he visited he spoke of human dignity justice and independence. across the country nationalists organized bonfire protests to burn textiles and pose it from england gandhi launched his charkha or spinning wheel movement. he declared it to be. patriotic duty of every indian to spend two hundred yards of cousin thread a day and to book a textiles produced in the mills of manchester and liverpool. to become a symbol of the commitment of the nationalists corps to every every morning to sit down and to get out your spinning wheel to spin your cotton thread and they became very skillful at it you know they would spend hours every day doing this i'm going the saugus of something which was it was it was almost a spiritual task of spinning you know for the good of the nation. one thousand nine hundred thirty gandhi led the three week salt march walking three hundred fifty eight kilometers to the village of dandy on the arabian sea where he defined the british sultan of meat by lifting and auctioning off the steeple of songs. gandhi and his followers where

it's the birthplace of the independence movement. the mood in vic is stanchly pro-independence.long the market square, posters call for the release of political prisoners. and locals still consider carles puigdemont, who fled to belgium, to be their president. one of them is raimon casals. he wants independence from spain. many like him have pinned notes calling for secession to this wishing tree. >> i've spotted many notes that are concerned with the country's future. people want independence and a free, democratic country. >> raimon thinks spain is un-democratic. he works for omnium, a cultural organization that promotes the catalan language and catalan independence. casals co-organized vic's solidarity jail. citizens let themselves get locked up on vic's market square for two hours to express solidarity with incarcerated separatists. more than 500 citizens have already participated, and there's a long waiting list. with the catalan regional elections nearing, they want to mobilize pro-independence voters. >> we will organise more events to achieve a great election result so t

and the independent has gone by the wayside over the last forty years at one point we had twenty to thirty in the house in the senate and now we have one bernie and then usually polling suggests forty two percent of all americans consider themselves independent and ideally if they actually had a party that had a strong platform which we do they might continue their independence but usually the fall by the wayside in pick a party and that's kind of creeping like a bipolar attitude and almost like. an uncivil rest you know civil unrest you have to pick a side or you have to pick you have to give up certain things that you have to pick a side that isn't too far from you and how do you that's the really big challenge so how how will you go about building that new third party movement and let me tell me a little bit about independent party united dot com. so as you know probably the republican party was founded in wisconsin and rooted in wisconsin. very near where i was born and i was thinking you know you literally thirty minutes from where i was is where the republican party started. a

it's the birthplace of the independence movement. the mood in vic is stanchly pro-independence. along the market square, posters call for the release of political prisoners. and locals still consider carles puigdemontnt, who fled to belgi, to be their president. one of them is raimon casals. he wants independence from spain. many like him have pinned notes calling for secession to this wishing tree. >> i've spotted many notes that are concerned with the country's future. people want independenence anda free, democratic country. >> raimon thinks spain is un-democratic. he works for omnium, a cultural organization that promotes the catalan language and catalan independence. casals co-organized vic's solidarity jail. citizens let themselves get locked up on vic's market square for two hours to express solidarity with incarcerated separatists. more than 500 citizens have already participated, and there's a long waiting list. with the catalan regional elections nearing, they want to mobilize pro-independence voters. >> we willll organise more eves to achieve a great election result s

no we aren't independent it becomes a bit ridiculous so serious people in the two independents big independence party say we have to move on from this we need to come up with another candidates now the rules say that they have if they can't vote puts them under somebody else into office today then they have another ten days to come up was another candidate it is possible and after that if that fails then we'll have new elections so that's what the rule book says and the independence parties seem to want to move away from putsch to more and they probably will not manage to do so today maybe a little later in the game barbara visual thanks very much for that from barcelona world cup along lawmakers are set to meet about an hour from now top of the hour right where barbara is for us there in barcelona. now for a look at some of the other stories making the news right now is the hold a referendum in may on reforming that country's near complete ban on abortion prime minister leo broad carr says he will compare for changes in the current law arlin has some of the strictest abortion legislation in eu

