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is the only news live from berlin spain's prime minister faces parliament this very hour over the crisis in catalonia this after mariano rajoy demanded clarity over whether khalid qatar lines the regional government to have formally declared independence or not will be carrying his speech live and we'll get reaction for you from the dribs and barcelona. have you along when we start off in spain and the looming constitutional crisis between madrid and barcelona as we come on the air the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy is getting ready to make a speech before parliament any moment now he's demanding clarification from.

catalans leaders after they signed a declaration of independence only to then suspend it and ask for crisis talks with madrid and a press conference earlier hoist said his government one certainty for both spaniards and cadillac is about to do everything in his power to prevent cattle and secession all that includes suspending the region's autonomy if it follows through on this threat to break away while other crisis over catalonia follows months of mounting tensions and a referendum on independence that spain tried to block yesterday all eyes were on kalon years later to see if he would declare independence or not let's take a look at how that drama unfolded would he or wouldn't he in the end collins pushed him or did a bit of both after declaring catalonia its right to independence he put the brakes on. we propose that the parliament suspend the effects of the declaration of

independence so that in the coming weeks we undertake a dialogue without this it is not possible to reach a solution. but madrid says those words are confusing it's demanded catalonia its leadership be more clear. the cabinet has agreed to formally request that the cattle and government confirm whether or not it is declared independence. and then field a couple on your. as the spanish government ponders its response many across the country aren't happy about the prolonged uncertainty. is going on and how much longer is this going to go on it will be like this for weeks and then they'll be more drama i really don't understand. this i mean i don't i mean it's a million dollar question of catalans don't have a clue on what the next step will be how my supposed. to my opinion the whole of

spain should vote and decide if we want catalonia to remain in spain or not for the know. there's little to indicate the standoff over catalonia its independence will end soon leaving people only able to guess what happens next. well to pick up where that report left off for many across spain and your way would bated breath to see what comes next and we've got team coverage that we find fish are in barcelona and martin roberts in madrid good day to you both martin i want to start off with you if i may in madrid prime minister mariano rajoy is about to address the parliament in madrid he just took a seat what do you expect him he'll say. i think it's pretty much gone through he said what you did fact is. if the chasm government do not start talking about that all bets are off there is no chance of any talks or less they do ask senator leahy he doesn't want to. reference

a. constitutional call suspended on the other hand. also after all he spoke so. interesting he said. he rested after hour in agreement for parliament and i receive to discuss a possible constitutional amendment again you know from work or constitution talking about. how to do. so if you like there's an olive branch and then well i think his message to that is going to be quite clear. about you know anything that's. something. i want to bring in now our son and i just want to tell our viewers that they're watching live pictures from the spanish parliament where prime minister marianna royer is getting ready to give a speech by to funny i want to bring into the conversation right now i want to

callout around you they're expecting. people who are supporting independence a very much upset in fact that it has come so far that right now prime minister hoyer is pushing catalonia around giving his speech and is probably going to trigger that article one hundred fifty five because he doesn't see there any reaction coming out of catalonia also as we are seeing is getting ready right now maybe we just want to listen in what he's got to get to say. well we're seeing that prime minister marianna royale is actually standing in the starting with the speech i suggest we listen in to what he has to say. history to me and. also the declaration yesterday in which the article one hundred

fifty finally over a period of our article. for clarity here and the cabinet this morning has this morning agreed to require from the government in catalonia whether they have indeed declared. independence on the fringes in the margins of this confusion that took place yesterday. but it means a possibility is included in article one hundred fifty five offers legal citizens of this country clarity in a situation that is so important this is. depending on the answer of mr put. this will inform the future and future events going forward in his man's hands he has a possibility to return to the rule of law to legality and institutional normality as everybody wishes or to continue this period of confusion and upheaval that is

affecting catalonia in the rest of the country you know this and the response of the government will depend on his steps we have said this from the out set. the current situation is one of the grave situations that we have faced in the recent past also as far as the institutions are concerned. but. this we need this clear clarification before any any further steps we need to return to the rule of law and we need to do so quickly and we are speaking of questioning that is unprecedented when it comes. to the very purpose of democracy the rule of law are the reality and democratic democracy. we recovered and for forty years ago democracy and spain has enjoyed

