A year ago also on the program. Confusion in catalonia the regions president postpones a speech in which he is expected to announce not be elections so west as i think then begins deadlock in spain of independence a life to council or. We are really grateful. For everybody who supported us legally. Of the german human rights organize a big tete a short nice freedom file from the to his president he and other activists on trial for terror related charges to see this being politically motivated. Also coming up traitors in frankfurt taken by surprise the chief executive of the Stock Exchange operator resigned botha in allegations of Insider Trading take you to the Trading Floor to find out the latest. In the German Company topsides fire and munich and abi leipsic no went the distance in last nights. Im phil gayle welcome to the program mourners in thailand have begun the main parts of a five day funeral for the countrys late king upon me paul in bangkok family members and dignitaries from around the world awaited the arrival of an representing the kings remains as tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets music written by the late model played alongside the procession and gunshots greeted the arrival bring you the latest from the city after the trip. Correspondent passed in the heartache is that. Welcome back walk us through whats been happening today. Where you can see behind me phil this is the Royal Commission hall and there is a religious ceremony on the only right there at the moment maybe you can hear the chanting of the monks there are dignitaries from more than forty countries here amongst them former president s of germany Christiane Wolf and also japanese prince and princes the king also photon royalty from germany and all from germany sweden from europe of course. The silvio. Swedens here for example queen marks him out of the netherlands also and theyre paying their respects to the making right now in this ceremony thats going on behind right now theyre putting down sandal with flowers which is. A custom here for a funeral and thats the spirit in thailand and i can see that road here behind this is where this elaborate procession passed through this morning that was led by now the king the next thing someone allegedly on who is now the king of that this is a procession which which has been here and what you cannot see is that to the left and right of there are tens of thousands of people who have been waiting for the case here braving the rain braving the heat to be part of this spectacle and to pay their respects to the king and bid him a last farewell to the past and i think in the badcock stay with us were going to have a look back now at seven decades of king above me paula so will. King. The man who was thailands monarch and head of state for more than seven decades. During his reign he still thailand transformed from poor Rural Society to prosperous modern nation he survived a number. Of attempted coups appointed twenty governments and signed more than a dozen constitutions amid the turbulence the king was considered a rare source of stability. For many he was also semi divine. Is traditionally seen as the reincarnation of a hindu god. King who. Was born in one thousand twenty seven in the us while his father was studying at harvard tended school and university in switzerland where he met his wife after the mysterious death of his brother in one nine hundred forty six became king he was just eighteen years old. And had passions that were considered somewhat unconventional for a king he loved jazz music and even played in his own band. The king was also interested in seeing how his people lived he often visited rural areas and arranged Development Projects which led to many calling him a caring ruler. With his considerable moral authority to me ponder fused several political crises as a mediator one of the most significant was the deadly rioting against the government in one thousand nine hundred two when his intervention prompted the then Prime Minister to resign. Although popular as a strict monarch his subjects were allowed to approach him only by sliding across the floor on their knees without looking him in the eye criticism of him and his family could be punished by years of imprisonment. But the threat of jail didnt completely stifle criticism. Activists say he hindered the countrys democratic progress by wielding too much power and often siding with military and conservative forces. After the coup in twenty fourteen the king was accused of legitimizing the rule of the military after he gave royal blessing to the armys transitional government. The king spent the final years of his life battling illness he died a year ago at the age of eighty eight. Following his death his son must have achieved a long gone has taken over the rain but he does not share the same popularity assist father with a puny post stabilizing influence many thais are anxious about their countrys future. Lets go back to boston heartsick in bangkok and boston reverence for the king seems to go beyond just respectful of the office has that been your impression on the streets of bangkok today and briefly if you wouldnt mind. Very much self respect to people before who were here to watch this to watch the procession and they were very emotional about the king and to them or to many thais they king is was just was like a father to them he was someone who had the interest of the people at heart someone they see as someone who. Was pushing for the development of the country for the well being of the people there were many. There