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muslimss. this amid reports that eleven thousand refugees fled the region. first the catalan president cost per shimon had. planets that has advised pat to put independence on hold. pending talks with madrid speaking earlier to the catalan parliament fish mark said the results of last week's referendum means the region. has won the right to self rule but he stopped short of putting it to a vote and declaring an official spit with spain take a listen. the government any myself well proposed to the parliament. to suspend the declaration of independence so that over the next weeks. well let's put people but we can begin a dialogue. can him because otherwise
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you will not find a joint solution we are firmly convinced that this historic moment. requires that. we cease escalation but we have to have clear willingness to move forward. does based on the results of the referendum of the first of october. these results must be taken into account. in the dialogue that we are very willing to open. let's go now two midget up correspondent ceremonious and is there and and sarah seems to be at the moment a speech show which isn't really pleasing anyone on i the site. good from coop which is s ty left wing. alliance that propsps up te cocolors pushed amman govevernment with t ten sea. and t their anna gabrielle sasa they'd be induduced expepecting a s solemn declararation. of independee and instead they got base of
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fudge arere in a way thahaty said we might have lost an portunity. i we say might because the o only meaeans f negotitiation with the spanh state is the catalan republic that making it t vy clear thahat's the o only tg they want to talk to the spanish are we ststill thate images or the spanish television screeeens are thy may feel that carters pushed amman h has not gonee far enough. as h he tries to hut more the tight re between a people worried about him stepping over the edge are takiking witith him catalan businesses that of. a started pulling out to of catalunya moving toward parts of space and those are very organized very mobilize
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people who really want full independence. and what about sam majid because the ball israeli in that court hours then and because s said f fishman is calling for negotiations he says you knoww we willll. be indepependent he used to feature tens but he says first we must have dialogue with maturity it is a verery confusing messssage isn'n't. it is a very confusing message i'm likely to see it as very cynical other with some things in that to a speech that may. are may strike of the funny cooled with and particularly out what he e said about k king phillippi the sexy santa. undertaking the keep could of been the moderates and mediatek i in this disputete accruess many people in his set coalition all republican so what they really wanan te keenen to be mediatated. i s he just throwing that's out.
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two. suggests said that he they were open to dialogue open to anybody to mediate. other the spanish government has previously okay that speeche louder and that it is class. at pack a lot and as well. and that we can see and that is what's going on inside at the parliament following that at speech which of course the whole world was watching and a pitchman said that in south the whole world is watching what is. going on in catalonia and nine hundred all full of pressure. at the moment atlantica is in barcelona and dictate what people telling you thenn. off to after that speech that everybody was waiting for and night no one as much as the people in barcelona i'm guessing.
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sunny catalans across the region will waititing f fors speeeech therapy ball outsie the pot way this parliamentt building is situated. who are watching it onn big screens that still watching? as them their discussions continue inside parliament we understand that when one member of parliament of the people's party that'ss marriott a report he's. gone to the spanish prime minister when he gotot up to speak they would lose in the crowds because the people who was standing outside parliament they are pro. independence supporters and name. wanted collison's demand to come out and give up full. fully on the declaration of independence and a lot of them were very disappointed. with the haze that was you could. see the disappointment on their faces some of them actually gone home the crowds the beginning to thing now. fewer people waiting out in the streets of barcelona but
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they're awesome so some people so that. watching the debate inside the parliament on the big launch screens could this clearly is b barcelona used. at your impressions place to that speech that we had a short while ago. your overnight thanks for the invitation once again. my. my the* that what. and and the president of catalonia dd try to be there were i would say in and no man's land in the sense tha. try to and a e. for i skilled. and the culture that also defied left. learn apply teach. what they wanted to hear what you're sort of feel good declaration of independence how week has
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been quite them be yours? led the same time. trying to show the international community after the first of october and that they are willing to negotiate. and year funny joke or it will respond. with repression and with measures to cut catalonia's autonomy. sowing bad things when they have the option of the clearing clearly independence or trying to do were sort of more softer declare asian. and i think that that the government understood that whatever beat their response would be detained so better to keep be international ally. or be and the international community in a
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war over dialogue we the socket radiation but going to a heart. declaration. has he has he played something of a gamble separe saying essentially out we will sit down until she but you have to give us what we want it and it doesn't seem to be at. at at a good deal for madrid's. your. yeah indeed indeed one of the one of the and and these pure game fairer yeah and i think. the the problem very three quite paradoxical because. i in my view this strategy of the wall remained on the catalan government why. that oslo and you see nearly the wars so trying to see monday that they were ready to pray. i'm
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sorry for the expression the nuclear button. alexei declared and dependence unilateral trying to show that they will like being. e it try that you would have been i beat that better and if he would have declared independence enough probabl. because he decided he'd try to welcome to the international community i react then you do everything to. two. break away from the spain and then the second half consequence on the spanish economy on beer all be on e. background they'll give risk premium of the of the spanish bad would you the one that have access. to the internet on market so in my
