Not europe thats dragging its feet well get the latest from brussels also coming up a showdown in spain the region of catalonia defines a deadline to abandon plans for independence madrid says it will start taking back control of the breakaway region on saturday and the problem thats bugging the german scientist why are insects don look at the mysterious decline in flying insects and what it means for our environment. Im bringing off its good to have you with us bragg sits migration policy tougher sanctions against north korea those are just a few of the big topics in brussels tonight where you leaders are beginning a key two day summit the british Prime Minister to. S m a has come to the summit armed with proposals that she hopes will move breaks it talks a lot but e. U. Leaders say that she has to match her promises with concrete details if any process is to be made its just that. I spoke to hoffman in brussels earlier hes covering the summit for us and i asked him what the focus of the e. U. Leaders discussions have been so far. Migration is probably the biggest topic they talked about because thats whats been discussed so far brags it is on the menu for dinner theres the difference and whats interesting brand about the migration part the president of the European Council said that they wanted to attack a subject that they havent been able to resolve for years lots of years and thats a common asylum system they want to have a solution for that a common european asylum system next year which would be lightning speed compared to usual speeds in the European Union and it shows you that once to change the way that the whole Council Works he wants to speed up things if they cant have unanimity on one topic move ahead with a number of countries until the rest is ready to join hes laid out a socalled leaders agenda for that thats his plan well see how it works and what about brets and we know that to resume a is there basically the puts the fire underneath the bottoms of many people there at that meeting is it going to work i mean has there been reaction to that so far. I havent felt any heat that was sufficient for her excess will there but things dont arent as bad as they look for it to resubmit you have to give her that because weve seen the draft conclusions and in there theres a lot of hope by the rest of the leaders that they might move on to phase two thats what the reason they want to do talk about the future of trade relations between the u. K. And the e. U. In december at the next summit and if they really keep that in there then i said there is reasonable hope that this will actually happen to resume a had hoped that it would with what happened today but it looks like that is very unlikely and have to ask you about this crisis that were seeing it does about to boil over in Spain Catalonia refusing to take back its promise of independence spain says its going to move in saturday and take full control of the region has there been any reaction to that at the summit. Well. Remember you know whos here the Prime Minister of spain roy himself we would have loved to talk to him about that but he just rushed into the building so no chads other leaders though said they were worried but that they would stay in line with the European Union meaning that the only person they would talk to is that this was a domestic affair in spain but still i think you know i think its safe to say that they will ask the holy overturn or was it whats your plan what exactly do you have in mind for catalonia yeah and if something is said there we know that youll be bringing it to us as soon as you get our max often at that summit in brussels tonight max thank you very much. The crisis in catalonia is escalating as spain prepares to take full control of the semi autonomous region now this comes after the carillon leader the president refused to give up demands for independence the Central Government in madrid has said that carlas must now face the consequences. The game of brinkmanship heats up cattle and kindness put them on at the Regional Parliament for the latest showdown cameras struggle to get a good glimpse of the man who is refusing to back down. In his latest letter to the Spanish Government pushed him on wand that the Catalan Parliament could vote to declare independence if madrid triggers article one fifty five allowing it to suspend catalonia is Regional Government madrids reaction to double down. The government will continue with the processing of article one hundred fifty five of the constitution with a goal to restore the law in catalonia. Spain says it will hold a special Cabinet Meeting on saturday to activate article one fifty five this is never been used in modern spanish history so what does it mean in practice it would allow madrid to sack Regional Office holders dissolve the Regional Parliament and assume control of all regional authorities new elections would be held in catalonia until then madrid could feel key intervene positions once the article is triggered it wont come into effect straight away it needs parliamentary approval spanish Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy needs an absolute majority for that and he only has a slim one in barcelona catalan residents are prepared for a standoff. The main doesnt love us they only love our money they want our money im not sure if im explaining myself clearly all the things theyve done for catalonia are not really for catalonia they wont let us go because the money is here. Making people more Pro Independence but these guys are playing. It. As a political crisis deepens protest as in catalonia have taken to the streets with more demonstrations expected in the coming days. Or for more on the deepening crisis in spain we spoke to our correspondent barbara veins in barcelona. Madrid has decided to enter into the next phase of this crisis mariano hall is making through his threats on saturday the cabinet will already decide which powers to take away from the semi autonomous region catalonia and the senate will finalize matters the ball is back in the court of the Regional Government but congress pushed him and is playing for time and has