josep borrell, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.ou are part of a new spanish government that's been in power for three months or so... 100 days. yes. you have been wrestling with the problem that has dogged spain for so long now, that is the problem of catalonia. and, in the time you've had, you have signally failed to change the dynamic, to change the crisis. why is that? the crisis is a structural one, it's going to last. it has been in the cocoon for many, many time, without the central government doing nothing about it, just waiting and seeing, sitting and waiting. now we've found a situation where an important part of the catalan population has already disconnected psychologically about the idea of spain. but they are not a majority. i am very sad when people say catalonia is split in two parts. but i come back to the point about how to change the dynamic. i would put it to you that when prime minister pedro sanchez appointed you to a very senior position in the government, that was a signal to catalans that he was not interest

spain. josep borrell, we have to end it there. but a thank you very much for being on hardtalk.stions. foreign minister, thank you indeed. hello there. full uk weather forecast coming up injust a moment, but first of all, i thought we'd cast an eye with what's going on on the other side of the atlantic. you might have heard, we have a major hurricane on our hands. this is hurricane florence, which is a very powerful category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 140mph. but it's forecast to strengthen, up to 155mph with 190mph gusts, and that is heading to the east coast of the united states. landfall probably thursday night around north carolina. it's going to cause big, big problems. just to the north of florence, we've got an area of cloud that extends of miles across the atlantic, right over to the united kingdom. yes, it's a massive weather front, or a couple really. it's going to be pushing southwards, bringing some heavy rain. the rain always heaviest across the hills and coasts of north—west england and wales. to the east of higher ground, it's one of those fronts where t

now on bbc news: hardtalk, with spain's foreign affairs minister, josep borrell.

josep borrell, we have to end there. but i thank you very much for being on hardtalk. of your questions. foreign minister, thank you very much indeed. hello. well, before we go to the weather forthe uk, an update on hurricane florence battering the east coast of the united states. and the worst of the weather is technically still out to sea. the storm's eye isn't expected to cross land, that is, make landfall, until around about lunchtime on friday uk time. but it has already been battering north carolina, south carolina, areas towards the north as well as further inland, and it is a slow—moving storm, that means it is dumping a lot of rainfall in the same place for a considerable amount of time, and those destructive winds, the storm surge, likely to be some destructive flooding from this weather system. meanwhile, off asia—pacific, we have a very powerful storm, even stronger, typhoon mankhut, a super typhoon heading for northern parts of luzon in the philippines, and the effects of the storm could be catastrophic, so two very powerful storms both sides of the globe.