for many germans it's much more than eleven the century council. is both a landmark and a national legend. mainly because this is where martin luther translated the new testament while staying at the castle beginning in fifteen twenty one four years after he published his theses. that meant all literate germans could read the bible for the first time. in the first person to translate the bible but he did it very well i translated it from the original greek instead of latin. it was. a special jubilee exhibition pays tribute to look there are over three hundred exhibits show how our attitude towards him is changed repeatedly over the past five hundred years. luther a national hero. and luther a religious revolutionary who often sparked controversy. the. type of on book exhibition shows five hundred years of german history and locus is on luther and the german people you know from the college of the reformation influence german history and how did different era's views. to build have fog about a hot. rod book out some of his often played a major role

opposition to article one five five this is the response to the deliberate action against council and who have for many centuries felt different. we have to overcome any threats and to act in a civil and peaceful manner for those watching in barcelona there seem to be as many doubters as supporters. and i don't agree with making unilateral declaration because in the end even if the people who participated in october first have moral legitimacy they don't have legal that say here at the seat of power the palace or the general attacked it was unclear who was really in control one secession activists said large numbers of students had contingency plans to guard the building it would have to to defend. the people. that the police not be able to arrest the president right now the spanish national flag still flies here unlike the city of jerome where pushed him on his spending the weekend it was unceremoniously lowered and it pleased a lot of people but. no i'm not afraid of independence because this is what we wanted and we're behaving according to our politicians are leading us down the right path. and you know in m

least with the council on autonomy its institutions and especially the police taken into account one of the symbols of catalan nationhood most especially is going back to the eighteenth century the. seventeen thousand strong force is considered to have a big influence here with the population of seven point five million people in catalonia now the council and police are undergoing their own test of independence despite state and secret trinity this seems to be a divide within the ranks at the moment castle and society is deeply divided and that's a fact that would be hypocritical to deny the same division can be seen inside the police but first of all we want to say that we remain calm of course we will continue to do our everyday work no matter what happens and we want to cast one place to stay as the police for all catalans. the chief of most of us has already been accused of inciting people to rebel against the state just step in the eastern affairs or has become a hero to some and a traitor for others. when we dread to take so most of us will face a tough choice between central government and it's a lot of forces now one of the trains first moves will be most likely to m

well the council on independence movement is of course nothing new in fact it dates back centuries.he region has gone through periods of autonomy and periods of direct rule from madrid. luxury go now takes u us through a century off cast on struggle for twenty. it's an autonomous regions both it's long so much more. catalonia has its own language police false flag governments and president. the result of over a century of struggle landed on the plot to smoke. during a move small. of moss on the idea of independence began in eighteen ninety eight. spain loves us lots of colonies of cuba the phillipines. for the catalan police and that on the catalan public. but that's my. i think i state. it remained largely autonomous for centuries but off the packing the losing siside in a royal war of succession in the eighteenth century. barcelona suffered a year long siege that left deep scars. catalonia fell directly under the rules of madrid. but catalan pride right deep by the nineteenth century it was spain's premier industrial region. cinedigm understood fixed soon. donn. the textile indust

council lands consider themselves a separate nation. but it has been a part of spain since the fifteenth century courtesy of king ferdinand and queen isabella for the origins of the modern says sation its movement let's fast forward to the twentieth century spain becomes a republic and cats alone it gets a statute of autonomy but six years later franco comes to power and takes that away the three decades of franco's oppression only bolstered the catalans desire for independence and after his death and strange transition to democracy catalonia got its autonomy back but not enough as many locals believe when the countries can stitch new court limits on cancer and claims to nations that it started a chain reaction. with protests and symbolic referendums in cities and towns across the region some cats lands now compare madrid pressure to the decades of franco's dictatorship the region held a non-binding independence vote back in twenty fourteen about eighty percent said yes to independence but it was declared illegal by spain look it will you go up there on your. own up a few undemocratic the catalonia is crashing ahead regardless it seems more

