i'm phil gale welcome to the program as the spanish ration of catalonia begins its first week on the direct rule from madrid the country's top prosecutor has called for charges including rebellion to be brought against the latest who last week voted for independence from spain among the accused his catalonia president. whom a trade has removed from office spanish media reporting that he and other full members of his companies are now in brussels. correspondent. pants regatta joins us from brussels welcome back spanish media. in brussels what are you hearing . the manhunt for collins push him on the sect president is still on there's no official confirmation hearing process that he has arrived in this city or that he is on the road to the city the cut alon representation says they have no clue mr put him on is a actually is but some spend his correspondents here in brussels who are reporting that he is already in the city in a. discreet and safe location as they say and it is said now that tomorrow morning is to put him on with address the press and the public here in brussels and ton

i'm phil gale welcome to the program. united nations says it is a textbook example of ethnic cleansing hundreds of thousands of ranging muslims facing persecution and violence in manama and fleeing to neighboring bangladesh every day brings a stream of refugees across the border and bangladesh needs urgent help to come up about six hundred thousand right here in java arrived in the country from the an ma in state since august more than half of them are children eight agencies at a donor conference in geneva we're looking for more than four hundred forty million dollars a couple of hours ago that i was that they had raised just over three quarters of that you'll hear from them they had one of the relief agencies working in bangladesh in just a moment first so here's more on the region just dire plight. thousands of people still flee leon maher every day six hundred thousand rwanda have left for bangladesh in recent weeks almost all of them have experienced great suffering. not big wanders through the refugee camp and cox's

i'm phil gale welcome to the program the spanish government has given catalonia until monday to state an ambiguous lake where the. it has declared independence from the rest of spain prime minister mariano rajoy told of the country's parliament that madrid could impose direct rule over catalonia if the region broke away it was sharply critical of the recent catalan independence referendum describing it as illegal and undemocratic mr rouhani also rejected offers an international mediation here's part of his fate in which the prime minister discusses catalans regional president. in his man hands he has a possibility to return to the rule of law to legality and institutional normality as everybody wishes or to continue this period of confusion and upheaval that is affecting catalonia in the rest of the country you know this and the response of the government will depend on his steps. let's get more from correspondents all over salads and martin robertson paslode madrid martin roberts in the madrid will start with here now there is an ultimatum which looks like a significant escalation fr

i'm phil gale welcome to the program. experience prime minister addressed the country's upper house of parliament today ahead of a debate and vote on the government plans to be imposed direct rule on the region of catalonia the senate is expected to approve mariano rajoy request to trigger article one five five the spanish constitution which allows central government to remove catalans regional leaders from office starting with president carlos bustamante article one five five has not been used in spain we turn to democracy forty years ago mr roy said that using the special powers was not meant to remove the liberties of cattle lands but to protect them carry. catalans the protection not from spanish imperialism it but rather from an intolerant minority that has named itself an owner of catalonia this minority considers the cultural and historical heritage belonging to the entire community as its own exclusive province of one you know that and it wants to submit all cattle on it to the yoke of its secessionist doctrine we

i'm phil gale welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has been outlining america's new strategy on iran focusing on efforts to further curb any possible nuclear weapons development that is to trump announced that he is decertifying the twenty fifteen international agreement that gave iran relief from sanctions in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear development program but he stopped short of withdrawing from the deal completely the president reserved that option if it wasn't strengthened this part of what he said. today that we cannot and will not make this certification we will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence more terror and the very real threat of iran's nuclear breakout. let's get more on this from professor syud mohammad marandi from the university of toronto welcome to day w m give us your initial reaction to mr trump's speech well i think. it was the usual trump he used fake in june he accused iran of being a lie. taleban where these organizations were hostile towar