America. Rerting from washington. The city of barcelona brought to standsti as hundreds of thousands of people are tes jail sentences given to protest jail sentences given to catalan separatist leaders. The counown is on in the u. K. With a prime and be able to rally enough support behind his brexit deal before sas key vote . And one giant leap for womankind, for the first time an allfemaleeam of nasa astronauts has carried out a spewalk. For those watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. Throughout the day there been violent classes glass clashes with police on the streets of barcelona. Trains have been stopped and roads blocked by protesters angry about jail sentencesth impose week on catalan separatist leaders. The latest. N correspondent has central barcelona. A parts are ttleground tonight. A fullscale confrontati unn rway. Betweelice and protesters. [shooting] round after round fired by the ot officers. In return, stones, bottles and fireworks hurled back at them. This is now the fifthight in a row of these classes. They are becoming worse and worse, more violent and more protesters on the street. And more of a response from theo ce as well. Hetonight tused to tear gas for the first time and rubber bullets, trying to protect the National Police headquarters down here. The day began with huge columns of people converging on barcelona from across catalania. Some been walking three days to get here. The general strike had shut down now they took over the streets. Pplae] these are proindependence supporters, putting on a huge show of force after jailed nine catalan leaders who tried to declare independence for thea region two yea. It is only going to stopnce we achieve what we want, that our changes, real changes. Not all what the region to split away. There been counterprotests by those who wants the region to be they do not speak for the engine already. The support for independence not majoritarian. [chanting] this was t spark for the violence todayinprotesters hug eggs and cans at police. ,eventually police patients snapped. Been scenes like this. Re h these actions fueling temperatures tempers on the street. The severity of the jail sentences for the catalan anger. Has caused real so to have police tactics, which protesters see as heavyhanded. Spains primeneinister w those involved in a violence will face full force of the law. It hasof been one week unrest, with no sign of it ending. Catalan leaders say their hopes of independence are undimmed. Bbc news, barcelona. Is coming downboo the wire brexitnsons new deal with a vote looming tomorrow, it is too close to call. He needs the support of 320 mps. But yes to convincoad coalition to back him, including labor rebels and skeptics in his the divorce bill comes at a price tag of 43 billion. Our Political Editor reports. That is not the real boris johnson, is a fancy dress version. Climate protester he scaled the scaffolding. Around big be the actual Boris Johnsonis teetering on a more narrow edge he has to take a leap not knowing if youll meet victory or defeat. We have a deal that allows us to get out of the back spothat is bullish. We can do free agreements as one whole United Kingdom around the world. Clearly, what matters is mps coming together across the house and i kind of invite i everybody gine what it could be like tomorrow evening if we have settlethis. But in order to get this deal, you haveiven some concessions you have accepted quite a significant customs boer between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom. That is something you said you would never do. You said no british Prime Minister could do that. Know. And on the contrary, no he wants to have checks at the Northern Irish border. E. U. , is that temporarily, temporarily and by consent of the people of Northern Ireland, at the staff the stuff that is coming from g britain into ireland or from anywhere else in the world via Northern Ireland into ireland, then yes, there can be checks. T that, of course, and those checks can be levied by the United Kingdom authoti. But that is very far from having a tariff border. By your own admission and there in black and white in the deal, there will be extra customs checks and for some people including your allies, at is just not accep that puts union at risk. There are no tariffs going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. No but there are extra checks. That is in the agreement. There already are. But of courset is also going to be superseded as we come out, which i hope we do at the end of this month, as we get on to negotiate that u. K. E. U. Freetrade agrhement. So all arrangements are going to be obsolete once we do that big e. U. U. K. Freetrade deal. You hope, you haviemade a copperto get the bigger prize of the dlp but do you accept that has what is happened here. They have broken a promise you made. That is what they fail no. I think what you have is a fantastic dealu. Or all of the. The deal brokered by whitehall and and brought sauls contains concessions from the e. U. And brussels contains concessions. At least the future open between the two sides compared to the ment. Ous agr in theory it gives the u. K. More ability to trade around the rest of the world. But it does contain what could be significant changes to how Northern Ireland fits into the jiaw of the rest of the u. K. And that is not the only reason why the Prime Minister faces an uphill struggle to get this through mps. Hello. In wakeie, 70 voted to leave the e. U. But like the vast majory of labor mps, mary has no intention of backing Nestor Johnson brexit. Off to london tomorrow. On the deal. T what younk we should be doing . About the brexit deal . Renegotiate. She is one of many who would rather have another referendum. I will vote against the deal this is what people vote for. People wan their vote back. They want to but on this deal. As to important to be left to the politicians. Even thearty bosses are ying to talk them out of it. On behalf of john mcdonald. There is a clutch of labor mps whos deal seethrough. The cd i have been lobbied this morning by johnald and Jeremy Corbyn through the chairman to