and eight serbia does not recognise its independence evanovich is killing is likely to raise tensions between ethnic albanians and minority serbs in the region. what's now we'd like to bring in someone who knew mr oliver ivanovitch personally do shaun really is the head of the brussels office of the german institute for international and security affairs welcome to the show i want to talk a little bit about mr evanovich and what you knew about him and maybe you could tell us why was he so significant in northern kosovo and what was it about him that would have made him a lightning rod for this kind of attack all over iran which was an independent who was very outspoken although he was also pretty much in his attempt to build the bridges between the various communities and to improve the political climate in the region he named people who were involved in all kinds of things so if there was someone who fought the culture of impunity which is very current touristic for most of the regions of former yugoslavia for one thing negro focus a will for serbia than it was him so i guess. the nu

the whole point is to make them independent of government. they don't have to look over shoulder all the time and ask, how is my decision going to in authority?ys the problem you have in the very es is, there aren't many educated competent lawyers. government isn't willing lawyer in ahalf ass judge's office for life. you might have him be a judge now because you have no choice in another 10-20 years when educated lawyers, you want to get rid of this person and put in a decent judge. so let's don't have lifetime tenure for judges in the colonies. from theyou look at it standpoint of we want the best qualified judges, that makes some sense, right? if you look at it the way a conspiracy minded person would you would ask yourself, why is it that they on't want the judges to be independent? why do they want the judges to by ubject to removal government at any time? obviously, because they are planning to do bad things and the judges to stand in their way. of the s another part conspiracy. so, if you have already been by these wig writers to suspec

it just means that with a third-party, most likely independents, whichever way the independents votedwhether it was to approve the bill or disapprove the bill, it makes no difference, but the subject would be over, and the bill would either be passed or failed if they had a third-party implemented in the house and the senate. it was supply all the bickering and all the speeches, and they would just present a bill, vote on it, and whichever two parties, the democrats and independents or the republicans and independents, whichever to voted to pass -- or to approve or disapprove the bill, then the solution, you know. host: got your point. a retired, also federal employee. go ahead. caller: good morning, john. please give me at least a full minute. [laughs] caller: i tried calling last night for hours into the morning. somebody last night made a comment about nonessentials. well, if they are not essential, why do they even bother coming back? working 22 days as an essential employee and doing the work of a nonessential employee, i worked in the u.s. attorney's office on the criminal side,

independence party he says the decision made by the british people is final but the e.u. is trying to violate u.k.'s democracy. they'll be held by the political establishment but they'll also be hated by the people of the u.k. who actually took this back and said we are having no more we are leaving your opinion the fact that the political parties and the political establishment of taken so long to do this is not our problem it's not the problem of the british people we are asked to go out we want to go out and we will leave whatever mr or mr to say the decision of the british people is final the more they see that the european union is trying to take away our democracy and doing things that we will personally found repugnant as a european army and if we were to have another referendum which god forbid we don't i am absolutely certain that the british people will vote even more overwhelmingly to leave. and the theories emerged of russian mantling and us politics the kremlin's are supposedly behind us whistleblower chalfie manning's decision to run for a seat in the senate

sides you can caucus with the democrats you can caucus with the republicans you still an independent and suggest you know based on their rules you can show up at their events and you can have suggestions and discussions with them so coalition building is primary something that we've lost since the one nine hundred ninety s. since the internet has dawned everybody's kind of built their own silos and they've built. that does seem to be the hardest part because the truth is third party third parties or you know we call them third parties i mean outside of that two party monopoly is is considered you know it's going to ruin things it's going to do this it's going to mess up but now we have a congress and we see in the last twenty thirty years the whole time i've grown up is seeing this go from one side who has power who has this how can you do it they can't even coalition build within them in their own parties now with the power of independence is that you have they have to come they have to win with the last election started with they have got to have to learn to cope coalesce with with

you're on the independent line. caller: hi, how are you doing? yeah, there's no winners on this thing. the american people just got it again. they're just going to do this in another two weeks. host: why specifically no winners? caller: well, because the political party, the way it is set up now, it's in flux for many years. they don't go for the american voter or the american citizen. they have gone completely 190 degrees the wrong way. caller: there's so much stuff n the history of this party, bickering crap, i can tell you that it started with johnson and started with carter and started with obama and started th every one of them had something to do with shutting down the government. for what? so the veterans don't get paid, the military don't get paid, you know. when they show the president as looking like oh, he's the big guy that ended up pushing this to us, so we did it. well, look, hey, carter turned round and gave the immigrants, , they passed a bill to give social security to the mexicans. host: north carolina, republican line. this is

