the long history of cali and the cali region rise to depends a lot on its geography. it is a transit region between channel, ea and the the channel, the 32 kilometer that separates great britain from france. everybody can see the coast of the other country. the missions of the state to protect the borders, to guarantee legal transit of goods and people between france and great britain and ensure the security of people and goods. mong the assets, the fundamental challenge is to ensure the security of major infrastructure linking france and england, the channel tunnel and the port of cali. which is important for controlling the border, securing, and for protectinging the inhabitants in line with our international commitments. let's look at the figures. shuttles, over 8 million light vehicles, over 5 trucks and over 30 million passengers, one quarter of goes through and it is the leading passenger port in europe. that is the image of this city goes through and it is the leading passenger port in europe. that the region is very important for the trade and for european his

france's president says he'll never allow another migrant camp to spring up in cali. traveled to the northern portion after visiting a migrant center nearby the so-called jungle camp in cali was used by thousands of migrants until it was told down in twenty sixteen there are warnings that the killing of a prominent kosovo serb leader could upset of already volatile region all of a lot of it was killed during a brazen drive by shooting outside his party's headquarters in the northern town of attributes he'd been facing a retrial of a war crimes charges concerning the one nine hundred ninety s. kosovo conflict pope francis is asking for the forgiveness of chileans for the irreparable damage done to children who were sexually abused by priests the head of the catholic church referred directly to the abuse one addressing dignitaries in santiago the pontiff expressed his pain and shame over the scandal he's just finished leading the faithful in mass there were protests ahead of the visit of the alleged catholic coverup of the crimes at a california couple has been charged

before it was demolished last year natasha butler has more from cali. emmanuel might call began the day meeting of refugees a. state shelter in northern france isn't really. so the same region some regions of the rooms of them later in the port of cali the french president politicians charity workers and police people here are fed up that hundreds of refugees continue to come to canada to try and reach the u.k. mike ross said he will ask britain to do more to help when he meets prime minister to resume a on thursday visit. better manage the issue of unaccompanied minors reinforce police cooperation in cali and with countries of origin and transit on block funds to support important projects for the development of kalar simulating. police say that more than one hundred fifteen thousand attempts were made by refugees to reach the u.k. last year now that britons voted to leave the european union many here say it's time to scrap the u.k.'s calley border britain's border here was agreed to under a two thousand and three franco british deal two k. accorded al

sort of reception is my home getting in cali. well you know kalai and this northern french region really is an area where the national front the far right marine depends party did very well in the last election and that is because so many people feel that the government simply hasn't done enough in the past to try and help them or has just ignored them and so you was never really going to be a very easy visit for the french president it was never going to be an easy reception but he has met people from all walks of life he has met refugees he's met police officers he's met local residents and politicians nearly everybody has raised their concerns charities will say that not enough is being done to help refugees you have people in the town who feel that they don't want the refugees here they want the u.k. to do more you've got business people who are worried about how breaks it will impact the area and of course the police officers who say they are overwhelmed tarver there are those who appreciate that the president is coming he p

better manage the issue of unaccompanied minors reinforce police cooperation in cali and with countries of origin and transit on block funds to support important projects for the development of kalar stimulating . police say that more than one hundred fifteen thousand attempts were made by refugees to reach the u.k. last year now that britain's voted to leave the european union many here say it's time to scrap the u.k.'s calley border britain's border here was agreed to under a two thousand and three franco british deal two k. accorded allows british police and customs officers to operate on the french authorities since then things have changed with the refugee crisis and brags that and now many people in cali saying that the u.k. must manage its border on its own territory because it's attention because you know we need to get rid of this border it will make britain more accessible for the my quilts you want to go there if the border goes it will make things easier here. so it's time to move the border the situation in careless becoming unmanageable in terms of security minded girl and

oh the conditions in cali are much worse than they were when the jungle comforts that there was some level of infrastructure in the company jungles the there was running water there were toilet facilities i mean that they weren't great but there was infrastructure and there was also ways of getting support particularly as you say to miners we could get lawyers in there we could get schools in there would have churches in there so there was an infrastructure in place and the conditions now are are so much worse especially for the health and sanitation perspective an interesting question here from one of our viewers entrées bull gerard who asks why do these people want to go to the u.k. most of the people who are in college who want to come to the u.k. have got family members in the u.k. they are looking at cost of these these young people many of whom are teenagers they are looking for some family support they may have parents grandparents brothers sisters uncles in the u.k. and what we'll look what we're looking for is safe routes for them to be able to to make it over to join those