a diversity of political projects and it has found a space of concordances world where all of the spanish people feel we presented. this is underpinned by the constitution by the regions and people and we are all bound to go together in one of the projects that has transformed us into one of the best countries in the world this has been cast into doubt by the recent events. ladies and gentlemen parliamentarians in the problems that we are not seeing and we can't alone are simply the consequence of the institutional crisis that has been fermenting there. soley on the responsibility of those who have been acting since a couple of months already on the six and seven september these events that took place then have set in motion a whole series of events that are unprecedented in our history. there is no

discrepancy possible here but the governing forces in catalonia principle of the government have used their institutional put the position in order to tackle this loyally and at a high risk the constitution of spain and you have also weakened and cancelled the autonomy status of catalonia and this must not be allowed. to learn a government that's ignored the law the rules of the courts and has. proceeded to project an event as something democratic which is really completely graft of any democracy. in the name of the citizens and given that you are the party of the real presenting of the

citizens we established the laws in line and in keeping with the constitution and in the interest of the citizens that is democracy and there is no possible alternative to this way and it isn't determined what we have seen in catalonia disorder in the division so on between the lines and also the decisions of companies to leave the region are the result of the kind of ignoring the law the rule of law is what gives us certainty and framework to work and this counseling of the law and ignoring the law leads to arbitrary a-t. arbitrary your t. and the rights of the citizens and harmony in citizenship disappear we lose your freedom but once the law is ignored therefore

whatever is not legal cannot be considered. therefore i would like to. explain you some of the details of what has happened and the answer of the government fundamentally it has to be established that this referendum is illegal for our constitution establishes the unity of spain and the time to undermine this rule of law as. a total failure no result of this illegal referendum and fraudulent referendum can be seen as an argument to legitimated legitimize one of the decisions of this government and even less so the decision to declare independence i will certainly be listening to your comments and also the proposals that you make of this debate as we have seen is very important and as we have witnessed in the last couple of days it really strikes to

the heart of catalan society and the spanish society catalans and the entire citizenry of spaniards are. watching with bated breath the events are unfolding but what we expect is to return to carmen certainty defending our values of coexistence as well and among these is respect and truth. ladies and gentlemen on the last first of october here the government of catalonia intended to implement an illegal referendum it was not in the senate it wasn't spontaneous and it certainly wasn't democratic it was a last chapter in a political strategy that aimed to undermine the entire catalan society and the entire society of spanish in spain imposing an independence and nobody wants to explain how we have come to this point it is important to really frame this state

in order to understand what happened and in order to avoid. this kind of a wrench if it repeats itself in the future and we have to come back to. twenty twelve it was a moment where the economy of spain was in a grave situation all of the autonomy and the autonomic autonomous regions where in a difficult economic situation on the twenty of september of that year the president of the catalan government asked for a meeting where he. asked to have additional funds in order to. be held in order to deal with an overarching debt of more than five billion euros and we helped them and would like to remind you that this was not actually something that was within our constitution and could not be really and also the idea of independence and that was also table could not be accepted given that it

was not in keeping with our constitution that this. invitation more than to start a dialogue on referendum was rejected it was very very. clearly but on my view part there was always a willingness to engage in dialogue so i have had more interviews and more debate in dialogues with representatives of the catalan government than with any other autonomous region and spain and we have always been very sensitive and very attuned to the difficulties of the catalan region in twenty twelve then we help the region and then there were referendums a so-called referendum that was established in two thousand and fourteen and every time that there was such a referendum the people organizing the referendum simply ended up losing this was never the supported by the catalan citizenship in order to push the end of the

dependency envelope but instead of looking for alliance with the majority parties and catalonia instead of looking. forward they knew to the extremist minority party it is hard to see u.p.a. amongst others and. this was done accepted. and they accepted it as a condition to be supported in government to establish a referendum within eighteen months but it was simply untrue. and it is not true not that the other doesn't. thomas regions didn't support them because almost seventy billion euros were all so then you know afforded to that of almost a third of the entire budget of the country. and it is also not true when they

