an independent edition was ruled out by the spanish that after that people started bolting independence parties and now we have a majority in the bottom and for independence and we've had a majority for some years and i think that will continue so i mean google doodle grow if the spanish government continues on its way of not wanting to seat down and negotiate not wanting to sit down and having a dialogue we've had a lot of these but we've won elections. the coalitional party is not just the coalition of parties who support independence. the spanish elections in catalonia you've had a referendum on all the elections for many years and you still. independents so what can be the resolution to to the cattle controversy you believe are the only solution is this has to be a political solution based on dialogue and that means that. institutionally spain is having for the last 45 years a. lot of economically and internationally. if i have 4 elections they have approved only one budget in the last 4 years eve you don't think that without solving the problem they were there one half a study lady. is tha

independence. we want to ban parties who are for independence. steps for a potential dialogue or even a potential referendum. we have to remember that the catalan president had stated after the verdict came out that he would organise a second referendum of independence which also triggered some division amongst the pro—independence parties because there is division among the catalan parties even though we have seen in the streets the social movement on independence is more united than what we see in the political arena. if this election results in a similarly fracture parliament, is there much hope that there will be moves towards developing a kind of consensus solution to some of these problems? that is what a lot of sources are hoping could happen but it is very uncertain, it is difficult to tell because the political landscape is so fragmented and both in spain and catalonia, we have to wait and see how the congress will look and how the pro—independence catalan parties, which result will be achieved in congress because according to the votes,

breakthrough in the standoff between catalonia and the madrid government where the catalan independence party is gaining ground and the extreme right wing making political progress in the rest of spain socialist prime minister sanchez may feel that he has little room to maneuver in changing tack from his hard line towards both catalan ambitions and with regards to political prisoners however this week in the news that the largest independence party the e r c are suggesting that they might be open to supporting a science as government in the cortez if the prime minister is open to discussions on independence we will watch developments with interest certainly there seems to be few more attractive options to real dialogue it is difficult to see how continuing use of the spanish judicial system is going to quieten rather further inflame independent sentiment and it is difficult to prosecute the feelings of the people with any hope of success meanwhile the independence movement has its own strategic issues to grasp can the venous independence parties continue to present a united front and avoid ma

even depend more than the independent these parties than before. and what we are going to ask mr sanchez ok obviously pressure. to sit together in the. table of negotiations with no conditions that means that we are going to put on the table this referendum this right of catalonia to serve the determination and we want to ask mr. nasty. the amnesty sorry for our colleagues in precision so you have a long list of demands and while you feel that this is a time maybe where because of his political situation. you could get more of a chance to be listened to this is nothing that he's new party he's no parting the government the most defended me that's probably the most in catalonia has defended . political prisoners should should should be free they have defend referendum for a couple onya and they have defended the amnesty for. political prisoners so if now these parties going to be part of the government of spain i think that we are very close to to the solution if you look at the results of the elections for catalonia the pro independence parties got

they suggest that they want to ban all the political parties that favour independence, and they also ing for where to get a representation in congress so they can maybe take further steps for a potential dialogue, or even a potential referendum. we have to remember that the catalan president quim torra had stated after the verdict came out that he would organise a second referendum of independence. which also actually triggered some division amongst the pro—independence parties. because there is also a division amongst the catalan parties, even though we have seen that in the streets, the social movement on independence is more united than what we see in the political arena. firefighters tackling around a hundred bushfires in australia say they could now start to threaten sydney. at least three people have died in the fires in new south wales and queensland. helena wilkinson has the latest. the scale and ferocity of these fires is clear. this is new south wales on the east coast of australia, being ravaged by the flames. three days since the wildfires began, they‘re still burning and

they suggest that they want to ban all the political parties that favour independence, and they also e, or even a potential referendum. we have to remember that the catalan president quim torra had stated after the verdict came out that he would organise a second referendum of independence. which also actually triggered some division amongst the pro—independence parties. because there is also a division amongst the catalan parties, even though we have seen that in the streets, the social movement on independence is more united than what we see in the political arena. time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. hello. it has been, thankfully, much drier today. however, there are still several severe flood warnings in force currently and numerous flood warnings across parts of england. and there are now met office weather warnings for more rain, and you can get the details from the website. because the rain is already marching in across northern ireland. turning wintry over the pennines, the southern uplands. we are looking at the first significant falls of snow across the hills