to do more about refugees and migrants who are trying to get into britain via cali in northern france meeting with refugees and migrants emanuel mccraw said he discussed the issue with the british prime minister terry's m a on thursday that about live reports from cali. emmanuel mccall began the day meeting refugees at a state shelter in northern france exactly. to the same region some regions of the hands of them later in the port of cali the french president met politicians charity workers and police people here are fed up that hundreds of refugees continue to come to canada to try and reach the u.k. mike ross said he will ask britain to do more to help when he meets prime minister to resign may on thursday. better manage the issue of unaccompanied minors reinforce police cooperation in cali and with countries of origin and transit on block funds to support important projects for the development of kalar simulating. police say that more than one hundred fifteen thousand attempts were made by refugees to reach the u.k. last year now that britain's voted to leave the european union ma

france is pressuring britain to help migrants who are stuck in the french port of cali hoping to cross the english channel five thousand refugees from move from the so-called jungle count or refugees mercalli in two thousand and sixteen a president of france is to visit u.k. on thursday and he has been meeting some wreckage ease trying to reach the u.k. any way they can that harsh about reports. emanuel might call began the day meeting refugees at a state shelter in north and for all of us who are going to see him even in some regions of the ruins with them later in the port of cali the french president politicians charity workers and police people here are fed up that hundreds of refugees continue to come to canada to try and reach the u.k. mike ross said he will ask britain to do more to help when he meets prime minister to resume a on thursday visit. better manage the issue of unaccompanied minors reinforced police cooperation in cali and with countries of origin and transit on block funds to support important projects for the development of kalar simulated police say that more than

in miles and miles of fence isn't barbed wire in cali and when is that going to stop when it clearlydoes not work i mean it diminishes the number of people who are here but but this will come macro will hope that this visit will put pressure on britain to reach a deal for cali but until the certainty over what breaks its means calley status as a symbol of europe's refugee crisis seems secure natasha buckler al-jazeera kalai bangladesh plans to repatriate six hundred fifty thousand reinjure refugees back to neighboring million mile within two years both countries agreed to set up temporary camps a short term housing for the ranger the first refugees will start to move back to me in my next week hundreds of thousands of range of muslims have fled a crackdown began in may and mass rakhine state last august the un has insisted any repatriation must be voluntary. what is it that is essential on these is to make sure that the return is voluntary its safety and dignity and that people are allowed to come back to their places of origin which means that the huge effort of investment because t

but this issue of calis has been a difficult one. it gets in the way of the enormous trade that goes on. the migrant problem in calis has been really difficult. we've been working with the french closely it's right that britain takes some of those migrants that have a particular reason to come to the uk >> could you have ever imagined when the treaty was signed back in 2003 that the issue of costs would then become such a sticking point between the two countries? >> the treaty was made in a term of problems with migrants as well there was a jungle in calis at that time. part of the arrangement was to get traffic flowing better across from the ports and the euro tunnel terminal so there's been problems with migrants in the last ten years in calis that's why everyone in calis is fed up with it and want help i think the atmosphere at the summit will be better today because theresa may will do more to offer to help >> with the uk leaving the eu what does it mean for the future of a pan-european defense force and where is the uk's role wh

santiago de cali, or just cali as everybody calls it in these parts, is a city in the southwest of colombiaic coast and its semitropical temperatures. but i'm not really here for the climate. i'm here for tejo. it involves alcohol and explosives. colombian mario galeano, ex-pat will holland and their bandmates are to be my guides in this ancient and traditional colombian sport. [ people yelling and cheering ] >> anthony: how do you play this game? >> player 1: yeah! >> anthony: i guess that's how it's done. what do you call this object? >> mario: el tejo. >> anthony: el tejo. >> mario: tejo. >> anthony: hence -- hence the name of this. >> mario: exactly, tejo. >> anthony: i should be good at this. i've been throwing pots into the dish sink from across the room for years. >> will: you win more points if you get it in the middle without hitting them. >> anthony: oh. >> will: yeah, so -- >> anthony: yeah, but that doesn't sound like any fun. >> will: everyone has a different style, it seems. so you got to do, like, one step and then another and swing. >> anthony: i don't think that style's goi

