Scotland president cardless bridgeable remains defiant in belgium me go live to our correspondent in barcelona also coming up the man accused of carrying out the new york terrorist attack appears in court but shows no sign of remorse not the u. S. President or trump has scored for the Death Penalty. And the british to france minister is the latest public figure to be forced to resign over Sexual Harassment could read report on a case in pakistan where not the harasser but the victim is being blamed. Das in the next sixty minutes it took them fifty six years but finally the hoost and astros have won baseboards top prize i. Know in jubilation among the fans as they watch their team win the world cup series we take a closer look at how the astros reached the top. And maybe hard to believe that sunk in the national. I want to demolish the punch mark its causing huge controversy in india we find out whats going on. With the. Current a very warm welcome to you im on the third shima spanish prosecutors have asked the National Court to jail nine sacked members of catalonia as government arguing they should be charged with sedition and treason but expresident karlas fujimori remains in belgium his deputy was among those who appeared in court for questioning the ousted lawmakers on the investigation for supporting the regions succession from spain meanwhile to test is of gathered in barcelona to express support for the separatists. And for the very latest that we draw on our correspondent sean she is in barcelona i shall just how angry are people there about the events playing out in Madrid School or. Just a short time ago there was an enormous crowd behind me here they were saying to me that they think colors push one is still that president they say that they wanted to come here to show their support for him as this Legal Process is going on it was all very calm very friendly lots of singing but that shouldnt hide the fact that people were incredibly frustrated at what is going on they say that they think madrid is being very heavy handed and that its far as theyre concerned they should be allowed to push ahead with this Independence Movement they say that they have a mandate for it so there are. More protests planned today we know in several locations there are lots of calls on social media for people to gather so it could become quite quite volatile here as the day goes on and some of the members of the ousted Catalan Government are facing charges like treason the rebellion and sedition of this carry long jail sentences what is at stake here give us a sense. Yeah rebellion alone carries at least thirty years in prison just to give us a sense exactly of whats going on here weve got the former the dismissed cabinet ministers in two places at the moment weve got callers pushing on and four members of his cabinet in brussels weve also got nine people here whove faced the High Court Today who did show up for those hearings that they are with them meant to weve heard from the prosecutor that he wants to see those nine behind bars he wants to deny them jail thats something that could happen by the bail that something that could happen fairly soon were also hearing here that its likely that spain is going to ask for the extradition of cause now thats going to be a very complicated process and something that belgium is going to of course have to make a decision on as well so we could see a lot of diplomatic wrangling happening over the next couple of weeks this of course crucially raises very serious questions about the election is meant to happen on december twenty first what happens if carlos pigeon and his entire cabinet behind bars can they run how is that going to be able to go ahead what a lot of people here want to know so a lot of questions here meanwhile push you more as you said is still in brussels hes refusing to return to spain what is his strategy schalit watching the anybody can really know that except on himself there were rumors that he wanted to claim asylum about him thats now looking highly unlikely what the man himself has said is that hes worried hes not going to get a free fair trial here in spain he said its a political trial and that he is looking for guarantees from madrid that they will keep it as virus possible madrid yet hasnt responded to that so its possible that hes going to just wait it out in belgium for as long as he can surely just simple in barcelona thank you very much. This article or some other stories making news around the world in afghanistan at least fifteen people have been killed and Dozens Injured in a fuel tank a bombing official said an explosive device triggered the blast which engulfed nearby vehicles in a town northwest of the capital kabul there was no immediate claim of responsibility uncensored she has made her first visit as a leader to the state of the high end where she met Muslim Minority rocking the villages more than half a million during a have fled to neighboring bangladesh to escape violence and persecution suchi has been under intense International Pressure over her response to what the u. N. Has scored ethnic cleansing telling out of the United States for donald trump is renewed calls for the Death Penalty to be handed to the suspect in tuesdays attack in new york city the accused aside for no sign of waive his right to silence and to the prodigies he was inspired to kill by the socalled islamic states online propaganda meanwhile u. S. President donald trump has called for Capital Punishment for cyber of tweeting he kills eight people and should get the Death Penalty family and friends of the victims have been holding vigils and services