A protest was held in Milan against the hosting of the Winter Olympics. According to organizers, holding them is harmful from an environmental and social point of view.
The demonstration turned into clashes after hooded youths began throwing hard objects at police. Law enforcement responded with water cannons and tear gas. Several demonstrators were arrested.
Opponents of the Olympics criticize the impact of the games on the infrastructure in the region, including the decision of the authorities to cut down hundreds of trees to build a bobsleigh track.
The protesters also chanted against the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tasked with protecting the American delegation.
Thousands gathered in in the center of Berlin in solidarity with the protests in Iran.
Organizers said the rally was attended by many relatives of people killed or arrested during the latest demonstrations in the Islamic State. The march was organized by the Society of Exiles and under the slogan "Freedom for Iran".
Many of the participants held pictures of Maryam Rajavi, chairwoman of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an organization that is banned in the Islamic Republic. Rajavi herself addressed the demonstrators from the stage. Other speakers included former European Council President Charles Michel and a former German justice minister.
Several thousand people protested in Barcelona against the deterioration of suburban rail services. The demonstrators are demanding regular trains and investment in transport infrastructure. The march was led by representatives of suburban rail user associations trains with a banner reading “Without trains, there is no future“,
“Going home should not be a struggle“, “Transport is not a luxury“ and “I want to go to work“ were some of the slogans chanted by the demonstrators. They demanded that regional authorities, the company that manages Spain's railway infrastructure and the country's national railway company guarantee good rail transport.
The troubles began on 20 January with an incident in Gelida, when a retaining wall on a motorway collapsed on a train, killing the driver and injuring 37 people. Two days later, more than 100 train drivers refused to board their trains in protest at the risk of further landslides on the lines.
On 26 January, two incidents in the signalling system due to problems with the computer program plunged rail services in Catalonia have been thrown into chaos and led to the dismissal of two senior officials at the rail infrastructure company and rail operator Renfe.
A three-day strike by train drivers across Spain is expected to begin on Monday, paralyzing rail transport.
The new storm “Marta“ has prompted more evacuations in Spain.
One person was injured in the province of Jaen after a wall collapsed following heavy rains.
The man was pulled from the rubble and taken to hospital. Firefighters are searching for others in the rubble. The injured worker was a worker harvesting olives.
According to initial reports, the collapse may have been caused by a landslide on the slope where the wall was located, following heavy rains in recent days.
The rains in southern Spain are not stopping, provoked by another storm called “Marta“.
To the 11,000 people already evacuated, more people are being added, who were preventively evacuated from their homes due to the risk of landslides and floods.
The regional prime minister of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno, warned that new evacuations were expected during the night.
Over 140 road sections in the region are completely closed to traffic. In the province of Granada, almost 390 people have already been evacuated, and 28 roads are closed to traffic or with significant traffic difficulties.
The Guadalquivir River has reached an “unprecedented” water level as it passes through Seville. The water flow was over 3,200 cubic meters per second.
In Galicia, wind gusts of 146 kilometers per hour and rainfall of over 53 liters per square meter.