this is the news live from. tens of thousands take to the streets for a 5th day of protest the general strike causes widespread destruction. and violence flares this mass protesters clashed with police in the city center also on the program. in parliament prime minister.

for his new deal on the terms of his country's departure from the european union. special. police in mexico. 8 people killed in the shootout between police and cartel. fierce rivals and. bragging rights. both. welcome to the program it's day 5 of protests gripping the spanish city of boston.

the jailing of catalan independence leaders a swept through the region a general strike has brought industry and businesses to a halt while tens of thousands of demonstrators waving cattle on flags have flooded the center of the regional capital bosler there they are banding independence for the region on the release of jailed separatists the day's been largely peaceful but clashes have broken out between protesters and riot police. a stricter d.w.i. correspondent to one humphrey who joins us live from boston welcome helena what's going. on i feel well the protests here today have been largely peaceful here in the heart of barcelona up to half a 1000000 people have converged here in the city they've come from around 5 towns and cities in catalonia to make their voices heard said we have seen some indications of the violence in the past couple of hours about a kilometer away from where i'm standing right now i see smoke billowing and we

know that over the past nights during which we have seen bidets some protesters have been setting fire seeing barricades trash cans for example even throwing a few moments of cocktails now right now we understand that riot police are combing the side streets where we're standing right now trying to make sure that more violent acts don't break out but for now where we are it's been knowledge peaceful most people just wanting to make their voices heard is it clear what they want. well of course different groups of people want to different things that if we talk about the main bulk of the protests and the people that i've been speaking to here during the course of the day many people find that their frustration has boiled over with the sentencing of 9 cattle and separatist leaders by the supremes court on monday when they received those known prison sentences of up to 13 years some people want those overturned. some people continue to law school independent school

catalonia other people who have come out say that they simply want democracy they feel there has not been enough democracy in catalonia of late now the leader of the regional government control that he continues to ask for a 2nd referendum within the next 2 years and he says that he will continue to see also that. this process has been likened to those we've seen recently in hong kong it's not a fair comparison. to say it's an unsurprising comparison feel for a number of reasons firstly if you look at the organization for example it appears to be largely rudderless or at least not have a clear leader instead people are taking to a telegram for example for information of where the protests are going to be taking place who they have been signing up to an app called tsunami democratic where they can also receive the information they can gather to potentially sometimes commit

acts of civil disobedience for example with the occupation of the airport which we saw on monday a tactic which we also saw in hong kong leading to the grounding of flights and therefore international attention and then of course the violence that we've seen not just for example here in spain but also likening it then to hong kong as well as france with the yellow vests protests and ecuador and other movements going on around the world right now to have a home for the past learned transco say i will talk to you soon thanks very much. now british prime minister barak johnson has warned there is no better outcome to the torturous breck's of process than the deal reached in brussels on thursday is trying to win lawmakers backing ahead of saturday's key vote in parliament without a majority he will need the support of opposition lawmakers for his deal to pass each other cabinet meeting on friday to plan tactics and says he's confident he has the votes that will be close. to the promise that it all.

derek scally from the irish times newspaper could talk us through what's expected in saturday's vote while kim derek willie with if i knew that i would be sitting here via the bookmakers there's a lot of money to made on this i think financial markets of watching it very closely and people in our in the watching very closely i mean is this yet another false dawn or is this the final showdown of all showdowns i mean as far as i can tell from talking to colleagues in london they're really running the numbers and it's looking very tight at the moment the last numbers i heard it was like 321 against 318 in favor but it's going to be i mean somebody said to me there's going to be real mediæval whipping going home tomorrow to make sure he gets the votes he needs because he's short he was short before he's even shorter now because he's lost his northern on the allies so you know he's a gambler and this is the biggest gamble i think we've seen in british politics for a very long time so it's going to be that close now the conservatives line is that people are fed up now they're fed up of they just want to get on with it but it's