story about nigel farage is he is quite a one issue man, he is the former leader of the uk independence partyand now this new iteration of that. and i think if this is perhaps a reflection of the realisation that people are now sick to death of theirs. there has been three years of stasis and the only way to get beyond this is a majority in the house of commons to get things moving. and ijust wonder, this is pure speculation, whether there was a realisation that this has begun to run its course?” there was a realisation that this has begun to run its course? i was about to ask you that. why do you think you made this choice now? but you have already answered that question. the question is will the conservatives benefit is to a great degree —— benefit from this? conservatives benefit is to a great degree -- benefit from this? boris johnson has taken a very strong pro brexit stance, he hasn't done it yet. he has almost called farage's block on this. we will cover every twist and turn in the run—up, it's not far away at all now, december 12. -- bluff not far away at all now, december 12. —— bluf

in the brexit party and, indeed, you know, a number of independents who have lived party or move to becomeendent, shifted parties, all of those things are exactly what is the specific context of this election. and in terms of the independent you mentioned, was taken example, high—profile, dominic reeve was elected as a conservative mp at the last election in beaconsfield, he is standing out as an independent conservative, he says he hopes to style himself as, how will the coverage to get be different from another independent who happens to stand ina another independent who happens to stand in a constituency or another constituency and should be any different because you could argue that much of support however popular he may be as an individual, is because of the party level he was wearing last time. i do not want to get into individuals like constituencies because that in itself is something, during an election campaign when you're talking about constituencies, you have to do it in a fairway and think about all of the candidates, so clearly someone who is already been elect, even if they

citizens party which just had a total shambles in the elections and the republican left party which is an independentthis party which could or could not have an approximation but what i see is if the if the budgetary question is put forth the catalan government needs the money desperately as do conservative and socialist government regional governments throughout spain come to sell this could be pulled off. i see it more than that very unlikely congress i see you nodding in agreement. it yeah absolutely i mean it's going to be a very very difficult way forward for but there are signs of the incumbent socialist party prime minister with their dick up at the least the partners him i don't really see how they are going to be able to nurture these really pretty carriers ballance that they would need the north of there to just gain a majority of one. they are going to need the participation of of the least another 5 parties one of those small parties by the way that will exist in a building about the parts of spain that are become in that are becoming endeared parts of central spain in particular and thei

and from the countryside and felt ignored by political rivals in particular the african party for the independence of going to be south and calvert also known as the p.i. g.c. the party has been in power since independence its candidates domingo's. campaign as a modernizer fell short of a clear majority to win outright a position i've been involved i have some records so well nor needs to work for itself and who might most of the posts in. look up to and being. looked into for. appeal to voters in the capital b. so in those b. cell guinea and now living in other countries. most of the voters live in the countryside many villages have no running water no outlet electricity and school all the medical centers are shut down the state is outside and so much of this election results reflect that anger among the people with their politicians that have failed the. incumbent president who stood for the independent party came 3rd in the election with only 12 percent of the vote it's been an expensive election and some are wondering where the money came from to finance it the country's law enforcement agency

made with the true independence leftist party is quit a republican this is just an indication it doesn't mean that those are defined the results but it is a feeling. the stagnation will continue and that's why i think you've seen this increase the pressure from the street people do stephanie deploy independents wanting to make their voices loud do we've heard all sorts of people saying that they were quite disappointed with their own cattle and leadership but now it's really up to the people to make their demands loud and clear we have one group the democratic tsunami that really has taken by storm. this part of the country over the past few weeks that says it is calling for 3 days of civil disobedience starting tomorrow morning so let's just listen 24 hours after the ballot box is closed we'll have to say to see how much that call will be heeded and what kind of civil disobedience they're talking about they keep it secret but i think the issue will remain the same before or after the election and basically said issue where there is no compromise and moment this is not even the possibili

