bangladesh. the slaughter zone starting people twenty first going to w. . this is the w. news live from berlin and it's berlin where the catalan separatist leader says he wants to stay carlos pushed him on says he plans to remain here in the german capital while a court looks at spanish demands to extradite him he faces charges in connection with last year's independence referendum also coming up a standoff in brazil former president luis announcer just silva ignores

a deadline to turn himself in to begin a twelve year sentence for corruption and wins defiance says the stage for a confrontation between his supporters and those who want to see him behind bars. and the u.s. state of texas sends in the national guard to patrol the border with mexico this comes after president donald trump said he wanted the deployment until his border wall is built. thanks for joining us i'm mary in evanston. former catalonian president carlos pugh's demond says he plans to live in berlin while the courts consider a spanish extradition request against him even speaking at a news conference here in the german capital just a day after being released on bail after a court in northern germany refused to send him back to spain to face charges of

rebellion the court may greta extradite him on the lesser charge of misuse of funds . and the w.'s correspondent charlotte chelsea pill has been following that press conference in berlin and joins us now so charlotte you have been listening to the most statements what is his main message today. yes i was among a huge group of journalists gathered here today waiting to find out exactly what carlos was next is this a long running saga he left us alone or late last year and many of his fellow former catalan leaders behind bars he though let's about him and then he was detained last month in germany now what we learned from this press conference was as you said he plans to stay in germany for the forseeable future because the extradition extradition proceedings against him aren't yet over all we know so far

from the german courts is that they don't want to extradite him for high treason that's one of the charges facing him back in spain and carries thirty years in prison germany decided that there wasn't a law here in germany that equated to that so there was no deagle grounds to extradite him for that charge what is still up for debate though is whether or not he can be said back to spain for another charge he's facing misuse of public funds so he's by no means safe from being sent back to spain so far he said he'll wait it out here and by then he knows exactly what's going to happen should the case go his way he said he then plans to return back to boucher where he's been in exile since late last year or in charlotte we do have a short clip of speaking to journalists short time ago let's have a listen. do you think that with. other countries. where the case of car

bombs last year there were. things like you see that it was lucky just. to show. you the consequences of the breach but you. travel around the bureaus to explain what's going on. in the space. all right so karl has pushed him on clearly wanting to draw attention to the catalan cause charlotte what is the status of the independence movement in the region yeah there was some speculation that this would actually play some wars in two colors pushing one's hands being detained here in germany we haven't had much from him in belgium in several months since it was decided that they probably were going to send him back on those high treason charges now once again he is in the headlines as we had there in that sound bite that we just heard from the supreme he wants to use his time here to promote the

council on cool how he's going to do that we're not yet sure he said that he currently has no plans to meet with german politicians whether or not that will change in the coming days and weeks is still to be still to be found out our ideal your correspondent charlotte charleston pill reporting for us there thank you. to the us now where the state of texas has begun sending the national guard to secure the border with mexico it follows a call by president donald trump to deploy up to four thousand members of the national guard to find drug trafficking and illegal immigration in the region well trump said he wanted the deployment to last until progress has been made with his border wall. you can run but it's very difficult to hide from the u.s. border patrol what might be a little young for these immigrants it's the end of the line and. they're among tens of thousands of people who try to cross the border between mexico and the u.s.

illegally every month. president trump a started a new offensive to reduce the numbers it involves making sure that it taint and sending troops to the border. we don't have laws we have catch and release you catch and then you immediately release and people come back years later for a court case except they virtually never come back so we are preparing for the military to secure a border. the national guard in texas has already started sending equipment troops from arizona will also soon be on their way one of their jobs will be to carry out aerial surveillance. it's not the first time the u.s. has deployed the military to the border but it comes as the number of illegal crossings stopped dramatically from more than six hundred thousand apprehended in twenty sixteen to just three hundred fifty thousand in twenty seventeen mexico's condemned chum's plans saying the decision is motivated by domestic political

concerns that this is what i see here declarations of future frustration over issues to do with internal policy or your congress direct your self to them not to the mexican people. other critics also say trump is stepping up his rhetoric now because his plans to build a border wall have stalled in congress trump says he's determined to stop all illegal immigration as it threatens both security and jumps. well now to some of the other stories making news around the world and canadian police say fourteen people are dead and another fourteen others are injured after a bus crash in rules the scatch one province near the town of tisdale a truck hit the bus carrying a junior hockey team the team has put out a statement calling the incident an incredible tragedy moscow has promised a tough response to new u.s. sanctions imposed on several russian officials washington has frozen the assets of companies and all of our explodes to russian president vladimir putin the u.s.