host: connecticut, line for independents. caller: i want to make a comment polls.he results of the first, the me say something about polls. i have never had gallup call me, nor quinnipiac, and i live in connecticut. i think it is atrocious that trump and obama -- obama gave away everything. of course the world is going to tell everybody they dislike what trump has done. he is definitely not perfect. but in my opinion, he is doing a hell of a lot better than obama did, and he is taking this country to where we need to be. that is all i have to say. thank you for listening. let me address the first comment that gallup has not been able to reach you at this point. our founder used to get that question very often. if gallup show -- call so many people, why haven't they called me yet? he was giving a speech in front of a large audience when a woman stood up and said the same thing. he shot back to her and said, statistically, the chances of us calling you, when we call a thousand people for 330 million people -- the chance is the

independence movement have been gaining popularity as well meet. it's a fictional land inside catalonia which includes the barcelona and terra goanna regions the activists who came up with it want it to split from catalonia and join spain this is their reasoning and i specialise in a lot is that i can i mean we went from being one of the main drivers of the spanish economy to a mediocre autonomy to the exit of more than three thousand companies was followed by encouraging the civil population to disobey the constitutional order to get a republic that lasted eight seconds and without any international support. pro and anti independence camps have been upping their rhetoric as late as today the new catalan parliament will hold its first session after a recent snap election in the region pro independence parties gained a majority in the parliament body now has to elect the region's new president one of the council this is college to look at the form of president the closed off the referendum the man who fled to belgium where he still remain he claims

give a hand to kosovo albanians a majority say the overall majority in kosovo after independence and after the war he was a pacemaker he was building bridges to britain i was even a member of the government of the cause of a government in the united nations rule after the war of one thousand nine hundred ninety nine so seems that war in one thousand nine hundred what have relations between cause of and serbia been like that not so much in the headlines now but very tough not very good relationships trips of course this is why these negotiations today that was scheduled that were scheduled today in brussels were so important it up with the first meeting of the one year. technical discussion group negotiators from belgrade and from question well to mate in brussels to keep the process going. to move on again and to facilitate practical discussions practical issues for the daily life of people especially in the northern part of the city of middle of it so that it's divided between albanians and so now that he is dead what will that mean for those talks on for those on going negotiations

understood international is calling for an independent investigation into suspected atrocities by me and my military follows the army's admission for the first time that its soldiers murdered ten muslim rangar their remains were found in a mass grave in the western rakhine state last month the army's commander in chief says action will be taken against the soldiers involved a crackdown was launched by the military against the rangar community in late august scott hyder is live for us in bangkok this is a reversal for the military isn't it scott. it is ginia back in november they issued an internal investigation as to what happened in rakhine state and. sees me august and september after there are rebel attacks on some military posts in rakhine states and then we had this very very heavy handed crackdown for the weeks that followed the military coming under a lot of criticism obviously and weeks after that by the international community because of eyewitness accounts of atrocities so they did their own investigation they said and the outcome of that they announced back in november sai

international and independent china specialist andrew lung thinks the presidents of russia and china at that meeting would limit western countries options to pressure north korea. well obviously. the trauma administration doesn't the feel the time is ripe for them to talk to the north koreans yet because they want to put more pressure on north korea and put it refereeing up the rhetoric and all sort of tactics of foreclosure for example they're not ruling out something like even a blockade problem seems to think that all his higher octane sort of rhetoric has achieved something at least the north koreans beginning to talk to the south koreans so they don't want to give up their option and hence. trying to talk with the allies so trying to group the allies together the exclusion as i said of russia and china is because they fear that if russia and china invited to join they're likely to scuttle. america's option for for for coercion. russia's investigative committees claiming new evidence refutes allegations of state sponsored samples swapping at the start she lympics daniel hawkins h