in from the countryside and felt ignored by political rivals in particular the african party for the independence of getting the south and cowbird also known as the ph d. c. the party has been in power since independence its candidate. who campaigned as a modernizer fell short of a clear majority to win out right of a professional i've been involved i have some records show and the whole north. to work for the south and do my utmost to be possible in the way i look after itself and bring people together have a look at the full. appeal to voters in the capital be so in those be so guinea and now living in other countries. most of the voters are however in the countryside many villages have no running water no outlets electricity and school all the medical centers are shut down the state has been so much of this election results reflect that anger among the people with their politicians that have failed them. incumbent president who stood for the independent party came 3rd in the election with only 12 percent of the vote it's been an expensive election and some are wondering where the money came fr

that said they'll help him but that won't be enough you may need to reach further to the pro independence parties that catalonia who together have enjoyed their best result in a spanish election ever winning a combined 23 seats he need only be asking them to join some sort of a voting pact to support key pieces of government legislation like a budget but even that will be deeply controversial in the country and extremely fragile. and see that against the rise of popularity for parties on the right complicating matters further not just the form of old conservative party of the people's party but also a doubling more than doubling of the seat count for the far right vox party put all of that together and things look much more difficult for pedro sanchez battling away with a fragile coalition of the left but i think it is that rise of the far right that will overshadow this election more than anything else a party a far right party that only entered the parliament in april the 1st time a far right party has been in politics here since the days of franco now showing no sign of going away it has becom

independence party nigel farage has been at the center of brecht's it politics for many years now he's been a thorn in the side of multiple prime ministers and essentially goaded the former prime minister david cameron into holding the referendum in the 1st place the party did very very well earlier this year in european parliamentary elections winning more seats than all of the established political parties but for a large nose there's a big difference between a european parliamentary election and a general election which is why he's come up with a plan he's asked boris johnson to scrap his withdrawal agreement to leave the european union if he doesn't he says that the party will put forward candidates in every seat in the country the logic is that if johnson agrees to this then the brics it vote won't be divided between the bracks it party and the conservatives and boris johnson can hold on to his hopes of getting a majority in parliament for raj is calling for a non aggression pact asking for the conservatives not to stand in $150.00 seats around the country where the conservatives

that majority so maybe at that point they will have to reach out to at least one of the poor independence party is clear of oblique and i would say the left leaning but that would not happen unless the that. the catalan party gets something in the richardson there's a still a lot of trading that needs to happen a lot of negotiations that need to happen but you do get a sense that really the socialist and put they most this time are standing together to counter that rise of the far right party vox that fared really well dubbed more than doubling its number of seats compared to the elections at half an earlier this year i mean it was these 2 men pedro centers and the air there for them was that were not able to agree after the april elections and that led to these past elections that happened a few days ago this time they're standing together still they need to convince others to join them. all right let's get back to our story in bolivia where president abel morales has resigned and is on his way to mexico to seek asylum theresa bo joins us live from el al to once again the morales stronghold ho

google does a technology provider that is assisting doctors with the information so they're an independent party so that is a claim that they are growing and i get that but the point is and i think that you make a very valid point there the point is this 96 law the way it's structured say just because they're your business partner doesn't mean you have the right to share information they have to be a business partner that then allows you to share because there's a specific medical function that's going to be served for the patient not for the business for the patient and i think miles would probably agree with me that seems to be what's missing here well and then miles to that point i mean isn't the part of the issue here the fact that we're looking at google not just delving into the part of health care that they're in right now right but they're developing a i with this and i don't want this to be missed in this discussion because the ai component of it goes far beyond just collecting and processing information they're actually building a new business model a new business tools of the future r

