19 hours g.m.t. Welcome to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service I'm Nick Miles cattle at independence leaders are held in custody in Madrid their former president remains in Belgium the climate there is not good and it's better that the some distance he will collaborate the spin issue justice with the burden just this so could a European arrest warrant for him home to face trial also today Donald Trump goes in search of a much needed political victory we are giving them a big beautiful Christmas present in the form of a tremendous tax cut Democrats write it off as unfair and half baked later how cosmic rays are exposing hidden chambers in ancient pyramids the whiskey with an out of this world price tag that wasn't all it was cracked up to be and. The newly discovered ape that has gone straight into the endangered list you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service. B.b.c. News with Sue Montgomery Catalan separatists of Conan for protests outside the Catalan parliament in Barcelona after a court in Madrid remanded 8 understood Catalan government ministers in custody the judge said they might leave the country or destroy evidence if built they're alleged to have committed rebellion and sedition in their attempts to secede from Spain she is still considering a request to issue European arrest warrants for the sacked Catalan leader Connors pushed him on and 4 of his colleagues who are in Belgium James Reynolds is in Barcelona it is a stunning reversal of fortune in recent days on Friday the same ministers and Catalyst Bush has now in Brussels were celebrating their declaration of independence from Spain following that moment on Friday afternoon Spain invoked an article of the Constitution taking over Catalonia taking over the running of this building and now the members of careless pollution laws administration either on bail in exile or in prison Republican Party members of the u.s. Congress as have unveiled plans for the biggest tax reforms in 30 years the tax overhaul has become the top priority of Donald Trump's domestic agenda the proposed measures include cutting the tax on businesses from 35 to 20 percent and raising personal tax allowances the House Democratic Party Leader Nancy Pelosi said the Republican plan would cause lasting damage it raises taxes on the middle class millions of middle class families across the country borrows trillions from the future from our children and grandchildren's future to give tax cuts to the wealthiest encourages corporations to ship jobs overseas and the budget ransacks Medicare the u.n. Says more than 180000 people in Iraq have been forced from their homes amid high tension and skirmishing between the army and. Kurdish fighters Alan Johnston reports in recent weeks the Iraqi military has exerted its control over large swathes of northern Iraq it's pushed Kurdish forces out of areas of disputed control the region's balance of military power has shifted dramatically amidst this upheaval many civilians of fled their homes and it seems the vast majority were Kurds as the army moved in there was a particularly large exodus from the city of Cook many of these people soon returned but nearly 80000 have stayed away the u.s. State Department says the secretary of state Rex Tillerson is to visit me in my later this month to discuss the violence that prompted thousands of Ranger Muslims to flee Mr Tillotson will meet Burma's leaders to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Rakhine state and u.s. Support for me in my eyes democratic transition world news from the b.b.c. The brother of a militant Islamist who shot dead 7 people in southern France 5 years ago has been sentenced to 20 years in jail a court in Paris found Abdel card America guilty was Soucy Asian with a terrorist that cleared him of being an accessory to murder a 2nd defendant got 14 years prosecutors said Abdul Kalam there are asked stall the scooter that his brother Mohammed used in the attack than underrun to lose Mohamed Merah was killed in a shootout with police. A European Union delegation has expressed concern over Sri Lanka's failure to reform its anti terror laws a key condition for receiving tower of concessions to access the e.u. Market at the end of a visit to the country the head of the delegation said the progress achieved have been slower than originally hoped the anti terror law allows the storage fees to hold suspects for long periods without trial. A woman in Zimbabwe has begun a legal campaign to abolish a customary practice under which brides are bought papers were filed in the constitutional court saying the centuries old tradition violated women's rights she argues couples should be allowed to live together without having to pay the bride price an international team of scientists have discovered a new species of great ape in the remote jungles of Sumatra in Indonesia they say the top a newly arriving a Tang has distinct genetic skeletal and dental differences to the 2 other species of our young and tongue It also displays unique behavior with uprooted teats and the sound of its comb the top and only around a timing is critically endangered one of the scientists involved in the research is Professor Serge Baek of Liverpool John Moores University it is so exciting because since the 120 I we didn't have a new great day there's only 7 of them now with a new one if we actually ourselves of great ape species so adding one to that very small if they say spectacular b.b.c. News. Thank you you're listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service with me Nic Miles on bail in exile or in prison 3 categories for 14 people who just a week ago were ministers in the cattle and regional government aides have been jailed by a court in Madrid pending their trial on charges including sedition and rebellion there among 9 who turned up in court on Thursday their lawyer Alonso gave us had this message for supporters of cattle at independence yet in an expertise or. They made an appeal a call for calm they said to me particularly they were calling on the people of Catalonia to stay calm and to maintain the peace and that there shouldn't be any violent incidents of any kind we must not do anything that could be used as a justification for those who want to adopt more repressive measures that's why they're insisting on this call for calm while the former leader colors bridge amount for others didn't appear they're still in Belgium and they say they will cooperate with the Spanish judicial process from abroad that's not good enough for Spanish prosecutors who have requested European arrest warrants for the 5 let's go live