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view the asian. i we'll be really where are all the. family mention of this report rounded them bill before cbbc or for any demo negotiation are very after what they talk happened today and and there is another risk isn't there a because i'm. you know a lot of people say that he is looking tonight like a man who is essentially lost his love of the eleven that we didn't want to go ahead and declare an independent quebec to the very. strong statements week we source he support for independence i
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think ghosh wall are today disappointed. i don't why more convenient but id i add by saying that the movies arguments or ideas that i can. so they might be disappointed it today but tomorrow regardless of the strategy of the government they will continue to be and to be eric to be here. independently bad the question needs whether the shipboard will go more to add the centre left or to the centre ride because we need to remember. and that those are going room so we can government now if there is a correlation between th. and i think i left on the centre writes about these movements to by other with the far left joining us that. so a lot of unasked unanswered questions tonight
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to add the main one being what now full catalonia will they end up with greater autonomy or perhaps madrid will seek greater control on what status to cashman's enjoy right now. think west with his wants some those questions for you. does florizel tony goes catalonia alrdy has brutal power was along with sixteen of the regions including the best country in the north. specific areas come on the catalan control. every journal parliaments which rooms on health welfare and education policy. schools for example teaching catalan less than three hours a week is taught in spanish. ages doctors on public sector workers are required by the will to speak catalan in the workplace. and the region has its own police force. the muscles to squadra. but the region's activists want more. but the height of the economic crisis. the catalan government demanded the bright to collect and spend taxes as they wished. spain's prime minister mariano roughly refused. now
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the economy is growing. and the government might be willing to talk money. but many in the pro independence campsite it was too late. they wanted a new republic to get rid of the king and to make their own foreign policy. brussels meanwhile has said and independent catalonia would have to start from scratch. new membership. but would come up against a major hurdle. spain could use its veto. alright and before naval let's just dead take a quick look at what is going on in barcelona right now live pictures. and coming to us i believe from barcelona from outside the parliament that we aren't you can see and there are at police and. standing around outside. that is if you people milling around and. there have been some that. some large crowds of people gathering obviously at emotions at running high. tonight's at in barcelona. and following. that speech by the cast and president a short while ago
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independence bought not yet and he wants to put it on i seems parliament to. suspend the declaration for few weeks pending talks with madrid's alright we'll keep you updated on that as women get more detail but now moving on. here in france public sector workers have been holding a nationwide strike against the government's plan to cut jobs and over holds a sick pay system schools were closed. and ines forced to cancel sent a flights this was the first time in a decade that all the french unions which together represent more than five million. public sector workers joined together to strike civil servants teachers and nurses all marching through cities across the country. including here in paris where twenty six thousand people turned out to protes. well unions are filling this out as the biggest arguments client data decade here in phone so bull cow. in the transport sector in health and education. it's caused a significant disruption. either two things going on out once
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really in terms of the opposition to the mac on gottman's our economic policies. we also have at the same time is up much vaunted. reform of france's at times into cuts. night because now some of the areas that are out today are opposed to that may be protesting against the others. as a result of negotiation are largely on board now the government will be watching this situation i've very carefully. as it pushes ahead with its reforms it knows that french history is littered. with examples of politicians having to back down in the face of pressure from the streets. and i saw joe that playing a careful hand on this one coasting further talks of the south n
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would jailed for crimes unrelated to terrorism. terrace has the story. a terror attack applauded behind bars to inmates at kind prison south of paris were just days away from being released when a counterterrorism judge placed them under investigation in order they remain in custody. the two inmates were serving sentences for theft and robbery but they were radicalized in prison according to the investigation. potential targets included prison guards and police unsettling news for some gard's. ludlow bali to double colleagues have been calling us telling us they're scare. they're scared to think what would have happened if the plot had been foiled skip us it one of the inmates had been known to french intelligence services since last year. justice minister nicole below basic tuesday that intelligence agents played a key role in foiling the plot. you see costs as we were able to learn about the plot thanks to the efforts of prison guards and intelligence agents inside the prison. did the first line of defense in the fight against prisoner
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radicalization and ecological disaster. investigators they one of the in mates used encrypted messaging services to contact someone in iraq or syria. access outside communications is an obstacle in fighting prisoner radicalization according to the specialist. supposed to these we earn woululd y you do hehe's lead two things from the schools plopped. one that prison was an incubator for radicalization. two that the inmates have access to technology that allow them to communicate with people outside of prison. has laid plans their attack you early shows of the proposal. according to the investigation one of the inmates admitted to plotting a terror attack during questioning. but he didn't specify who the targets were nor where or when it would take place is fill the footl stadium. and d good for a an interface r rally buddhist monks christian non is hindus and muslims rules