referred the final decision about independence to his parliament the people in the palace behind us are not talking neither to their people not to madrid the civic platforms for independence are now calling for more demonstrations culminating in a big show of force on saturday and some are already talking about civil disobedience madrid is reacting and increases protection in strategic places at this time there seems to be no exit strategy on either side of the conflict and no remedy against further escalation. That was barbara visa there reporting from barcelona heres some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in france thousands of people have taken part in a nationwide demonstration against president in manual labor reforms but observers say the turnout was lower than during last month protests the reforms fast tracked by executive order make it easier for firms to hire and fire employees mccrone says they will help quote free up the energy of the workforce at least three people have reportedly been shot dead in togo as games of youths clashed with Security Forces who were trying to prevent an opposition demonstration the opposition in the west african nation is calling for the resignation of the president his family has ruled that country since one nine hundred sixty eight. Pakistans former Prime Minister no one has been indicted on corruption charges the charges stem from leaked documents known as the Panama Papers investigators say the documents showed the Sharif Family held unreported assets over to see the family has denied any wrongdoing. Kurdish female militias have valen to fight on to liberate syrian women from the rule of socalled Islamic State the announcement was made today during celebrations to mark the liberation of raka but with much of his former stronghold lying in ruins the hardships facing civilians are far from over. Nearly a month after germanys election and the chancellor Angela Merkel is now holding talks with potential Coalition Partners the parties from across the political spectrum say their first meetings have gone well one likely combination. It is known as a Jamaica Coalition yes Jamaica Coalition because the part of the Political Parties colors here in germany are black green and yellow which happen to be the colors you guessed it the jamaican flag or those parties are mourning it will take a while to bridge their differences. All eyes on two parties that dont really fit together but are now working together on day two of exploratory talks the business friendly f. T. P. Met the green party and try to find Common Ground. I and. My whole come optician talks were lively we listened to each other carefully and managed to see things from the other parties point of view yes i am the last. One thats on the jamaican collar still appear exotic in german politics never before have the business friendly f. T. P. And the Environmentalist Green Party negotiated to form a federal government together its a challenge as their positions couldnt be more different. For instance on the European Union the green party is calling for an into austerity measures and wants a collective pact on texas and investments the free market liberal f. D. P. On the other hand to strictly against any kind of death mutualization within the e. U. And on clean energy the environmental greens have very clear goals they want one hundred Percent Renewable Energy by two thousand and fifty they also want to ban combustion engines in automobiles by two thousand and thirty a no go for the business friendly free democrats migration could be the one issue on which the f. T. P. And green party could find Common Ground both parties have been calling for germanys first immigration law. Biden puts on its claws on both parties realize that we have a long way to go but we also understand that if we want a common government then we need to find common interests and not follow the conservative partys well worn path. On friday the conservative c. D. U. And c. S. U. Parties will join the talks behind these walls all four potential Coalition Partners will negotiate together for the first time. The new Zealand Labor Party has completed Coalition Talks and formed a government with the new Zealand First party and the greek thirty seven year old yes send it comes the countrys youngest Prime Minister and its third female leader heres a little of what she had to say when she announced the coalition to. Labor his or why east believed that government should be a pattern. And ensuring an economy that works and to live is for new zealand. We also believe in a government that looks after its environment and that all humanly looks after its people and i believe that life a has found true allies in palin meant to deliver on that and there was the new Prime Minister there in new zealand just into our speaking former Soccer Player george ware has taken the lead in liberias president ial election the countrys Electoral Commission announced that where had received nearly forty percent of the votes counted according to liberias election rules candidates need an absolute majority of votes to be declared president where well now face off with the current Vice President joseph in a runoff ok i came in second this will be the former football stars a second attempt at the presidency in two thousand and five where won the first round of the poll but lost in the runoff. Scientists here in germany are abuzz with concerns over the fate of flying insects wasps and be may be a bother at home but theyre crucial for a healthy environment or a new study has shown that the number of insects in germany has dropped dramatically and experts here are racing to figure out whats to blame. Nature thrives on diversity if it werent for bees and wasps and butterflies wed have no blossoms honey or fruit but the buzzing is getting quieter since one thousand nine hundred ninety number of insects in germany has dropped by a staggering seventy six percent volunteer insect experts from the city of clay fed have collected the data. Is a mystery. Of course the fact that our findings are being publicized right now is good news for us on the other hand the