strange acting prime minister peter sanchez rejects calls for talks with catalog separatists in his comments came as large crowds gathering of barcelona to demonstrate against police repression and the jailing of several separatist leaders. and tens of thousands of people take to the streets around germany to rally against the turkish incursion into northern syria they want the german government to step up pressure on our corrupt. and when we look rough welcome to the program under pressure from parliament british prime minister boris johnson has sent a letter to the european union requesting a brick set deadline extension and then another letter arguing against it earlier the parliament held its 1st saturday session in 37 years but instead of voting on the deal johnson struck with the e.u. on thursday lawmakers opted to delay they hope to avoid a no deal breck's it which could keep johnson from making good on his promise to leave the e.u. by october 3531st no matter what. mixed messages from boris johnson. c one letter to e.u. council president requesting a brags that extension but left uns

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one is prime minister peter sanchez has decried the violence with less than a month before the next general election his government has been criticized for its handling of the situation. no coming election will be the fourth in as many years just hearing it in that report. those protests sparked by the jailing of nine council and political figures. that lead to is carlos put jim on on fronts twenty fourth of mortars judea as me taking. a closer lookok at the man whoho is now at the center of spain's political unrest. carlos pushed amount was the president of catalonia until twenty seventeen. in october of f that year he organized a referendum in which 90% of voters. backed independence. madrid said it was illegal. there were clashes the spanish police tried to prevevent people from voting. still the separatists led by puts demont declared independence on october twenty seventh. angered by the movement drayton poststs directt rule sacks the catalalan leaders dissolved parliament and called a snap regional election. carlos pooch dimanche fled to belgium here in order. to act with freedom and

sanchez a coward. charlie and you live with the latest from barcelona charlie thank you. that's it from us here in london let's go back to peter in doha. felber thanks very much in the u.s. for drugs companies have reached a last minute settlement to avoid a federal trial before it was due to start the lawsuit involves more than 2000 u.s. communities seeking damages of alleged roles in the opioid epidemic at least 400000 people have died in the crisis over the past 20 is for more on this john hendren joins us live now from chicago john hi there what is the settlement do. well it is a landmark settlement in one sense but it's also a small settlement on the other the larger case continues to go forward so a number of drug companies that are being prosecuted by states and communities across the u.s. and have had that case consolidated into one case in cleveland ohio that moves forward to keep counties have settled with a number of drug companies it's cuyahoga and summit counties in ohio 2 of the hardest hit counties in this epidemic and they have settled with 3 drug distributors those are american amerisource bergen cardinal heal