were on television a lot of pictures of him none of them crisscrossing the country. Trying to look for that development and trying to for the well being of the people thats why many of him many of them really are him so highly and loved him dearly and the people that we spoke today were very emotional about this they said that they were they started keeping it when we even asked them about what it was like for them when that procession passed and what they thought of the king what they felt for the king so thats how deep those feelings go with many thais still present i think in bangkok thank you. Now for some of the other stories making news around the world. An explosion and fires a fireworks factory in indonesia has killed at least forty seven people and injured dozens more for the saving initial blast off with a warehouse a complex of the fact youre not suppose of jakarta calls to move to collapse before spreading to neighboring buildings. The fight against americas opioid to drug epidemic is getting a boost from President Trump hes set to declare the crisis a National Emergency the u. S. Is battling the surge in opioid related deaths including thirty three thousand lives lost in twenty fifteen President Trump just make fighting not made fighting opioid addiction a priority of his election campaign. Venezuelas former National Assembly speaker henry ramos on the countrys democratic opposition been awarded the European Union sakharov prize for Human Rights European Parliament said it wanted to reward to dig the courage of politicians and students fighting for freedom in the face of the countrys repressive government. Thousands of protesters are demonstrating in bus a lot of the capital of the spanish region of catalonia as it separatist leader prepares to make an address cattle on president carters proved amount was first expected to make an announcement aimed at breaking the deadlock with spain an hour or so ago that was that delayed and then postponed it now is expected to speak in about an hour of this comes a day before Spains Parliament is you to decide whether to impose a direct role in the region. Thats joined. The pill who is end up boston and welcome charlotte some observers think that catherine the leading college post among will back down from declaring independence in this speech in an hour or so what are you hearing. Yeah that was the one that we heard a couple of hours ago that he was going to pull back from declaring independence from spain and that he was going to cool Regional Elections as has been the case so far of the last few weeks of this crisis there now thats been thrown up in the end theres a lot of uncertainty initially when it was the Regional Elections were going to be cool we had hundreds of people behind me protesting against that move saying they wanted independence and now now its looking more uncertain exactly what is going to do things have calmed down a little bit down people here just trying to white like cattle and his regional leader is in a meeting at the moment just behind me just here in the Regional Government office with his Vice President. And confrontation between the two Vice President very much for independence has been pushing for it all along pushed him on as we as we heard seem to want it to to cool recent actions so what happens in the next couple of hours is still anybodys guess at this point at this disunity is interesting is that they have already been resignations havent. There have indeed yeah theres been a number of people who step down for him to johns posse in protest against this suggestion that he was going to cool regional actions for a number of the two left wing parties propping up pushing months Party Nothing less than independence will do for them theyve been pushing for this all along and they do not want to see. Back down in a sense take away this stream from them they say that they have the mandate to push ahead with independence they say thats what people here have voted for and they just constantly understand why hed want to do liaisons now and cool these Regional Elections and indeed risk losing the government mandate that they have if the elections dont go that way if you couldnt you cannot track the question for them what would be the political guy calling these elections in december. Well for a lot of people here who she is the prospect of independence triggering violence on the streets its a big relief to think that perhaps we might see Regional Elections sort of a calming down of this crisis which really was coming to a head today whats it could achieve theoretically is that mage rates could step back from churchgoing article one hundred fifty five that would remove the temporary suspend cut news autonomy it would remove power from those in the coming government leading the charge for independence and it would take over some of the. Government finances as well that wouldnt go down very well here in catalonia which is very defensive of its language and its culture and its autonomy so that would be very dangerous for people who say theoretically it could be argued that by calling these Regional Elections that would happen that isnt sussan. There are some in the Regional Government in madrid sorry that say that its not enough to. Cool reasonable actions for them not to trickle out to one five five piece moneys to say ok we are not going to call independence in the forseeable future and three back away from that threat chart shows some fill in barcelona thank you. This is d. W. News live from berlin still to come violence in kenya voters go to the