For catalonia. Thats at 11 30am. Thats at 11 30am. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Spain has begun to assert direct rule over catalonia. The spanish Prime Minister, mariano rajoy, announced last night that madrid was taking control, after the Catalonian Parliament voted to establish an independent republic. The regions leaders have been sacked, its parliament has been dissolved and Regional Elections have been called for december. Andrew plant reports. The streets of barcelona, catalonias capital, where crowds have been celebrating through the night after the Regional Government here declared its independence from spain. Translation every citizen is clear about the goal. The price we will pay perhaps is expensive. But here we do things well, we work well here, and we respect everybody. Si, si, si this was the moment catalonias government voted to declare itself an independent state. 300 miles away in madrid, Spains National government was also voting to take away catalonias regio
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You know, we have been talking about donald trump on this show for 18 months and one of the things ive tried to make clear over those 18 months is how i have been wrong about him at every turn. When he first came down the escalator at trump tower and announced i boldly said on this show he was a stunt and he would never really run. I then said he would never win the gop nomination and i certainly didnt think he would be our next president but the good news is based on this pattern of me being wrong on predictions hes probably going to be a great [ bleep ] president. [ laughter and applause ] lets just hope the trajectory holds. Anyways i think i was not alone in watching the election last night. My wife and i went to watch the election returns at a friends house and before we left we put our 8monthold son to bed and i was holding him and i said to him when you wake up tomorrow we came home around midnight i went into his room and shook his crib until he woke up and screamed, we have to
You know, we have been talking about donald trump on this show for 18 months and one of the things ive tried to make clear over those 18 months is how i have been wrong about him at every turn. When he first came down the escalator at trump tower and announced i boldly said on this show he was a stunt and he would never really run. I then said he would never win the gop nomination and i certainly didnt think he would be our next president but the good news is based on this pattern of me being wrong on every one of my donald trump predictions hes probably going to be a great [ bleep ] president. [ laughter and applause ] lets just hope the trajectory holds. Anyways i think i was not alone in watching the election last night. My wife and i went to watch the election returns at a friends house and before we left we put our 8monthold son to bed and i was holding him and i said to him when you wake up tomorrow morning we might have our first female president and then when went into his room
You know, we have been talking about donald trump on this show for 18 months and one of the things ive tried to make clear over those 18 months is how i have been wrong about him at every turn. When he first came down the escalator at trump tower and announced i boldly said on this show he was a stunt and he would never really run. I then said he would never win the gop nomination and i certainly didnt think he would be our next president but the good news is based on this pattern of me being wrong on every one of my donald trump predictions hes probably going to be a great [ bleep ] president. [ laughter and applause ] lets just hope the trajectory holds. Anyways i think i was not alone in watching the election last night. My wife and i went to watch the election returns at a friends house and before we left we put our 8monthold son to bed and i was holding him and i said to him when you wake up tomorrow morning we might have our first female president and then when we came home aroun