not just the conservatives always have to listen to opposition labor m.p. ronnie campbell. i'm going to vote for the deal i think people in this country are fed up politicians. next for 3 years and every time you turn with me and this bill being put in front of it to stop would. rather remain as a you know. a huge legal colt's even the queen was involved you know the supreme court i mean everybody's been involved in. paul and do its work no good to deal. with should grab a boss might be the best deal because it's not but it's a deal that made the end work and will leave in europe enough to maintain. so this is a weird thing about the way that how it has split british politics the labor party line is to oppose they still run it campbell that saying that he's going to he's going to vote for it so there are people who are persuadable a far as mr johnson is concerned yes i think briggs's is literally the will to live

very many british people at this stage i know from cousins and relatives in britain so yeah if they force johnson canon of labor people to come across and he he lost 10 people from northern on 10 seats in the t.v. this northern party that was pulled out at the last minute so you have the more labor people who can get in the better which of course will create a new toy a new chaos particularly if they're going to plan a general election so he just needs to pull in votes from wherever he needs to bring in the the the very the tears say they're in favor the the independent conservatives who were kicked out of the party are could get away this could be a back door for them back to their jobs and their pensions and then he hopes to bring in enough people from from labor where we just don't know even if he gets this pass the u.k. parliament that let's face it that's a huge if that's not the end of the story is it it's also got a clear european parliament well it's a 2 stage process in london as well many of whom probably will have to sign off on it but it's a 2 stage process we've got the indicative vote tomorrow and then there will that

actually be the legislation has deposits some point between our legs. just told a servant and they could vote is would you buy this when we for for the legislation so there is not what's happening tomorrow that's what's happening tomorrow under some concern that actually this might all be a trick by the hard drugs the tears that once you get this through the indicative vote then the ben amendment which prevents london leaving without a deal would then be deactivated and then the break the tos could just let it all fall apart so there's a new amendment coming in over chatwin and he's saying no we're going to root withhold our support will indicate we will but we're going to withhold is for right to the end to prevent any little tricks from the break to tears who might want to trigger no jailbreaks it's ok it's getting even more cumbersome that's the lead the amendment that we have everybody has to watch out for in the course of the day whichever way it goes it is predicted bricks it is predicted to be bad for the u.k. economy how is british business feeling about this yeah i think at this stage they just want security like and like most again just want it done they want to leave us

want to be able to tell their trading partners we're back in business we're not in this you know we've been in this limbo for 3 years so supply chains need to be secured supplies need to be secure there isn't a warehouse or a freezer to be hard to because be very building up such stores so far as a business or i just want to get back to business and stop this destruction and that's hopefully what boris johnson will convince people to do even at this stage i'm willing the man well i can't say i ever expected to be saying that. thank you. this is. news from let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world thanks version of a mosque in eastern afghanistan has killed at least 62 people and injured 36 a blast cause the roof to collapse and happens dozens of people gathered friday press no one has admitted plotting the attack of the taliban on the so-called islamic state in eastern afghanistan. here in germany

a memorial has been held for one of the 2 victims of a gun attack in the eastern city of eilat last week family friends and politicians gathered to bid a fan well to the 20 year old man who was shot dead in a nearby combat show after the carrier of the attack and failed to shoot his way into a synagogue a 40 year old woman was also killed that day. the growth has slowed to its weakest rates in nearly 30 years if we could demand that the brought it in production data shows the growth slowed to 6 percent fueling fears of a global recession in the months ahead. now to mexico where there's been a fierce gun battle between security forces and gunmen it started when police tracked down and detained the son of the notorious drug lord. chapo guzman 8 people were killed and more than 20 injured in the shootout mexico's president later said the oath or says were right to back down to save the lives of civilians caught in

the crossfire. mexican security forces were on a routine patrol in sinhala as capital city when gunmen opened fire on them. security forces returned fire initially capturing 4 men among them the son of the former head of the sim alone drug cartel. one of them was identified as a video lopez result several organized crime groups surrounded the house with the force great and out of. patrol unit other criminal groups initiated violence against other citizens. caravans of cartel gunmen took over the city setting fires blocking major intersections and killing civilians indiscriminately the force wielded by the cartel gunmen so superior that the authorities decided to release the video guzman in order to avoid a further escalation of violence the incarceration of former cartel top man el