and we'll tell you why growing numbers of young people have turned up in the french port of cali with the hope of crossing over to the u.k. . we begin inside northern syria where al jazeera is travelled alongside the turkish army as they continue their offensive to sweep kurdish fighters from the region president reagan to an earlier war and operation olive branch could push all the way east to the front here with iraq move risks a possible confrontation though with the kurdish y.p. greenmail why p.g. militia now that's a group of fighters backed by their fellow nato ally the united states stephanie decker and hard cameraman jamil basso have this insight from the city of. as we enter syria it is the free syrian army flag that flies high here we're on a media trip into as as organized by the turkish authorities they take us close to where there's been fighting with the kurdish armed group turkey calls a terrorist organization turkish forces are trying to push it out of the region about the front line is just a few kilometers west of here both turkish troops and the free syrian army are

well earlier call was speaking to police officers and callahan he said he'd come to cali to hear the concerns of the people and then raise those with treason may when he meets the british prime minister on thursday now what him at all michael says he's going to do is try and press for a new type of deal with person for kalai he wants britain to do more to help to take in more asylum seekers especially children and to do more to help with security here probably financing more security because you know kelly really has become a place which is in some ways a symbol of europe's refugee crisis the people in the city feel that they are having to deal with a situation which is extremely difficult hundreds of refugees come here not because they want to be in france or in cali but because they actually want to cross the english channel and be in the u.k. and when you talk to people here what they say is that they would like the u.k. border which is actually on french territory and it has been since just after two thousand and three when a deal was made between france and britain they want tha

on the french side of the channel britain may also agree to take in more refugees and migrants from cali especially unaccompanied children there also. reciprocal agreements on military cooperation the u.k. will send this three helicopters to join french forces fighting armed groups in the sahara that region of west africa in return france will supply troops to a u.k. led force in the stony a part of a nato the point in response to a possible threat from russia well john a holes john holl joins us live now a from a sandhurst them and joe we are of course waiting for a news conference between the french president and the british prime minister was still waiting for that in the meantime i just explained to us a little bit about the reasons why did the two leaders are meeting and the focus very much on the fence and security. probably two reasons barbara in the first case in the first place they've got a lot in common in the areas of defense and security they're seen as the two most powerful military powers in europe but they both face common external threats they both face threats at home o

playing for time in cali's industrial zone a place where asylum seekers have flocked to in the hope they may escape the limbo they face day in day out while they're here they are trapped many of them been here for months sleeping rough wherever they can go snooping without any front end and there are to me because it is here because it's just because it's. just the best of us. this is not life it's not life a good living in the forest it's we have. so this is the place the location where one of the few distribution points was supposed to occur on thursday afternoon as you can see authorities are there and they've stopped it from happening and that's and cut a lot of anger from those who gathered here to be able to get some food. for months the riot police have been a regular presence here as are the standoffs with my kurds desperate to escape. some hope perhaps has been provided by the joint treaty signed by the french president and the british prime minister last week. a particularly important point of the santos treaty will be the subject of on accompany. this treaty to allow all these

problem when you talk to people here in cali many of them will tell you that they would really like to see the end of the u.k. border which was established here after two thousand and three after a deal between france and the u.k. they want that border scrapped they say should go back to the u.k. and that it should be the british the deal with their own refugee problem so people there are set up what sort of reception is mark on got. well it's interesting to note that of course this region and this town voted very much for the far right marine le pen in the in the last general election this is a place where many people feel that the government simply hasn't listened to them so it wasn't ever going to be an easy visit for him at all mark or now he has met with refugees he has met with police and he will meet with local politicians later but nearly everybody has something to say to him the charities feel that not enough is being done to look after the refugees and the police feel they are overwhelmed and fed up we just heard from a lot on my own self that more than one hundred fifty thou

better manage the issue of unaccompanied minors reinforce police cooperation in cali and with countries of origin and transit on block funds to support important projects for the development of kalar simulating. police say that more than one hundred fifteen thousand attempts were made by refugees to reach the u.k. last year now that britain's voted to leave the european union many here say it's time to scrap the u.k.'s calley border britain's border here was agreed to under a two thousand and three franco british deal two k. accorded allows british police and customs officers to operate on the french authorities since then things have changed with the refugee crisis and brags that and now many people in calloway saying brought the u.k. must manage its border on its own territory because this adventure courtesy of we need to get rid of this border it will make britain more accessible for the my current you want to go there if the border goes it will make things easier here. so it's time to move the border the situation in careless becoming unmanageable in terms of security minded girl an