namibia's ruling swapo party has been in power since 1990 when the country gained independence from south africa but this could be a tough election for president again god who's running for a 2nd term a corruption scandal involving the country's fishing industry could taint his party's image al-jazeera investigative unit and the anti secrecy group wiki leaks and covered evidence of government officials accepting bribes or kickbacks from iceland's the biggest fishing firm in exchange for lucrative fishing rights the fisheries minister and justice minister has so far as i and the president was asked about the scandal shortly after voting. we will deal with corruption we declared war on corruption we have taken steps are slow and was also do it came from where you were coming to corrupt people we will do with ours and you must deal with you. opposition parties what namibians implicated held to account. investigate itself and one or 2. to the bottom of this matter and we are calling for judicial inquiry . and people in the fishing industry with our field of. cases in. the matters that are hap

madrid now it's a matter of seeing among those $48.00 seats how many will be given to the pro independence party now if they have a large showing in congress in madrid then they would at least it will solve the catalonian issue it won't solve. anything when it comes to these dream of independence that many have in this region but they could certainly use their number of seats to have an impact or maybe to block any kind of dealings or any kind of you know legislation at the national level in madrid but people here do not expect that anything will change when it comes to day old cause. any advance or any kind of you know breakthrough of this deadlock between the 2 sides madrid and barcelona on how to deal with this independence aspirations or that is something people are not betting on what they want to know is really who will come to power and how much would the catalan parties have of power or influence in madrid right how to tell me with the latest from barcelona how to thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera spread across hong kong on the 24th straight week of unrest. 50 years and counting a loo

and from the countryside and felt ignored by political rivals in particular the african party for the independence of going to be south and kept verd also known as the ph d. c. the party has been in power since independence it's candidates domingo's. who campaigned as a modernizer fell short of a clear majority to win outright a professional i've been involved i have some records show and well normal need to work for the kids and who might most of the also. look after themselves and being able to look into the. appeal to voters in the capital b. so those be so guinea and now living in other countries. most of the voters live in the countryside many villages have no running water no access to electricity and school all the medical centers are shut down the state is outside and so much of this election results reflect that anger among these people when their politicians have failed the. incumbent president who stood for the independent party came 3rd in the election with only 12 percent of the vote it's been an expensive election and some are wondering where the money came from to finance it the cou

to consider a friend john alliance of the left that might even include cattle and probably independence parties. that's an ugly prospect across large swathes of sprain particularly as they watch separatist protesters blocking roads and even the border with france in the north west on monday and as disaffection with politics increases amid signs of economic slowdown in spain so the list of grievances will likely grow there my hopes will help us by stopping benefits for people who don't deserve it i don't think it's normal that people come from abroad to live on state benefits i myself have worked abroad but i didn't go there to commit crimes and live on benefits it's not that the vox party was created in the m.b. to franco and what he stood for but in a country with a living memory of fascist rule the party's popularity could yet unleash sinister forces killed a whole al-jazeera madrid bank staff in lebanon have been urged to stay away from work on tuesday as the country's economic and political crisis continues the bank workers union says stafford at risk from customers the landing to withdraw

we don't like our party, we just hate the other party, and i think an independent can create the opportunity to transcend that. >> here's hoping you're right. i will give up my salt shaker and sugary drink in return for mr. bloomberg's competence. thanks for being with us, greg. >>> what have we got? smerconi smerconish, bloomberg as an independent is literally handing trump a victory. if you look at the comparisoning, seemingly there's a path out there, but i get your argument. i heard it from radio listeners yesterday and the day before. if trump gets the same 46% and the rest of the vote is plitt. but greg orman makes a really interesting point. part of this is a perception issue. yeah, i'd love to vote for an independent as long as they can win. when you have his bankroll and he's prepared to spend it, that changes the question. this is my survey question. go to smerconish.com. i simply want to know, are you open to this idea? are you taupe to a bloomberg candidacy? results at the end of the hour. >>> still to come, president trump's adviser roger stone on trial this week. an unusual mov

independence party for just being at the center of the brakes at debate from the start he's been a thorn in the side of multiple prime ministers but earlier this year the party did very very well in european parliamentary elections the party won more seats than all of the established political parties but for ours knows the european parliamentary election is very different to a general election which is why he's come up with this plan as you said there he's promised that candidates will not stand in all of the countries various constituencies providing that johnson scrap says deal that for are described as being like a used car shining hour but likely to break down later the logic of that is that it will avoid dividing the brics it votes it will allow boys johnson to hold on to perhaps his hopes of getting a majority without it being a road by the brics that party approaches also suggesting a non-aggression pact he's he wants the conservative party not to stand in 150 seats where the conservatives have never won for others believes that his party will do better particularly in seats that

