People attended. The organisers say it was around a million. This comes after madrids decision to take direct control. Mr puigdemont has called o, his supporters to show democratic defiance. The bbcs James Reynolds has this report from barcelona. Catalonias pro Spain Movement is emerging from its recent quiet. These are the people who want to stay inside spain. They make up around half of the population of this region, and they insist that they are both catalan and spanish. And you are catalan . I am catalan from my grandparents, my parents are catalan, and i am catalan and spanish and european. So you dont want to leave . I dont want to leave at all. Catalonia is spain, these kids write. Catalans are divided at this moment. This is very sad. Can you get back together . Yes, i would like it very much. Because i love catalonia, i love spain, and i love europe. I want to be in europe. For years, these people have felt overshadowed and overridden by Pro Independence campaigners. They now
No justice no peace. An autopsy sparking protests on the streets of los angeles the death of a young black man shot and killed by a police officer. I feel like rosa parks, you know. We need to get rid of discrimination. Breaking ground on gay marriage. A look back on the most progressive year in American History for same sex couples. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Indonesian officials have located dozens of bodies in the java sea from the missing air asia jet. An emergency door and other debris in the water came from flight 8501. A shadow of what appears to be the aircraft is underwater. This is a live look where indonesias president is set to speak. We have more on what they did find overnight. Good morning air asia has put out a statement only in the last few minutes confirming to the debris found is from the missing plane. Since it was discovered just a few hours ago an Indonesian Navy vessel has been recovering bodies. Reuters reporting that at leas
To have drowned in the mediterranean says the charity, save the children iraq has endured a day of carnage, 20 have been killed in a series of car bombings in and around the capital baghdad. Five explosion, including a hospital where four were killed in a car park and a bakery. Visiting the sick or buying bread can put your life at risk. West of kirkuk iraqi forces have been fighting to defend the country against an i. S. I. L. Assault, the Group Controlling 40 of the area. Iraqs Prime Minister has been in washington appealing for help in the fight against i. S. I. L. Haider alabadi was promised an extra 2 million in aide. In Northern Iraq hundreds of girls and women say they were raped and beaten while held by the group. Some were freed others described attacks in the middle of the night. Kim vinnell reports from a refugee camp the hours can seem endless the the youngest hind ways to pass the time. There are children who no longer want to play. Their innocence stolen in the most bruta
Which only applies to your voice, the universal service fee youll be paying a fee on broadband and that will happen i imagine in the next several weeks or months. Secondly and critically there are all sorts of other fees that are going to be assessed. For example, currently a lot of broadband providers that had not been classified as Telecom Providers paid a lower rate for the equipment that they attach to the utility poles known as pole attachments. They paid a rate under section 224d. Now because theyre all Telecom Providers they will have to pie a much higher rate under section 224e and smaller providers in particular will have to pay 150 to 200 Million Dollars a year just for those higher pole attachment rates. Then you add on top of that the higher state and local property taxes that a lot of these companies will have to pay because theyre now Telecom Providers. All of these costs have to come out of somewhere. And its going to be the consumers wallet. And that is one of the reaso
East so prorussia separatists can lay down their weapons. It could leave a bitter taste. We will tell you about a threat to the banana crop worldwide. Iraqs Prime Minister is insisting Government Forces have regained the initiative against rebels who have swept through the north of the country. Nouri almalaki said the unrising has been contained. Sunni fighters have been attacking on a new front. The latest target in the Northern City of biji. On tuesdays rebels attacked 60 kilometers north of the capitol. Since last week, they have also taken control of mosul and tikrit. A general says his army has regained control of a very important refinery. We have rebelled an attack to tack the beji refinery for personnel action weapons, equipment and ammunition. The refinery is under the full control of our croups. We can talk live to our correspondent, imran khan. A confusing picture but the Prime Minister made his Weekly Television address within the last couple of hours. His speech was critic