catalonian governments continues the tour it is called last week's referendum and catalonia illegal the kassam government meanwhile continues to stand by its promise to declare independence even as its leader met with a newly formed team of mediators. if the connell on president's power struggle with spain is to end any time soon he will need the help of mediators like those he met on friday. in a sign he may be listening to his guests karla's which demand said he will update. parliament on the current political situation on tuesday and in doing so he avoided breaking a constitutional ban on a session scheduled for monday. his party called it a gesture of good will. and. must the president of cuts alone has a great opportunity to make the real statement he made a few days ago which is to start a dialogue. meanwhile in madrid a possible change in strategy for the first time the spanish government issued an apology of sorts for the heavy handed policing of sunday's illegal referendum. i said this very clearly before the police were following an order they were in order to avoid an illegal vote t

coming weeks we can undertake a durable but to go to europe for a moment we formally require the kassam government to control has declared independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into effect. meanwhile people in catalonia have been left frustrated by the confusion many were visibly affected while listening to the president's announcement there and also deeply disappointed at the end madrid has given the cattle and president until monday to clarify the situation adding he has three days after that to drop the declaration if it is in fact made and situ orcon are reports now from barcelona. was was you could see was through their reach it was. that it is necessary to show rebellion i do not know if i'm dependence is the solution with this it demonstrates this half of the population is tied up with this independence will hurt both spade in catalonia it took many years to make the country whole and to divide it just like that is absurd this particular square there are screens being set up where no doubt this area is going to be kept by people

that was true because dollars made by one hundred kassam time one was out big rewards people like me are not going to work fifteen to twenty hours a day in order to get rich. in graduate school my doctoral years i was told psychologists five ten years into practicing on average were making one hundred thousand dollars a year and i was like that sounds awful. now it's like kind of like my sense of do you think the top one percent. i'm not in the top one percent in terms of the world it's maybe in just psychology world. i choose this i choose to drive i could take a train wreck waiting to sit i just feel like that's one extra time that i get sick of being in an enclosed area with stupid you know that in the public it's like i don't i can't afford to be sick at this point in my career every day counts while trying to see if. i never need to leave the building other than to get lunch which i pray to do every once in a while they get to sit alone at a kalar at a diner across the street and that to me reading the new york post is haven't. taken. the. landing on its own sign. and doesn't in

on the go she will fully yeah i was going to ask you about that the hopeful mediation we heard the kassam on meter a few days ago call for mediation dialogue is interest from the central government to talk. in one word no and certainly that has been the resoundingly response from the prime minister by the end of our voice he is said consistently shirt has been showing a very. tough almost stop an attitude towards even sort of considering the idea of a dialogue but he is also interesting enough he is facing. a kind of political crisis within his own party there is already the form of a former prime minister who was once. the promise of our hoist pencil not who was prime minister here in spain he has said that if midst of our oil is not capable of resulting this then he needs to step down and call general elections so i don't know what it is having to offset that personal crisis as well but in the meantime there have been. discussions about trying to sort of rope in religious leaders as well spanish national press have said that. the vatican has said that they are not interested in entering

side and then this drawing a warming of the air on the other side so as a result these winds these kassam batek winds known as the santa ana's in southern california and diablos in northern california they tend to be warm and dry and sometimes in a pretty strong sort of steady sixty seventy kilometers per hour and really that's what we've been experiencing must why the wildfires being particularly bad mostly got some fairly high temperatures to go with it so across the region is nothing in terms of a respite to come the winds are probably ease of little bit but still the situation looks pretty bad but basically looking at dry weather no precipitation to help the situation there as we look at the forecast there is some rain though further towards the southeast and some of that is quite heavy. thanks very much richard well as we go to the middle east now when we go shooters from rival palestinian political movements fatah and hamas are in cairo for talks on reconciling their decade long split but it follows last week's palestinian authority cabinet meeting attended by both sides the first t