disaster for wales and they want a second referendum, and as you know, they are also a pro—independence party, if you consider that they are running in a country which has shown little enthusiasm for either. remember that in terms of independence, you know, the poll suggests it is in minority enthusiasm for welsh voters and of course for brexit, well, wales did vote to leave in 2016. but here is a flavour of what their leader adam price said about that. we must defeat the negative, hope—crushing wrecking ball that is brexit. and if we want the people to have the final say, then we must encourage as many of them first to say loudly and clearly in the days ahead this brexit is not for us. it never was and never will be. and you know the single most effective way wales can register its european voice, find its collective voice as a nation, is by sending the largest ever contingent of plaid mps to westminster in our history. now, firstly, we love on electioncast to indulge in a bit of sephology, looking at the granular detail of seats that may be won or lost. paint us a picture, in terms of plaid

now to consider a fragile alliance of the left that might even include capital and probably independence parties that's an ugly prospect across large swathes of spain particularly as they watch separatist protesters blocking roads and even the border with france in the north west on monday and as disaffection with politics increases amid signs of economic slowdown in spain so the list of grievances will likely grow . hopes will help us by stopping benefits for people who don't deserve it i don't think it's normal that people come from abroad to live on state benefits i myself have worked abroad but i didn't go there to commit crimes and live on benefits. it's not the box party was created in the image of franco and what he stood for but in a country with a living memory of fascist rule the party's popularity could yet unleash sinister forces. al-jazeera madrid. the u.k. is a brick said party leader nigel farage says he will not challenge the governing conservative party seats in next month's general election in a significant boost for prime minister barak's johnson era said his aim was to stop a

they've said they'll help him but that won't be enough he may need to reach further to the pro independence parties of catalonia who together have enjoyed their best result in a spanish election ever winning a combined 23 seats he need only be asking them to join some sort of a voting pact to support key pieces of government legislation like a budget but even that will be deeply controversial in the country and extremely fragile and see that against the rise of popularity for parties on the right complicating matters further not just the old conservative party of the people's party but also a doubling more than doubling of the seat count for the far right vox party put all of that together and things look much more difficult for pedro sanchez battling away with a fragile coalition of the left but i think it is that rise of the far right that will overshadow this election more than anything else a party a far right party that only entered the parliament in april the 1st time a profile right party has been in politics here since the days of franco and now showing no sign of going away it has become s

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able to be bigger and better and more promising and it is possible, the problem with the independent and third-partycandidate, americans are wise to that and they know we are not in a climate that is appropriate for a third party or other party to become viable at this point. maybe down the line. ..

you do also have to be a focus group is how last elections the number one party it was april independence party with 15 seats followed by the socialist party of pedro sanchez but a lot has happened between april and now you had that sentence in the 9. has angered many people in this region so laugh to see really how much to bring to the pendants parties will fare and how difficult they will make the lives of just in case he wins again this election as we said 4th election and for here is what is the feeling be the atmosphere in the energy there hota. well this must be certain degree of election fatigue do you say for elections for years it's also the 2nd election this year and it's not as i said there's not much hope. things will change very much the day after as the issues of this country and basically the issue being dominated discourse throughout the past 2 years at least since 2017 is still very much there and none of the political leaders really during their campaigning whether it was now or back in april put forward any kind of solution or any kind of new ideas to bring forward this issue

course, there has been huge support for cata la n there has been huge support for catalan independence partiesou for taking us through that. hong kong's leader, carrie lam, has warned that the territory is heading towards the brink of no return after one of the worst days of violence in five months of protests. before coming on air, i spoke with claudia mo, a pro—democracy legislator in the hong kong parliament. i asked her what she made of hong kong's leader carrie lam who called the pro—democracy demonstrators the enemy of the people. she is the public enemy number one in hong kong, carrie lam is perp in hong kong. she is the root cause of all these chaos and mayhem we've been witnessing in hong kong. it's been five months. and yet, we have this very disturbing moment in which a group of people disagree with one another and then some of the protesters, one or two, we're not sure, it is confused, but some of them set fire to somebody who disagrees with them. you surely condemn that. that is very wrong and more than wrong, it's barbaric. and it'sjust as barbaric as the previous case when a pro