claim that i am the only person who rejects that independence this entire august body the parliament has also in april twenty fourth rejected any attempt to wards in moving towards independence those are the facts and there is a clear support for this. there is a they do have the votes in order to establish a government in the catalog region but they do not have a mandate to declare independence that is clear. this is the first failure of a democratic failure if you will. to pretend that they are using democratic means to separate catalyze along or from spain but we should really see that it is only

the spanish that can decide on any on any point like this it is actually democratic in its very nature but also antidemocratic when it comes to its consequences on the sixteenth of september on the sixth of september there was a debate that was a fraudulent debate in the capital in parliament. and. it was decided to disobey the decisions of the supreme court in spain and to suspend a number of deputies of the parliament and to not allow them to participate in the debate and you there were several constitutional tenets that were violated in that debate and on the seventh this was then this culminated in the so-called law of transition. the actual article cherry tarion and excluding nature of this this attempt it became clear to everyone and.

they tried to pick catalans against other catalans and they tried to impose a kind of uniformity of opinion that didn't really exist this was really running roughshod over everything that is a true democratic rule which ladies and gentleman. before. it using us of simply sitting idle and i would like to stress that we have been absolutely decisive thanks to the cooperation of all of the institutions that we were able to stave off the food roll out of the referendum attendant and on that day it became very clear that the reform randomly did not meet the standards and norms established by the entire community of europe and it was very very clear that the referendum should not have taken place because it did

not. it did not count on the kind of of criteria. this is an area of inclusion that is absolutely important because. this was thanks to the entire. group of institutions and authorities who all. all participated in avoiding and that this takes place you know then the supreme court also. suppressed the permission or declared that it was a referendum that was illegal if the result was than also the problem for the published. after the supreme court. if you had ruled on the issue and it was clear that the authorities could not move forward. any of. the civil guard following the

instructions. was able to confiscate millions of ballots and the polings and went into numerous polling stations where there were no voting lists because the police forces intervene or. there was no clear census. and there was also an investigation launched by the police because of the use of illegal lists of voters that. the government had to learn then also issued sending out letter or letters to invite voters to vote which would normally have been absolutely vital and indispensable for any legitimate moment

ladies and gentlemen there were no representatives of the other ministrations who were also there as would have been there as observers the those who promoted the referendum soley in charge of the referendum and had no supervision whatsoever and if all of this were not enough on the very first day after their return if they changed the rules of the game if you will and they said you can vote wherever you want and do not worry about the result if you can't vote in one polling booth you can go to another one. ladies and gentleman but it wasn't important that those who were in favor of a certain. we're also those who put up. the voting booths and manned the polling stations and of course it is no wonder we're small wonder that in certain areas

there were more votes given than actual inhabitants lived in the region or in that place. people even voted in the streets or in some cases court yards or other places and the president actually declared victory even before the full vote had been counted. as you can see in this exercise a referendum does not meet the minimum standards of democratic supervision and the central electoral college was simply ratified this there's no country in the world who actually took any of this seriously and i like to under score the

fact that. spain acted as any democratic country would have. the rule of law means up keeping and keeping in the rights of every spanish citizen and under very difficult circumstances our institutions have upheld the rule of law i'm referring to our judges to our prosecutors but i'm also referring to the police forces and the civil gone to go kill. all of them women. who were fully committed to the task and were highly professional in implementing it they. investigated

they opened up files and they did. it went about their work in keeping with the rule of law and in keeping with the constitution and defending the law which is our obligation. nobody should be happy with what happened on the first of october nobody can be satisfied with what happened there not with the images that emerge from it not with the farce which was the referendum but also the violence against policemen and members of the civil guard not none of that should have happened but those who are responsible and we must remind ourselves are those who went ahead with this referendum knowing that it was absolutely illegal those who are if you will to continue. defying the constitution and mobilizing activists claiming that this should go ahead

ladies and gentlemen what i tell them is do not look for other. those are the real culprits and that should not be deflected. why. has it been so ridiculous this claim to democratic legitimacy first of all. this is. this democracy that we have is absolutely tied to the framework that it is a constitutional law that every public representative commits you know to uphold and to. enforce. a democracy depends on rules of democracy without rules is not viable and a democracy and were rules and the constitution are simply ignored

