this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin spain's most wanted man prepares to face a german judge separatist leader called his poorest among sits in a german jail as authorities decide whether to hand him over to madrid and catalonia remains on edge after a night of violent protests will go to our room correspondents in barcelona and here in germany standing by at the course. also on the program the final death toll from a massive fire at a shopping center in siberia stands at sixty four several children are reportedly

among the dead we'll go live to the scene in. polls open in egypt as the three day presidential vote gets under way with the president i'll see see all the sorting through when healthy will the turnout be for an election many of you as a shadow. oh i'm terry martin good to have you with us. spain's most wanted fugitive is expected to appear in a german court today the catalan separatist leader called his push to maul was apprehended sunday while traveling through germany on route to belgium the arrest could end pushed months five months of self-imposed exile he's being sought by spanish authorities for his role in catalonia as an authorized independence vote the arrest has angered many catalonians in barcelona street protests erupted and

some ninety people have been injured in clashes between protesters and police. police on one side demonstrators on the other they faced off long into the night in boston. out right surged into violence. thousands of catalans took to the streets to protest the arrest of their former president placed crackdown on protesters dozens were wounded. as demonstrations heated up even the speaker of the catalan parliament who supports a protest is code for come. on but officials i share with you the feeling of indignation regarding the situation in this especially unfair context i would like to call for calm and responsibility because the response from catalans must be democratic civic unifying and peaceful as always

for example sometimes. some two thousand kilometers north of boston it was on the side of this german highway that kahless preached a moment was arrested on sunday he had just crossed the di nice german border on his way to belgium. but his journey ended in a german gyle cell. of into something. warrant has been issued we received a request and it's been looked into i'm going to say saying it's pre-conditions we will far the rest say whether extradition can be granted a step before that however is the detention order and we're seeing if we can proceed with this if you will include him. shortly after preach to months arrest tens of thousands of supporters rallied in front of the german consulate in. their message germany should stay out of spain's campaign against the catalan independence movement when i was governor when they touch a democratically elected representatives they touch an entire people and will keep on protesting peacefully as we've always done. but supporters and opponents of

preached are more and now waiting to see how events in germany will play out now decide to fight to form a catalan president. and we have team coverage of this story for you know with correspondent alexander drexel he's outside the courthouse in noise germany that's where collis pushed him out will be appearing later today and in barcelona journalist stephen bergen is with us there start with you alexander. has spent the night in jail in northern germany what can we expect from his court hearing today. well he has to appear in the call today. and the judge will decide if he has to stay in custody until the next court would decide about a european warrant but we can see and hear and the court because the jail is next to the court and he will bring with it. in the wall to the

colts and so the only thing we know he has to appear in the call today year and norman starts because the shots has to dent if i call a sports team on if he is himself ok stephen in barcelona we saw massive clashes there overnight people are obviously very angry just house upset are they in barcelona about push most attention. this is just the laces and. a lot of upset i think. events particularly since last friday when judge probably already know decided that he would effectively lock up the entire leadership of the chocolate in the bennetts movement and you know the rest of the month is just one more sort of catalyst in our weather will say similar events tonight i'm not sure there have been pills for come from the mainstream independents parties but on the

other hand. to monster street action from more grassroots organizations. how likely is it that germany will actually extradite purge them up and hand him back to face justice in spain. well this is very hard to say that just isn't all the next call not the call today and we are not sure what day the colts the next called in c.c.'s also he had a muslim out of germany would decide the excitation for godless votes to mount but . we all waiting in the media as waits in the media got that six year in the front of the jail and also some protesters but it was peaceful and also in hamburg emboldened some processes appears but it was absolutely peaceful and they demand to set. stephen in barcelona if personal is extradited back to spain what