security council to do what they have signed up to do because under article six of the nonproliferation treaty from one thousand nine hundred seventy nearly half a century ago they are committed to achieving you can do some and they've gone some way towards that and there are a few nuclear weapons today than there were in the end of the cold war but there's still fifteen thousand warheads left in the world so there's a lot of work for those weapons states to do and encouraging governments to do what they will probably already promise to do seems to me pretty commonsensical thing to go for and in practical terms do you think this award for i can well boost to now or give new impetus to these efforts internationally to achieve a nuclear ban. yes i do think so i don't know that this will be the thing which finally generates success for that for them for their campaign but i think it must push the conversation forward and give it more profile you know after all when is it. the first item on news reports around the world has been discussing the proposition to create a nuclear free world so that. it's already achieving that a sense of greater coverage and gre

century elizabeth langridge enough the regio lived in these apartments. she just tribute it almost to the poor founded a hospital and is now honored. for council is a place where important historical figures lived momentous events occurred and inspiration went out into the world for all those reasons it truly is a national icon. luther once said about eyes enough and no town knows me better not only did he take refuge in bought book castle he also lived in eyes enough as a schoolboy a larger than life statue memorializes him the reliefs on its pedestal show scenes from his life. he must have once entered eyes enough through the nikolai gates it was built in eleven seventy and it's the oldest city gate in there in jail. as a schoolboy he sang in the choir in st george's church later in fifteen twenty one on his trip to the diet of warms and back he preached here. you can find out all that and more on these information columns they direct you to the town sites and when you see this green arrow you know the site is connected to luther. i've made my way to the loser house and want to find out what this story q.r. code can tell me about this case t

catalonia, the european council said there's no space for the eu to mediate in the crisis over independence. barack obama has warned that politics in his country has been set back half a centuryty. now it's time for our newspaper review. what's making headlines around the world ? 0n the front pages of the financial times, british pm, theresa may, is flanked by the eu's biggest and most powerful members, german chancellor angela merkel and french president, emmanuel macron, as she urges the bloc not to back her into a corner on brexit. staying with brexit. tweets from goldman sachs boss, lloyd blankfein are making news on the independent‘s website. mr blankfein hinted that his bank may enjoy a happy future presence in frankfurt. the el pais digital page is of course leading with coverage of the catalan independence push. the spanish government will make unprecedented moves tomorrow to activate article 155 of the constitution and suspend the region's autonomy. 0n the bbc‘s website, tech giant amazon's search for second headquarters has attracted bids from more than 100 cities. the company is promising to invest $5 billion and create 50,000 newjobs at the new hq. and finally, in

centuries actually but the modern independence movement really kicked off began to kick off in two thousand and three with the renegotiation of the new statues of autonomy which would have given council only of the right to call itself a nation it would have given the council on language priority and it would give given as judicial rights and also the right to collect their own taxes and then pay this money back to madrid this was passed by the castle in parliament the spanish parliament passed a referendum and then thrown out by the the spanish constitutional court in twenty ten so we feel that there's no possible negotiation we're getting a bad deal as far as we're concerned ok simon harris author of catalonia is not spain many thanks for talking to us it's a pleasure now u.s. president donald trump is poised to take a first step towards ending an international nuclear deal with iran and that deal saw the easing of sanctions against iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program sources familiar with white house strategy say trump is expected to decertify the nuclear deal soon that would leave the republican controlled congress to decide whether to reimpose sanctions trump as long

a quarter of a century after the diet of vaughan's the emperor and counted the reformer again at least his tomb in the council chechens that and back. the victorious habsburg ruler wanted to see the grave of his anniversary with his own eyes. dead or alive but he's a heretic and cats are. most famous burn. joined should we get to mount. charles was advised to dig up and burn the heretics bones. feel the quake by wage war with the living not the dead. luther's tomb was closed. what remains. a slang for us to give luther's long term impact on germany and the germans is the cultural and more specifically the linguistic achievement which through this translation of the bible has had repercussions far beyond the protestant territories does he know he also had a political input he supported the development of territorial states of modernity and in this respect you could say that luther advanced the federalized nation of germany for the whole. luther's vision of a new face surge division the church in germany fractured into the good. with the loss of church unity the old political order to was irretrievably lost. pr

