U. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson says washington is in direct contact with north korea the revelation comes as tillerson met with chinese leaders to discuss taming north Koreas Nuclear ambitions. And in the bundesliga better brain and hamburg inability to score has cost them points can tonights match spark life into their attacks. Amount of quite often welcome to the program tensions are rising as catalonia prepares to hold its independence referendum on sunday cattle and Authorities Say everything is in place for the vote to go ahead but spains Central Government is calling the ballot illegal and has sent thousands of Police Officers to the region to stop it residents who oppose holding the vote at all use the eve of the referendum to speak out against it. The protesters in madrid demonstrating against sundays referendum on Catalonian Independence the Spanish Government is determined to make the vote impossible because a lot of fishes are pushing ahead with the bad polling and friday night the campaign has turned out for their final rally. We will vote they chant. It may have been a Party Atmosphere but the build up to this weekend has been marred with a committee. Support the ships hired to accommodate Additional Police forces sent by the Central Government to stop the vote. Police have been ordered to seal off polling stations and volunteer staff could be fined up to three hundred thousand euros. National Assembly President says he hopes to police will have empathy for the voters. Im aware they have a job to do that they have their orders and have to carry them out. But we also know that they have feelings conscience in barcelona schools families and children have occupied classrooms sets to be used as polling stations many of them have already spent the night here but they plan to remain until sunday when the vote starts. And we would like to show that we feel. Optimistic we had some visits from the police but it was just north of the church in the way one hundred seventy five. We were having the worst get. The Party Atmosphere for now but as police move to enforce a ban these photos could soon find themselves on a collision course. And for more on whats unfolding there im now joined by journalist from barcelona and there have been protests in bar also on our city center can you update us on whats happening there. Hello good afternoon from barcelona yesterday there were some poultice barcelona. Of spain protests against the referendum on sunday and both just in favor of spain and there were no important incidents or clashes reported also today i didnt see big independence for independence protests because we had many protests to relax point that the bans protests and today they were polling stations are staying at home there is a lot of uncertainty right now and thats a lot about whats going to happen tomorrow youre mentioning uncertainty the police have been instructed to prevent this vote from happening at all so do we know at this time what level base is actually being enforced. Is there is a Strong Police presence in catalonia. Spanish Police Officers have been deployed to prevent their referendum on friday police began to close some polling stations is how did the use of force citizens in favor of the referendum. Polling stations to prevent closure in five days in the centers and organize some activities to guarantee that polling stations are not sealed of bad to police said that they have to leave schools they are in schools before dawn and yes thats what we have thats a situation right now. Where i remember the spains prosecutor ordered to see a lot of polling stations millions of ballot papers were seized websites were closed and today there was a police raid in Telecommunications Center of barcelona ok now weve seen demonstrations from people who are supporting the referendum but also those who oppose it can you talk to us briefly about how this has divided the region. Yes les paul said that forty one percent of people are in favor of forty nine percent are against that last fall in july two thousand and seventeen but figures may have to change after. The actions of this plan is government as they say. But this is a divided society you see the person who does are very close. There forty one percent in favor of independents out four to nine percent against independents and yet but. When we are. Living peacefully. In peace between both sides of society thank you ana yaddo from barcelona for your insight my pleasure u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has said the United States is in direct contact with north korea over its Nuclear Weapons program and is probing the countrys willingness to talk tillerson made the remarks in beijing where he was meeting with president and other officials hes also calling for calm the u. S. Use china as crucial to attempts to stop young and developing Nuclear Weapons china has strong economic ties with north korea accounting for about ninety percent of its foreign trade. Earlier i spoke to Steven Burrill wake our correspondent in Seoul South Korea i began by asking him how important chinas role is in developing channels for communication between the United States and north korea. If u. S. And north korea are in some kind of direct contact and presumably thats a diplomatic process thats going ahead without chinas direct involvement and whether or not that you site sit down to talk will depend on a variety of factors particularly the preconditions that they place on any kind of talks north korea has historically resisted talks that were predicated upon its taking steps towards the nuclear as they should that being said china is of course very important to any sort of approach north korea given the amount of economic power that they have on north korea and i think some u. S. Policy makers and analysts have in the past assumed that china has this sort of magic ability to affect north koreas behavior but history shows that that isnt always the case now as you mentioned china is obviously