iraqi kurdistan is another region that had a short of independence this year and miss two kurds came out in force and voted overwhelmingly to secede from iraq. now this is a new era for the kurdish people it's a turning point and we have to use that this is a big victory but despite the kurds saying yes to independence that's not what the referendum achieved. and those who once headed the push to breakaway bowed down. have informed the parliament that will not extend my term. although the brig's it voted to place back in twenty sixteen it dominated headlines throughout the last year. the sun has risen. in the band united kingdom jamie twenty third needs to become a national bank holiday we will call it independence day. briggs it was supposed to have moved far closer than it has by now but instead of peers to be if anything drifting further away and as if the divorce process wasn't painful enough prime minister may spectacularly failed to sweep two of britain's parliament into green lighting her briggs it plans. in july the international trade secretary said bracks it negotiations wo

jamie twenty days the national bank holiday we will call it independence day. briggs it was supposed to have moved far closer than it has by now but instead appears to be if anything drifting further away and as if the divorce process wasn't painful enough prime minister may spectacularly failed to sweep two of britain's parliament into green lighting her briggs it plans. in july the international trade secretary said brics in negotiations would be the easiest in human history. is the prime minister still agree with that assessment some created. but it. can be concluded quickly. bendish the commission was trying to bully the british people about this resolution for twenty eighteen don't get your hopes too high for of randoms the rest the day in them is thrown out to people as a way of involved. the mass of the population and an important decision but then what happens is after the result has been taken that's the process which is captured by politicians one of the things that i think we have to jason is hope is democracy actually function there's a problem with

independents, 202-748-8002. having this conversation as the headline in "usa today" notes, time is running out for a spending bill. the government shutdown looms again on january 19th. the reason that shutdown is looming is because the latest continuing resolution from the end of december pushed the funding for the government deadline to january 19th. if there is not a bill to continue the funding of the government past that day, the lights would go off, the government would be should down. we want to hear from you ahead of that deadline about your budget priorities. jim is up first. leesburg, virginia, independent. jim, good morning. >> caller: yes. thank you for c-span, and to all my democratic comrades out there that want the government to take care of them from their cradle to grave, my budget priority would be to shrink the federal government, and i want fully funding up to 87g and e verify, and these democraticaca kids, we care of them until they get a citizenship. and the parents have to go. the american

pro and anti independence camps have been upping their rhetoric ahead of the first session of the new council on parliament which is now under way after a recent election in the region pro independence parties gained a majority in the parliament as you can see on the video the seats of those parliamentarians who are absent due to imprisonment or exile are marked with yellow ribbons which are the symbol of the independence movement the bodies first job is to elect regions a new president one of the candidates is carlos demond the former president deposed after the referendum and who fled to belgium where he still remains he claimed he could run the region via skype all through a special representative. activist supporting the recent movement against sexual misconduct are taking aim at their peers authors actors and other public figures who dared to doubt the direction of the so-called me two campaign is going to face the furious backlash jaclyn view of the latest examples i feel like every time you turn around another me too headline has hit the press with new accusations from director

independents, 202-748-8002. having this conversation as the headline in usa today notes "time is running out for a spending bill." the government shutdown looms again on january 19. the reason that shutdown is looming is because the latest continuing resolution from the end of december pushed funding for the government deadline through january 19. if there is not a bill to continue the funding of the government passed that day, the lights would go off, the government would be shut down. we want to hear from you as these negotiations are happening ahead of that deadline about your budget priority. jim is up first, leesburg, virginia, independent. caller: thank you for c-span. to all my democrat comrades that want the government to take care of them from cradle to grave, my idea would be -- andnt fully funding of -- e-verify and these daca kids, we can take care of them for 20 years until they get citizenship. is american government definitely dropping the ball on this immigration thing. i don't want my government

i've written in my academic work , there is no constitutional reason to treat independency -- independent agencies as distinct from other agencies, at least as far as they are issuing regulations. to the extent they are regulating, there is no constitutional reason to treat them differently. many people have argued across the spectrum that there are important reasons to bring the independent agencies and the centralized review. the american bar association has supported this, the administrative conference of the united states has supported this, they support it for all good reasons, why people consider oira to be good for other agencies is we can make sure the regulations are consistent with law. those are good government practices irrespective of where the regulation originates. the concern i have is you are focused on regulation, understandably, but the legal argument would not preclude more executive office and perhaps omb or oira oversight of nonregulatory action. in my head it is the federal reserve. wasfederal reserve act established because the determination was in the setting of m