still ahead on the program why growing numbers of young people have turned up in the french port of cali oping to cross the channel in the u.k. . on diplomatic standoff spain expelled venezuela's ambassador in response to a similar move by comeback yes. and in sport the snowboarding to be ted a name to the winter olympics and they will tell us some of our mates. how i'm pleased to say we have got dry weather now moving across northern parts of france the heavy rain that is sinking its way further south with with this brand of cloud and they go that's where the the main rain band now lies and notice how it does also bring some very lively showers into that western side of the mediterranean this is the same in paris river levels remaining high and it looks like saturday when those waters are expected to pay not as high as they were in nineteen ten but still plenty high enough at around six point one meter is we are looking at clear skies that as we go on into sas day there you go nine celsius last fine and dry more rain does make its way into the united kingdom down across the low countrie

manual macro promises another clampdown on illegal migration the french president made his comments a cali port city that's become a magnet for thousands of asylum seekers trying to reach britain. thirteen brothers and sisters held captive in chains in their suburban home in southern california police charged the parents with torture. i feel gail welcome to the program a prominent leader of kosovo's ethnic serbs has been gunned down in front of his political party's office in the city of misrata in port said yvonne of each was pronounced dead in a local hospital after being found in the street with gunshot wounds to the chest his killing is likely to inflame tensions between serbia and kosovo a former province that declared independence a decade ago news of his death prompted the serbian delegation to walk out of e.u. mediated talks on. the w's front hoffman has extensive experience of reporting from the boat. welcome frank. rich is kidding looks like an assassination what are authorities saying well the doctor came out after he treated all of a van of which this morning saying that he pro

is expected to pay an extra sixty two million dollars for security measures in cali and other french channel ports and this would increase the u.k.'s contribution under the two thousand and three two k. agreement which allows a british immigration checks to take place on the french side of the channel britain may also agree to take in more refugees and migrants from cali especially unaccompanied children there are also reciprocal agreements on military cooperation ok will send three helicopters to join french forces fighting troops in the zahal region of west africa in return france will supply troops to u.k. led forces in estonia part of a native deployment in response to a possible threat from russia well let's go straight now to our correspondent john holl who joins us live from san has a job to tell us more about this and why the focus on defense and security. one of two reasons probably nic first of all simply the fact that they've got a lot in common in the areas of defense and security france and britain they are the two major military powers in the e.u. they both face common

migrants are waiting to have their asylum requests looked into emmanuel back home then went on to cali women the refugees waiting to try to cross into the u.k. is due to meet britain's prime minister to resign may later this week is expected to pressure her to allow in migrants stuck in cali thousands were evicted from what was called the jungle migrant camp near kalai before it was demolished last year a record number of asylum requests were made to france last year usually the case today we must to better manage the issue of iraq compensate miners reinforce the police operation in color and with the countries of origin and translate a block funds to support important projects for the bellamy of the colored people this will be the three points we will be racing in our dialogue with our british friends in port the eight hours. ordering me to discuss this is loony and sems to race and she's a coordinator for the migration research group at king's college london and she's also a lecturer in international relations there thanks very much for coming in to talk to us so what to go back to t

camp has been a sudden rise in the number of young asylum seekers arriving in the french quarter of cali the closest point only here in mainland to the u.k. it follows the leaders of france and person signing a treaty last week and streamlining the process of dealing with arrivals a sonicare go reports from callaway the deal seems to given people false hope of reaching the k. . playing for time in cali's industrial zone a place where asylum seekers have flocked to in the hope they may escape the limbo they face day in day out while they're here they are trapped many of them been here for months sleeping rough wherever they can and go to nipping without any food. in broad maybe because it is fear because distant because it is. just disturbs us. that this is not life it's not life because living in the forest we have him so this is the place the location where one of the few just to be sure points was supposed to occur on thursday afternoon as you can see authorities are there and they've stopped it from happening and that's been cut a lot of anger from those who've gathered here to be abl

from cali so we're going to go has this report playing for time in cali's industrial zone a place where asylum seekers have flocked to in the hope they may escape the limbo they face day in day out while they're here they are trapped many of them. sleeping rough wherever they can. and there are maybe we can do because just because it's. just disturbs us. this is not life it's not life living in the forest we have. so this is the place the location where one of the few just to be sure point was supposed to occur on thursday afternoon as you can see. and they've stopped it from happening and that's some kind of a lot of anger from those who gathered to be able to get some food. for months the riot police have been a regular presence here as are the stand offs with my words desperate to escape. some hope perhaps has been provided by the joint treaty signed by the french president and the british prime minister last week. a particularly important point of this sunday for streeter will be to subject of compliance of minors this treaty for all those in a position to cross the channel to drast