council, they've been here before. >> it's been the of the schools in our school the city broke ground to renovate the centuries old school building that the arts academy moved into back in 1974. the building was falling apart. it didn't even have any of the modern classrooms, theaters and studios that you expect in a performing arts academy. the construction budget was set at $71 million. now get this. that 2012 budget more than doubled through the years by the time the remodel was complete. that's enough money to pay the annual salaries of nearly 1,300 d.c. public schoolteachers. >> you know, we knew that it would cost a great deal more than that, but we never actually saw a budget. >> reporter: you heard right. they never saw a budget. peggy cooper is the school's co- founder. >> have a tuba, you know, in addition to a book that they will understand. >> reporter: take a look at it now. ellington, it's beautiful and on the inside, wow, it is spectacular with state of the art studios, theaters and labs. it's a crowned gel, but it's also considered the -- jewel, but it's also considered the poster child of the ballooning

century unfolds. if we are able to say it will be the result of organizations like this, the arctic council which bringstogether russia and nato, one of the few places we have a coherent conversation. the united states needs to up its game. i am showing a picture of the one operational icebreaker the us has, denmark, a nation of 5 million, operates 6 icebreakers. we need to improve ourselves in this his own. now, if i could, for one moment i will address the challenges broadly on all the oceans, because the sea is one. fishing, illegal fishing, one fish in 5 card in the oceans of the world is caught illegally, fish stocks declining, probably 50% over the last 40 years. this is a multibillion-dollar business, it is exacerbated by piracy and illegality. additionally, again, global warming is going to change the oceans and attack the ability to conduct photosynthesis for the oxygen we breathe. with apologies to al gore who has often said the lungs of the earth are the amazon, they contribute. the lungs of the earth are the oceans. that is a very quick voyage around the world. now, okay, admiral, a lot of c

the eighteenth century the seventeen thousand strong force is considered to have a big influence here with the population of seven point five million people in catalonia now the council and police are undergoing their own test of independence despite statements to the trilogy this seems to be a divide within the ranks do you most offices have told the media on conditions of anonymity that there is at both pro and anti independent sentiments with the catalog police. at the moment castle in society is deeply divided and that's a fact that would be hypocritical to deny the same division can be seen inside the police but first of all we want to say that we remain calm of course we will continue to do our everyday work no matter what happens and we want to cast one place to stay as the police for all catalans when we dread to take so most of us will face a tough choice between sensually government and the capital and cause now one of madrid's first moves will be most likely to remove catalan authorities the question is will most of us follow orders charlotte david's good ulti barcelona. hillary clinton's election team in the democratic national committee reportedly helped

council. within it is richly but tend to decorate. by one of these portals and the ministry cannot fail to enchants. a monastery was rebuilt in its present state in the nineteenth century that at that time bug area was part of the ottoman empire. the arcades are designed to make two stories a p.r. one the architects drafty ruse to sidestep the turkish overlords command the monastery had been done and the turks required that when rebuilt it should have now most stories than in its original state. oh ever. behind the facade there are three hundred salads for the monks jackal's administrative offices of them honest tonight valuable manuscripts and thousands of books covering the thousand as more since read i was found. the most trees history begins over a millennium ago with a young man in the attic tenth century who wearied of life that he retired to the sun a child of the reader mountains to need the godly life of a hand. even risky also nana's john of rayna lived in a king praying fasting and devoting his every waking hour to god. word of his exemplary life spread quickly he was reported to have worked miracles and enough healed the sick soon he was attracting to sign.

