Parliamentary approval spanish Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy needs an absolute majority for that and he only has a slim one in barcelona catalan residents are prepared for a standoff. The main doesnt love us they only love our money they want our money im not sure if im explaining myself clearly all the things theyve done for catalonia are not really for catalonia they were let us go because the money is here. They are making people more Pro Independence with these games they are playing. In. The rain maybe putting off demonstrators from taking to the streets at least for now. And for madrid to have with me correspondent martin arabists martin how significant is it that madrid has decided to invoke article one fifty five it seems its never been invoked in the country before. No indeed it hasnt says a country road to return to constitutional democracy. Yet so this is uncharted territory and nobody knows exactly how it will work in practice or even if it is workable forcible because we can expect some oppositions as strong. As ever you are there is an institutional level. Street protest so its a very sick days so dont know what happens next the Cabinet Meeting is said to be headed at this weekend on saturday thats correct its being reshaped it will pretty unusual projects because Prime Minister maliki under a hole in what were tending to. This is expected seats on the agenda that happens are expected to agree to all of the request of the senate but the next person procedural to meet both the one hundred thirty five even member that does take several days i mean presumably they will repeat the question. First minister considered a response that long to clarify whether he did in fact declare independence in his address to the local parliament would. Give him a chance to explain himself the other thing he could conceivably do. Is appeal to the same Constitutional Court was declared the referendum. So i restart and. This could still take or fifteen days and again there is conceivably. Bhajan for people to actually reach some sort of agreement before going to head where many are described as a Nuclear Option right and wasnt obvious in the great thank you they might fly up a spec to have on that story well actually i spoke to our correspondent bob a visit in barcelona and as to how this confrontation had escalated so far. It seems that both sides have reached the point of no return madrid has early on started threatening was the Nuclear Option which is the want to go one fine five and they have sort of got to keep their word in order not to lose face and the government here in comes along is totally boxed in and they are sort of being pushed by their own supporters to go for independence to go forwards and on the other hand they have the large part of this population who says we dont want this at all they should basically be and that would be the sensible option call for elections however they again today declined that and say no were going to stay and see this through so we see two hard headed sides here they are not really acting politically but they are rather acting like in a legal manner in madrid and in an ideologically driven manner here in barcelona and the emotions will be heating up when we see demonstrations starting from tomorrow and particularly on saturday so what youre saying is basically its too late for negotiations and you say they are demonstrations expected how is this playing out this issue on the streets of boston an upbeat really angry about whats happening. It depends on who you talk to and rita of course because the country is deeply divided and this division runs right through families through friendships through capitals and people really have heated discussions if you know what you know we dont want this we want to stay with spain we are really all spaniards and others say you know we have nothing to do with them we all caps alone and so the country make might be split just right down the middle theres no telling at the moment where the my admit we were the majority is elections would be a sensible move but if that is not going to happen we will have some really sort of harsh confrontations through the next days and probably even weeks because a Civic Platform has already called for people to come out onto the streets and to show their discontent and we can expect them that those calls will be on sirte bob revisit on in a very rainy day in boston now thank you very much for that. And then for the business desk is in all this Political Uncertainty is also affecting the economy ben it sure is and you can see that on markets today amrita one of the euro zones main economies spain could be set to enter uncharted political waters as you heard there before from Martin Roberts thats weighing on european stocks your stocks fifty for example down by three quarters of a cent at this hour Prime MinisterMariano Hoyer will trigger an article in the constitution this weekend allowing the government to take control of any of the countrys seventeen autonomous regions if they break the law catalonia is referendum was deemed illegal and the Catalan Leader colace put them on has threatened a full declaration of independence if spain asserts control of the region. Catalonia is the wealthiest part of the country but for how long all the Political UncertaintyMeans Companies are leaving in droves so ironically the region risks coming out of this independence bid with less autonomy than before and worse off financially. It started with the banks now more and more Medium Sized Companies are calling in the moving vans a total of seven hundred firms have left since the independence referendum they include Financial Institutions like. Utilities company gas not around and sparkling wine maker freshen it. Spains economics minister blames the cattle on Regional Government for the exodus but he says its not yet too late to turn things around. If the politics that have caused these companies to leave are changed and if the Regional Government does everything in its power to prevent further damage the companies that have left catalonia will return. The firms pulling out site turnover as their main reason for departure with spain their most important market they fear a catalan declaration of independence could lead to the country boycotting catalan products independence for catalonia could have a detrimental effect on the ailing spanish economy to catalonia is the industrial heartland of spain the region generates a fifth of the countrys economic output. Business later in the show i read thank you ben of course the crisis in gaza loney is also likely to come up in brussels as e. U. Leaders gather for a two day summit the spanish standoff as the list of challenges facing the union topping that list of course of the exit negotiations reach a practically stored the still still sides can seem to agree on the terms of the separation arriving at the e. U. Headquarters british Prime Minister to resign made for renewal of urgency in moving the vegs the talks along with European Council president don are. Break through ahead of the summit the packed agenda would also include ways to deal with refugees and according to e. U. Migration policy. That. Resume was not the first to talk to reporters ahead of that summit lets listen to what she had to say about gregg said. What i set out a few weeks ago in front of a very bold and ambitious agenda and vision for our future partnership between the e. U. And the u. K. At the heart of that remains cooperation on the key issues in dealing with the Church Challenges that we face that search speech that are set out in front set out on missions vision and i look forward to us being able to grasp that in the weeks ahead. Joining me now is corresponding government is covering that summit for us you can expect to hear anything new about the u. K. Is exit from the e. U. At the summit. Theresa may will have a full fifteen minutes to continue her Charm Offensive here in brussels convincing the other twenty seven leaders that she will stand by the commitments that the u. K. Has made in the past and will be interesting to see what kind of concessions she can throw in within these