marty americans do the same we are apparently better than blue. sea people you've never heard of love redacted tonight my president of the world bank so kate was really pretty seriously send us an e-mail. breaking news the president. says that catalonia will suspend its declaration of independence for several weeks and says that the region won the right to break away from its referendum but it is giving dialogue a chance. to broken windows barricades a nationwide strike is underway in france where workers are protesting against.

those. doing all this time. the leader of britain's main opposition party. government for failing to secure a briggs' agreement with the prime minister warns the u.k. must be ready to quit the european union without a deal. for a good evening to you my name is harvey you are watching international well we will start this hour with breaking news because the president. just said that catalonia will suspend stickler ration of independence for several weeks he said that the region won the right to break away from spain its referendum but that it will make way for the time being for dialogue let's go to barcelona and hear from the correspondent. it was all pretty frantic. for

a good half an hour or so took his time and wasn't very clear what did you make of what he said. the military if anything was. underwhelming given all the. build up. came along to it i mean if you remember ahead of the appeal the first referendum karla's system on. using very intense rhetoric saying he would even be prepared to go to jail for catalonians independence that's testimonial to current times within forty eight hours of announcing official referendum results of course in this referendum ninety percent of the people that did come out to vote which was a little bit over forty percent of the electorate did vote in favor of leaving spain however to change the caps alarm leader given a delay of an hour to the speech and lots of people gathered on the streets of barcelona and certainly watching very closely what he had to say given all the expectations of him potentially declaring independence we have not really seen that happen he did say there's going to be a suspension of

a couple of weeks there's going to be dialogue at some point proud to be given to the spanish language which to me it seems that was some sort of all the branch of standards in madrid and this is really seems surprising to some extent given to come much pressure there have been has been coming from madrid let's take a listen. to what i say to people that they should be absolutely assured that the government is going to block any independence declaration that might be expressed. disagree with the law but you cannot disobey the law if you disobey the law to become. the president of the governments of those the governments of cuts allouni all who have broken the law to brits. so therefore place themselves within the constitution. well if you can see behind me there are crowds leaving the area where people were listening on a square in barcelona to the speech that puts them on with giving and some people

have come up to us and said what happened because there was so much expectation for him to say the words that he had promised to. the region and now here in barcelona people are. getting ready to welcome. him on his end. following very tense time here in the. can with the latest. on that. ninety percent of participants in the referendum on october the first voted in favor of independence the day that was marred by violence of the civil guard moving in to disrupt the vote.

fizzles in madrid have persistently said that the independence vote was illegal some even resorted to making personal threats towards council on leaders. you're

going to get history should not be repeated let's hope nothing is declared tomorrow because perhaps the one who clears that up like the one who declared it three years ago that it's and the spanish prime minister spokes person was referring to this gentleman can't alone is former first minister lewis come to declare the region independent in one thousand nine hundred thirty four he fled to france though where he was then captured by the nazis and handed over to spain's fascist regime nine hundred forty the politician was tried and executed for rebellion in fact the pressure from madrid has been mounting ever since the referendum majorities even passed the new law that makes it easier for companies to relocate outside of catalonia several banks as well as energy telecommunications and textile companies they've already taken advantage and moved their headquarters out of the region perhaps they're no surprise catalonian leadership turned out to be somewhat less determined afterwards to proceed with independence.

day after the first of october we will start a new period taking into consideration the will of the castle and us not do not underestimate the strength of the people of catalonia. a woman of the situation asks for mediation and mediation means that we need a third passes and i get to me i will make a direct appeal to the european union. i'm a do it has a lot to lose if come to learn you actually just go ahead with its decision to declare independence in a couple of weeks time let's just take a look at the history of relations between the two by now you surely heard about cats or learned desire to go it alone the prosperous region in northeast spain to counter almost a fifth of the country's economy and believes it's paying madrid way more than it gets back catalonia is home to seven point five million people posting its own language culture and history which is why many parents once considered themselves