or cancelled is not a democracy. but. it is completely wrong to claim and something that has been claimed once and again is that the vote in itself is democracy voting against democracy or voting on the margins of democracy is not democracy itself and in this case none of the rules that underpin the democratic vote were actually in force the vote on the first of october was not a democracy exercise it was a vote against democracy and everything that has happened on that day in since then has not been anything else but the inevitable consequence of this illegal act so yes ladies and gentleman. and these past forty years our coexistence has in general terms been peaceful and democratic and we have all agreed to the fundamentals that have given us a routine and

a kind of common project but. against a background of these current events and we do see how important these laws are these underpinnings of our society our. complexity of interests that mark and characterize a country like ours require a constant dialogue under the umbrella of law the law is the framework of that kind of dialogue if you don't have that frankly it is an endless succession of conflicts and friction if the law is not respected then the entire society then stands to suffer and the path is open to chaos and what happens is infighting and coexistence is suspended. before the first of october and after that date we have seen all kinds of examples of this breaking of the coexistence we have seen

citizens confront each other and we have seen mayors who denied or or were not willing to work with authorities and there were all kinds of. i mean of all kinds of attacks on the security forces and those who. had a different opinion were continuously being harassed and being threatened and this kind of atmosphere dozens of companies have in the last couple of days decided to move their headquarters outside of cut a long enough. those are the same companies that underpin the wealth and the wellbeing of catalonia and have established catalonia as one of the. most admired will region for the entire world and thus the very fundamental and the very foundations of that region are being brought something that.

also it is the federal budget that has been supporting that region more than any else and. almost up to twenty percent of that budget has gone into establishing hotels fermenting infrastructure and those are. facts and data that is very very impressive international travel. have travel and yet tourists have also issued and decided not to go to the region given these kinds of events and the chaos that has been taking place. we should not feel ourselves we should see that these are very very grave consequences of these events and other grave consequences will follow if we do not return to the rule of law and if catalonia does not return to the rule of law and to the galaxy and lawfulness it should happen. as soon as possible

otherwise social deterioration economic deterioration will continue the authorities of the autonomy region have to put an end to this. to this path that is putting in danger their future to the future of the catalan people and their well being. in the last forty years in the catalans have enjoyed great recognition great autonomy and great freedom now all of this is being put at risk. every extremism and this is true destroys the very. precepts that they propose and the very concepts that they propose and this is something that we're seeing is being played out in catalonia nowadays and the truth of the impact. of the truth is that all of the falsities that have been mentioned the false claims. that have been mentioned need to be refuted it is not peaceful it will not be recognized

recognized by europe and now everybody knows how high the cost is of the sort of kind of. this fraudulent referendum that took place on the first of october and should not and cannot take forward a community of seven hundred million people and one of the. cannot be allowed to influence the future of the fourth largest country in the european union. whatever goal of government whether the government presided over by myself or by any other person. will have to uphold the unity and the sovereignty of this country and this is a common good that cannot be negotiated cannot be amputated cannot be sold off or cannot be subjected to all kinds of whims and aberrations this is very very important and therefore nobody can be surprised that from the very very first beginning when it was a very very very first moment we have stood by the defense of our constitution and

defended it. we have been able to count on great and important support. from all quarters and i want. the principles that underpin this other principles that allow us to have differences of opinion and peace. and i personally will commit to maintain this democracy and to also if possible extended in its possibilities and in its framework of. means to peacefully and we store on the unity and needs to overcome that fraction that fragmentation will catalonia as the rest just as the rest of spain is the result of numerous events and flows of the heads of people over the centuries. the future

that we have is the future of the our diverse diversity we want to reach if we want to recover catalonia that has been so diverse and has been such a great contributor to the spanish history and that catalonia and the catalan isn't that has this something that has supported this vision of our country is very very important to us the constitutional and european cattle and was a great contributor in our collective successes and i appeal to this because i personally have also participated in some of those agreements where we recovered legality in the rule of law and the rule of law is the rule of law that we are all enjoying nowadays. dialogue is the main form to resolve conflicts in politics in everyday life any other context but i do have to warn you that it is

not possible opinion to accept under the guise of some kind of. iranians dialogue to try and impose a number of principles or points of view that are simply not acceptable to the other part to the interlocutor it is also not possible to. put in doubt what has really been enshrined in the in the constitution. and i'm referring to the definition of sauber sovereignty that has been extended to all of the spanish people. there have been numerous mediators who offered their services in the last days most of them. with the best of intentions in order to try and find. an exit to the situ israel situation i would like to thank them for their interest and their commitment but there is no mediation possible between democratic law and disobedience and illegality.