results are very worrying because they show that these negative developments are not restricted to just a few isolated locations. When you go. In the bug followers have been observing the fate of flying insects for nearly thirty years they set up traps and collected data at over sixty locations in three German Federal states but its still unclear why so many insects are dying davis north and the studies have revealed that the environmental impacts of agricultural practices are substantial that includes pesticides that are supposed to kill insects but there are effects go far beyond the fields. Other likely causes of the insects demise are over use of fertilizer too few green spaces and Climate Change researchers are urging restored of measures before germanys Natural Environment suffer serious damage. Youre watching g. W. News still to come the comic book heroes asterix and obama are back with a new adventure this time their creators are sending them on a mad dash across italy and guess who gets to go along. All right the timing could hardly be worse ahead of japans elections this weekend yet another daniel another corporate scandal is shaking up the system they keep on coming brenda its dissent this time around the comic has shut down all its factories in the country thats because unqualified workers were put in charge of Quality Control its the latest in a litany of serious errors from japans biggest corporations. And another gesture of humility and another apology from the company boss he did so cycle admitted that the scandal at nissan was much worse than originally thought final vehicle inspections were carried out by un qualified employees it all came to light about a month ago over a million cars have to be pulled off the road for of nissan six factories were involved in the shoddy work now nissan has to put the brakes on production all domestic factories will remain closed for at least two weeks the recall is going to be expanded the string of company scandals in japan continues more than a week ago kobe steel japans Third Largest steel concern and a nissan supplier admitted to falsifying product data and they did it for ten years around two hundred customers were affected it could be that nissan was cheated by kobe and received inferior materials profit before honesty unscrupulous practices at the cost of safety japans industry remains stuck in a deep crisis of trust. Whether the dow jones in new york all the dax in frankfurt stock indices are rising and rising but on thursday there was not exactly a feeling of optimism but rather a reflection after all its the thirtieth anniversary of one of the biggest single day stock market crashes in history on the nineteenth of october one thousand nine hundred eighty seven and shares its lead more dramatically in the western markets have ever experienced automated trading the first robot traders of that kind of new york caused a Chain Reaction a drop in the value of shares thats two mall sell offs the dow jones losing twenty three percent by the end of the session. And yes quarter has been on wall street for many years for a science you must be getting nostalgic seeing those pictures of a Trading Floor full of people but oddly enough were talking about this earlier the more things change the more they stay the same. Curable yeah i mean the wipe was certainly different even when i started and that was in ninety nine we had about six thousand traders here on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange one trader told me back then he walked about five to six miles each day to get his Business Done so that has certainly changed to also with good knowledge well talking about of the traders i mean there are still some people around to experience black monday and they said well they didnt see it coming nothing hinted at a day like that but as you mentioned some things remain the same so you win some and you lose some and who knows the next crisis always comes from a corner where you least expect it to come from not like to pick up on actually were seeing one record after another including today is wall street worried about a repeat of black monday any time soon. Well that seems to be the big problem right now that nobody really seems to be varied and that is dangerous territory weve seen that in the past and even if there are some similarities to back then thirty years ago there are also some differences the market big then was much harder than it is today the s. And p. Five hundred was in two years more than doubled so shot up by more than one hundred percent right now the market of the past two years is up twenty five percent that is still a lot but not as hot or not as fast as we seen it back then ok plenty of food for thought there and lessons to learn how markets millions caught out thank you very much for. Goldman sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein recent tweet on thursdays sparked speculations that more jobs are moving to germanys financial district frankfort that as the next round of talks take place blankfein tweeted just left frankfurt great meetings great weather really enjoyed it good because ill be spending a lot more time there back trying to find tweeted on thursday britain is currently home to most of goldman goldmans european operations that has around six thousand employees frankfurt is seen as the biggest beneficiary from wall street banks moving out of london the iraqi region of kurdistan as an important hub in the middle east turkey iran and iraq all move their goods to one another through the autonomous region the kurds are pushing for independence still the regions location makes it difficult for neighboring countries to make good on their threats of closing the borders but is the region really so invulnerable. Business is humming at the ybor him clear Border Crossing between turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan three weeks after kurds in iraq voted for independence a little here seems changed the shops are filled with goods products like these still rods away for the transit turkey is now threatening to close the crossing leaders there are angry over the independence