the c.w. news live from berlin catalonia as parliament postpones a vote to form a new government but sets the stage for a standoff with madrid catalan lawmakers say exile leader carlos brewster moore is the only viable candidate for president but he faces arrest if he returns to spain we'll go live to barcelona also coming up a major breakthrough in the months long wait for a new german government negotiators hammer out a deal on a key sticking point reunification of refugee families in germany. president trump

reportedly wants to increase the u.s. nuclear arsenal with smaller weapons why this radical break from decades of u.s. nuclear policy we take a look ahead at the state of the union address. also coming up a toxic scandal for german carmakers several heavy hitters in germany's auto industry face questions over reports of diesel emissions tests on humans and monkeys. i'm certain it's almost comical to have you with us lawmakers in spain have postponed a plan to vote for a new widget all government today that appeared set to defy madrid catalan lawmakers had signaled they would elect separatist leader carlos push tomorrow as their president now he was sacked by the central government in madrid following a disputed independence referendum last year. there he's now living in exile in the

belgian capital and is wanted by spanish police so will he or won't he return that's the big question we'll go live to barcelona in a moment but first this report on the vote that could reignite the catalonia independence crisis. this is the man at the center of the dispute catalonia ex-president colors pushed him on he's been living in exile in brussels since madrid imposed direct rule on the region after the show if catalan declaration of independence last year pushed him on has apparently acquired a taste for belgian beer but remains reluctant to speak out in public. remember. that i don't want to make any statement i don't want to speak. the big question was whether the teach to form a leader would 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 arrest on charges of rebellion sedition 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 happen. in been better than but it's a complicated situation which i think politicians should solve because that's what they are there for. but it's a house he should go to parliament but he might not because of the constitutional court he's in a tough position and. the speaker of the catalan parliament has so far also dodged journalists' questions and the formally just legal team say they have not yet decided what to do. whether put them under a chance to barcelona or not spain's deepest constitutional crisis in decades is still a long way from being resolved. barbara vessel is tracking all the latest developments for us from barcelona hi barbara good to see you so we heard that the parliament

has the late the debate on pushed a month leadership tell us what's been happening. the head of the parliament the president of the problem and so you say russia turned just a little while ago gave a rather angry sounding public announcement and he said that they're going to postpone the vote he did not set a new date for the vote but she also reiterated that congress puts money was still their one and only candidate of the whole independence wing of this parliament we know that the country is really divided more or less down the middle but the independents he says have no role majority and they're still playing on that they're still really trying to say we won put them on here now tarrant the parliament's president has applied again to the constitutional court and said you must allow the men back here back to parse alona so that he can take up his post so

that we can legally vote for him but the constitutional court of cruise has already ruled that out and it's not going to change its mind so the stand off continues the standoff continues barbara and it all brings up the question where is carlos is he planning to return. that is what you see the the masses that his supporters are wearing here there is the one million euro question of course there has been a lot of play with it there were instagram photos last night put him on has shown the street leading up directly up to the cutting on comments here but on the other hand belgian police says according to media there that he is still in brussels or around brussels and he has never left the country so all of this is sort of like a game of hide and seek and it becomes increasingly difficult to take this seriously where are the adults in the room that's the question that even spanish

media asked themselves here in the catalan parliament because the stand off just carries on and then watch madrid will continue to govern this region and will not sort of return the power of government to the culture nuns and people in the street many of them really in the meantime one somebody at their head who says big going to return to everyday life. that is also one of the questions people are asking is how much support does this movement still have there in catalonia. the support for put is strong among the hard core independent supporters but even that wing of parliament is split because we have heard already some voices saying we need to sacrifice and we just need to let go of him and put somebody else on that we can finally return to government and do things i mean this is been carrying on since october of last year and so it can go on indefinitely as so there

is not really a solution to be seen and there are people who want the opposition is also strong in problem and we know this and there are people who want life to sort of carry on here to for somebody to come in and finish with the games that are being played politically in the parliament however they have a narrower majority and they're still trying to sort of stick to their guns. because barbara they still for us at the catalonian parliament there in barcelona thank you very much. now some other stories making news around the world kenyan opposition supporters are celebrating ahead of a staged ceremony to swear in their leader raila odinga as an alternative president odinga had boycotted a rerun of the country's presidential vote last october calling it a sham kenya's attorney general has called the swearing in ceremony an act of treason the police have vowed to stop it. ireland will hold

a referendum in may on reforming the country's near total ban on abortion prime minister says he will campaign for liberalizing abortion it is forbidden by the nation's constitution opposed to just a majority are in favor of reform. now here in germany germany the country's true main political groups have made a major breakthrough on the path to forming a new government chancellor angela merkel's conservatives and the center left social democrats have reached an agreement on refugee family reunions that's been a sticking point between the parties during the negotiations the debate on refugee family reunions was reopened following the launch of formal coalition talks. let's bring in our political correspondent kate brady with the latest on this story hi kate what is the policy on family refugee reunions what has it been until now and why has this been such a contentious issue. well at the moment to me there's actually