gentleman we are not trying to deal with different interpretations of the constitution in the laws of the government or the status of catalonia the government of catalonia knows exactly that they are violating the laws so when it comes to mediation that is not a question if you have a government that simply abandons their duty to uphold the constitution and the law and. in the face of this very very clear illegal action of catalans and the catalan government in particular the government really has no other option other than to act this is actually a way and you're invoking a right to engage in a dialogue on independence is simply fraudulent you know. but democratic

constitution actually in whole or includes that kind of right there is no such a right under you and your longing even under you and law it only recognizes the rights of a stablished people and therefore there is an absolute requirement to uphold the unity of a country and it is absolutely incompatible. what has been proposed by the catalan government with the charter of the united nations once again it is completely wrong and runs against any international legal norm and there is no democratic country in the world that respects the international law and that is also an active member of the international community that would accept this and spain is such a country. gentleman we can have a dialogue even such a situation but of course we can have dialogues about public services the financing

of public services. improving self-government efficiency and solidarity we can also talk about accountability we can also improve coexistence that is clear. within the legal framework of institutions as they exist and the. government of the. region has not really resorted to using these means of course we can also have dialogues with in all kinds of. of institutions including the parliament as it is year before we can use all the means offered by the legal framework and we can also talk about reforming the constitution. the constitution is not set in stone and there is certainly never had or never has been the ambition that it should be

set in stone forever we can talk about those and certain principles can be changed by a majority process so the constitution can be modified but only by following the rules and procedures that have been foreseen to that effect in our kind of deliberative. democracy as ours we can have a dialogue about everything that i want but the dialogue and once again is the contrary or is the contrary of simply going down and i like illegal path ladies and gentleman. i would like to under scribe the words at the king and self employed on the third of october we will be able to emerge because we believe in our country and we are proud of who we are because our democratic principles are strong they are solid and they are strong and solid because they are based on the wishes of

millions of citizens of spain to. live and coexist in peace and freedom. we will uphold the unity of spain always on the legal basis and with the aim of recovering social peace because we are all the sons of the same country. and all share the same country again. and. we are millions of men and women who have a common history share dream and walsall share difficult moments like all other countries our country has had difficult chapters in the past we have overcome them and we have been able to continue with our coexistence we have been together for centuries we have been mixing in people and we have been sharing experiences in this common house which is our house our diversity has become our fortress and that is why

spain is suffering because what is happening this is spain that loves catalonia that sees catalonia as a fundamental element of its own party national with its own country with its old culture and really language this is this pain which is serene and peaceful which i wish to also salute me speaking at this lectern i also want to salute those thousands and thousands of spanish people who have descended on the streets also in the streets of catalonia in order to express spontaneously their patriotism the love for their country and also their and this by being from different sides of the political argument they have done so without exclusion with the happiness and well the conscience of being all members of a of the same national project and that's why we need to put an end to this confusion with serenity with prudence and we need to recover the peaceful unity of our country thank you very much. right now for viewers who are

just joining us this is a live special coverage here w. news of spanish prime minister was address to the spanish parliament to this getting a standing ovation there of members of parliament the prime minister strongly reprimanding and during a speech that you carry last separatists and the same catalan authorities have broken the law and sided street protests to create a force that to them to say you see a long way round standing ovation there for him now he's going to have to acknowledge it as well of course understandably because there on that side of course of the argument he reiterated numerous times that her has to be returned to the rule of law and he took a very hard line saying that the referendum set into motion a series of events that cannot be allowed should not be allowed and they were for in two or catalonia said that it just cannot to arbitrarily choose when to follow

