it's possible here homesite are you leaving the us so you try not to fall french but doesn't is a very good place to raise a subject. like movies much of. this is due to the news live from berlin catalonia is parliament the clear isn't the pendants from spain thousands of separatists supporters are gathered outside the government palace in barcelona to celebrate the vote emotion as this fight the opposition walking out the spanish senate has meanwhile voted to rescind catalonia

as autonomy and take control of the rest of regions where barcelona and madrid. thanks very much for your company we begin with those developments in spain where the country's senate has approved government proposals to take control of catalonia it comes just after catalonia regional parliament voted in favor of declaring independence from spain all the vote for independence followed a fiery debate in the calland parliament with opposition lawmakers walking out in protest. separatist members of the catalan parliament singing their unofficial national anthem in the way. for a peaceful defense of their land the the opposition politicians had long since left the chamber refusing to take part in the. leaving the parliament's president to

announce a clear majority in favor of declaring independence there says the resolution was carried by seventy votes for ten against and two abstentions. the question now how would madrid react prime minister mariano rajoy asked the senate to give him the right to strip the catalan government of its powers. because they do not follow the law in the process of democracy because they endanger our current existence they divide society they damage the economy and the prosperity of our citizen missile economy. or the senate voted by a big majority to activate article one five five this allows madrid to take control of cats and finances and policing overruling the regional government the central government also wants new elections in catalonia for his part the separatist leader

colace push tomorrow is urging catalans not to give way in the arm wrestling with madrid. while the outcome of both parliament sessions in spain described as historic and have plunged madrid and barcelona into uncertainty we have team coverage of these unfolding events in barcelona deal used some pill and covering reaction in madrid is martin roberts hello to you both want to start off with you were really we saw that whole ecstatic emotion erupting in the parliament when the motion was accepted what's the mood outside right now. yeah as news started to trickle out that independence had been declared there was a huge uproar of jubilation from supporters who were waiting outside the parliament they waited for several hours today to find out exactly what was going on and

thrilled when it happened you had chants of freedom freedom from people who are out there on the streets many of them bare in mind have been waiting for years decades even for an announcement like this still now there were hundreds and thousands of people on the streets in barcelona across the city people of all ages so far things are remaining relatively peaceful now the scenes that we're seeing here in barcelona are also being repeated in regions across catalonia not just here just to give you a sense of how euphoric those who are for independence a feeling here a short time ago when we were outside the parliament they were big screens everywhere showing the crowd exactly what it was that was going on at one point they showed the spanish pride being taken down from a government building injuring a huge cheer braze up from the crowd everyone was incredibly excited one thing that

i do really want to emphasize they were wish showing these pictures of people celebrating is these people don't represent everybody in catalonia this is a region that is extremely divided we know that heartbeat the people didn't even turn out to vote in the referendum that took place on october first and recent opinion polls suggest people here don't want independence so this is. a region that is very split tonight a region that is very split martin want to go to you in madrid how is spain in practical terms planning on implementing a direct role. ok well first of all the preparations in many ways of the homes where for weeks thousands upon thousands of extra national guards and the national police you know were transferred to pass on to i had a long. has a lot of police and i was the most is described i'm there have been some tensions between the two so one of the directors expected or you haven't is expected to

announce in one hour service is that they will replace the head of the house and. there has a man who is you know said that they don't follow rules this was on the other hand if they have to are saying who. are arrest members of the house and i'm governments who you know choice or very real risk of chance would sedition well they will have to tread very carefully to avoid somehow the scenes that we saw on the first of october during the independence post because there was one bottle of very much tarsus and you got lots image of the thing that will help the central government is the current way to go how some governments finances a few weeks ago so they've done a lot of the ground work over there so a lot of the groundwork is already in place charlotte i have a similar question for you how is the catalan leadership planning on carrying out their plan of the breaking away from spain. at the moment i think they're just enjoying the moment. on has been on twitter celebrating

what it is this happened here but he's also trying to calm down european leaders say that he is still open to dialogue but i think what is a very interesting is what's going to happen in the next couple of hours this is a man to get his time is running out we know that spain wants to take away his powers there are also reports that he could face arrest for his actions here that is something that is looking increasingly likely so i think currently he's just waiting for the next move from madrid and it's taking stock of what it is that he's achieved. martin and very briefly if you can my last question is for you this has been festering for months why as prime minister or let it come to this well many people would say it's been festering for five years in office and probably took office or not his style i mean his opponents accuse him of so this is in times of waiting still. when it has finally hold your knee.