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via the french port of cali prompting france to demand more funding from london the leaders are also expected to discuss ongoing negotiations and earlier britain's lower house of parliament approved a key bridge to the bill which would end the supremacy of law in the u.k. the bill now goes to the upper house where it's expected to face some resistance it's become a focal point in months of debate about what type of divorce britain should seek from the e.u. so in a home has more from centers. well the world famous sandhurst military academy there behind me the setting for this summit between the french and british leaders the leaders of course of two countries that are the sort of preeminent military powers in the european union albeit not the powers that they once were but to countries that face threats abroad and also face threats at home they've both been the targets of course of violent attack in recent times with substantial loss of innocent lives and of course they share a border as well on the french side including sometimes troubled port of cali with its build up of migrants a

now the french president is in cali the port city that thousands of migrants and refugees used to try and cross to the united kingdom the middle mcroy is there to discuss the immigration situation with locals and aid groups france saw a record number of asylum requests last year clearly is still home to around seven hundred migrants who hope to catch a ride to the u.k. market wants to change an existing accord which moves the british border to cali effectively making the issue france's problem he's meeting prime minister treason may later this week. in hong kong three pro-democracy activists are having to wait longer to be told whether they're going to jail or not judges adjourned their final appeal against conviction for the role of the so-called brother protests four years ago alex child nathan lord joshua one remain on bail while said the federal ruling will be pivotal for protest movements that show. us police have charged a couple with torture after their thirty that starving children were rescued from the family home sub chained to their beds one of the children managed to escap

the president of france has met refugees and migrants who are stuck in the northern port of cali as they wait across the english channel to model my calls expected to pressure britain's prime minister to resign may to allow in more migrants when they meet later this week thousands were evicted from the so-called jungle my can count nikolaj before it was demolished last year a record number of asylum requests were made to friends also last year. still ahead here on al-jazeera fears of fallout after the shooting of a prominent serb politician in kosovo. and the us marks a holiday dedicated to slain civil rights leader martin luther king but is this is green because the line. ally we've had some very heavy snowfall for much of last week this week i think is going to be across the southern areas it's probably we are going to see some very heavy rain pushing through you can see the sea effect snow which should be pushing into the western side of the country the relatively warm waters meeting up with the cool land mass producing some really heavy coverings as snow for across a good part of hon

it april harvest time in deal cali village everybody's working to bring in the wheat. after seven months living in the city some of the super touchy on losing touch with their rural background fee. in previous years and look would have been helping his family not any more. it had the. bad but i may add that. i had them but i. feel. like winning and i brought her you did not partisan have been a good public school year communal totemic among my. looks mother davey is making one of her occasional visits to her husband they're still living apart and neither sees much of their son. so they have the added we have. for think about. right handed millions of. the luck that he's easy to has that be this and i'm just ahead but i'm going to have a bill about that that had to be this made every day that. it's the day before the eye of. the climax of the super effort. and the. raw juice at home doing his last minute revision. oh the family's key for the big game. clearly. matching portions of what you know what. sean meanwhile has moved into a hostel here it's easier for him to foc

and most important form geodes type of government in the middle east it is ideologically believed to caly and militarily it is the heart of the. hardline islamist policy and the meaning of this is clear that the people that have experienced for a longer period of time this type of government is absolutely fed up with it this is no alternative to the real problems that the whole of the muslim world is encountering the muslim world as everybody else wants democracy wants rights to be respected is not a band of fanatics and this message is going far beyond the borders of iran. so what should the policy they be then going forward because i mean if we look for example at the iran nuclear deal i mean that was very clearly a policy of engagement with iran was it the correct one. oh i don't think so i think that we only have to compare the way that the west faced the soviet challenge to understand that this is not the case because the soviet threat was challenge not only on the nuclear weapons front which is obviously an important one but or the human rights field fundamentally else in the proces