in their memory let me now draw in our washington correspondent alexander for naaman. Answer of the critics are saying that trance response is a bit over the top in the reaction to this terrorist attack people viewing his reaction where you are. Well we have to say that the president seems to be to be very outraged by what happened in his hometown and outrage also by the fact that the suspect shows no remorse but the problem is that he is not talking here as a private citizen donald trump but as the president of the United States and that is why he is facing a lot of criticism and people here many of his critics say that they feel offended by water the president is talking that he is trying to politicize this thread ag. You have to understand that when donald trump demands a Death Penalty for the suspect the suspects lawyers can say now there is no chance of a further trial so Donald Trumps remarks have consequences when he criticizes the democrats for lax immigration rules when he announces to start the process of terminating their socalled green card lottery he clearly uses this thread to g. To promote his anti me grand agenda and that is why he is facing a lot of criticism so ocho mr angry rhetoric and tweets to want extent can trump actually change u. S. Policy. You know when we talk about extreme vetting we have to say that the vetting procedures for people who come to the United States or who want to immigrate to the United States are already very tired and they have been tightened in the past months so i cant really see how they can be stepped up when we talk about the president s promise to terminate the Diversity Lottery Program we have to say that he would need congress to support this idea and we have seen in the last months that the president S Corporation with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle has not been very successful and alexander turning out the suspect had any new details emerged about him and the attack you know what is very interesting and important is that he himself was apparently not on the radar of the f. B. I. But he had contact to people who were subjects of terrorism investigation and now were learning more and more detail about his personality people who knew he say that he seemed to be full of anger that he turned to a radical form of office because he apparently thought that he cannot make it in the United States and then its whats really striking because in his last the report for example the Homeland SecurityDepartment Says that it is a huge challenge and a huge danger those young people who reddick allies themselves in the United States and that is why to prevent them from you know carrying out an attack or so you have to work with the communities those people live in an exam to phenomena beautiful in washington thank you very much for that. And now two men for zuma business is in braggs it has central bankers taking names as theyre running all right the bank of england has raised its key Interest Rate for the first time in over a decade from one quarter of a percent to cough a percent the u. K. Is at a very uncertain crossroads as to where breaks it is going to take the nation you know we governor mark carney says its time to tighten policy despite the british economy Sluggish Performance this year he expects only very gradual further increases over the next few years. Over to frankfurt for the European Reaction on this story with all the bonds our financial correspondent ali would you say that this is a sign that the economy is now really pulling itself together in the u. K. Or is this a warning sign because it it breaks. Its a warning side warning sign because of brakes that some people say the weak the weakening british economy is about to strengthen again the labor market but the pound is still trading at fourteen percent below the level that it was trading at before the bracks of vote and the british people and industry are feeling it with imported inflation it means less buying power if the currency has dropped in value and people are feeling that with their buying power going down the tubes and this is what the bank of england is trying to address bring up that pound bring down inflation back to a healthy level of people considering less buying power for the brits whats going to be the impact of todays rates hike on them. It will have a major impact less buying power for if it brings more buying power to the people internally it will also worsen exports his profits if indeed the pound goes up and it will also have impacts for all those many millions of mortgage holders especially those with variable rate mortgages their mortgages will go up the first time that many of people who have taken out a mortgage on their home will have seen a rise in the price for Money Lending in that area since taking out the mortgage of course the other side of the coin is savers will get more return for their money. Thanks for breaking down the story for. Us President Donald Trump is due to announce his pick for the new leader of the Federal Reserve whos going to take the helm of the worlds most important central bank if you believe an increasing number of experts this man drove pal fed governor since two thousand and twelve a centrist a Monetary Policy and hes known as pragmatic and down to work. The head of the u. S. Federal reserve is the most powerful central banker in the world some past fed chairman have even attained near cult status like Alan Greenspan he opened the money floodgates and sent equity markets into a feeding frenzy it led to a time of unprecedented growth fueled by credit. Until the bubble burst in two thousand and seven