a separate nation. but it has been in spain since the fifteenth century courtesy of king ferdinand and queen isabella. the origins of the modern says sation its movement let's fast forward to the twentieth century brain becomes a republic in cancer learn you get the statute of autonomy but six years later franco comes to power and takes that away the three decades of franco's oppression only posted the catalans desire for independence and after his death and spain's transition to democracy catalonia got its will tanami back but not enough as many locals believe when the country's can stitch new course limits on cancer patients claims to nation it started a chain reaction. with protests and symbolic referendums in cities and towns across the region some cancellations now pressure the decades of rancor dictates the region held a non-binding independence vote back in twenty fourteen about eighty percent said

yes to independence but it was declared illegal by spain. democratic the catalonia is pressing ahead regardless and seems more determined than ever to be in the sand. another big story now is said to paris where police have used tear gas fearing part of a nationwide strike against the government french unions called on five million less civil civil servants to walk out of their jobs and join in over one hundred thirty planned marches all about against president emanuel micron's labor reforms. i put. the.

number arrests were made as protesters there clashed with the police or the show didn't scare has more on what started as a peaceful rally. well the peace is over as police have been firing seeing gas on the protests to say in paris now we're in the middle of a crowd i'm going to give you a sense of like how angry people are we've got students small minds me who was unhappy about the cuts they hate seeing you support the teachers the hospital workers and the rest of the civil servants who are taking place in this nationwide day of protests around a five million people all represented by those unions who cooled them to come out on strike and it was peaceful but as you can improve going along just nation to its nation in paris already seeing some of the damage caused by the protesters we've seen people leave fastest time impacted by the effects of that she cast many people

here are unhappy about what they see is the monsoon government's cuts to the civil service the stretch of a hundred twenty thousand jobs to be cuts over the next fight is a pay freeze and many people feeling that mr mack just doesn't represent the working class in fact many people think that mr mackworth is actually still here showing contempt for the working class in the pot in the past as well last and that being fairly indiscriminate about how he has discussed the protests is what he thinks of them take a listen to what he said previously it will be absolutely determined i will not give a name anyway not to slack is not to cynics not to. three midsts well let's be clear who these slackers are according to mark wrong that's us all workers are slackers slackers are the people who work hard to earn a living to feed their family to pay their debts their mortgages this is purely a provocation from the head of state and from the government meaning that slackers

wake up every day to go to their inner prices to work this is just some of the damage the public teat in the first protest is making fun of what michael and said it says she's free all finial which basically means i am a sock at making a joint there's comit spotlight mr mock on but many of the people on this process say they want to see the pay freezes and they want to have bet it will hurt your shins and this is what they've been telling us they're going to lose currently mccrone is a president for the reach of the rights of public workers are violated not protected to told. we're waiting for him to fulfill his promises to sleep all he has not kept and here very soon made to the public sector judging by the measures he's taken he's concerned about the rich. of the population who would like a balance top a social equity wall says i thought it was for me just part of the fight against the labor law and the ordinances of the french government so what's the impact on

service is across france well the unions say fifty five percent of teachers in paris at taking part in the strike today mean that seventy schools have been closed many hospitals judicial services on tribunals will see delays as a result of these protests on many airlines have canceled their flights with the civil aviation authority telling allies to cancel at least thirty percent of their flights which is left many people stranded in france but the one thing that unites . all of the people taking part in this national day of action today is that they're all on be with the hearts of the michael government and a president too many people say is a president just for the rich not the working class. us. meanwhile french officials are choosing other ways to show their disapproval of

micron and as in central france of turn the president's portraits in their offices to face the wall months after they were tear gassed by police as they tried to enter a building which micron was holding a meeting in a bid to speak to him another mare in the east of the country the bottom third of his micron portrayed in protest of the cut of over thirty percent in the state budget ok we discussed the latest protest with adrian yellen the political commentator who told us that the protests in france would likely continue. i think. what he's very clear is that the french economy is struggling with the size of the public sector and as i understand it matt brown is proposing suchet about one hundred twenty thousand jobs across through current six hours the difficulty from house will see is that on the one hand he's trying to balance the books he's trying to make the french euro