with the madrid parties vying with each other on the campaign trail as to which one could be toughest with their troublesome northeast province in catalonia in contrast the independent supporting parties strengthened their position with opinion energised by the punitive sentences handed out by the spanish supreme court to independence leaders last month 9 people were found guilty not of finalists but of sedition and the organization of the independence referendum of 2017 and the demonstrations designed to defend that political process collectively they were sentenced to almost 100 years a level of sentence with short little opinion across the world we therefore start a 3 part series on whether catalonia today we will look at the human cost of the draconian sentences in the 2nd program we examine how the political struggle is likely to develop in the aftermath of the spanish election finally we interview some of the key grassroots campaign as in the rebel nation and ask international opinion how the crisis should be addressed and dissolved. in this program however we look at the impact of the sentences on the families involved we talk to 2 of the spices whose partner

abdel-hamid now who is in barcelona or does journalist said castle on independence one of the big issues in this election how are the separatist parties likely to perform. well i think probably they could perform better than the past elections simply because between a problem and now a lot of things happen. for independence movement has got sort of a renewed energy and renewed impetus and ever since those 9 independent catalan leaders were sentenced to jail a few weeks ago by the supreme court in madrid and that actually has angered many people here many thought that the sentence itself was too harsh and if you recall there was some rioting and there was some of clashes between police and sort of independent supporters here in barcelona so those are figures that you will have will have to watch very closely once the results are out how much weight will the independent independence parties have in madrid in total catalonia has $48.00 seats now how much of those will go to those parties will be a big question here and people will look at that that said no one is under the illusion that even though they fare well and they get a big prese

to consider a friend join alliance of the left that might even include capital and probably independence parties. that's an ugly prospect across large swathes of sprain particularly as they watch separatist protesters blocking roads and even the border with france in the north west on monday and as disaffection with politics increases amid signs of economic slowdown in spain so the list of grievances will likely grow there mate and i hope this will help us by stopping benefits for people who don't deserve it i don't think it's normal that people come from abroad to live on state benefits i myself have worked abroad but i didn't go there to commit crimes and live on benefits it's not the box party was created in the image of franco and what he stood for but in a country with a living memory of fascist rule the party's popularity could yet unleash sinister forces killed a whole al-jazeera madrid u.k. breaks the party leader. he's party will not contest the ruling conservative party in december's general election prime minister boris johnson has welcomed the party's decision saying that the other h

with the madrid parties vying with each other on the campaign trail as to which one could be toughest with their troublesome northeast province in catalonia in contrast the independent supporting parties strengthened their position with opinion energized by the putative sentences handed out by the spanish supreme court to independence leaders last month 9 people were found guilty not of filings but of sedition and the organization of the independence referendum of 2017 and the demonstrations designed to defend that political process collectively they were sentenced to almost 100 years a level of sentence but short little opinion across the world we therefore start if 3 part series on whether catalonia today we will look at the human cost of the record in sentences in the 2nd program we examine how the political struggle is likely to develop in the aftermath of the spanish election finally we interview some of the key grassroots campaigners in the rebel nation and ask international opinion how the crisis should be addressed and dissolved in this program however we look at the impact of the sentences on the families involved we talked to 2 of the spices whose partners

with the madrid parties vying with each other on the campaign trail as to which one could be toughest with their troublesome northeast province in catalonia in contrast the independent supporting parties strengthened their position with the pinion energized by the punitive sentences handed out by the spanish supreme court to independence leaders last month 9 people were found guilty not of finalists but of sedition and the organization of the independence referendum of 2017 and the demonstrations designed to defend that political process collectively they were sentenced to almost 100 years a level of sentence but short little opinion across the world we therefore start a 3 part series on whether catalonia.