polls in a rebound of the president ial election the opposition is boycotting the votes youll hear from our correspondent and nairobi. I date of drama and im extremely carefully scripted plot in frankfurt theres been facilities reading stuff that will start with the drama though of course so much of both the bus cost is stepping down by the end of the year hes c. E. O. Of the frankfurt Stock Exchange operator and came under fire for buying four and a half Million Euros of shares in his company shortly before announcing it was looking at merging with the london Stock Exchange. A shot up on the news merger never happened but can get it is being investigated the company has repeatedly denied its chief executive did anything wrong. Lets get the reaction from daniel cope our financial correspondent whos in frankfurt so i can get it takes the Trading Floor by surprise what was his reason for resigning. Well the reason he basically didnt have too many options and you know this week he wanted to agree on the settlement with the courthouse frank for the courthouse and frankfurt was saying though that this case is just too important so they didnt want to agree to this ten Million Euros settlement can get is now saying also that he just doesnt want to cause any more problems for the Stock Exchange and that he wants that the Stock Exchange can now really focus on the future of course those are the nice and official words but there was a lot of pressure on him they had a Board Meeting taking place here at the Stock Exchange talking about his future because also his contract was due in march two thousand and eighteen so now with this news of you know stepping down that its his own decision he can you know kind of get out of this in a gentle way but where does that leave the company no successor as far as we know and allegations of Insider Trading here they havent of announce a successor so far they were saying that they will do this announcement very shortly for the moment its going to mean for the company you know getting out of this you know bad had lines that we have seen throughout the last weeks and you know also months but of course this case is still going to go on can go to its going to be in front of a case with you know with a result that we dont know yet that you cope for us in frankfurt thank you. Well the e. C. B. Has announced a gradual withdrawal from post crisis stimulus its caylee back its Bond Purchase Program from sixty billion euros a month to thirty billion euros from the start of next year Interest Rates will stay where they are at their historic lows europe is slowly on the mend with the likes of portugal spain and greece all growing economically but many experts believe a new debt crisis could hit at any time thats why the head of the European CentralBank Mario Draghi says the eurozone still needs its Financial Support its purchases pumped newly printed money into the Banking System in hopes of raising inflation from the current annual one of the half percent toward the banks goal of just under two percent lets talk to daniel about this daniel first of all this is quite a balancing act mr draghi he doesnt want the euro to shoot up too high that would hit export if he does want to start easing the eurozone off its drip hows he actually doing well this is a very complicated process youre right he doesnt want the euro to be strong and this result we are already seeing after this news we saw again the euro dropping which as you know helping at the export business you can see it here clearly at this point we had this news of the reduction of the Bond Purchasing Program shares here at the roots have in next export again rising we are all again of off this thirteen thousand point mark at the moment that is a slow process i mean he announced that you know theres going to be a change off the Monetary Policy of the European Central bank a very slow though was also that we are going to see this Bond Purchasing Program longer taking place now at least until september of two thousand and eighteen so slow and low as well as far as Interest Rates go. Yeah exactly i mean we are we dont have to talk about higher Interest Rates at least until september of two thousand and eighteen thats also what he announced and when you talk to experts they are saying that they think that theyre going to be high Interest Rate poverty only in two thousand and nineteen very interesting though a drug use contract is also a jew in october of two thousand and nineteen by that time hes most likely going to resign and its most likely that he wants to be the one you know at the end maybe office korea to announce higher Interest Rates for the eurozone than you cope with all the analysis for us in frankfurt thank you and ill have more business for you later on in the show including the economic fallout of this next story. Thank you yes were talking about kenya where at least three people have been killed in the election related to violence as a consequence the government has delayed a rerun of the president ial vote in four counties Opposition Leader rather are doing it as described todays vote as a shock to call for a boycott in the capital nairobi mr dangerous supporters of the throwing stones of people trying to enter polling stations can you Supreme Court to know the results of elections held in organs because of voting and counting irregularities. And responds to rather dangerous calls for boycotts of president to her kenyatta has called on kenyans to go out and vote here is casting his balance were happy and. All were asking is that kenyans turn out. T