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And making it official germany celebrates its first ever same sex marriage t. W. Talks to the happy couple about their big day when theyve waited nearly forty years for. Welcome to the show my name sara harmon thanks for joining us. Catalonia as leader has said the region has the right to independence this after Spanish Police staged a violent crackdown on a banned referendum come on Officials Say at least eight hundred forty people were injured as police tried to forcibly close polling stations a spanish Prime Minister praised the Police Response and called the vote a mockery one of spains main labor unions has called for a general strike on tuesday has come a long await the referendum results. So heavy Police Presence continued into the night in catalonia for an independence referendum that has split spanish society. In the meantime the council on people are holding celebrations for a vote that spanish Prime Minister mariano hoyo has officially denied even happened. Today there was no selfdetermination referendum in catalonia today the spanish people saw that the rule of law in spain is steady and strong and that it answers those who tried to attack it. Within the boundaries of the law against any provocation. Or people who provoke a few. Tensions on the street escalated as police and protesters clashed often violently the authorities smashed their way into polling stations to seize ballot boxes. The mayor of barcelona called the Prime Minister a coward who was hiding behind the police. And hes crossed all the redlines this is a turning point and i think were going to see thousands of people not just in catalonia but across spain calling for the resignation of Mariano Rajoy we must remember that hes in the minority government so its up to the rest of the parties to find a solution to fix this disaster status s. T. s this. Despite the violence many cuts alone ians did manage to vote in defiance of the Spanish Government which declared the referendum illegal. Or earlier i spoke with our correspondent paul well following ellison barcelona i asked him about whether people were able to cast their votes and his area. They certainly were because there were long queues of people from Early Morning trying to get into the polling stations across the region in fact i was at a polling station not too far from where i am and central barcelona and there were long queues of people i spoke to one man and he was there for an hour and a half and he said he probably take another hour at least or an hour and a half to get inside to cast his ballot and i was in the Late Afternoon then weve seen across the region that the police have tried to close them out of the polling stations so some people didnt manage to go because the way they changed the law essentially they allowed people to basically they didnt have to go to their local polling station they could go anywhere and vote so any place that any polling station that was open and you were resident in catalonia you could go and vote there so thats what happened today for a lot of people that they just moved around to make sure that their day they have a chance to cast their ballot clearly things are very tense there its a controversial no tell us briefly problem why this is so contested the first place. What i mean this is a long process and whats happened was a few months ago the council and Regional Government legislation in their Regional Parliament which was the Legal Framework for an independent catalonia and part of that would be a referendum of course spain is that Constitutional Court threw that out because it goes against the spanish constitution and Spanish Government said that under no means there would be a referendum and basically we got into this stalemate situation and the cutline Regional Government said they were going to do it to Spanish Government so they wouldnt on this is where we are today on october the first Spanish Police meanwhile been criticised placing force against protesters what you tell us about that. Well in spain has a quite a complex policing set up here at the Regional Police are called the most use and they are potentially going to be investigated by the courts because they stood back and they didnt i mean according to some reports they didnt really follow orders. At the National Police what do you see really that they are they did act and they were very much. Part of this sort of these images that weve seen of people being taken out of polling stations and a lot of the violence that weve seen in fact the Regional Government has already put the cigarette would around seven hundred fifty people being caught up in the clashes or of being involved in the violence that have been injured so theres a lot of theres a lot of criticism not just here in cutler you but across spain and in particular from the opposition who have said its about time that dialogue was opened right theres a lot at stake thanks for bringing us up to date thats pablo fully l. E. O. s for us in barcelona. Meanwhile barcelona soccer team has played its Spanish League match behind closed doors today but no fans allowed in the stadium but she made the announcement less than half an hour before kick off with thousands of fans already waiting outside the clubs president said its a protest against Police Efforts to stop the referendum barcelonas camp nou stadium is often used as a rallying point for catalan nationalists. The socalled Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a deadly knife attack in france its hacker stabbed two women to death at the main train station in the Southern City of moore say french soldier shot the assailant dead Francis NationalRailway Company has asked passengers to postpone journeys to and from our se following the attack. Police descend once more after another attack in france. The knife wielding assailant was shot dead by patrolling soldiers but too late to save his two young victims. Some eyewitnesses reported that the attackers shouted. But much remains unclear. Lending they do through the individual was killed thanks to the composer of the soldier on patrol it appears that this individual had several identities i dont know anything more and i cannot tell you anything more than the interior minister did. Interior minister jr column said an investigation has been opened into what was potentially a terrorist attack the soldier who shots the attacker was part of up there are. A military deployment of some ten thousand troops it was launched in twenty fifteen to protect areas deemed to be likely terrorist targets. Sundays attack came just two days before french lawmakers are expected to vote on a controversial antiterrorism bill which is