go further but at the same time the french states the public sector barring requirements welfare and civil service continues to grow and i think that if you can notice of all there is going to be a degree of disagreements and a concrete context. telescreen jonathan shafi now from the radical independents campaign joins me on the line. so i think good evening and i've had a chance to follow that address by cost them on any kind of the message was hidden in there but eventually got round to it to say that he's following independence is going to happen but not yet i mean does that mean there is going to be independents or could he still negotiate his way out of this. well i think there's some way to go and we can gather that much from his speech and i think he's known a possession when he's got to think about two things on the one hunters to think of course a boat speed in the spanish state but on the other hand he has to think about this

huge movement the end of ordinary people ordinary citizens who have sought to defend their democratic rights and to defend the result of the referendum so clearly no he has to think to e.c.s. to think about how he produces the independents agenda in a way that matches the ambitions of that new movement that resin from below but he also has to consider the fact that any further conflict with the spanish he could escalate and i think what he's done today is to see that independents will progress it will do so in an unspecified tamerlane over several weeks but nevertheless i think the key messages will be taken to the. codes of gathered outside the parliament then depends very much on i mean everyone will be in the media now around the world who are reporting that the negotiation aspect of this but he did say i want to follow the people's will for catalonia to become an independent state he said by the independence folks so are we in the situation here he said they're going to be independent it's just negotiating their manner is not very similar to

breaks it now is saying it's going to happen but just he wants to determine how it happens well i think you know i mean i don't think they'll just be the key line for media in jordan which i think that will be the key that will resonate with those masses of people have come out to sure again once again their support for independence but i think you really i mean we are going into a period of the negotiations i think what he's trying to do is to put the ball firmly back in the court of the spanish city and it will no be very important to see what happens next because f. spin continues with the sort of oppressive tactics that we've seen over the last number of days and weeks then i think that whisked the conflict even further and it will give the cats looniness the moral high ground which of course the only house but when it comes to these democratic links when it comes to defense of the referendum i think know there's this new movement there this lady unwilling to defend that so the establishment in spain has to think with that but sort to establishment. the other headline leader said he was responding to voices from all

over europe to give dialogue a chance do you think there was an awful lot of pressure coming just before the speech many postponed it for an hour could that have been you know last minute i won't say threats but you know offers or negotiation tactics coming from i'm from madrid. i mean this is a very fluid situation of course i mean what we're discussing know could very well be a very different discussion not just a model but even in the next couple of hours i mean it is a fluid situation precisely because of the volatile nature that has been exposed over the last number of days and weeks in terms of how the spanish he has dealt with they say traces but when you talk about voices from spain and across europe i think there has been a real sense in which utopian democrats your party in fact no matter your view of independence for counsel when you explain the way that spain has handled. of course

the european commission on the one hand has been let's just see not too quick to add a criticism to the spanish state and i think they've come on the patient as well so it's all to play for we'll see what happens but i think the key force involved here is the catalan people themselves because they are the people that will force the question not just on spain but on the catalan establishment as well and john i want to pick up on that specific point about a minute left just let you know if iran do you think the people of the tourney can forgive madrid because it's all very well the politicians talking this out negotiating it was the people who were being beaten and dragged on the streets to come they forgive that coming from their own national leader. but it's a very good question to end on because i think the answer to that in short is no and i think that's what's going to make this poses a very long one one draw no one which is going to be followed beneath all of these tensions by the way the spanish state has behaved and of course that's

of course has to say that had a change in the history of the spanish member franco of course and many people in council want to see the ghost of franco and they want to extinguish it for a good. start and really appreciate your views on this really resonating as well with the work you're doing on the scottish independence situation a lot of parallels there and it was mentioned of course as well by the by the scottish first minister many thanks jonathan shafi from the radical independents campaigning. now as we were two other stories for us back fighters in syria say they're just a week away from liberating islamic states one time defacto capital racquel but the effort to push the terrorists out of the city which was once populated by more than two hundred thousand people that has left it in ruins here some of the latest pictures from inside braca.

