this is the new line from berlin catalonia separatist leader is behind bars in germany police detained connor's push for more on a european arrest warrant after he enters the country from denmark will go to the german danish border to find out what could happen next plus. germany foreign minister is in israel michael mann's visits bosham where he condemns to semitism as the solidarity with israel is central to german policy. and during the congo

rooted in a single called the first direct commercial flight between australia and europe touches down in london. welcome to the program we begin with that news a former cast of energy to put it on has been arrested in germany on a european war and pushed one was detained by highway put in use of to he crossed into germany by car from denmark the former castle and president had left finland to avoid arrest one of his advisors said that he was returning to belgium where he planned to cooperate with authorities regarding spain's attempt to extradite him. went into exile last year in the wake of an independence referendum. we now go to the village of show be at the german danish border where our correspondent alexandra deck so is standing by for us alexandra what exactly happened that.

it was it was in the morning or proximately twenty minutes past eleven when a man was arrested in germany next to the german dentist border proximity to thirty five kilometers far away from the dentist for a year and she was brought to this police station right behind me. and now he left he left for serious face and he will be brought to court or to try to do just justice and. well as we've learnt now he was arrested not on the highway itself was next to the highway and the police didn't tell us more but as we know now he was arrested a couple of hours next to them in the police station the i'm right alexander so as you're saying they vance are unfolding rather quickly and as you've mentioned put it on what has now been moved to what can we expect will happen to him now. well he

is brought to. as we learn now or perhaps also to kele we don't know exactly but what we know is because it was a european ones he has to bring two to just just just and well and it's not absolutely clear if it's today or it will be each tomorrow because it takes a couple of hours to organize everything so the ex could be tomorrow on the try could be tomorrow and the decision for the expertise issue is coming up for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow perhaps as we know it so far alexandra drexel joining us from should be thank you. i'm not joined by a correspondent. actually been covering this story for a while now thanks for joining us so you know we've just heard from alexander that they vent some moving quickly but you all could possibly be at the state

prosecutor's office what would happen if he is handed over to spanish authorities well firstly under this european arrest warrant they have the german authorities if they decide to push ahead with the extradition they would have between ten and sixty days to hand them on over to spanish authorities now everybody in spain knows that if. spain at any point he will be immediately arrested let's not forget that there are a total of nine spanish we'll say leaders are cut leaders who were involved in this push for independence already actually in prison in spain so the most likely scenario is if he is charged and he is handed over to spain he would more than likely end up in prison obviously this all happened rather quickly. then decided that's reinstate this extradition has a spanish government reacted to it you know the spanish government haven't reacted just yet and we do have reaction from the leader of the p.p.p. them to the spanish government that they will pull out their regional leader has

said that in a rather strange statement he said this is a demonstration that spain is a country in the e.u. so we have to read between the lines here are the extradition warrant has been reactor the extradition request has been. or the arrest warrant scuse me has been reactivated. so what he's basically saying is that this is proof that other members of the e.u. of germany denmark finland and so on are willing to cooperate with spanish authorities because what happened was there was a concern that because of certain the certain charges that are actually brought against them in spain one of them being rebellion doesn't actually exist in some other countries and so there was a sort of concern that because it doesn't exist well then other countries like for example belgian belgium. actually press charges for charges that don't exist already i know it's quite complicated and legal but it was sort of complicating matters for the spanish government now what we've seen on friday is that there is a push by the spanish government to make sure that these leaders of the cut line in

the pendants movement are behind bars like i've seen we've seen on friday five of the older members who weren't in prison are now behind bars and they're joining another four people among them. who was one of the main leaders along with push them on last year in the push for independence so then what happens to this separate separatist movement cuts alone a of saying ninety does a rest and. what tension going back to spain what happens to this well that's the million dollar question either i mean things have not you know maybe it hasn't been making international headlines as much as it was we'll say at the end of two thousand and seventeen but certainly in spain this is a topic which is of major concern now there's been you know an issue in that the catalan regional government has not regional parliament has actually been able to act and you president of the regional government because the north who do that that would sort of get things moving again in catalonia because let's not forget that

madrid is controlling basically everything from madrid they took away the autonomy from catalonia and in order to reinstate that they need a leader but of course the person who was put forward the third candidate is now behind bars since friday so we're in an incredibly delicate situation we still protest again in barcelona and in catalonia on friday. it would not surprise me if we're going to see protests this evening in barcelona potentially other cities across catalonia and even potentially in the rest of the country i live in madrid in madrid people feel that it's sort of things have calmed a little bit but if you go to barcelona it certainly hasn't and people are still pushing many people are still pushing for what they want which is for this independent movement to move forward with certainly watching what happens after this arrest both in germany and also in spain thank you for that analysis. let's now look at some of the other stories making news around the world hundreds