which law describing the referendum as an undemocratic move calling the very legitimacy of the voting for seedings that into question we've got lots and lots to discuss the and fortunately we have team coverage w.'s funny for sure has been listening in barcelona she joins us right now in what robertson is covering proceedings in madrid martin i want to start off with you if i may can you still work this out after listening to what roy had to say. yeah i think it's pretty simple. what were two things i mean as a person who. predictably he said it can be no hospital discussion. to dependence or about the results of the referendum because there aren't. a constitutional. assembly to hold. what i found it was quite europe this was the start of something out which. person been saying previously is that

yes they can actually have as long as it's not asked and. you know which is created by the constitution and also he said that the constitution itself is not set in stone but if it's going to be changed it has to change by constitutional means. because. we have seen suggestions that this could come about because the parliamentary committee has been right allowed to take a history all right martin hold that thought please because i want to get funny into the a conversation before i do that i want us to listen to what the prime minister said when he was speaking about callin president to kind of separate you want a six. in his man hans he has a possibility to return to the rule of law to legality and institutional normality as everybody wishes or to continue this period of confusion and upheaval that is affecting catalonia in the rest of the country you know this and the response of

the government will depend on his steps we have said this from the out set. the current situation is one of the greatest situations that we have faced in the recent past also as far as the institutions are concerned. i think. this we need this clear clarification before any and further steps we need to return to the rule of law and we need to do so quickly and. all right finally let's bring you in i listening to rahul it's very clear the events in catalonia are illegitimate and on lawful how do you think this speech will be received or where you are. well in that speech he didn't really say anything new primus that i heard that he would have not said before that past week for example and those things that he said didn't really

impress of the government here in catalonia because they kept saying we're not going to negotiate on the condition that independence is off to negotiation so this government here probably is going to repeat what the spokesperson has said this morning if the prime minister or hoyer if the promise of the central government in madrid oppressive sad and they possibly even invoke article one hundred fifty five which we did not hear in the speech right now then at the same time catalonia is going to proclaim this region as a republic anything is possible at this point because they have been so many different conflicting voices in this entire drama that we are following here since many weeks that really you cannot say for just what the reaction is going to be however what we do know when you look at the reaction from the main alliance party to the government here they said they definitely want the government here because

it's only a government pushes forward with that independence that duration and if they do not declare independence within a month then they may withdraw their support of the government so this is not just this crisis within spain over the catalonia but also there is a crisis beginning to unfold within the government here in catalonia now as to your point to funny i want to use that to go to martin because what this crisis has done of course is for kalar catalonia firmly on the world map so whether or not they break off things can stay the same or can they. well well i think that in. the international community just being very you know recognize counselor. on the other hand as you say. very. clearly. it's difficult to really hear on the other hand very referred to. as actually.

asking push and. explain that's really just a first step after the government. response that they can ask the senate so. well that again or take a few things i mean the so celebrated. for those. still some breathing has so some wriggling room for both sides that to try and resolve this ongoing crisis to finish our reporting from barcelona and martin amended thank you so very much for your continued coverage and now we want to go to gary hart who is here with us because of course there's also some business ramifications after a voice speech that you consider lemme markets have been nervous about the whole crisis because catalonian independence would hurt the spanish economy and also affect the stability of the euro in the last couple of days the spanish benchmark stock index ibex one up and down with every piece of news coming from catalonia and

rajoy speech today seems to have come markets the euro just look at that immediately rose more than zero point three percent in the last couple of minutes and the ibex that we just talked about jumped well over one percent one point three five to be exact at the same times of the markets do not like uncertainty and the reaction shows that investors at least are confident that a solution to the crisis will soon be found and stability will return so for the time being there is relief but analysts say there could be lots of uncertainty ahead still markets will be carefully analyzing what spanish prime minister mariano rajoy said today. speech last night in the spanish parliament in madrid seemed to only prolong the uncertainty about the future of catalonia but investors on the madrid stock exchange were elated and shares jumped by over one and a half percent among the winners where bank shares which shot up by over two