on responding to action it may be too lazy maybe closing on how long. martha roberts reporting from madrid and barcelona to w.'s or charlotte some pill reporting on those unfolding events thank you for your coverage. and as polling officers in kenya count ballots for that country's presidential election rerun ordinary people are counting the cost of this device a vote one person has been killed in clashes between protesters and police today bringing the overall death toll to at least five or kenya has been locked in political uncertainty since the supreme court an old presidential elections held back in august. the streets of kenya's capital nairobi are unusually quiet worried about the prospect of violence many are staying indoors those few who have ventured out have had enough after months of political tension. i would like

politics to quieten down so we can continue with our work we don't want people to fight or kill each other we want kenya to be peaceful. we want life to continue as normal. our incomes are being hurt and we are struggling. old we're tired of politics. thursday's repeat elections were marred by skirmishes between police and opposition supporters the clashes stop some ten percent of polling stations from opening and delayed voting in many others in the kibera slum area of nairobi the situation was particularly tense. they decided to keep people from the voting existence there because very difficult for us because we had a lot of violence from the probe youths were going to be forming officious.

voting in four counties was initially postponed until saturday because of the unrest. opposition leaders continued to call on their supporters to boycott the vote citing security concerns. everything has its own time. fasting we are trying to convey to our people at this point in time is that the forced repeat election tomorrow. we want to make sure that they're not injured and we're telling them to stay away because they might walk into a trap where they will be in debt that is our priority we don't want any lives to be lost. because of the new outbreak and violence election officials announced that the new runoff would be delayed until further notice as counting continues officials said just over a third of registered voters cast a ballot on thursday some have heeded the call to boycott all but assuring a victory on paper for current president or her kenyatta who cast his vote in

a jubilant mood but the rerun looks as if it will fail to ease the conflict. a very tense situation right now in kenya you can take you to the capital nairobi now where correspond with commom it is reporting from edith have we learned more about the finish of results. the results are changing obviously every hour as the electoral body continues to feed more of the numbers that they're receiving and this is a process expected to continue in the coming days however there was confusion and a little bit of concern earlier this morning because the electoral commission had said that forty eight percent of the registered voters had participated in the election but later this morning they reviewed that number down what's now of course a lot of kenyans looked at this suspiciously because the main reason why there was a rerun of the election was because there was a problem with the tallying of the votes in august and so all eyes are squarely now

on the electoral body to make sure they get it right this time around and tell us a little bit about those four districts that were supposed to have separate reruns tomorrow but we understand that they've been delayed again working to us about that they have and the electoral body says that it is due to insecurity or other security concerns in those four regions they did add two other counties as part of the places that would get a reelection and those two areas specifically will be able to continue on with the vote but the people from the regions that have been affected where voting has been suspended indefinitely actually actually reacted joyfully to the news saying that they didn't want to participate in the election in the first place they're not going to participate in any kind of rerun and no matter when the data sets they will still boycott the election taking that into consideration what you've just eluded to only a third of the registered voters went to the polls compared to the eighty percent back in august can we call this election

a legitimate election. this is a question that a lot of kenyans are grappling with particularly on social media obviously there is one half of the country that participated in the vote and another half that either chose not to participate or could participate for one reason or the other but analysts have been quick to say that people stayed away from the poll because of various reasons not just because of the boycott that was called by the opposition but because of rain which affected a lot of voting areas and also people who are not potus and these are people who stayed away from the from the election protesting of various institutions including the judiciary and the electoral bodies saying they don't trust it and they don't think these bodies are acting independently. to do double use that has come out of reporting from the kenyan capital nairobi thank you and we're going to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world to white south africans have been given long jail terms for forcing a black man into

a cough and threatening to kill. your men showed no remorse for the racist crime the case calls an outrage in south africa where the two decades after the end of apartheid. australia's government has lost its one seat majority in parliament after the country's top court disqualified the deputy prime minister from office for holding doors citizenship barnaby joyce unknowingly held in new zealand citizenship when he stood for election last year he has renounced the citizenship and will stand again for office in a byelection in december. the united nations says the government of syrian president bashar al assad was responsible for a chemical weapons attack that killed at least eighty people in april a report coauthored by the u.n. says the government used the deadly sarin nerve gas against the rebel held town of honshu horn syria denies using chemical weapons. right before i let you

go want to remind you of our main stories at this hour spain's parliament has voted to assume direct rule over catalonia after the region declared its independence from the country prime minister mariano rajoy has called for calm and pledged to restore the rule of law to the region the independence vote in the common parliament followed a fiery debate that saw opposition lawmakers walk out in protest. in washington us only of iraq in berlin thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us we'll be back at the top of the hour. on freedom and hole. where i come from the region is rich in history and talent but so poor and if your creation opportunity and freedom this makes it especially difficult for.