there to korti in sentences of the spanish supreme court shock to liberal opinion across the world and independent sentiment in catalonia very few countries in the civilized world pursue sedition as a concept unless it is linked in some way to violence and history teaches us that this sort of repressive tactic is seldom successful today show however has been about the human cost upon to families of these long sentences and focused on 2 women who have picked up the mantle of speaking it in favor of their imprisoned husbands there is little in the spanish election results which offer the hope of initiatives to break the deadlock that is a civil force of catalan nationalism is still up against the immovable object of the spanish state opinion is hardening on both sides and prospects of a post-election breakthrough seem as elusive as ever one can only hope the now that this meaningless election is over then meaningful talks can begin out for continues to push in catalonia over the coming weeks. meanwhile join us next time when we move back to i celebrate a panel of political pundits their

strengthened their position with opinion energized by the putative sentences handed out by the spanish supreme court to independence leaders last month 9 people were found guilty not of filings but of sedition and the organization of the independence referendum of 2017 and the demonstrations designed to defend that political process collectively they were sentenced to almost 100 years a level of sentence but short little opinion across the world we therefore start if 3 part series on whether catalonia today we will look at the human cost of the record in sentences in the 2nd program we examine how the political struggle is likely to develop in the aftermath of the spanish election finally we interview some of the key grassroots campaigners in the rebel nation and ask international opinion how the crisis should be addressed and dissolved in this program however we look at the impact of the sentences on the families involved we talked to 2 of the spices whose partners have been condemned to long terms of imprisonment we speak to lot of muscatel wife of the former interior minister quinn for in child b

strengthened their position with the pinion energized by the punitive sentences handed out by the spanish supreme court to independence leaders last month 9 people were found guilty not of finalists but of sedition and the organization of the independence referendum of 2017 and the demonstrations designed to defend that political process collectively they were sentenced to almost 100 years a level of sentence but short little opinion across the world we therefore start a 3 part series on whether catalonia.

public office that depends where a pending result like that he could still take it to the supreme court's the spanish supreme court and contest that. but judging from how the prosecutor the certainly the electoral board have pitched this they have said that what he did was really tantamount to using tools of public propaganda in order it during this whole time course this goes back to the electoral period of the 28th of april where really there has to be there are laws governing the new trial of this time period and of course this was a very deliberate very obvious are so of showing support for the pro separatist movement as well nevertheless thought has said that of course he realized that there was the risk of him going to trial over this but essentially he says he says that he couldn't really go against will be a constitutionally legality on on censorship so he's arguing really that in effect it is really going against censorship where this where is the election board are saying you know there are very clear laws that govern this course whether this does really impact the movement as a whole certa

has happened since the last general election took place back in april. 0n the one hand, the spanish supreme courtisodes also. the supreme court new wa rra nts episodes also. the supreme court new warrants of arrest for the leaders after this failed attempt to declare independence and are now living in belgium, scotland and switzerland. it has been a lot in this last few weeks and months. so it has been the main topic and there has even been little discussion on other issues like economy, health care or education or climate so the campaign has been mainly focused on how to approach this crisis. is there any indication that the election itself will offer any kind of hope for resolving it, given that the parties in madrid are saying they will uphold the constitution by opposing a move towards independence and the pro—independence parties who have said it is about democracy. exactly. this election will be another opportunity for the catalan coen independence parties to evaluate the momentum of the independence movement. they got more than 20 seats in the last election and we will see what happens ton

that the central issue for this election has been the catalan crisis... 0n the one hand, the spanish supreme court mass protests across catalonia, also social unrest, and even a week of violent episodes. also, the supreme court sent new warrants of arrest to those who fled spain after this failed attempt to declare independence and who are now living in belgium, in scotland, in switzerland. so there has been a lot in this last few weeks and months. so it has been the main topic of the campaign, and there has even been little discussion for issues like the economy or education or health care, or even climate change. so the whole campaign has been mainly focused on how to approach this crisis. is there any indication that the election itself will offer any kind of hope for resolving it? given that the parties in madrid say they are upholding the constitution by opposing moves towards independence, and the pro—independence parties, of course, you have some seats, some at least in the madrid parliament, and they are saying, "no, this is about democracy." exactly. well, this election again will be anot

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spanish] why don't you have a heart? but there is an opportunity. there is an opportunity now for the supreme court to do the right thing. to uphold what's happened with the lower courts. the courts have all done the right thing. they stood by the american people. by wait, what the president is up to this morning with those ugly tweets, he's trying to diminish public support for these amazing men and women behind me. moms and dads, brothers and sisters, frens and neighbors, co-workers -- friends and neighbors, co-workers, let's do the right thing. let's pray for the supreme court. let's pray for the country. let's pray for these dreamers. but what we need for the american people to do is something we learned from congressman john lewis. make some noise. speak up. show up. stand up. if you don't know a dreamer, just open your eyes. get to know them. tell their story. i want to close with this. i had the honor of meeting sam today, a dreamer from new mexico, a recent graduate from new mexico state university, who talked about how he can't go see his grandma, his mom who live just miles away from wher

spanish region with france stopping traffic in both directions the protest was organized by a new organization called democratic tsunami catalonia was rocked by demonstrations after spain's supreme court sentenced 9 of its separatist leaders to prison over a failed independence bid in 2007 that. had abdulhamid joins us live from the france main borders so any attempt by authorities so far to try and open up those blocked roads are still that block behind you heard. so far we have there hasn't been any account but actually just now on the stage behind us here someone has announced that they have seen someone that there are 15 cranes coming up towards these cars coming from the spanish side of the capitol and side up to dissuade and there's a belief that maybe at some point or thore does whether despair under spanish side or the french side will try to remove this car the cars but at the moment is just a rumor and we haven't seen anything happen but what you have to see behind me is basically an encampment has been growing over the hours and people here say they will be staying here for about 3 days as the 3 days of civil disobedience called upon by this online group called the democrat

spanish region with france stopping traffic in both directions the protest was organized by a new organization called tsunami democratic catalonia was wrong by demonstrations of the spain's supreme court sentenced 9 of its separatist leaders to prison over a failed independent spirit in 2017 the jaime joins us live from the france spain border so i'm trying to judge looking behind you looks like traffic is still ground to a hold by the protesters right. the route to the hold on this highway and it's going to be like this for the next 3 days at least that's according to democratic tsunami this online group that is behind it have actually called for civil disobedience 3 days of civil disobedience starting today and it actually told his supporters to take days off from work back their backpacks with things like power banks for their mobile phones some warm clothes just day here and along bring some food so this is something that is just starting actually just behind me on this side kind of a food kitchen people were queuing to get a hot cup of soup and then on. stage now that stage is smack in the middle of the highways to any traffic trying to go from france to spain on this road is not