to Madrid and Guy Hedgecoe there's still a little bit of confusion over the future of colors put in one and the other for what we know. Well college they're pushing on said that he could give his he could make the hearing via video conference now the judge of the High Court said that wasn't good enough so as we know he didn't appear in court today and the prosecutor has asked for the judge in this case to issue this international arrest warrants we have heard that that arrest warrant could possibly be issues in the next few hours possibly tomorrow once it is issued it will be in the hands of the Belgian authorities and they will decide whether or not to arrest Mr p. Push an aunt and his colleagues there in Belgium and whether to bring them back to Spain to face trial and that process could take weeks or months I imagine Meanwhile the other 8 at Court in Madrid were refused bail what do we know about what that where that process goes. Well that they now awaits trial they're facing some very serious charges of sedition rebellion misuse of public funds they could face decades in jail potentially if found guilty so they're waiting for this trial we don't know exactly when it will begin but do bear in mind that we've got a cattle and regional election coming up on December the 21st called by the Spanish government now there's quite a good chance that this whole judicial process could run into that election campaign and that's something I think the Spanish government probably wants to avoid Meanwhile the leaders tied up in this legal wrangling there's still a lot of public support for independence and we saw that today the passion is not drying up is it no not at all and certainly when you look back on the independence movement in recent years they seem to thrive very much when they feel that they're being sort of repressed by the Spanish government or Spanish state and from what we've heard from them so far in reaction to the jailing today they seem to be very determined to come out in large numbers onto the streets of Boston or another Catalan street Catalan cities to respond to this so I think it will in a way be a shot in the arm for the independence movement in the coming days Ok guy that was Guy Hedgecoe in Madrid thanks to the legislative elections and the victory of the Trump administration looking rather thin on the ground the attempt to overturn President Obama's health care bill fell flat on its face so will the government's promise to overhaul the tax system details of which have just come out there any better President Trump believes it deserves to we're working to give the American people a giant tax go for Christmas we are giving them a big beautiful Christmas present in the form of a tremendous tax it will be the biggest in the history of our country it will also be tax reform and it will create jobs but opponents are not going to fall into line anytime soon senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi calls the. And hot biked today they have started to unveil a tax bill designed to plunder the middle class in order to put into the pockets of the wealthiest one percent more money Anthony's Washington correspondent Anthony on the surface this is about tax cuts but it's about much more about achieving a political success isn't it exactly because as you mentioned health care reform ran aground earlier this year they don't have the Republicans don't have any real substantive legislative success to hang their hats on and Lindsey Graham a Republican senator said if they don't get this they can kiss their congressional majorities goodbye in the midterm elections that take place in November 28th team so it's still going to be difficult for them to do this it's not an easy road they're trying to push it through like they did health care reform without disclosing some of the details into the last minute but they need it they need it desperately there's plenty in these riposte like doing away with inheritance tax and reducing corporation tax which aren't going to be necessarily popular amongst President Bush's a working class base and that well it's really hard to drum up a popular groundswell of support for cutting the corporate taxes from 35 percent to 20 percent I mean that's something that the Republican donor base cares a lot about but rank and file Republicans members of the public they don't that doesn't really translate into a bottom line benefit for them so that task for the Trump administration Republicans is trying to frame this as this is helping jobs in the Point out to other portions of the tax proposals like reducing the tax brackets down and increasing the child tax credit and increasing the standard deductions that's going to affect people's bottom lines but if you look at polls generally the tax plan is at least as of right now is unpopular among the public at about 20 percent support it and that's not a very high number at all and Trump keeps getting distracted on all these other other issues he needs to focus Republicans need to focus and push this thing through if they want they need to drive up the. Popularity numbers if they want to get the support they need to get it passed on to the in the last couple of minutes we just heard that your own power has been appointed as the Federal Reserve chairman continuation a safe pair of hands but yeah that seems to be the general consensus for Powell that he is not some sort of populist there or he's not an anti-establishment type of candidate he's probably going to stay the course and not makes any significant changes so I think it's a relief to the business and corporate community Ok And he's a many things. Egypt's great pyramid has been shrouded in mystery for millennia but now a long health secret of its structure may have been revealed thanks to particle physics a large chamber lying under skiver deep within the ancient wonder of the world has been found by scientists who've been mapping it using high energy radiation from outer space so how does this process of discovery actually work Jonathan Amos is our science correspondent so they've been using a technique called Mo on tomography which is relatively new you know a lot of 5060 years but essentially it's a bit like a big x. Ray and what you do is you use the particles that bombard the earth all the time these are cosmic rays and as they hit the atmosphere they create a spray of daughter particles and amongst those are these things called moons and they move near the speed of light was a hit the surface of the earth they penetrate deeply into rock but they also get absorbed in deflected if you can put your sensors your detectors under a region of