it thank you very much for your time this hour of verner fosler band president of the austrian institute for european policy and security in vienna. now and one of the biggest stories to shape the past week the president of catalonia suspended declaring the region's independence calling for dialogue with madrid on the move prompted the spanish prime minister to demand clarification on whether independence of officially been declared or not. we asked for a mandate to declare catalonia an independent state. responsibly with all due respect i ask parliament to suspend the declaration of independence so that in the coming weeks we can undertake a dialogue but a good deal for the moment we formally require the council and government to confirm if it has declared independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into effect. or does seem people in catalonia have been left straighted by the confusion many were visibly affected while listening to the president's announcement there are deeply disappointed at the end. madrid has given the catalan president until monday t

parties gained a lot of games lots of votes well we also talked to the president of the austrian institute for europeanpolicy and security in vienna and he also believes that sebastian curtis is tough stance on immigration that won him the election he was responsible already for closing as we call it the western balkan route that led from turkey. up to germany to scandinavia he was the one who organized that this route for illegal migrants became closed and since then also the number of migrants decreased very much and then. he will not only be able but he proved already that he will be able to do something because this also was more almost a quarter stone of a politics that was overtaken also by european union and even by angela america even if she did not like this very much at the beginning. in other news tonight an iraqi operation against the kurdish held city of kirkuk has been called a flagrant declaration of war by the kurdish peshmerga forces earlier the iraqi army advanced on the oil fields and an air base held by kurds iraq has also confirmed that it took control of cook airport where tension

electorate here you know indeed house policy there will be talk to the president of the austrian institute for europeanpolicy and security in vienna as well who believes that sebastian kunz is tough stance on immigration as paul was saying that one of the election he was responsible already for closing as we call it the western. can the route that lead from turkey. to germany and to scandinavia he was there one who organized that this route for illegal migrants became closed and since then. the number of migrants decreased very much and the ends of. here will not only be able but he proved already that he will be able to do something because this also was more or less the cornerstone of a politics that was overtaken also by european union and even by angela mackey even if she did not like this very much at the beginning. the toll from somalia's worst ever terror attack still being counted today it's now no more than two hundred seventy have died and hundreds more injured in the twin blasts in that capital on saturday emergency workers are still pulling bodies from the ruins and they say the true number

votes of votes we've been seeing reaction on what occurred yesterday including from the austrian institute for europeanolicy on security in vienna their president believes it was sebastian kurtz's tough stance on immigration that won him the election. he was responsible already for closing as we call it the western balkans the route that led from turkey. to germany to scandinavia he was to one who are organizing that this route for illegal migrants became closed and since then. the number of migrants decreased very much and then. he will not only be able but he proved already that he will be able to do something because this also was more or less to cornerstone of a politics that was overtaken also by european union and even by until america even if she did not like this very much at the beginning. to the middle east where the syrian army is clearing the remaining pockets of terrorists in terrorism or province having repelled most of us law mixtape from the city of dean now its hard become the terror group stronghold after they largely deserted their former one in rock out r t got rare access to. many