about it so we thought that was worth revisiting yes the jungle remember that huge refugee camp in cali has been demolished by the french government and the refugees have been dispersed across france to other facilities but that hasn't stopped would be migrants going there here is alice's video diary specially for the news good history shows us what the volunteers are trying to do to help. good morning he is that could cost him on the ferry team cots tell a friend dave i've been up to three time feeling time and the first day i had hippie it's going to be a post ingested see what changes have these be friends as well. so how. famous they look so. young or young i think much of the milk here may not be one of the. conference point coming and we've got a sort of open social space downstairs which is for any age group so you know we would describe as informal learning a chance to talk if people feel like playing cards we hope this is easy. because a bank here for fun challenging and she's a singer and it's an essential sense of legal well to. charge for about thirty thirty things it's on t

france's president emanuel macro has been addressing security forces in the northern french port city of cali he talks about migration policy including plans to create a better system for people entering the country the speech came days ahead of a meeting in britain to discuss border controls between the two countries earlier on this tuesday president micro visited a migrant center where he spoke with staff and asylum seekers he's promised to speed up the processing of asylum applications and to ensure that people were unsuccessful i dealt with more from the. pope francis has held his first public mass in front of hundreds of thousands in the tonight capital santiago it's his first official visit to the country amid a child sexual abuse scandal that's cast a cloud over his trip just before the mass francis asked for forgiveness for irreparable damage done to children who essentially insulted by priests in chile the scandals greatly damaged the catholic church's image in the country several churches were firebombed in the days leading up to the pope's visit there. yes let's get moving from rel

the village of deal cali two hours drive from but now even today the harsh countryside is home to nine tenths of its people. saying has lived here all his life mark on her margin it is a pilot he said i'm going out about as i behave as a dear gentleman. or him again later so. but. you get up with abo heard about her son is in the till but at the back the whole. the family is divided such as here with his mother his wife lives mostly in her own village her family's better off. often struggles to survive but is to think i'm here to work out a car you have one hundred thousand one hundred that i had i had a. party. so i cut them out of the. can have been about milliken and made. quite elegant how about they don't have to find out how to get here and i got out the board. but said younger circumstances could soon improve his hopes are invested in his son look he's been studying in patna and has just been accepted for super thirty. so i think in. part that. was coming near zero. both of us advanced. something. like most village children and look spent his entire life speaking hindi since mov

but others refuse to give up several months after he rescued his wife mary from attack i find he to cali outside the police station he's identified. one of the suspects to police simone you stop a bus they're going to not of us not figure out what on earth are not me you come looking for the squeamish for twenty third you know you stand up you know you watch but my. pater is angry that police have not investigated the witch hunt that nearly killed his wife. not thinking one play can continue in the just to make. money. but every number. can determine if they arrest the men he dispense seven hours detailing the case to police. eventually officers make. this new law. one is monk's you love a guy that. doesn't have the only suspect or someone might. yet. police made the arrest but investigations in the charts are extremely rare. but with a growing international outrage to some sort of police and slowly being pressured to take action. francis is a detective with the homicide squad and says police often find it difficult to investigate which chance it will work and this will be. conducting be

thousands were evicted from the jungle migrant camp near cali before it was demolished last year a record number of asylum requests were made to france last year it's a move that threatens to up end nearly a quarter of a century of formal relations between israel and the palestinians the palestinian liberation organization second highest decision making body wants the p.l.o. to suspend its recognition of israel zero zero income reports now from the occupied west bank. late on monday night the palestinian leadership issued a statement that could have far reaching consequences for the peace process the statement includes the call to suspend recognition of israel suspend security coordination with it and unite the palestinian factions through reconciliation the statement comes from the central council of the p.l.o. after two days of meetings it will be discussed further by the p.l.o. executive committee and it's up to that committee to implement most policy at some point in the future. the statement also said that the u.s. is no longer a partner for peace and that the palestinians want inter

call him hall joins us now live from boston oh so cali got on the way how did things how are things going so far. well now sammy the first session of the new cattle parliament has now ended members of parliament have headed out but not before of course fulfilling the first main task and that was to choose the new parliamentary speaker and the seven person in the leadership body of the parliament now the reason why the parliamentary speaker is such a key position a strategically key position is because it will be him who decides the future order of the day the future procedures essentially say the political agenda and in this case asked was widely expected the separatist majority has imposed their candidate asked parliamentary speaker so that means that once again the capital and parliament could be on a collision course with spain's central government over this issue of catalonia trying to break away from the rest of spain to set up an independent republic let's take a look at some of the background. so far the chance of freedom for the prisoners have been in the ward as catalonia is polm

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