but again, it doesn't mean you want to be independent. these people are intensely proud of being british. and they are even trying, at least people at the upper levels, trying to imitate how the british population of their class lives. so again, it becomes tough to figure, why do so many of these people, a dozen years later, take up arms against their own government? now, there are probably three fairly new developments in the don't makeat, again, independence likely or even desirable, but at least lay the groundwork for something. great awakening, remember -- for a hundred years, people in the colonies, from the very beginning, had been thinking of themselves as provincials, looking back across the ocean with admiration and envy at this glittering metropolis over there. here they are living on the edge of civilization, staring out at an endless forest, and back column there is london, which by itself has more people than all the colonies for many decades. their great universities, other than harvard, where are the great universities in t

why are you an independent? what makes you independent? caller: because i -- i used to be a democrat, and now i'm an american. and then i tried the republican, and they're just as dumb as the democrats. so i become an independent because i can't stand either party. i'm interested in the american citizen, the taxpayers, the veterans. i am not interested in illegal aliens. and i want to know when we're going to end birthright citizenship. if the president wants to build a wall and not spend any money, he just ends birthright citizenship. i hear no one talking about the jail time, the deportation of the parents. nd these daca people are not all valedictorian. near maryland, there's a lot of criminals. these poor kids have to go to school with these criminals that go home to these families that are just a dole on the taxpayer. if you could think about all of the money they have cost us just to incarcerate, educate, and medicate these people, it cost of 1/100th of the a wall. host: all right, mayor a in south carolina, line for republicans. mar

sudan's road to independence started in the middle of the twentieth century. in one nine hundred fifty three britain and egypt joined rulers of a sedan for more than fifty years. signed an agreement giving the sudanese people the right to self-determination. two years later in one thousand nine hundred fifty five the sudanese parliament unanimously adopted a declaration of independence rather than unifying with egypt into a single country. on january the first nine hundred fifty six the sudanese flag was raised for the first time and khartoum. the largest country in africa was born a country flowing sixty percent of the entire nile basin area. sudan had enormous agricultural potential but there was a drawback. the one nine hundred twenty nine anglo egyptian agreement allotted only four billion cubic meters of nile waters to the sudanese territory. compared to egypt's forty eight billion cubic meters. the newly independent sudanese were not happy inheriting this colonial legacy. that this agreement reinforced gyptian dominance over the nile the me and my and gi

twenty seventeen saw a number of countries tackle independence campaigns from restive regions and they were met with legal clampdowns and sometimes violent force in response next egos down off looks at the referendums that made waves from europe to iraq. for hundreds of thousands twenty seventeen became a hero hope a year of promise and here of broken trust referendums a cornerstone of many democracies in the ultimate soon of transforming the will of the people into people power in practice has arguably broad far more disenchantment than results. leading up to its vote spanish catalonia saw it all from countless wool sprayed with pro depend is graffiti two million strong demonstrations madrid has never approved of the referendum who ruled illegal under the spanish constitution but when a date was set anyway the future seemed bright for independence forces. you know that that ninety percent at the ballot box said slowly you should break away. we have the right to decide our future we've won the right to an independent state built as a republic. the outcome of the vote was hardly a surpr

the line for independents. go ahead. caller: first, i want to say thanks for c-span. second, i do have sympathy for the situation related to the people involved in daca. the third, i think democrats and republicans should unite against donald trump in an effort to have him bring our troops out of syria. the reason i say that is in a committee hearing we just had ins past week, senator kaine discussion with the state department representative identified we have no legal authority to have any troops in syria or to fly our planes over syria in defense of the kurds or whatever troops we are defending in syria. those 2000 troops we have their are breaking the law and makes them subject to possible criminal trials in the hague. in support of our troops, i think we need to get them out of syria. n florida on the line for independents. caller: this thing that was brought up in the house, they could not even get that passed. the only reason they got that passed is donald trump put in the caucus. now they are all startin

for many of my students i teach a course on black independent films. i find that maybe one student might have seen some of these fairly famous films. people who have really made major contributions. they have not even seen early spike lee. they might have seen malcolm x, but that's it. i think that one of the problems we are going to have is that there are audiences that will be , smaller and smaller rather than larger and larger. pat: let me address the changing marketplace for documentaries, and i would like to have any of your responses. this is a point where netflix is busy giving $40 million or $50 million and is launching entire lines. you have vice and fulcher doing instant video journalism. you have buzz feed apparently educating an entire new generation. you have cable channel stuffed with wall-to-wall, something that looks like maybe documentary. you have a legacy that has been built up through the hard work of public television that honors the notion of documentary as an authentic true thing. at the same time you have an enormous proliferati