chapo in one of the highest security prisons in the united states has left a dangerous power vacuum in the sinhala and drug cartel it's triggered a surge of violence in mexico as various would be contenders fight for control of the powerful drug cartel. turkey is deny these ations that it has violated a fragile cease fire in northern syria kurdish forces of accused of continuing to attack a border town present budget time burden so as to launch its offensive in the region unless kurdish militias move back from the border. a far cry from a ceasefire. this is the syrian border town of wrestle i in. less than 20 kilometers away the wounded arrive at hospital according to the syrian observatory for human rights over 10 civilians were killed in the fighting just on

friday during an apparent truce. as turkish forces continue to enter northern syria local residents in tel aviv yet say fighting there has stopped this town which also lies on the turkish border was just captured from kurdish units. it's good content we were able to sleep last night thank god. turkish president richard tayyip erdogan has denied that there was any fighting and valves to press on if there are still forces opposing turkey along the safe zone that ankara wants to create along its border with syria. by tuesday night this issue of a safe zone along the border would have been resolved. i'm open but if we still face opposing forces without any exception the minute the time is up our operation will resume where it stopped calling and with even more determination

. so president trump spoke with the man saying everything is under control very much we're doing very very well with turkey there's a cease fire or a pause or whatever you want to call it there was some sniper fire this morning there was mortar fire this morning that was eliminated quickly and they're back to the full pause we have just totally under guy turkey is also guarding separately they're watching over everything so you have the kurds who are dealing with are not very happy about the way things are going i must say but french president emanuel mccrum view isn't so rosy do you consider. kate what has happened over the last few days in the region food news a serious mistake by the west and by nato it looked on on occasion. there has been

fighting during this pause i don't choose day the so-called cease fire will end. the protesters in the lebanese capital beirut have been holding a 2nd day of rallies against government plans for imposing new taxes tens of thousands join the demonstrations are making parts of the biggest for many years people are also demanding the resignation of the political elite back use of looting the economy to the point of collapse the prime minister has accused rivals in his own government of blocking economic reforms. from a daniel gather middle east analyst and editor in chief of the magazine he joins us from beirut welcome daniel how serious as they situation. this situation is actually quite serious i was surprised myself i have. attended

many demonstrations in beirut been out on the streets quite often when there were like there was protests but today for some reason i feel this is more than usual the demonstrations on the streets were peaceful today but the bosler closing which is something something quite unusual because lebanese never close the bars whatever war is happening and i've heard many young people in the streets saying like tonight it's a revolution so i think that is probably a bit overstated but i think the situation is serious we rooted the apparatus block to this news that the military has taken over the airport sealing the airport to make sure normally flies of the country but but but for sure also no no demonstrators get into the airport and to a strategic facilities so i think the situation is not to be taken. and so i what do they want. well there is a lot of reporting about attacks about it whatsapp text which is quite an absurd

thing the lebanese state is looking for money it is bankrupt almost. having difficulties to get u.s. dollars out of the a.t.m. the currency reserves are pretty short so there was news about the government wanting to impose a what at tax on the lebanese like the use of telecommunication at once and should be taxed but this is just like one is you know i think in general let me nice youth in particular they're tired they see that the garbage crisis the energy crisis nothing has been solved so far public services are largely out of order and then in the last couple of days we had the wildfires all around the city of beirut in the mountains dramatic wildfires which really gave a symbolic image that country's burning and a lot of young people regardless of their political or sectarian affiliation are really tired of this system of clans that are always like you siding among each other in distributing power on church and so i think this is more like an