interest then you can build a picture much like you know they put a plate underneath your broken arm when you've fallen off your bicycle they can see the broken arm here they've been able to see a cavity inside the big pyramid which is quite exciting now how reliable is this the information that you get it's not very focused let's put it that way so they say they're convinced that there is a void they've got a good idea of how big it is so it's about 30 meters long it's several meters high but they can't see anything in there they can't tell you what it's for why it's there kind of thing all they know is that there is this for it and obviously the next step is to try and go in investigated now mill grossly it's a new one on me it's used in lots of other things as well I think fascinating and it is a growing science the Japanese in particular of taken this up you can image the insides of volcanoes doing this if you put your detectors on one side of the mountain and the norms are approaching from the other side of the mountain they go through the mountain as a. Change in density of the rock because it goes through solid rock then into magma and then out the other side to hit your detector so you can build a picture of where the mag buries inside a volcano tells you something about how likely it is to erupt they've used it to look inside the Fukushima reactors there's obviously you can't go inside them I've also used it to probe glass fears as well now you can use radar to look at the difference between the ice and the rock bed but if your glass here is on a very steep slope on the side of a mountain it's very difficult to get radar equipment there so this is another way of doing that so it's finding quite widespread uses in the earth sciences and this is a very interesting applications that was done and I'm us you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service Still to come on the news or little Sophie the giant read the writing of the night. What's your name new magical monster a lyrical response to a British schoolgirl from the palace 1st Suze here with the headlines a quote in Spain has remanded 8 former members of the Catalan regional government in custody as prosecutors consider charges against them of sedition and rebellion plans for a massive overhaul of the Us tax system a key part of Donald Trump's election campaign have been published and the u.n. Says advances by pro-government forces in northern Iraq have displaced 180000 people most of them cowards thanks so an Egyptian t.v. Presenter has been sentenced to 3 years in jail after she appeared to cast single motherhood in a positive light to a seller had been found guilty of outraging public decency his years on her show discussing ways of becoming a pregnant woman outside a conventional husband and wife relationship. Well the good thing is thinking about . What can be a single mother yes you can be both a mother and the father the same time sometimes you choose this other times it's forced upon you. If you got divorced or if you got to rid became a widow you would be a single mom. Can you choose to be a single mom even before you get married well our correspondent selling the bill has been following the story from Carly what caused this huge controversy is that the t.v. Anchor she came on her show and she has been dressed as if she was pregnant and she was addressing the topic of single mothers and she asked her female audience whether they like or not to be single moms and she said that even before marriage a girl is free to have sex just for the sake of having a child and also she she had raised the possibility of hiring the husband the fact that a lady can get married just what a short period of time and she can even pay the man a sum of money for this deal so that she can have a baby so this actually was very well received among her audience and it wasn't very well received among social media users either so it was picked up by a lawyer whether to go from there yes absolutely the lawyers saw with her and he accused her of outraging public decency and encouraging girls to go and have sex before marriage we've got to know that Egypt is a comes of it of Muslim societies so the fact that a girl or a man can have sex before marriage it is strictly forbidden both from a social and from a religious point of view and if we put that into wider context Egyptians are suffering very much economic. And marriage is a very costly process in Egypt so there are so many girls who have crossed 30 and they are still on matter and by middle eastern criteria if you are over 30 as a girl your chances of getting matted are getting slimmer and slimmer so some girls say Ok I can just try to fish for a husband even if I get divorced after that it doesn't really matter because time is running and I want to be a mother the verdict against the anchor is an initial verdict it can be appealed but she has been suspended from work for 3 months and she has been severely criticized by the union of the media people who work for a t.v. So it seems that she has been given a hard lesson to learn after the show but actually this is not the 1st time that this lady has asked controversy just a couple of months before she presented one of her shows from about covered in foam and she has been very much ridiculed on social media for that because people accused her of not respecting the social values of the Egyptian people that were selling a bill in Cairo. New species over run a 10 has been discovered in the remote jungles of Indonesia the top a newly around the town found in the dense forests of Sumatra is now the 3rd confirmed species of the creature but with a population just 800 strong it's already been classified as the most endangered group of great apes in the world our science reporter Victoria Gill has been finding out more. In mountainous rain forests around its hands are tricky to spot they usually heads before they're seen that's why this particular great ape population in Sumatra was only confirmed to exist in 1907 since then a study that included a detailed genetic comparison between them and the ape since the March on Borneo has gradually solved a biological puzzle. This is a distinct species to science. It is so exciting because since $920.00 I we didn't have a new creative. Press a surge Vick is from Liverpool John Moores University there's only 7 of them now with a new one if we are there are still great a species so having one too that very small if they say spectacular. This newly described great ape also exhibit some unique behavior the fruit and a marked difference in the sound of its call with just 800 individuals the tap a