some of these features of independents and i think they all work together. ted: i humbly recognize i'm debating a constitutional lawyer, i do think that is the issue. there is any knowledge meant that there is under some conditions or circumstances a need for insulation from political influence and that congress establishes that monetary policy with the federal reserve. now we are in a debate about there is a great area there and what falls on both sides of it. to me it is a clear-cut constitutional issue that cannot be independent from this kind of oversight. we'll save that for another time. i want to stick to the scope because it brings up another thing. we at brookings have a center called the hutchins center on monetary policy. i will promote the work of my good friends at the hutchins center, which is irs rules, which traditionally have been exempt from oversight and the regulatory process, is that something you see changing or promote changing or come back to what i think are the challenges of doing that? there again is the question of your scope. sho

it doesn't mean people want to be independent. but population, for instance, you start out with a few hundred people and in a couple spots on the coast, the 1790's, you're looking at 250,000 people, maybe. about double the population of lebanon county stretched out over 1,500 miles of coast. by 1776, a couple million people. 1/4 of -- a tour -- europe itself. more than you have in some european countries. if you had to do it you can imagine you can make a go of it as your own nation and along with growing population comes a growing sense of -- what would we call it? political competence. the local elite people like ben franklin and people like william byrd who we talked about a couple weeks ago and they dominate the elected assemblies, and if you remember, they're getting more and more powerful and the governors overseas are having less and less authority as the years go by. by the time you get to the middle of the 1,700's you've got pretty much local self-government in almost every colony. so not only is population reaching the l

and independents (202) 748-8002. you mentioned these talks that are going to be happening between north korea and south korea. " has more on times that, saying south korea responded to an overture from the north and propose holding high-level talks between the countries on their border next week. north korea's leader, kim jong-un, as suggested on monday that the country's open dialogue on easing military tensions and the possibility of the north participating in the winter olympics in the south, even as he noted that he now has a nuclear button on his desk. how unusual -- have we seen these type of opportunities between the north and south before? guest: these talks have actually happened historically fairly regularly. the last was in 2015 after a series of incidents along the dmz, which were cut out after south korea extended proliferation against an industrial complex. there were talks prior to the 1988 olympics, the last time the olympics were held in south korea. there were also talks before other olympics. in fa

but as it relates to spftion of individual institutions absolutely. >> is independence is independence well served by appointment of an interim agency head who holds another full-time position that reports directly to the president and the president chief of and a half -- staff? >> senator i have to say that's not my -- that's not something that is in my weight to deal with. >> no opinion of that? >> not today, no. >> tomorrow? [laughter] i'm concerned as i think we all on to push out of o independent director at cfpb in part of attacking the beurre rose and i am concerned about that, that attitude infecting other independent agencies and i'm concerned about the tradition or the potential -- the -- way president could do this in a nonconfirmed appointment like he's doing to the cf trying to do the judge will decide. an cfb and i'm concerned mr. chairman that one of the first things that -- mr. mulbany did quote unquote acting director, was to stop payments to consumers to service members to veterans payments where they were wronged civil penalty payments that they were wrong by banks a

they have chosen a member of the left wing independence party by 65 votes for. the unionist camp has lost the possibility of having the speaker as one of their members. the citizen party had appealed to backleft-wing party them and that would have produced a a time because carles pupuigdemont wasas not allowed o vote i in the e voting tododay. getey are pushingng ahead to carles puigdemont invested. the spspeaker who o will be a mr vote isin how t that organized has said earlier before thihis vote that he was't in favoror of the left-wing pary backing the idea of a vote by teleconference. if the lawyers of the parliament were against it that may mean there's more pressure on carles puigdemont to step aside and let another left-wing candidate or pro-independence candidate present himself. genie: how likely is that to happen? will he step aside? >> at the momentnt he is saying absolutetely n not. he says he was the legitimate president of t the republic of cacatalonia thatat was declalard that it wawas the spanisish government thahat outed him wrongfully and the i