expression of the general dissatisfaction with the situation and the prime minister today gave a speech but he didn't really offer a solution. there the so the polish saad hariri he seems to blame his political partners for this on the rest so who does he turn to to try to stabilize things. look the current government in lebanon consists of a large variety of artistic unable to argue that most of the parties that are running the elections are actually part of this government from hezbollah are to the oppressive party to the party of start really sunni here are christians the free patrick movement everybody is is engaged in this government is a real government of consensus and there is not much of no position so when he said today 72 hours i am telling my coalition partners to come out and to tell me if they really want to be part of a reform plan or not but i think that was not very satisfactory for most of the

demonstrators in the streets i think is just like trying to buy some time and i think the protests are going to go on and what i think the dangerous situation that can that can happen years when the demonstrators and at a certain neighborhoods that belong to certain clan chiefs and political party leaders and then they would send in their troops and then we would certainly see violence escalate and i think that could be a situation that could go out of hand but of quite quickly you never got from the moment people are to mystic and people are safe and i think the demonstrators at the moment are not interested in any violence we're talking to you thank you for joining us daniel gala in beirut thank. you very historic and now historical mistake this is how the european commission president sums up the european union's failure to start membership talks with north

macedonia and albania mission front on claudette young coming for a sobering and to a summit in brussels italy wants to restart talks on and large on the block but france has other ideas. chancellor merkel wanted to put pressure on paris but she didn't succeed france continues to say no opinion and northern macedonia to western balkan countries will have to wait for invitations to join the e.u. they won't be offered at the summit. when germany's position was that under certain conditions e.u. access and talks could begin but i'm sorry to say this position was not unanimously agreed upon and. without any entry prospect member states are concerned that russia or china might win more influence in the region but france together with denmark and the netherlands criticizes the current approval process president mcconnell says it's too cumbersome for paris reform is long overdue and

a key issue. is what the process must be reversible otherwise it won't be credible and that's why my wish is that before we accept a new e.u. members that many of the current members meet the reform criteria. e.u. states are postponing the start of accession talks for the 3rd time a new date has been set chancellor merkel says the next attempt will be early next year. i was offered one of the biggest rivalries in sport england and australia face off on saturday and the quarter finals of the rugby world cup in japan are both our strong contenders but australia might know something about their opponent that could tip the balance in their favor how do you prepare against an opponent that you've lost to 6 times in a row that is australia stripped for record against england since 2016 but

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the land from down under from exhausting our possibilities. and the bundesliga resumes tonight following the international break and there are some big games to look forward to a much take 8 on the leipzig host evolves but the only undefeated team remaining in the league and surprising table top is frozen mentioning flat back trouble to dortmund with hopes of keeping the number one spot. the folds of blood bought have been on fire this season it's been over 30 years since the brucia boys have occupied the tables pole position this late in the season the dangerous attack that could hurt a team multiple ways makes lot viable candidate to win it all this season but 1st they have to get past do it. as an innocent because when this is a very important bundesliga game for us the fact is a very tough german team also with unbelievable quality called the shore club have

a very good coach also of his allows them to play freely. list. in 5 or less his side to 2nd last season but this season despite being favorites they've been taking the foot off the gas their last 3 outings were the results they wanted. and it's clear that we really really want to win against clawed back. because we know that we've had a few draws in a row now side by mentioning good luck another big game involves current number 2 team will spur the big question is will they remain undefeated the world's toughest test so far this season without a doubt who'll be facing rb leipzig the side that only trailed them by one point in the state. this is day the news these are top stories. protests

and they catalonian topple boss learned have continued for a 5th day i mean outrage over the imprisonment of independence latest a general strike has brought industry and businesses to a halt while tens of thousands of demonstrators waving cattle on flights a flooded the city center today's demonstration has been largely peaceful there have been clashes with police. but it's prime minister barak's johnson has warned that there is no better outcome for the torture a suburban. process in the deal that reached in brussels on thursday he's scrambling to win lawmakers backing ahead of a key vote in parliament on saturday he says he's confident he'll get enough support but the vote will be close. in mexico have admitted they bungled the arrest of video guzman the son of the notorious drug lord joaquin el chapo guzman security forces engaged in a fierce gun battle with men from powerful drug cartel as a child to capture him 8 people were killed and more than 20 injured in the

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