abstain. Im 100 labor. And they expect me at the flicker of a finger to turn around. Im not going to do it. Even it with a spanking of labor help, never 10 still needs to work to me sure all of their even with a sprinkling of labor help, they need to make re their own side is lined up. Some of the most resolute brexit tears may yet hold out. I am very glad we have had such constructive discussions. Nothing is concludedet. There is a good chance this will not pass. If it does n pass, do you still see we will leave the e. U. At the end of this month . I think that is much that, i do. I think we should leave the e. U. That is differeth from saying k we said. From saying we will. The let me say we will leave th io on october 31. The. U. Snot al callings are so sure. Living into make may seem barely plausible this time tomorrow. For now, every minister has one line. Over theis bbnews, westminster. To stay with the bbc tomorrow as we follow every development leading d after the vote. Now turning to syria. One day after turkeys president agreed to suspend militopy ations against kurdish led forces in northern syria, the kurds have aedrued accf acre of reaching the agreement. They said air and artillery attacks are still being carried out againstr a borown. The president of turkey denied their ongoing classeses ent trump to tout the agreement and this is how he assess theituation earlier day. There was a lot of paifor a couple of days. Sometimes you have to go through some pain before you can get a olution. The kurds are very happy about it. The turkish president and turkey is satisfied with it. And we are in a very strong position. For more on this i spoke with retired general mark, a former secretary state for political and military affairs. I would like to get your mpreaction to president t comments there, given the humanitarian security concerns in the region. Do you think the president has row control over the situation . I do not think the u. S. Has control. There was an opportunity before honest broker on thisnto intervention. I think we faid to do that. I think the turks failed to go improperly. I think t failed to do what they needed to do, get behindlo the 30 ter saison area. Unfortunately, those failures have led to a lot of unnecessarily unnecessary lossoflife. Another person believing it is a failure is the Senate Majority leader, mitch mcconnell. He said today in an oped with the washington post. Withdrawing u. S. Forces from syria is a grave mistake that will leave the American People and homeland less safe, bold and our enemies, and we can to Congress Fail a . I think they felt from the . First moment American Forces went into syria. They went in under narrow auority, for u of milita force. It allowed them to go against isis cattle fate cattle fate caliphate alone. The missions added on against congressionals authorityat led us to the mess were in. I find those in the United States congrs who were responsibilities gn, are their now soe vocal on how we getting out. President trump has touted this pause in fighting, ceasefire, as a victory. Given that this i supposed to last five daysla. If supposed to facilitate the removal of kurdive forces from a large area along the turkish border, how can the United States pull that off out troops on the ground is not the response build of the u. S. To do this. We sponsorf abilitye u. S. Responsibility. Properly, it monitoring and Enforcement Mission as we see inside the osce and u. N. Should have bdn put on the groun to make sure there were not violations. And if violations did occur that they would be reported, arbitrated, and, if necessary, enrced. Butyis the reali on the ground now that, the turkish president will meet with the russian president. Is the future of syria nowo up t president assad, his ally russia, and tkey ech . Cittainly looks as though the Mission Russia set out on his coming to for mission, to maintain the territory under one liter. We got out of the aad must go business years ago. Candidly, the civil war needs t. It may not end on the terms we wanted. It may be one in power. Sad stays but for those civilians thatot wille killed in the future, if there is a political and military settlement, maybe that is the best we can ask for. Thank you so much general. Mexicos president haseen defending the actions of histy secuorces after they first captured and then released gornment drug kingpin el chapo son. He has run the senna loa cartel since her sentenced to life in prison ithe United States. He was detained during routine patrol buthen Cartel Members en fire he was set free. The president s s they took the right decision to prs. Ect civilian the scenesen were remini of a war zone. Heavily armed Cartel Gunmen prowling the streets, engaging armed forces in battle wit sustained firefight across the city. [gunfire] thoscaught in the middle of the conflict anointed what was happening. Fearing for their p lives,arents and children cowered in shopping malls andn restaurants, behind their cars, anywhere they could find cover. Once the smoke lifted, the plain began. One of the heads of the senna loa cartel, this man, son of thj notoriousl leader el chapo, had been briefly detained by the authorities. Overwhelmed by the cartels firepower, the police handed the wanted drug lord back to the astonishment of many mexicans. An embarrassed stick government had first said they had found this meant by chance now admitted at w a bungled operation. At the federal level, red maces were nh better. Th president obrar said he approved the decision to let this man go. The capture of a criminal cannot be worth more than peoples lives. They took that decision and i supported it. It w to say he suprted the decision to release el chapos son, are back to haunt a presidency in mexico. But the president remains defiant that his strategy of nonviolence tore the cartels is the right on many in mexico feel it is not working. This too lone pair been huge gun battles in the Western State of michoacan that left people dead. One was an ambush of police patrols, the other clash between the army at a cartel. Aviolence still plaguing so muh ofsexico, the president