don't store. serving the people serve them on to you don't we. use the line from berlin catalonia separatist leader is behind bars in germany for use detained colace pushed along on an 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's new foreign minister is in israel is if ya bash him where he

condemns them to semitism and says solidarity with israel it's central to german policy. and during the canada routes in a single the first direct commercial flights between australia and europe touches down in london. i'm a money welcome to the program for mike castle and sports that one has been arrested in germany on a european arrest warrant put someone was detained by highway police after he crossed into germany by car from denmark the former catalan president had earlier left finland to avoid arrest one of his advisors said he was returning to belgium where he planned to cooperate with authorities regarding spain's attempt to extradite him pushed him on went into exile last year in the wake of an independence referendum. and in the village of should be at the german danish

border is our correspondent alexander dec so so alexander what exactly happened that. it was approximately twenty minutes parts eleven on sunday when the countess pushed him on was arrested here in the northern part of germany approximately forty kilometers far away from that and sparta and afterwards he was brought to this small police station right behind me in the village of sooty and she he was hold for several hours so a few hours and she was treated well we very well and he told us it seems to be that the families of cuts alone you know was arrested as a service area yet the motor highway a seven year old son in the northern part of germany we don't know if that was a coincidence or if it was planned to arrest him after he entered germany but what we know is when the police officers controlled him they had to arrest him because

of the european warrant we either know don't know if he was in company but we know where he's no. i like that they say that he has been released or rather been moved from that particular police station so where is he now and what happens to push on one next what he was brought to the prison often on moonstruck proximately thirty kilometers far away from here and it seems to be that he spends the night over there afterwards on monday he would be brought to school be to the prosecution and over there decide if he would x. would date to the spend as authorities in the week of whatever we don't know exactly it will depend on the appointment tomorrow or perhaps on monday alexandra felt thank you for joining us. and for even more on this i'm joined in studio by correspondent. thanks for joining us pablo so we've just

had from alexander that. is now waiting to hear what happens next possibly extradition if that's the case what happens to him well there's going to be a couple of things that we have to wait for first which is now of such you talking to a legal expert who specializes in these topics and she was telling me that normally the average is between eighteen or fifteen and forty days for the extradition to actually proceed now on monday morning we'll know whether the charges which have been which will potentially be brought against him germany will actually go ahead with or not because spain at the end that day has several charges against them on among them rebellion and sedition now in certain countries rebellion doesn't actually exist within the penal code but in germany there is a very similar law which is believe it's called a high treason which is similar to rebellion so at the moment we're going to have to wait and see whether those charges are brought against them if they are brought

against him then he will at some point be extradited to spain in between fifteen and forty days which is the average according to this legal expert so all this has obviously happened very quickly the spanish court had lifted his arrest warrants reinstating it again on friday today his arrest and has a government in spain spoken out on this no at the moment we haven't heard anything from that the government of prime minister mariano that's no shock what we do know is that the leader of the party what out of that is that the government the government party will say in catalonia has come out and said that no it doesn't sound like a lot but you have to really read between the lines he said this is proof that spain is a country within the european union what we can sort of interpret from that is that spain has being quite annoyed by the movement of push them on. from belgium until they're older you countries and this is proof you know spain has issued this

warrant and other e.u. member states germany are respecting spain's request for him to be arrested but like i said before until monday morning by the looks of things we won't know whether those charges are actually going to be brought against him and then of course the next stage which is the extradition process so what happens in buffalo now when you look at what's happening in catalonia almost the entire leadership of the separatist party has been detained and now pushed always facing extradition possibly what happens to the separatist movement that's a big question either and it's the million dollar question and like you said like let's not forget that on friday five other will say leaders of this independence push that we saw at the end of twenty seventeen are now behind bars and there now that's means that there's a total of nine amongst them the number two will say in the independence. it's got us first of all goes back to spain he will essentially be going straight to prison like the other leaders have because there was a risk as they said in the spanish courts that they would leave the country now

we've seen that not that a leader who is also one of the other leaders in the movement left spain on friday and she is now in switzerland now another member of the push is in scotland and i was just actually seeing there on twitter i didn't get a chance actually to go into too much detail on it but it looks like in scotland they have also received a warrant for spain has requested that scotland proceed with the arrest of this they so their member of the push for independence is going to be a very busy evening will say in spain everybody is watching this very very closely and will be watching very closely to hear dutch of elevating vets unfolding right here in germany and possibly in catalonia thank you. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world hundreds of members of a rebel group are pulling out of the besieged eastern ghouta near the syrian

capital damascus as part of an agreement. to fight as to leave the city state television is reporting the syrian army is advancing into areas previously held by the insurgents. german defense minister. lyon 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 palm sunday the day christians believe jesus made his triumphant entrance into jerusalem pope francis led the service in st peter's square there were also celebrations in jerusalem at the church of the holy set. a special roman catholic mass has been held in the french town of terre to commemorate the for victims of

friday's deadly attack the bishop said the police officer who died after trading places for the hostage quote helped save the nation. german foreign minister hi colossus is in israel where he is has condemned to semitism on his first official visit to the country months stopped off at the yad vashem holocaust memorial in jerusalem says solidarity with israel is central to german foreign policy is also set to meet the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and will also be visiting 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 here thanks for joining us what's the high command is expecting 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 to him as well 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 it's you know. he went 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 seventy years since of hyundai sion of the state of israel he told the german israeli relations america but of course he also has he will meet 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 gender from the german foreign minister but what about is well what does the netanyahu government expect from this visit we understand

that u.s. president will decide by mid may. that's also a line that we hear a lot you know israel for prime minister netanyahu that's a very important topic. the nuclear deal was seen by him as a political failure that happened so you will tell us of the foreign minister that . with much concern what's going on in syria right now that iran is. strengthening their base in syria close to the israeli border near the occupied israeli 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 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 connections

. when the australian flag carrier qantas first flew the so-called kangaroo route to britain after the second world war it took four days and seven stopovers 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 this is story day for western australia historic day for aviation a historic day i want to talk today believe the first thing the train australian bureau has ever heard not stop in aviation qantas is not the only carrier pushing for ever 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 megan inc flying boeing's archrival bus passengers seem to like the convenience. really good i speak different spring all the way through

stop quite a few fights back with a. pair of. the best. fantastic it was great not to have the stall. was very. qantas is now eyeing the even bigger prize of london to sydney nonstop 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 there are areas german driver sebastian vettel has sailed a dramatic victory after getting the better of well champion lewis hamilton who had been the clear race favorite. 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 another easy victory for the defending world champion. but that all changed 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 to see. but hamilton was left to look on the bright side we still have great pace up or fine was great i think in the race i was able to apply some pressure at the end vettel admitted he didn't looking i was praying 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 it's really close with lewis there are investable look to build on their victory next month in bahrain. that's our news wrap this hour do join us again in forty five minutes you can also check out our website w dot com for on the faux news and information thank you for being in. germany state by state. the most colorful. the liveliest. the most traditional. find it all to me time to. check in with a web special. take a tour of germany state by state. w dot com.