a suspension for family reunions for refugees who only have subsidiary protection as asylum seekers in germany and this is being a really contentious issue of course you have two very different parties here when it comes to refugee policy and we have the s.p.d. who are very much against so that's the social democrats they were very much against any kind of blanket. kind of policies on this issue and then you also have the conservatives and when you look as well at the c s u who's the bavarian sister party to merkel's conservatives they take a much more conservative stance when it comes to refugee policy and so and they are very much against allowing more refugees into germany so this was always going to be quite an obstacle in these coalition talks so with this agreement that was reached today which side won out it's quite difficult to say at the moment of course the social democrats have now ensured that this policy will be extended to

refugees who only have subsidiary protection so that refugees who don't automatically receive asylum in germany but for example if they can prove that they would be in danger all its face persecution if they return to their homeland then and they get this subsidiary protection but at the same time the conservatives have managed to get this limit of just a thousand every unions of a thousand refugees being eligible to those reunions per month so really have to see what else comes out of these coalition negotiations before we can see who's the real winner there and what compromises have been made to reach this decision or do you know you political correspondent kate brady akkad thank you for that update. a syrian peace congress aimed at bringing the country seven year war closer to an end has begun in russia some key players in the conflict are gathered in the resort town of sochi but the event has been boycotted by the leadership of the syrian

opposition while powers like the u.s. britain and france are not there because of what they say is the syrian government's refusal to properly engage in syria the city of holmes was once dubbed the capital of the revolution and was the site of some of the war's heaviest fighting we have a story now of a man who were turned to the city and is calling on others like him to do the same . returning to homes was a shock but cooler who lived in this house until twenty eleven that's when he fled the war with his family. now he's putting all his savings into rebuilding his house . he hopes to move back in a few months time so far he's the only one in his neighborhood. we wish everyone would come back it's our country this is where we were born and raised without. homes is a city of contrast the guns have gone silent but a few areas are still covered in ash and rubble. elsewhere

a sense of normality has returned water and electricity are available schools and businesses are open the billions needed for rebuilding are lacking local authorities hope people will take some initiative. seventy percent of the buildings in this culture destroyed no one can come back here another quote is any about a third of buildings are gone that's why people commute build their houses on their own. many here want to start over but mistrust among citizens of homes still runs deep after seven years of conflict the wounds of war will not heal quickly but without reconciliation be building the city may not be possible. you're watching news still to come ahead of donald trump's first state of the union address we'll look at why the u.s. appears ready to break with decades of nuclear policy and what that means for the rest of the world. but first some news from europe's biggest software maker has

rights or maybe we're talking about s a p and the company feels its future is in the clouds as a piece says it is buying california based caliber software for two point four billion dollars now it's said to be s.a.p.'s first billion dollar deal in nearly four years kalidas provides cloud based software services for marketing and sales now 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. now let's get the market reaction from frankford with our correspondent daniel called daniel is said to be a peace first billion dollar deal in years how's that going down with people on the trading floor. well actually here on the trading floor investors are appreciating this for a long time and say p.

that's what was that's what i'm hearing was a little bit too slow to realize that the future is really in this cloud based software and not anymore on the software that is installed on your computer in the last year as a p was investing already a lot of money because of that their profit margin was down went actually down to a level of just twenty eight percent now new numbers of s.a.p.'s were released today announcing that the profit margin is expected to be at a level of thirty five point two percent but still investors and shareholders are not very happy with the performance of the company shares of s a p are down here today at the blue chip index techs and bank shares are among today's big losers tell us why. well two reasons behind this on the one hand we are hearing their daughter bank might have to pay millions to the u.s. because of possible manipulating when it comes to stock index futures trading on

the other hand many people are criticizing the bank because it was just released in was just released their daughter by might be paying a billion of your role to their top management and also to their investment bankers very interesting because the investment banking division was one of the division that was really not performing well at the same time it was also announce that daughter bank will be closing even more off their local bank branches in the side of the country so many people in local bank branches are now fearing what might be happening with their job then it's open frankfurt thank you. now if you've ever thought that coffee and soda didn't go together in a big german owned investment group a begs to differ job holdings says it is buying fizzy drinks maker dr pepper snapple at merging it with its purity coffee division the soft drinks maker has

long been a distant third behind coca-cola and pepsi on the u.s. market but jap says there's plenty of potential with its iconic drink brands keurig dominates the u.s. market for coffee pods the new company should have around eleven billion dollars in annual sales shares of dr pepper snapple group soared twenty five percent on the news bad news for tech giant apple its signature product i phone ten apparently isn't selling as well as expected that's according to a report by a japanese five japanese financial paper it says the u.s. tech giant is having production for the phone this quarter the article says the phones hefty price tag is to blame the devices cost upwards of eighty thousand dollars a result of their costly olet panels and so the lackluster sales could delay the company's plans to introduce all its screens to other models the reduction in