an important actor in this situation and theyve also adopted u. N. Sanctions against north korea and seem increasingly willing to cut those ties with over its Nuclear Weapons program but how much further can washington push beijing to exert power on north korea to answer that its important to distinguish between economic and political power china has a lot of economic power but christie said given that north koreas only active land borders with china and so much of its trade depends on interaction with china but that being said. North korea is still a sovereign country and when it comes to what policies they want to carry out and if they choose to pursue Nuclear Weapons or missiles theres not much the china can do to change that so over to listen is it will be able to assess the extent to which the two sides are able to cooperate and just how much the u. S. Is able to get china on board with carrying out u. N. Sanctions and other kind of punitive measures on north korea now looking ahead President Trump will visit beijing in november of course currently there appears to be warmer ties between u. S. And china but could anything be derived now from between now and that briefly if you can. The calendar is full of big events between now and then china will have its communist Party Congress and north korea will be celebrating the foundation of its ruling party and south korean officials just said this week that they expect more provocative actions between from north korea around mid october so the question will be if tensions do arise if u. S. And china will seize on that urgency to cooperate more cohesively and to make a more united front or if the more tense situation leads them to break apart in some way and they have some differences on the best way to move forward so well have to states you know over the next couple weeks and see how things develop with a full calendar well certainly be watching that closely Steven Burrill a console thank you and now to some of the other stories making news around the world dozens of people have been arrested after clashes broke out at a movie on nazi rally in the swedish city of gotham burg counterdemonstrators protested against a marks by the Nordic Resistance Movement and police struggled to keep the two sides apart a Police Officer and several people were injured. German police have arrested a man in connection with an extortion scheme targeting supermarkets Police Believe hes the man who placed poison jars of baby food in Grocery Stores and threatened to do the same in other cities across europe unless he was paid ten Million Euros to sports now been displayed on match day seven got underway on friday night when shall cut hosted leverkusen. The home side got on the board first when midfielder lay on gorecki stepped up to take a free kick staring at home from twenty three metres out leverkusen though tied things up just after the hour mark when jamaica internationally on bailey shot rang in off a defenders boot thats his first with his legal goal one one was the final score. And in saturdays early bundesliga matches League Leaders dortmund travelled to inform out spurred the teams traded blows early on both scoring within eleven minutes but Shinji Kagawa restored dortmunds lead before half time and pure emerick over my own missed a penalty late but dortmund still claimed three points with a two one win lets have a look now at the rest of the result so far on match day seven gladbach robbed a last minute winner against hanover from the penalty spot while frankfurt also left it late against regard to mark their first home win meanwhile wools burke and minds shared points in a one one draw just like in leverkusen did on friday later tonight braman house hamburg in the north derby and on sunday berlin host Byron Freiburg welcome hoffenheim and leipzig travel to cologne and as we just mentioned that late saturday blindly a match between hamburg and dare to braman is just minutes from kick off the north derby as its known is one of the fiercest and oldis rivalries in the german leake the neighboring clubs are both flipping down the table so theyll be looking to grab a crucial three points tonight. Tension is high head of the north darby it always is before the most play tie in but its League History hamburg won their first two matches this season but the team followed it up by losing four in a row next up archrivals venda. Clint i think that in order to have be a little bit more explosive because of the history it brings with it. Its a feeling annoyed debbie will always electrify it interests everybody the lack of goals has been hamburgs may concern in recent outings theyve created chances but havent scored in their last four matches. Had chances sometimes weve hit the side netting or weve been just a little bit off when were through on the goalkeeper and we have to get lucky back on our side we have to work hard for it and play with intensity and then the goals will calm and braman has similar concerns only three goals scored so four and still without a victory this season the green and white are ready to fight. We definitely expect it to be a high intensity match plenty of tackles fast transitions from both teams lots of scrambling for second balls all those battling qualities constitute not. Hamburg are ready to join the fray because one thing is clear the loser in this darby is in for a bumpy ride in the coming weeks. And the netherlands of course is known for its iconic windmills so no better setting for the specific world record where dozens of break dancers from across europe simultaneously performed the windmill move and its exactly how it sounds with the performers mimicking the motions of a windmill it all happened in the south of the country a worldview mesko site. Thats your news rob join us again at the top of the hour you can also check out the website for more information thanks for watching. The top stories followed across social media share your comments and content welcome to the abuse. Shes long been a symbol of hope