that forces lose their military operation against the terrorists in iraq are in early june they've liberated ninety percent of the city although i still continue to fight for control of the center of the loss of the city will be a major blow though to the terrorists the syrian army is now also pushing them out of dairies or considered us a last stronghold in eastern syria the story of rocker is the focus of most media attention not far from the city are a number of assyrian villages which were repeatedly targeted by eisel now here's the story of one woman whose village that was reduced to rubble.

islamic state attacked us by surprise at four in the morning. they said leave everything behind because the village is going to be a race to the ground and that's precisely what happened before our rice i watched the smoke rise from our houses. from then on our life as hostages as islamic states started our fate was uncertain everything was uncertain what. they call ition planes didn't differentiate when they were bombing they hit i still fighters as well as civilians we were living amongst the terrorists the jets didn't discriminate but we feared most was the aircraft as they were bombing relentlessly .

this is the house i lived in as you can see it's totally burnt down it's been robbed and looted there's nothing left. but it's prime minister threes of a has sworn the country must speak to quit the european union without a deal for kong to agree with brussels on how to exit and that's after months of frustrating talks with the e.u. failing to produce an agreement. but i believe it is profoundly in all our interests for the negotiations to succeed it is also our responsibility as a government to prepare for every eventuality so that is exactly what we are doing what you really said that talks with the european union could drag on for another year at least and despite insisting that real and tangible progress is being made something that very few people believe right now almost in the same breath she

admitted that the country has got to be prepared for the eventuality of a no deal out come proof of the fact that the government views this as a realistic possibility is the publication of these two so-called white papers these are documents that set out the government's plan for customs and trade arrangements in case britain ends up crashing out of the european union with a no deal obviously all these admissions were more than enough material for jeremy corbyn to power saw and and to capitalize on in parliament. on the referendum we still know what's. the question must be asked water and has the government been doing all this time if this government can negotiate a deal for britain very sure where you drew dream. where

the conservative party has been rather distracted with public internals warbling over the past couple of weeks you've got jeremy corbin saying look you need to stop fighting with each other and get on with the business of negotiating britain's departure from the european union and a fresh round of negotiations is getting underway now so that statement from two reason may about being prepared will be in. inshalla tease wasn't just meant for domestic consumption it's also another signal to brussels that look we're prepared to rule a way with no deal if we don't get what we want and of course we've got to both london and brussels lobing the responsibility for the progress of these talks at each other achieving that partnership will require leadership and flexibility not just from us but from our friends the twenty seven nations of the e.u.

the ball is in their court this is not exactly a ball game the ball is entirely in the u.k. court it's important to remember that domestically had to resign may's position is incredibly precarious she's under intense political pressure she's seen as politically weak and her popularity has plummeted she can't quite shake talk of an internal party coup against her and this is something that diplomats and negotiators in brussels are watching very closely. with treason by being closely observed here's more of the grilling that she faced during her latest speech in part of. the british people who voted for control of their borders and their money fifteen

months songs from the referendum made so little progress leadership and flexibility still no clear on what the future of this country will look like leadership and flexibility what's in the us has the government been doing all this time. so little progress no solution to the scale of the mess so little progress is in their court ok reese's know exactly a ball game if this government can't negotiate a deal for britain they should make way for a team but i know this is serious i. want to up this is a serious issue i. man dressed in a shot costume has fallen foul of austria's new book about the lorries aimed at muslim women who wear the full face and body veil let's see how this story unfolded .

i think to raise some point as should always behave in accordance with the norms of the country and women should have the right to dress how they like we should empower women and not take their liberty and clothing. when we go to then rates for. we have to answer their rules what can i say it should be the same here you can't even wear a scarf anymore in subzero temperatures this is getting really absurd and today we're trying to defeat this absurdity. i think we've made up position clear i'm absolutely at peace with myself about the book about.

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