of members of a rebel group are pulling out of the besieged. near the syrian capital damascus as part of an agreement allowing fighters to leave the city state television is reporting the syrian army is advancing into areas previously held by the insurgents . german defense minister funda lion has told german troops stationed in afghanistan to prepare for a prolonged stay after lawmakers agreed to extend their mission visiting the country's north she said afghanistan was not ready to take on responsibility for its own security german forces have been there for sixteen years. large crowds have gathered in vatican city to mark home sunday that's the day that christians believe jesus made its triumphant entrance into jerusalem pope francis led the service in st peter's square there was also celebrations in jerusalem of the church of the holy sepulcher. german foreign minister heikal mazas in

israel where he has condemned to semitism on his official visit to the country was stopped off the yard fashion holocaust memorial in jerusalem maz says solidarity with israel is central to german foreign policy to meet the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who also visits the palestinian territories for talks with president mahmoud abbas. right when i'll cross over to our correspondent tanya kramer who is in jerusalem for more time to thanks for joining us what psychologic spectate from this visit. one in hi can you foreign minister of germany has said that he wants to come to is well early in his you function as a point minister you hospital yesterday as justice minister and he said it's very important when he went into politics he used this phrase strong statement saying that's because of the holocaust that's because. it's now you can see that also in

his it's you know. he went this afternoon to visit all the officials coming here at the holocaust memorial. but you wrote also in the book that it's still a miracle for him and that's very important seven years since of hyundai's the state of israel and he told the german is very relations america but of course he also has he would need to with the holocaust survivors here as well but he also has political meetings here in israel but also with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and mamma so very care genda from the german foreign minister but what about well what does the netanyahu government expect from this visit. because we understand that u.s. president will decide by mid may to fix it don't nix it. that's also

a line that we hear a lot here in israel for prime minister netanyahu that's a very important topic the nuclear deal was seen by him as a as a political failure that this happened so you will tell us of the foreign minister that sees it with much concern what's going on in syria right now that iran is. strengthening their its base in syria close to the israeli border near the occupied it is really golan heights and that is a very much concern. to netanyahu tanya kramer joining us from jerusalem thank you the first direct commercial flight between australia and europe has landed in london the increased fuel efficiency of a new generation of air line as has made ultra long haul routes possible but it also reflects a shift in the aviation market away from stop overs in favor of direct connection. when the australian flag carrier qantas first flew the so-called kind of route to

britain after the second world war it took four days and seven stop overs taking off in perth the new nonstop service operated by a boeing seven eight seven dreamliner covered the nearly fifteen thousand kilometers to london in just seventeen hours well it's historic day for western australia a historic day for aviation a historic day i want to talk today will be the first thing the train australia europe has ever heard not stop in aviation qantas is not the only carrier pushing for evan longer flights qatar airways is already offering the world's longest commercial route between doha and oakland and later this year singapore airlines launches a nineteen now in new york to make a link flying archrival bus passengers seem to like the convenience. really good price big difference crying all the way stop quite

a few fights back with a. spirit of on the plane. plane is the best ever fantastic it was great not to have this. very. qantas is now eyeing the even bigger prize of london to sydney known stalk and the new ultra long hauls who pose a challenge to help stop over specialists in the middle east such as dubai. formula one now and there's been a surprise in the opening race of the season in australia with fire is german driver sebastian vettel sealing a dramatic victory after getting the better of the race favorite and well champion lewis hamilton lewis hamilton started out on pole and led into the first corner in the season opener in melbourne leaving f one fans to sit back and expect to know the easy victory for the defending world champion. but that. aids midway through the race when sebastian vettel pitted joined

a virtual safety car phase those on track were forced to slow down because of a broken down car but vettel was not affected by the restriction in the pits and emerged in front of hamilton's mercedes. the german then pushed his ferrari hard and managed to fight off the britain for the rest of the race to seal a forty eight group three win and one hundred podium in his two hundred f one race . that was euphoria at the surprise triumph was visible for all her by some pressure at the end vettel admitted he'd been lucky i was prayed for so and then when i saw it obviously you know it was really full of adrenaline even though you know the race is frozen but still to come into the pits everything limit trying to get back out because they told me is really close with lewis ferrari and vettel will look to build on their victory next month in bahrain. that's in his right this hour will be back again in forty five minutes but do remember to knock on to website www dot com and there you can.