kind of treatment can he expect from spanish authorities. he can expect to meet and it would be put in preventive custody and then it could be a long wait spanish justice moves extremely slowly he will be held in custody for up to two years before the words trial and i think that image or government hopes that during this period everything will just they will kind of just smoke of the whole issue but i think this is misguided because it is a political issue it's not about to go away and imprisoning the leaders will not solve the problem. alexander stephen thank you both very much correspond xander drexel there talking to us in barcelona or rather in munster and stephen bergen in marsala thanks both of you very much course we keeping our viewers up to date on the story as it develops. now some other stories making headlines around the world today adult film star stormy daniels says she was threatened to keep silent about

an alleged sexual encounter with u.s. president donald trump in a highly anticipated interview she claimed that she faced intimidation tactics aimed at ensuring her silence. saudi forces intercepted seven yemeni rebel missiles late on sunday one man was killed and two others injured from falling shrapnel in the capital riyadh it was the first death in the city during the saudi led coalition's three year military campaign in yemen. more than one hundred nigerian children kidnapped by militant billeted bokova roams a separate as for the well. militants were released last week those children have now returned to their home village dop she the children who are all girls except for one boy were abducted from their school in february nigeria's government has acknowledged what they call back to channel negotiations with iran but insists no

ransom money was paid. and at least four people are dead after a car bomb exploded in the small the capital mogadishu the explosion took place near the parliament building police say the ball was detonated at a checkpoint after soldiers intercepted and stopped and stopped a suspicious vehicle. a fire in a shopping center in siberia has claimed sixty four lives six bodies have not yet been recovered the blaze broke out on the fourth floor of the complex in a coal mining city. i witness to say they saw people jumping from windows to escape the flames. smoke darkens the skies of chemical evil in central russia a city with many great days ahead. the winter cherry mall was full of sunday shoppers when a fire broke out over one hundred people escape the blaze some of them leaping from

the. in the afternoon we received information about smoke in the shopping mall on the fourth floor were children playing rooms and cinemas were situated. it took hundreds of firefighters most of the day to bring the massive blaze under control not before over a one thousand square meters of the building had been destroyed. reinforcements have been flown in to help search for the remains of the victims and to help their relatives cope with the loss. of gas masks to be able to work in a toxic environment but we're ready to work. with special lights with us five psychologists are accompanying the rescue group to help the affected populations. the cause of the blaze remains unknown investigators are now checking the shopping mall safety documentation and may bring criminal charges against anyone responsible for the tragedy. for more on the fire we're joined now by

a. journalist and photographer who lives near the scene of the. year at the shopping mall where the fire broke out what's the situation there right . this situation here a crowd of peoples six million flowers and the. forests and the candles so you can see some emergency cross point me and here is the crowd of people i show you now. just a little bit. ok here is the. route of people. all of them a crying and bringing flowers. i know from the

official. it's just it's just sources that sixty four he's died in the fire and steve there is. a thief team not wrong so he here is. the place where people stay. here. all right maxine thank you so much obviously a very very sad scene there just outside that shopping mall in kemah and siberia thanks so much for talking with us that that was journalist maxime there speaking to us from the scene. there watching the still to come an exclusive interview with the main opposition leader vying for the presidency in sierra leone

we asked him what he's prepared to do of course postpone a role that solution is expected later today. and donald trump's trade tariffs continue to make waves well suddenly everybody suddenly seems to be willing to talk terror a south korea for one has agreed to two cats t.v. exports to the united states by thirty percent in order to avoid terrorists south korea's trade minister described negotiations with the u.s. as fia's but insisted his country wasn't in an inferior position the asian country is the third largest exporter to the united states after canada and brazil the pledge to reduce steel exports is a process of revisions being made to the existing free trade deal between the u.s. and south korea. so and for more let's cross over to a man of the frankfurt stock exchange daniel daniel south korea as we just heard

managed to strike that a deal with washington which accents it from u.s. steel tariffs germany's economics minister i believe is looking at a similar way to avoid u.s. steel tariffs. yeah exactly well the deal between the u.s. and south korea also means that u.s. car companies will be able to export the double amount of u.s. cars to south korea without paying terrorists as well and yes peter as my you just mentioned the new german economy minister seems to be in favor of a similar compromise as well others are saying that this would not be the right way to do it and that could give donald trump a signal that his a very protective actions would be already accepted as my also stated today that germany can not negotiate as a country all those negotiations about tears and also about possible compromises will be done on the european level but yes the pressure is certainly on those