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taking because. the display of unity amid the ongoing allegations of a brutal minute treat crackdown on the muslim were hanga minority will journalalists have been severely restricted for repororting n what's going on in rakhine's states. from where hundreds of thousands of miss simpson recently fled the france twenty fourth place bassani managed to get access to the region in his his report. the burmese government accepted exceptionally but suu a bring a a group of journalists on diplomats chirac goingng states why im now. iraq going states where violence but for out the past weeks by y leads t to . mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of rohingya fleeing to neighboring i bangladesh pledging mess with this visit that would journalists a handful as well as diplolomats ambassadorss fromm laos. frm
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its china as well as the acid a from bangladesh who also many questions regarding the fates of the muslim population here. in. burma i we got to go to the beach is where ibm i should it's very hard. to imagine a given what they've experirienced in r recent ws they talk to violence of rates of atrocities. and these populations more than ever wants a free burma to had to bangladesh even if they risk their lives during the johnny. that is because olly reporting that let's go to the united states now because hundred small firefights is. headed to northern california at to help the fight against multiple wild fires that of breaking out across. at the region at least eleven people have now been confirmed dead dozens injured. and around fifteen hundred homes and businesses have been completely destroyed huge areas are affected. and those figures are expected to surge in the coming days as more information is reported
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already these fires. are among the deadliest in california's history. what is the business news now pay moody is here this in the cda and decade zooming in the eye on a catalonia because that is what everyone is talking about stuff because following that as speech by the catalan president? a short while ago and. just give us an idea air and about the cast on the clone me because it is a heavy weight in spite isn't it. is absolutely only about sixteen percent of the total population that live there up but it does account for nearly a fifth. of the overall gdp that's about the same as me dread not thirteen percent its unemployment rate is also lower than the national average. agriculture brings in a lot of that of activity as does the auto industry and manufacturing and of course tourism. barcelona and the surrounding region are the top tourist
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destination in the country a quarter of the foreign visitors who travel to spain last year went to catalonia. some eighteen million travelers also exports more than any says. fashion giant's mango and tweet a which owns brands like nina ricci and carolina herrera are still based their for now. but each company that leaves catalonia makes the region weaker so its contribution to the national economy exports and all the money that currently gives it such weight. will decrease as firms move away. as much as spain's economy could stand to lose out it also makes it more difficult for the region to consider standing on its own. analysts say the risk of losing access to the european union should catalonia's secede means that all businesses which have any international ties are trying to protect themselves. and their shareholders. and then get the lumia. willingly outside the european junior now outside gomel kapiti now this is
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usually. it would be impossible for any company particularly for any back. to leave a single they and their this is goes status. so there is a race cape that the catalan economy could you lose some of its status and it does have its own problems as well though doesn't it at no to be. quite large debt burdens exactly catalonia is currently the country's third most indebted region a one of a kind. of the country's nearly trillion euro debt about sixteen percent of it is owed by catalonia. at the end of june that figure was nearly seventy seven billion euros that's about a third of its own gd. credit ratings agencies like smp and moody's have already given the region low speculative grades which means it cannot borrow directly on financial markets. depends on loans from the spanish central bank and government. question of what could happen to that debt will be crucial if the new catalan state were required to assume its own debts and pay them off. that could cripple its finances before the country even gets off the ground. but would madrid really assume or even
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forgive some of the money owed by breakaway region. that still unclear and one of the many many economic factors that still play here so a lot of unanswered questions a lot of uncertainty and. invested i might not usually one of the market's doing well the marred the european markets actually closed before we got that key speech a in barcelona. up richard's ibex thirty five except nearly one percent their. it dropped fairly sharply immediately after the referendum at the beginning of the month but stayed fairly stable since then. of that pressure has spilled slightly over on to detect counts and dax the real test of course will come on wednesday's opening bell. the euro has also been holding fairly steadily up about half percent against the us dollar at one eighteen. wall street meanwhile trading its own path with new record highs across the board earlier in
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the session. a before paring back just slightly there nasdaq has just climbed durs explain. so many people in watson in the northwest of england the defense industry is that bread and butter bun undeniable drop in demand for the a products has left the company with no choice but to cut seven hundred and fifty. jobs at this plants alive. why things are? so one hopes. you need to concentrate on. on the areas that you can sell the products at home. job losses is set to hit five sites over three years including watson and symbols pre wet the eurofighter typhoon is assembled. yeah he is europe's biggest defense contractor employees over thirty four thousand people in the uk alone. however the storming of large scale orders from cats are in saudi arabia has now put jobs and the future of the industry on the line.
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it's gotten very very a deep implications as well for the whole of our defense industry that once you produce the skilled workers it's impossible ready to restart and get back up to that level again. the government has stated that it will look to support be a workers while it also faces the challenge of sustaining the uk's defense capabilities. okay thank you very much is a guarantee that the business was a usual bright december this much more still to come hang on france twenty four
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10/10/17 10/10/17 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> i ask you to immediately of thethe intervention catalan institution until we withdraw the extra police deployed in catalonia. these are indispensable steps to open a dialogue and recover ininstitutional formalities. amy: barcelona's mayor ada colau calls for saint remove thousands of state police who have been deployed to catalonia at of tonight's
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