percent that's after two major banks incorporated outside of catalonia moved elsewhere in europe it's a game of wait and see traders in front foot say there's reason for investors to be concerned that's going to show it is certainly possible that the uncertainty will continue and if there is unrest and cut alone there will certainly impact yields on spanish bonds they will come under pressure because investors will sell them and look for safe havens the same applies to spanish equities as you get an offer the spanish knocked and knocked them companies located in catalonia are not taking any chances though many have developed contingency plans to keep the region. more business for a bit light it's back to the online reaction to the couple and there's been a la guerre thank you very much as we've been hurting earlier catalonia as regional leader left listeners scratching their heads when he gave a much anticipated speech yesterday because did he declared of tennis or did he not

that's the question everyone has been asking even the spanish government as you heard the prime minister or earlier it's also what people from all over the world are asking all social media and for that we turn our to our social media report a live show. what are you seeing online. well a lower is seeing a lot of confusion as you can imagine and the confusion was very real captured by two pictures of the same crowd that was a watching put them all give his speech yesterday let me just show you those pictures so first of all put them all said that catalonia has the rights to independence this is the way the crowd reacted everybody cheering but then a few hours later he said but let's suspend the declaration of independence and then it was really a downer as you can see there and this is something where even mariano rajoy has said ok can you give us some clarity on this one watch did your speech yesterday means a lot of people are asking those questions right now and this absurd situation that

we're witnessing right now in spain lots of people online are having fun with it for example here people who are fans of the movie braveheart would definitely recognize this year the face of a catalyst put them on margins with that of mel gibson and here they say they may take our lives but they'll never take our suspended declaration to pursue a dialogue that in fact later we saw lots of other movie references being made on twitter here this users saying about the people from the international press must have been very confused after listening to that speech by putting them on and maybe they didn't know what to tell their audiences back home we're also seeing lots of artists who are outside of spain trying to make sense of everything that we're seeing happening in the country right now here catalyst puts them on very determined saying that he will declare independence but then as we heard yesterday

they're having a sudden change of hearts and as we heard there are horror he said that there will not be no room for mediation so we'll have to see what the solution will be so heartless so with the online reaction thank you. are you want to move on now to some of the other stories making news around the world. u.s. bombers have flown over the korean peninsula in a show of force after months of escalating tensions centered on north korea's nuclear and missile programs the u.s. also food joint missions with japan and south korea over the sea of japan. kenyan police have fired tear gas at opposition protesters hundreds of people took part in demonstrations a day after the leader of the opposition withdrew from a rerun of the presidential race and election held back in august was declared null and void by the country's supreme court which then ordered a new ropes to take place later this month. the votes are being

counted in liberia's landmark alexion the ballot could mark the first peaceful handover of power between elected governments in the west african country over seven decades president ellen johnson sirleaf is stepping down after twelve years in office final results of the first round are do. come in two weeks. aren't we shift our focus now to the u.s. where at least seventeen people are confirmed dead and dozens more missing as fast moving wildfires continue to sweep through california the blazes have destroyed more than two thousand homes and businesses and hundreds of additional firefighters have been sent in from other states to help battle the flames. the wildfires ravaging northern california leaving a landscape of destruction in their wake hotels schools and some of the most prestigious wineries the napa valley and sonoma reduced to smoking ruins and for

many returning residents all that's left of their homes is charred rubble hard. to see what we've built and put in a good place and now it's. the. reduced what you see here we're here trying to find would we can so region or plan is to keep those things and when we rebuild. the. middle. of what we've lived through. flames were found across the arab landscape by powerful winds off to breaking out on sunday seventeen separate wildfires blazed in california among the deadliest in the state's history. and the ferocity of the fire has forced thousands to flee. in one of the west affected towns santa

rosa returning evacuees are finding entire districts razed to the ground. the lives of families and friends shouted. it was super cute little house she actually had a dance studio in the garage that she taught ballet and so that's gone and it's always to do canning every summer and stuff and that's all. and their whole their whole life you know their their whole life is gone. for some relief as they find their homes and talked. to see my house. but others have been left with nothing but the fire is still raging across california say the number of dead and injured can only increase. thank you so much for spending this part of the day with us folks is up next.

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