claims to be pacifying the cartels it does not ring true to those people who streets descended into gunfire in flames. Will grant, bbc news, mexico. Youre watching bbc world news america. Still to come, in philadelphia, some unlikely polo players are saddling up and enjoying the ride. Scientists have shown for the first time they can spot asked massive whale strandings from space researchers use satellites to detect whales beached on shore. They are the giants of the deep, roaming the world oceans. But when things go wall wrong it can happen on a huge scale. Last year in westernia austr 150 whales washed up on shore. By the time rescuers got there, most were dead. Time is vital. Researchers fod a new way to track strandings, from space. Using powerful satellites that of coast, z in on the kilometers animals until the body of a the body of a beached whale is revealed. Satellites can reveal strandings much more rapidly t than people ha capacity to do on the ground. It gives us the opportunity to react quickly. Fills the Natural History museum. It is the sheer size of these animals that makes it easieraco spot from there is still so much we do not know about whales,d ow they live w they die. We can spot how many are stranding and where they are stranding, it uld help us to tter understand why it is happening. Strandings are complex events. The animals might be ill or issues like complete and come about strikes and Climate Change are causing t strandioo. A satellitesre havg conservationists. Theyre not tracking albatrosses from space. Wildebeest gratian has been monitored as wel whales were once hunted t to brink of extinction. Now their numbers are growing. But it is a fragile recovery. Using technology toonitor it will be key. Two nasa astronauts made historyod, completing the first allfemale spacewalk. Christina koch and jessica meir rhonda mission to replace a it comes 35 years after because not became the first woman to walk in space. For more on this, i spoke with wey lawrence, nasa astronaut wh logged hundreds of hours in owace. I askedhe felt . Am envious because everyone would like to have the opportunity to go and do a spacewalk. We all do spacewalk training but not everne gets to do a spacewalk outside their craft. I am thrilled they re able to go out today, successfully accomplish their objectives. And, more portly, compensating for an milestone. A significant miley, accomplish it has been 35 years since the firswoman conducted a spacewalk. Why did it take so long . Several factors. In the early days of astronauts. , women there were only a couple of women selected as russian cosmonauts. It took nasa until 1978 to select women. We have been catching up. When you look at the last two after not candidate selected, women were almost 50 in the last class and in 2013. It is a matter of time. We were member in march, that was supposed to be the first female spacewalk, but nassau did not have enough medium size suits for both women nasa did not have enough medium si suits. Is nasa doing enough to make sure women have an equal Playing Field . Nasa has recognized theob m but it is not an easy problem to solve. It requires a significant aunt of money. If you do not have that in the budget, and if you put it in the budgetndhe budget is not get approved, it is difficult to make progress. But nasa, this past week, unveiled the new spacesuit it will use for the artemis prog um. It is a resized suit, redesigned suit. It will accommodate a wider range of astronauteights, which is important. Hopefully, this is n going to be an issue in the future. Ewthatpacesuit you mention, for the Artemis Program , is supposed to eventually have a man ama and woman on the moon. How significant would that be for little girls and bo to i like to quoteally ride, the First American womann i space. She said, you cannot be what you cannot see. I think it is important for all kids to see somebody who looks like themselves going out to do some amazing things. You make that connection when you see someby who looks like u. Oh yes, it will be very important for little girls tose finalla woman walking on the surface of the moon. Butrt it is also im for the little boys. We have not been on the surface of the moon in decades. So ihink is going to be exciting for young kids around the world to see humans back on the moon. Th was Wendy Lawrence joining me. Pol is often virtuous the sport of kings in philadelphia, innercity youth are learning how to play and enjoying opportunities to travel and care for the horses. We visited the barn and spoke to those involved. [neighing] they are pretty much the only kids of color in the United States that play the sport. We each are assigned to jobs. One person is the barn manager. There are some of youleans the office. Someone who cleans the bathroom. The laundry. They mow the lawn. That is prematchett. I think those are that ispr etty much it. I think those are all the jobs. A lot of kids do not get out of their s block radius. Being in this program, because we go so many place it, i think, helps them feel comfortable being outside their own little neighborhood. People think of polo as sothing that is just attainable by people of means. The fact that these kids play it, and maybyou can too. We traveling me traveling to different games i noticed me being here is unusual. At first i was like, i do nothi know about t but im now getting used to it. Im going to do my best. So i prove them wrong. Or i amaze them. That is my goal. And also to have fun. [laughter] with the polo program, theov kidsit. What a great way to make polo more accessible, and change the perception. 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On the newshour tonight a pause in the fighting a ceasefire between Turkish Forces and kurdish fightersar apto take tentative hold. Then, flight risk. Revelations that boeing employees knew of the 737 maxs problems years before two fatal crashes. Plus, the artistic achievements of native american women have been long overlooked. A new traveling exhibit looks to change that. This exhibition was really necessary a nonnative context because it had never been explored bere. It