vote and fearful of the Ripple Effect it could have amongst its own kurdish population with such a move would be easy some traders here say many of the goods are only passing through and thats not good idea meant to get that anybody about seventy to eighty trucks loaded with commodities travel from turkey to iraq on a daily basis about ninety percent of those trucks go to iraqi cities like baghdad. And not so the kurdistan region is really just a transit point but of course the sinai knesset has stopped at onset morning christiane its the tricky part of isolating a region in the middle of the middle east Iraqi Kurdistan neighbors cant tolerate an independence bid but if they close the borders into the region they block major trade routes into and through iraq yet the region itself cant stand alone be on oil exports Farm Products and steel to iraq and it relies on goods from its neighbors like iran which has already closed this Border Crossing at how youll run traders say they feel the impact already illegal and death of say that the civil law but its certain that the closure of crossing points like this one a hostile iran is harmful and in this case it doesnt just hurt the residents of hodge of iran would like to have it also harms the kurdistan region as a whole showing the region is already in the crosshairs iraq has put sanctions on its banks and it sees the oil rich city of kirkuk further border closings could be disastrous and put an end to business as usual. Spot now and denmarks participation of the twenty nine hundred womens world cup is in jeopardy brant thats right daniel weve got a pay dispute between the Danish Football Association and the Womens National team it has reached a deadlock with the players refusing to train in response the danish f. A. Cancelled at fridays world cup qualifier against sweden which could result in heavy things from fefe. It looks like business as usual but the danish Womens National team is on strike negotiations have broken down with the danish f. A. Over a new pay agreement after boycotting two official training sessions the team met on officially to prepare for fridays crucial world cup qualifier against sweden and thats where they found out the danish f. A. Had cancelled the match. Its a serious announcement its incredible that you want to cancel an International Match the danish f. A. Say they had no choice after a reported offer to increase annual investment in the womens team from three hundred fifty thousand euros to six hundred fifteen thousand and was rejected. This decision is quite sad no question about it we have to inform the swedish Football Association and favor that we wont have any players available for friday because. Its a dramatic turn of fortune for a team which shone as finalists at the race in europe paint championships now they face sanctions from you a friend faith of the canceling the match including possible explosion from world cup qualifying. To fall if this leads to a penalty or if they lose these two upcoming matches and end up not going to the world cup as a result it will have big consequences for country success may be forgotten wage disputes and not new in womens football a strategy a negotiated a new deal in twenty fifteen after striking with the u. S. Following suit in april twenty seventh saying earlier this month the norwegian f. A. Introduced equal pay from twenty eighteen onwards. At the center of the danish dispute is a wage increase but the women also want equal conditions as the men when it comes to training grounds meals and accommodation both sides want to resolve the impasse but it may come too late for denmarks world cup hopes. Well meanwhile englands Football Association has apologized to two Womens National team players for racial comments made to them by former coach mark sampson an independent investigation concluded that sampson had made the discriminatory remarks to players any luko Andrew Spence but found he was not racist during a four hour parliamentary inquiry luko alleged the f. A. Had protected sampson and its own reputation sampson was sacked by the f. A. Last month for inappropriate behavior in a previous coaching position all right its a big day for comic book fans millions of copies of a new asterix book are being released here in europe this time fans can follow their heroes as they complete a race across italy. Asterix and his sidekick take it up with the romans once again the new story is set in the ancient. Italy in mind and then i had the idea of a chariot race a sort of a rally from ancient times a trip across the peninsula leading you from city to city. This time the two heroes dont just have to deal with pretentious romans they have to win a race and beat some fierce competitors including. And from nations and challenge also for cartoonists. There are lots of details when you have chariots for horses and you need to fit them into small boxes and it gets complicated. Asterix and also make friends along the way they team up with the atomics tribes that are seeking independence from the powers in rome and somehow that story sounds too from a. Politics has caught up with us although we didnt plan for that with all thats happening in catalonia right now our album has become even more relevant thats the big question in europe today do we want to win this race together or sabotage each other. Maybe asterix and the chariot race has some of the answers he needs. The new edition which was only released today its already a hot seller. News from berlin after a short break ill be back to take you through the day stick around for that. My laundry Guy International talk show for journalists discuss the topic of the week right wing politics in europe has a new face sebastien courts one austrias recent election by taking the venerable party to the right what is that. Find out on quadriga. Quadriga in sixty minutes on d w. 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The region of catalonia refusing to pull back from a declaration of independence catalonia as president today told the Spanish Government either you enter talks with us or we will secede from you tonight barcelona and madrid brace