production will likely also have a knock on effect on asian tech companies involved in apple supply chain. fox wagon will not conduct any more tests involving animals the company says the announcement comes after reports that german carmakers finance tests and bridge monkeys as well as humans were exposed to toxic diesel fumes false flag and says it is launching an investigation and its chief executives call the tests unethical and repulsive. here at the university clinic in africa in twenty 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 car manufacturers 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

carmakers v.w. b.m.w. and german parts supplier bosch the study was supposed to be conducted under the cover that there 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 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 card 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 this complex is

reprehensible ethically morally and in that same 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. and expect us to me now with what we can expect in a big speech from u.s. president from tonight that's right christopher later tonight from the u.s. president will deliver his first state of the union address. yes laying out his government's agenda for the year ahead let's take a look at some of the key issues that he is likely to address on trade as we've heard time and again it is america first during his speech at the world economic forum in davos trump said the american economy remains his top priority and that the nation was open for business let's take a look at what he said through does not mean america alone when

the united states grows so does the world. well immigration of the future of the so-called dreamers are also going to be another key issue the president has suggested that he is open to protecting the seven hundred thousand dreamers there the children of undocumented migrants who live in the u.s. illegally in return the president wants the senate to approve billions of dollars in border security funding trump has also signaled a more aggressive stance for america's nuclear policy d.w. has an exclusive interview with nato as deputy secretary general to assess how this could heat up the arms race between the world's top nuclear rivals but first 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 are only a fraction of them are actually deployed and ready for action first and then 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 path 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 an 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 the hands 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 and no hellacious. the last time the clock was this close to midnight was nine hundred sixty three point of the

cold war. for more on the story we can talk to teri schultz says she's in brussels sat down with nato deputy secretary general rose gottemoeller for an exclusive interview with the u.s. diplomat as an expert on arms control terry you know president trump wants to modernize the u.s. nuclear arsenal he wants to make it the best in the world what's the feeling there are there fears particularly in nato that we're going to see this arsenal increase in size well actually when president trump talks about modernization that's something that's not controversial everyone agrees the u.s. arsenal is in bad need of renovation and needs to be modernized and it already has a price tag of some one point two trillion dollars that's not the problem the problem is in capabilities president trying to even says he's not going to add weapons that the size is going to remain the same this is something the deputy secretary general rose got to miller agreed with and it's important to note that

she was an advisor to the trumpet ministration on the nuclear posture review the n.p.r. that seemed to be coming out nuclear weapons in my view should never be the weapon of first resort you have to consider very very carefully for one thing we have had a taboo on the use of nuclear weapons. now seventy two years ago so i think it's a serious matter and one that people. should not be treating lightly so and i don't expect this n.p.r. to treat that matter lightly. so as i mentioned it is not the size of the arsenal it's not the modernization it's what president trump wants to put in that arsenal and more importantly what policy will accompany these weapons he's talking about adding low yield nuclear weapons and he's even talking about possibly using those on a first use basis that would mean that the u.s. would now consider using a smaller yield nuclear weapon in retaliation for something like a major cyber attack this is something that would be

a huge break from previous administrations why are we seeing this break in the u.s. nuclear policy well i think that goes along with explaining many of president trump's policies he has long bragged about about nuclear weapons wanting to have the best arsenal wanting to have the biggest button and certainly if he adds low yield nuclear weapons that's something that other countries have but nobody talks about using them on a first few spaces and that's really where the controversy is it remains to be seen what actually comes out in his nuclear posture review which is expected to be released next month but there has been a leaked leaked copy and it has nuclear arms control advocates very concerned if he changes this to a first use policy this will be a huge alarm signal and that's why you saw the doomsday clock moving up thirty seconds people are very very worried about this terry shuls reporting for us in brussels that terry thank you very much.

time for some news from the boxing world and a goal of kin and sal come to know of it is have set a date of may fifth for their middleweight world title rematch last the tempers bout the tween the pair ended in a controversial draw when the three judges recorded vastly different results kazakhstan's golovkin is on beaten in thirty eight fights and will be putting the three of us titles on the line alvarez of mexico as lost just once in his career the venue for the showdown is yet to be announced. or minor in our top stories at this hour lawmakers from germany's two main political parties have made a major breakthrough in the goetia actions on forming a new government the two sides have struck a deal on reunifying refugee families a key sticking point in the coalition talks. and several german carmakers have come under fire over reports that they finance tests in which monkeys as well as humans

were exposed to toxic diesel fumes chancellor angela merkel has strongly condemned the emissions task. thanks for watching t w news don't forget you can go to our website dot com for all the latest news and information around the clock you can also follow us on twitter our handle at g.w. news we'll be right back here at the news desk at the top of the hour.

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