people they need to donate a minimum amount each month that to really get god's blessing they're told to give more and more each month should. touch on a tells us of congregation members going heavily into debt to donate to the church of a culture in which spiritual growth meant paying for expensive courses and retreats . the nerve center of men chance church and media empire is located in this vast

industrial units in kiev a place to tell and spend a lot of time but eventually she became disillusioned by the incessant financial demands what she says was the excessive focus on the church's founder. in the worst letters and i think there's a cult of personality around a lot i mean munchen it regeneration it's all about serving him everyone ballasts to hear that it's not about god anymore it's all about him and he's even shocked movies about himself he won. and with a record number of crusades planned for twenty eighteen ever more of them in germany the outside world looks set to hear a whole lot more about ukraine's apostle of health. in the united states new england patriots have landed in many apple us ahead of sunday's super bowl the patriots will be defending their fifth super bowl crown against the philadelphia eagles who have never won the biggest event u.s.

sports if its quarterback tom brady was among the players disembarking from the plain team brady set to appear in the eighth super bowl of his a loss for his career. boxee now in canady glaucon and saul canelo alvarez have set a date of may the fifth for their middleweight world title rematch last september's bout when the pair ended in a controversial draw blockin from kazakhstan is on beat in thirty eight fights over the three of us titles on the line alvarez of mexico has lost just wants his career . this is good news live from berlin i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being with us.

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