exemption that the european union is right now having only in place until may now a question mark it certainly asked slowly but surely recovering from last week's the losses it looks like investors are maybe hopeful that a trade war between the beijing and washington can be averted. yeah you're right you can feel some optimism here on the trading floor this morning the blue chip in the expect this morning actually started with a plateau of zero point three percent right now it's at a level of about zero point seven percent though analysts are telling me that there is still lots of space lots of room also for possible losses in the future as a well when you look at the other european markets to the cac forty in pairs the s. and i and zurich those are also in the green at the moment. equity markets are appreciating that the two big indices in asia also recover this morning all right down here in frankfurt thanks for bringing us up to date. and of course

meanwhile china's foreign ministry says that beijing is willing to hold talks with the united states to resolve their differences over trade over the weekend china's newly appointed finance minister want washington to rethink its trade policy and threatens to retaliate by hitting u.s. agricultural exports. according to the report the discussions will be led by china's economic czar leo her u.s. treasury secretary steve maneuvering and u.s. trade representative robert bly hisor topics they'll cover include manufacturing and financial services u.s. president donald trump and recently announced cherubs of up to sixty billion dollars in chinese imports the chinese have said they won't be bullied. the money found they misjudged the situation and underestimate china's determination and capacity for defending its legitimate interest they also underestimate the price the u.s. has to pay for its reckless behavior. u.s.

business leaders in china are warning that a full scale trade war would not benefit either side. the response from our members has been one of concern that these actions we too are a trade war which is something that nobody wants to see at the same time it's important to recognize that there has been a growing sense of frustration within the business community about the lack of progress on market access openings in china is increasing use of industrial policies minu chin in light hisor sent to you a letter last week spelling out requests including greater u.s. access to the chinese financial sector and the reduction of chinese tariffs on u.s. vehicles it also requested china increase its u.s. semiconductor purchases minucci it is reportedly also considering a trip to beijing to continue the talks. right hating firm is selling its southeast asian business to bigger regional rival grap marking the u.s.

companies second retreat from an asian market it's the industry's first a big a consolidation in southeast asia home to about six hundred forty million people the deal is the latest move to shore up its finances and refocus its business ahead of a planned initial public offering will get a twenty seven point five percent stake in grab in exchange right telling companies throughout asia half relied heavily on discounts and promotions in the highly competitive market driving down profit margins and increasing pressure for consolidation. all rights consolidation i don't know what how egypt suddenly its economy will be able to consolidate but today is a. they can change things you've got some i think political consolidation happening there right now. polls have opened in egypt as the country's presidential election gets underway there's little doubt that sisi will win

a second term the incumbent president is facing no real competition with his only challenger being one of his supporters now authorities hope enough voters will turn out to lend the election some credibility. his victory may be assured but abdel fattah el-sisi needs the numbers to consolidate his authority with nearly sixty million eligible voters the former general is hoping his supporters will march to the polling stations and there's plenty of praise for the incumbent. police everyone who vote for president. of great success for example he's building a new administrative capital. there is one rival candidate. he's not a household name and perhaps surprisingly he himself admits that he admires.

the people will decide who the best candidate is the voters who go to the polls which to just sort of soon will know the result. and how. many in the opposition believe mousavi is only in the race to create the appearance of democracy. at first there were more candidates but some were imprisoned after they announced their candidacy others withdrew from the race often under great pressure . in. the government's worry that if there were real candidates there would have to be debates about real issues. bob the. egyptian media is similarly one sided there's even a hotline where citizens can report journalists who criticise the government. promised a heavy hand against terrorists earlier this month there was another bomb attack in