said it was responding to what it called russia's malign activity around the world . a monitoring group says syria's military is gaining territory around the last opposition holdout in eastern guta near the capital damascus reports say government air strikes have killed dozens of civilians since the truce collapsed on friday brazil's former president louise ignacio lula da silva has defied a judge's order to surrender to police to start serving a twelve year sentence for corruption on friday who filed a new request to avoid jail in the run up to the october presidential vote the third such appeal in three days supporters say his conviction is a ploy by the political right to keep him out of the election which polls suggest he would win by a wide margin. the. morea of the

brazilian people they chant his most fervent supporters when lula was given twenty four hours to hand himself into police he sought refuge at the steelworkers union in sao paolo the union he once led and where he launched his political career nearly four decades ago. the deadline came and went without a surrender but according to media reports police decided not to come and forcibly remove him to avoid triggering clashes with his supporters according to i woke up this morning thinking if the federal police come here now to arrest lula they won't have room to get in and they'll tell you. some four hundred kilometers south and to live in are protesters gathered this is where authorities had wanted the former president to be a judge had ordered him to report to this police station in the city of karachi by five pm on friday a day earlier the supreme court had rejected his pleas to remain free until all

appeals against a sentence for exhausted his adversaries had come to see him arrested. was ill be a key i came here just so i could see up close when this crooked son lula goes to prison he is. back in sao paolo the leader of lula's workers' party and announced that the former president would take part in saturday morning mass at the union headquarters indicating that the standoff would stretch into the weekend. this is where we will be this is where the president is this is where we are and this is where we will stay t.v. cameras reports suggest that lula's aides have been negotiating his surrender with police and that he will be taken into custody later on saturday. israeli security forces have fired live rounds on palestinian protesters at the gaza border . killing at least nine people including a journalist and injuring dozens more all this follows the deaths of more than

twenty others in demonstrations last week the palestinian ambassador to the united nations has condemned the killings take a listen the pressure will be mounting an old part of the international community not only the security council but all parts including the secretary general have to do something in order to stop this continuing the massacre against the palestinian people well meanwhile organizers of the gaza protest say the demonstrations are against the decade old blockade of the territory but israel accuses the palestinians of using the protest as a cover for infiltrating the border and staging attacks inside israel. sending up smoke from burning mounds of time as the protesters hope but israeli soldiers can see they can't shoot. the demonstrators are calling this the great much of return the demand the people forced from their lands during the one nine

hundred forty eight war with israel be allowed to return the islamist hamas group was a key force in organizing the protests. that are there now is that we will never give up on any of our inalienable rights the land is one of them another is the holy sites to receive them the mall sunder churches. israel says the protests are a challenge to its territory and it has the right to defend itself it accuses homines of using the protests as cover to carry out attacks on israeli border towns . is a travesty for the palestinian people that the hamas government is encouraging its people to attack israel is encouraging its people to commit acts of violence and encouraging them to actually storm into israel to try to destroy israel and kill as many people as possible but rights watchdogs have criticized israel for firing on protesters from its side of the border the united nations has urged restraint. we

remind israel of its obligations to ensure that excessive force is not employed against protesters the unjustified recourse to firearms by law enforcement resulting in death may amount to a willful killing and grave breach of the fourth geneva convention. the protests along the volatile border are expected to culminate on the fifteenth of may the day following the seventieth anniversary of israel's declaration of independence. all right since for its news now and in friday's bonus legal action relief for hanover as they finally end a five game losing streak against it are braman and over broke the deadlock when martin harnick flicked the ball in at the near post well hungry for more had over made it to before half time thanks to phoenix coasts i and it was this creative lob that started it all. and over hold on for the two one win and are now nine

points clear of the relegation zone i in tennis rafael nadal's return from injuries saw the spaniard bring his country level with germany in the davis cup quarterfinals a doll made light work of philip kohlschreiber taking out the time in straight sets it was the first match for the world number one since retiring injured in the australian open in january the doll faces alexander's there of today with spain and germany locked at one one. and now to a smashing easter tradition from the greek island of core food thousands of people have gathered to watch as residents drop hundreds of large red clay pots from their balconies. and beer the pots are half filled with water to make a greater smash and splash the tradition mark foley saturday in the greek orthodox

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