push his vision of what china should look like by the middle of this century adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. the un security council is considering a draft resolution that would condemn the violence against over her community and myanmar's rock and. the proposal expresses grave concern to its security forces they accuse of destroying homes and raping a woman. meanwhile there's been a new agreement between. hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled their homes more than six hundred thousand have crossed into just in the past two months. of international community for more help as conditions at makeshift camps the rate of a child even. just try and imagine you're trying to take care of the health care facilities for the population of the city of washington d.c. that is about the size of population refugees who crossed over to bangladesh in recent days from me on my plus those who are in recent years that would make up close to one million the size of the population we're living in squarely refugee camps all across there just isn't and i think hospital beds in this part of there's one government on hospital with abou

council, they've been here before. >> it's been the case with all the schools in our school modernization program. >> reporter: why? let's go back. three years ago, the city broke ground to renovate the century's old school building. the building was falling apart. it didn't even have any of the modern classrooms, and studios that you would expect in a performing arts academy. a construction budget was set at $71 million. get this. that 2012 budget, more than doubled through the years by the time the remodel was complete. annual salaries of nearly 1300 d.c. school teachers. >> we knew it would cost a great deal more than that. but we never actually saw a budget. >> reporter: you heard right. they never saw a budget. peggy cooper is a school cofounder. >> to completely grasp the difference between teaching a class where everyone has to have a tuba, in addition to a book, that they will understand. >> reporter: take a look at it now. ellington, it's beautiful. on the inside, wow, it is spectacular. with state of the art studios, theaters, and labs, it's a crown jewel. but also considered the poster child of these ballooning construction costs with no end in sight. these reports from the agency t

tudor ordered occur council to leave the kingdom because they had become too onerous or black or non christian did blacks can be non christian? by the way what happened to the 18th century black population but what do we really know about kerry grants family tree? they were told they had a black grandfather and according to do black journalism in the late 1940's ande '50's publishing on his own a four volume work there is no pure and mixed-race in the of modern world starting the reading across europe in the '20s to go back to the history of the world of those populations to live in the wake of profound population movement over the up past 25 years those who have left the countryside in china for this city in the cities did not exist a quarter of a centuryng ago. how bad it must me to be in thee society when they came from to take the rest even know with what they have heard even for those european points north. angela marco reason -- should get the peace prize for those who defied their own government to help desperate families and flight jihadist terrorist there was as much aimed against them as europeans with the modern muslims to get away i remember the strike and h

security council to do what they have signed up to do because under article six of the nonproliferation treaty from one thousand nine hundred seventy nearly half a century ago they are committed to achieving you can do some and they've gone some way towards that and there are a few nuclear weapons today than there were in the end of the cold war but there's still fifteen thousand warheads left in the world so there's a lot of work for those weapons states to do and encouraging governments to do what they will probably already promised to do seems to me pretty commonsensical thing to go for and in practical terms do you think this award for i can well boost to now or give new impetus to these efforts internationally to achieve a nuclear ban yes i do think so i don't know that this will be the thing which finally generates success for that for them and fought for their campaign but i think it must push the conversation forward and give it more profile you know after all when is it that the first item on news reports around the world has been discussing the proposition to create a nuclear free world so that no it's already achieving that effect of greater

island's coastal resources management council is now telling us that we need to plan for as much as 9 to 12 vertical feet of sea level rise by the end of this century. the refusal of the republican majority to do anything serious about climate change is going to have a big effect on the very map of my state. this is the present upper narrangansett bay, including providence up here, our capital city, down to gren niche bay down here, and warwick. that's on the west side. and over here we have bristol and warren on the east side of the image. and it still looks actually very much like it did when early explorers first came to rhode island in the 1600's. and it looked very much like that for centuries before when the narrangansetts and the wapanoids lived there. as climate change raises sea levels, all of this is changing, and rapidly. the coastal resources management council has developed something called storm tools, which is an online simulation to measure sea level rise and storm surge ahead so we can see how rising sea levels will affect my state. this is the same image as that one. put them one over the other so you can see the match. everything