you. claimed violence flares in barcelona spain. gridlock to make growing outrage over the jailing of separatist leaders as darkness falls pro independence protesters clashed with police in the city center a general strike cause widespread destruction and. also on the program kurdish led forces accused turkey of violating the fragile cease fire in northern syria place down border skirmishes but president says he'll be his military

offensive unless the kurdish militias. in japan fish rivals england and australia come face to face in the world cup finals bragging rights are at stake as both teams believe you have to win. time for welcome to the program violence has broken out during a 5th day of mass protests in the cattle on capital barcelona as uproar over the jailing of independence leaders sweeps through the region of northern spain a general strike has brought much of catalonia to a halt flights have been canceled and road and rail links disrupted many factories stopped work tourist attractions closed in a key football match between boss alone and real madrid was postponed.

yes more turmoil in barcelona police moving on protesters whose anger has been growing all day. as dusk turned to darkness violence flared once again barcelona has now seen 5 nights of clashes between protesters and security forces. thousands had congregated in the counseling capital during the day many more had been marching on the city for the past 3 days outraged over harsh prison sentences for separatist leaders i put it we have political prisoners here in europe but that's inexcusable we have to protest against it. and don't even think that we're demanding our rights and especially our independence we demand democracy or love it will get us you know. the protests remained peaceful until some demonstrators began pelting the police headquarters with bags some say the police are to blame for the escalation as well yes but that if the police provoke us we have to respond we have

a right to protest in the media then if that is with. spain's prime minister condemns the unrest. you know you think i'm in order to not i don't want to think that the vandalism and the violence in catalonia that will go unpunished yes and i want to you know this is the kind of. the catalonian regional president also condemned the violence while at the same time backing the protesters demands she. spent all of us sentenced to 100 years for staging a referendum that we need to vote on independence again somewhere on the bottom up was old enough. as flames engulfed the streets of barcelona for another night catalan independence had once again turned into a political wildfire. got the latest from g.w. correspondent to hello humphrey on the line now from barcelona welcome hello what's going on. so we're in the midst of the 5th night of. the.

century we saw those protests violently getting sent to just about an hour ago police came through one of the main squares with a round band high speed previously with a bit of clearing the masses who had gathered at night but then the violence really ramped up to the crowd fled and essentially the plaza got a lot here where we were the square that became standing by barricades set on fire and then many more protests and protested to be had at the charity seen during the course of the day when we had the peaceful protest but these were protesters with their faces covered they would carry metal poles they were committing acts of vandalism they were setting all gas canisters it was a scene of great confusion and on the rest riot police that were everywhere and

scuffles breaking out. as you said seen from your various i'm just points that i don't know was there anything to plumstead this outbreak of violence you said it started off quite peacefully. well throughout the course of the day that had been up to 500000 people descend in boston and i came from 5 different towns and cities in the region all kept to the yes but what they call call of treated which they said were meant to be peaceful throughout the course of the day there were reports of some scuffles when crowds became she's content they tried to come into boston and really it was full essentially when the crowd changed and he was in. ames where that really still change in behavior of the crowd and then it was the police driving through the city center at high speed and all that was to be still the most unrest and break out of the streets so people inevitably have been likening these protests to die was that we've seen in hong kong is that

a fact comparison. journey don't think it's surprising if you take a look at civil disobedience as a tactic being used to get international attention correct sample a month they would keep a should all be at school and that was a tactic that we've seen used to sit with the organization of the demonstration which has largely been coordinated on a telegram have been in hong kong but also through the use of and tsunami democratic we should be difficult to gain access to you need to have achieve all code to gain access to the conversations that once again attacks a tech savvy way of organizing the disruption as well as the violent and which would fain again committed to hong kong and you couldn't get to a part of for example with the end of the protest in front as you can as well we. certainly did unrest seem to have the mileage. hasn't been for that and boston not in a thank you. meanwhile the former president of vaca. dymo

who fled to belgium after 27 teens that failed independent spirit has been allowed to remain free this despite the european arrest warrant issued by spain's supreme court has approved a manhunt of himself into police early on friday belgian or forty's released him without bail madrid wants to charge him for promoting the independence referendum which the spanish supreme court i had declared illegal. take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the protesters in the lebanese capital beirut have held a 2nd day of rallies against government plans to impose a new tax the demonstrations are some of the biggest for years protestors are also demanding the resignation of a political elite they say has looted the economy to the point of breakdown. british prime minister boris johnson has warned that there is no better outcome to the torturous of breck's in process than the deal reached in brussels on thursday

he's scrambling to win lawmakers support and she had a cabinet meeting on friday to plan tactics ahead of saturday's vote in parliament he says he's confident he can gain sufficient support but the vote will be close. an explosion at a mosque in eastern afghanistan has killed more than 60 people injured $36.00 the blast which caused the roof to collapse occurred as dozens of people gathered for friday prayers no one has admitted planning the attack but the taliban and the so-called islamic state are active in the region. now turkey is denying accusations that it has violated a fragile cease fire in northern syria kurdish forces accuse ankara of continuing to attack a border town present veggie burger once and turkey will relaunch 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 ras. 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 continued 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 vows to press on if there are still forces opposing turkey along the safe zone that ankara wants to create along its border with syria so. by choose day 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 peroration will resume where it stopped calling and with even more determination. so president trump spoke with the un saying everything is under control very much we're doing very very well with turkey there's a ceasefire or 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 i just totally under guard turkey is also guarding separately they're watching over everything so you have the kurds who we're 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 talk you can see

there. 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 an issue. there has been fighting during this pause i don't choose day the so-called ceasefire will end. so there's been an increase in tensions between the china and taiwan one side of the story is taiwan's ties with other countries united nations recognizes beijing as the government of china i'm not of taiwan this means that only a handful of countries have official diplomatic ties with taiwan and the moment that list is very short and the 15 countries including vatican city recognize taiwan as a country since 2060 its last 5 allies to china the most recent ones being the pacific nations of combating and solomon islands so here's what the prime minister of the solomon islands said on his 1st state visit to chime after his country

established a diplomatic relations with beijing. my government and people have chosen to be on the right side of history. and normalize relations with the people's republic of china the chinese diplomat in victory over taiwan comes after taipei went on the offensive in a speech i held on the country's national day on the 10th of october president citing when i rejected the one country 2 systems agreement so called in 1992 consensus between by beijing and taipei has been the basis for dialogue between the governments but in an interview with d.w.i. asia on friday taiwan's representative to germany said the crackdown on the democracy movement in hong kong serves as a warning against the one country 2 systems principle the consensus of 92 was achieved. that chunk has tricks party and the communist party and that means

that one is people know not to the obligation to get into the state of what one's tongue in cheek and his party wanted namely to say we owe we owe the whole train not the minute we don't do that the town is people wanted to want to see to the words we are we are at the market take and we want to govern us in the sovereign states and one of the biggest rivalries in sports england and australia face off on saturday in the quarter finals of the rugby world cup in japan both a strong contenders but australia might know something about their opponents that could tip the balance how do you prepare against an opponent that you've lost to 6 times in a row that is australia stripped for a record against england since 2016 but australia's players may have some insight knowledge having played with some of their opponents at club level. you know all

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