unleashing a Global Financial crisis greenspan wasnt around anymore it was his successor ben bernanke who had to do the damage control but he kept Monetary Policy loose the u. S. Economy had gotten used to extremely low Interest Rates a rapid reversal would have caused shocks to the system but it was business as usual under his successor janet yellen at least at first now shes opened the door to gradual rate increases amid stable growth in the us. Federal reserve stronger intervention in the economy stands in contrast to the policies of the European Central bank which has favored a lighter touch and focuses on inflation the fed reacts to developments in the job market yemens term ends in february. Jerome powell is the man tipped to replace or the former investment banker is a republican and already part of the feds governing board markets looked ready to welcome such a choice his nomination would signal continuity theoretically Stanford University economist john taylor remains a candidate but his chances are slim analysts caution that he might be quick to tighten policy. Janet yellen would normally be expected to serve a second term but because she was appointed by former president barack obama that is out of the question for the Current White House by replacing a fed chairman only after one term President Donald Trump looks set to break another tradition. And lets talk about this from our business desk last year a long time wall street correspondent for us did a lot of reporting on the fed would be a good choice absolutely ben he is a solid choice more than anything he has been with the feds for about five years on the board of governors so he has some experience however and thats very interesting about him as opposed to all his predecessors he has no what you would call formal training if you will in terms of Monetary Policy or monetary economics he has not studied that field he comes from the feel of law and a lot of years in the private sector so hes relatively new to the federal budget been there for about five years could he breathe fresh air into the board system while a new chairman i guess always brings a little bit of fresh air but he will not bring a bigger changes he has over the last five years always consistently voted with janet yes. And that was during the time when they health Interest Rates are lowered almost zero percent and he has also voted with her when the fed started raising rates so we will not i cannot possibly see how we will see a big change here why replace yellen in the first place i mean continuity is a good thing for the markets. I guess this comes down to a Political Choice oh absolutely its a trump move absolutely ben we know President Trump and we know that he is not himself very policy oriented he does not understand or care about the details of Economic Policy what was very important for him is just to put his own mark on the fed he actually said that himself in interviews to he just wanted to nominate somebody it was actually funny that he was all over the map with these candidates he had harsher candidates yet hawks wanted Interest Rates to go higher he had one of them to go lower and he didnt even care he just wanted his own person there and thats what hes doing is making actually a very informed and a very good choice so it looks like were going to get a republican but is it a one hundred percent certainty i mean could we see a last minute tweet it doesnt look like it anymore weve seen a lot of reports on paula now in the last couple of minutes too but of course this is still President Trump making a decision so you can always be in for a surprise if he does just reconfirm yellen i wouldnt be surprised at all she would be a good choice as well i dont expect it at this moment lots of the thank you very much more business to come including facing up to very lax advertising rules facebook and russian meddling in the u. S. Election first back to andrea. British Prime Minister is a man has been forced to replace the defense minister as the scandal of widens of affection hardest moment in the u. K. Is corridors of power Gavin Williamson has been promoted from his position as a conservative chief whip hes a newcomer to the field of defense and will replace many might have fallen fallen resigned on wednesday amid on occasions of inappropriate sexual behavior announcing his resignation this is what michael funen had to say in recent days allegations have been made about n. P. C. Conduct including my own many of these allegations have been false but i realise that in the past i may have fallen below the high standards that we require of the armed forces that i have the honor to represent i have reflected in our my position in government and i am therefore resigning as defense secretary. Now this is the latest in a series of cases as you know over the past two weeks women across the world have been sharing their experiences of Sexual Harassment and the hash tag me too but its not been easy like in other countries an oscar winning filmmaker and baucus john has been facing difficulties with speaking out for more on this ahead with new social media added to. Welcome can tell us more about this case in pakistan you know as you mentioned mr noir shes won an oscar i mean she has a very powerful filmmaker earlier this week she decided to take a public stand against harassment in her home country she actually took to twitter and she told the story about her sister who allegedly faced inappropriate behavior and harassment during and after a medical examination at a local hospital and we actually have a tweet for you this is how she told that story she writes in this cas