alexandria on the same night peninsula the egyptian army is busy fighting a jihadist insurgency. supporters point to his focus on economic stability the all important tourism sector has been recovering under his rule this man who do it without sisi has fashioned the presidential election as a referendum on his leadership he's hoping for a high turnout to legitimize his rule. let's bring in journalist ruth michelson here she is in cairo covering egypt's presidential election the election results appears to be a foregone conclusion but is it possible in any way to say how much backing l.c.c. really has among the electorate. well i think we can think about cc's cool support is and generally that tends to be people. has relatives in the military and police some of whom i spoke to today who are tending out to vote and also to do surely the coptic christian community. estimated to make up around ten

percent of the egyptian population now i previously spoke to one coptic. vote today who said that they voted to c.c. in twenty fourteen and they won't be voting for him again because they felt that the outcome sets in. but i also spoke to a coptic go to the polls today who said that you know she felt that she had to turn out to vote and it was important to show her support sisi and also for the country which is the message that sisi has pledged not just to his supporters but to the entire electorate. just looking back a little bit the former president hosni mubarak he was also at the height of the arab spring in two thousand and eleven egyptians then elected the candidate from the muslim brotherhood mohamed morsi he was affectively forced out of office by so you see how well represented are more of these former supporters in these elections . not very well representative told given that the muslim brotherhood is now

classified as a terrorist organization in egypt it's probably fair to say that most brotherhood supporters to staying at home and not going to the polls at the very least there are large parts of the missing brotherhood who have either been expressed or who are in exile people with a kind of religious motivation to voting and not very well represented in this elections but at the same time it's kind of mainstream liberal voters and we've seen some opposition figures who are not religious in any sense in any public sense of the word asking people to stay home and so that seems to be a sizable part of the electorate being represented there to. it's been seven years now since hosni mubarak left office he was considered a very authoritarian leader then came the arab spring and now here we are is any

different now than it was but seven years ago. well there are critics who say that actually things should be less than a barak mubarak at the end of his tenure had he did allow some space for limited political freedoms and you know there were members in this in brotherhood in tone for example. but now you know there are critics of sisi school you say that the level of human rights at least eleven politically expression the level of crete specially. when it was under mubarak there are also concerns among a lot of egyptians vote is about me going to me and die as states egypt's finances and how this affects the poorest and it's not uncommon to hear people who are very will say well he gave up our rights so that sisi at least. the economy and that hasn't happened so we're not sure how we got to this point. thank you so much

correspondent ruth michael's on there talking to us from cairo. now to sierra leone and an exclusive interview the main opposition leader there vying for the presidency has told e.w. he will call people to action if a runoff election in sierra leone is postponed due to his motto by zero one the first voting round earlier this month but failed to receive a high enough majority to win out right at the presidential runoff poll is scheduled for tuesday but the election will only move forward if it's given the green light by sierra leone's high court members of the ruling a p c party say election fraud has interfered on sunday supporters of the old took to the streets in freetown ahead of the court's decision not to be you know says his supporters will publicly object if the court rules to delay tuesday's vote through and we all said we've been preparing for this for the past five years

and within this we have international observers here quite a lot of money have been spent with this particular location on we see no reason why we should be postponed. the only reason that is this is because the president wants to postpone. north hesitate to call the people of disco and three to come out and defend peace security and a democracy we have fought for i didn't fight for democracy alone this whole nation for tourists and i think we should just to make sure that democracy is maintained in this country and will bring you more of that exclusive interview on the high court's decision on whether to allow tuesday's vote throughout the course of the day. and just remember the top stories we're following for you here today on d w news former catalyzed regional president carlos push them all is expected to appear in a german court today he was arrested and held in jail overnight after crossing into

germany on route to belgium sunday. meanwhile some people some ninety people were injured in clashes that broke out in barcelona in the wake of police to paul's arrest. and a fire at a shopping center inside syria has claimed sixty four lives the mall is part of me packed with children and their parents home school recess russian authorities have opened a criminal investigation. you're watching t.v. news we have more for you at the top of the next hour and of course you'll find all our stories online a d w dot com thanks for watching. elephants

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